Between 2 countries..

What we know about our partners' country (22th April- 5th May)

latnorland

4/22/09 06:22 pm

Hello, dear participants of our common "LAND",

It’s time to start our work. The task you are welcome to create and submit to http://klab.lv/users/latnorland/ is as follows: You are two groups participating- Norwegians and Latvians.

Stage 1

Write, please, how you imagine your partners' country- lifestyle, location, climate, nature, culture, sport, people, some stereotypes etc.) Mind! No "googling", please. Use your knowledge, imagination, expectations... Do not worry if you think your knowledge might not be perfect! This is we are here to get to know both- our countries, schools, each other! )

Submit your writings using the button: "Leave a comment". As you are not registered members of that blog, do not forget to sign your name, otherwise your writing will appear as anonymous. Do not hesitate to ask whether to Ms Ewa or me whenever you need our help or support.

Stage 2

 Choose one blog (writing) from your partner's team, read it and, using button "Reply", comment on your peer's writing. Agree with him/her, disagree, and, finally, tell a little about your country and yourself! Thus we will see if our concepts about Latvia and Norway had been close to reality.

Stage 3

Your expectations (concepts) from the stage 1and your comments from the stage 2 will be published at etwinning website- Twin-space.

The deadline is set of almost 2 weeks - 5th May.  Try to meet it, please!

 Good luck!

Your administrator of the blog - Gundega.

P. S. 200-250 words (about 3 paragraphs) would be welcome...

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• Re: Hi,

  (Anonymous)

  5/5/09 11:17 am

  Yes, Norwegian is quite similar to Swedish. Norwegian people can understand Swedish people and the other way round about. Is Latvian similar to Lithuanian? Do Latvian people speak Russian (I know that Latvia was a part of the Soviet Union before)?
  
  Anne

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    tinatina

    5/11/09 04:53 pm

    Yes, they are quite similar. I can only catch an idea of that what some Lithuanian has sad. But if you can't understand any of these languages, you'll heard that they are very similar.
    Yes, Latvian people speak Russian too. Luckily, I have born in the most Latvian city in all country and to hear Russian language is quite impossible. At school we have subject - Russian language, but if we want, we can learn German too.

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      (Anonymous)

      5/12/09 03:49 pm

      Is it obligatory to learn Russian at school or can you choose between Russian and German, etc. ? When do you start learning English at Latvian schools?

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        tinatina

        5/13/09 11:08 pm

        We can choose between Russian and German, but schools that are smaller sometimes offers to learn only Russian, because there is not enough students who wants to take German.
        English starts (if I'm not wrong) at form 3.
        How it is in Norwegian schools?

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          (Anonymous)

          5/18/09 10:15 am

          We start learning English in primary school. English is an obligatory subject, but later on you can also choose between other foreign languages like, e.g., French, German, Spanish (that depends on the school you go to).

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