The best Norwegian Nynorsk websites

The children's edition of Framtida, covering the same national and world stories in shorter sentences and plainer vocabulary, plus quizzes and a 'did you know' strand. Children's news is the standard on-ramp to authentic text in any language and it matters more here than most: Klar Tale, the obvious easy-news answer for Norwegian, is Bokmål throughout, so a Nynorsk learner had nothing between a textbook and adult journalism. Free, current, and written for natives rather than learners, so nothing is glossed.

The national resource centre for Nynorsk instruction, publishing free teaching materials, reading lists, writing guidance and exercises for the written standard that most courses ignore. If you need to write Nynorsk rather than just read it, this is the most substantial free collection available. Free and publicly funded. The important caveat is audience: it is built for Norwegian schoolteachers, so material is in Norwegian and organised by school year rather than by CEFR level.

Society, culture, school and work, nature and environment, written entirely in Nynorsk for a school-age readership, with quizzes attached to the articles. The quizzes are the reason to list it separately from Framtida: almost nothing free in Nynorsk asks you whether you actually understood what you just read, which is the difference between reading practice and reading. Free with no account. One or two sections of the site were returning errors when this was checked, so treat the front page as the way in.

Almost every Norwegian resource teaches Bokmål, which leaves anyone studying Nynorsk — or living in a Nynorsk municipality — with very little to read. Framtida is a free news and debate site written wholly in Nynorsk for a young audience, covering society, culture, school, work and the environment in accessible language. That combination of free, current and genuinely Nynorsk is rare. It is a real news site rather than a learner product, so expect native-speed writing and no glossing.