Norwegian course for beginners

Best Norwegian course for beginners

Our Norwegian course for beginners is ideal to learn Norwegian quickly and confidently with an improved level of fluency that you can use in your social or professional life.

Our A1-A2 Beginner Level is ideal for everyone both on short-term or long term stays in Norway. Based on the language levels as described in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), our teaching methods, catering for each student, make improving your Norwegian skills a pleasant and achievable task.

Your Norwegian lessons will be purely in Norwegian, so knowledge of the English language is not required. This also means that you will focus on speaking and understanding Norwegian from day one and learn Norwegian fast and efficiently. At the end of your course in Oslo you will have considerably improved your speaking and comprehension skills in Norwegian.

After completing the course, you will be able to:

• greet people in Norwegian
• ask basic questions using simple sentences in the Norwegian present and past tense
• have basic Norwegian conversations about everyday activities (such as buying groceries and ordering in a café)
• describe simple activities in the Norwegian past and present tense
• tell the time in Norwegian
• count in Norwegian and use Norwegian numbers
• talk about your and others’ activities in Norwegian
• have simple discussions in Norwegian using basic reasoning (therefore, because)
• order tickets in Norwegian
• get a course certificate which confirms the number of hours in your course

Choose what fits you best

Choose what best suits your interests, needs and time availability. You can attend sessions once a week (Saturdays only, 6 lesson hours per session), twice a week (2 or 3 lesson hours per session for classroom-based courses and 2 lesson hours for online Norwegian courses, Monday/Wednesday OR Tuesday/Thursday) or four times a week (Monday – Thursday). Each lesson hour lasts 45 minutes.

You can choose to attend our courses at our school in Oslo or via Zoom. Certified, experienced teachers for one-on-one or group classes. All of our prices are in NOK.

Course materials

The classroom-based A1-A2 course uses the textbook and exercise book På Vei (2018 edition). These can be purchased at Alfaskolen’s reception prior to your first class.
Access to a digital learning resource is included in online courses and will be sent before the first class. Access is valid from the course start date until the course ends.

Course Certificate

At the end of the A1-A2 Beginner Level, if you complete 80% or more of the course’s content, you will receive an official digital course certificate.

Public holidays 2025-2026

Sessions that per regular schedule fall on a Norwegian public holiday, will be postponed to the next lesson day, unless otherwise discussed.