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Ok, major information dump incoming!

Here is a link to the folder containing all the decks

A few notes:

These decks are exported from the app that I used (Flashcards) therefore there is some data about my stats. Ignore the first 4-5 rows and any columns not labelled Text #

I've numbered the vocab. flashcards in the order that I approached them. The earlier cards are the best curated, some of the later decks are less consistent. I'm an excel geek so I was always trying to find wordlists online and then adapt them. If in doubt use ordbok.uib.no to clear up any confusion.

The first deck is a little strange! Ignore it if it seems like a waste of your time ;) (when I started I wanted to work as efficiently as possible so I found a list of the top 2000 Norwegian words extracted from film subtitles. I then used those words to create sentences, trying to incorporate many into each sentence. My girlfriend then corrected my grammar and I memorised them. For me, the strangeness of them actually helped me to remember them, even if they are not practically useful. They got me used to basic Norwegian sentence structure and kept me amused in the opening weeks. My girlfriend's dad is especially appreciative of them so I love to reel out a few when he is around (The short-sleeved bear asked me to see my remarkable driving license!)

(aside: I also created a random sentence generator in Excel that would suggest 2 nouns, 2 adjectives and a verb from which I'd have to craft a sentence with every refresh. I'd paste the used words into a list and those words would not come up in the generator again. It was extremely random. I'm sure I can dig it out if anyone is odd enough :) )

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I approached the grammar a bit haphazardly. I'd recommend starting with:

Nouns, adjectives and agreement

Substantivfraser : singular, plural, masculine, feminine, neuter, definite, indefinite and attributive adjectival agreement

adjectival agreement: predicative adjectival agreement. I didn't know there was a difference between attributive and predicative. If you didn't either, you can read more about it here

Possessive pronouns (including demonstratives): essential learning and not too much info to memorise but used a lot in everyday speech and a few things that I found counterintuitive. (Min bil but den bilen? They're both definite aren't they? How come it isn't min bilen? (bilen min is ok of course...!)

Reflxive possessive pronouns: Even less info and good to know.

Irregular Nouns: Learn them! Then you'll know them ;)

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Verbs

238 Norske Verb - you could do them like this or you could write out what each part of the verb means as an individual flashcard e.g.

To come - Å komme,

I come - Jeg kommer,

I came - Jeg kom,

I have come - Jeg har kommet,

Norwegian verbs are so amazingly simple in comparison to French verbs that I was fine learning them as they are structured in the above sheet. I also found that I learned the regular grammar without needing to see it written out just by repeating the suffix changes so many times. (I then looked at it later, just to make sure!)

Irregular verbs: as above!

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Idioms

For me, these are the hardest things about learning Norwegian. There are millions of verb + preposition combos that have a meaning other than what you might expect given a direct translation of the two words in question. Apparently English also has a lot of these and I just never realised. There might be some repetition between the three sheets of idioms. I think I wavered between whether it was better to learn them in a phrase or just alone.

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Technique

I've no idea if there is a correct way to do this. I'd basically sit down and treat myself as a repetion machine for 30 minutes. No getting up, no pausing, no doing anything else. Just repeating out loud and trying to maintain a relaxed but sharp focus. I also worked very fast which may or may not be a good thing but I'd have found it boring to go much slower and the excitment of the whole thing kept me motivated.

It was a great pleasure when I started to speak more with my girlfriend and I just knew that it should be ender and not ander even though the singluar of duck is and and the regular, unspecific plural form is -er

~~I have audiofiles for the first of the vocab. decks and the alphabet deck. If my girlfriend gives me permission I'll share them too and leave a note here to update you. Enjoy!~~

Permission granted, audiofiles included :)

I'm sorry, but I don't really get the 'pass time', I always want to use the time.

My most used app for that would be Flashcards Deluxe (for iOS and android) - You have to put in decks to study beforehand, but you can download them from a huge library covering every major area of knowledge.

Also, ebooks.