pardonmynorwegian:

I chose this phrase because it simply made me happy. Something upsetting had happened to me recently and I told one of my Norwegian friends. He comforted me, but then said, Det ordner seg alltid for snille gutter.

In English, this simply means, “It always works out for nice guys.” Literally, å ordne means to arrange, so you can kind of think of ordner seg as “work itself out”.

In other words, nice guys don’t finish last.

pardonmynorwegian:

Gjerne sort of translates as “gladly” or “willing.” The most often I have seen it has been in the phrase, Jeg vil gjerne … which means, “I would like to …”

Other times, it seems like it’s used as a tag word, kind of emphasizing or encouraging an action. In that case, it can sort of translate as “feel free to.”

Send gjerne din gave. Feel free to send your gift.
Kontakt oss gjerne! Feel free to contact us!

Sometimes it can also just be used as an affirmative after a question is asked.

Vil du ha is? Do you want ice cream?
Gjerne! Certainly!

French

• http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/home - I absolutely love this website. It has everything!
• http://french.speak7.com/ 

German

• http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0„9572,00.html -You have to register, but it’s a great way to learn German
• http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abinitio/index.html 

Italian

• http://www.zapitalian.com/ 
• http://www.learnalanguage.com/learn-italian/

Spanish

• http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm
• http://www.123teachme.com/ - Has games, verb conjugations, text translator, grammar, quizzes, and more!
• http://www.studyspanish.com/
• http://spanish.speak7.com/

Chinese

• http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese - What I love about this site is the pinyin to character tool 

Japanese

• http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/
• http://www.learn-japanese.info/
• http://www.learnjapanesefree.com/
• http://www.learnjapanese.com/ - Has slang expressions, grammar, common phrases, vocabulary and more
• http://japanese-phrases.sakura.ne.jp/

Greek

• http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon - Greek to English, English to Greek Dictionary (Modern and Ancient Greek)
• http://www.101languages.net/greek/basics.html

Sign Language

• www.aslpro.com
• www.aslresource.com

Esperanto

• http://en.lernu.net/

General Language Sites

• http://www.fodors.com/language/ - Has Spanish, French, Italian, German, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese
• http://www.omniglot.com/ - Has basic phrases in almost any language along with idioms and sayings
• http://www.wordreference.com/ - Any language (French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, etc.) to English dictionary 
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ - Basic phrases and vocab in French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, German, Italian, and Portuguese. 
• http://www.languagehelpers.com/ - Has Chinese, Czech, French, German, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
• http://www.smartphrase.com/index.shtml -Has Italian, French, German, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, and Portuguese. Random phrase generator 
• http://www.101languages.net/vocabulary/vocabulary.html - Has Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Spanish
• http://www.livemocha.com/ - A few people have suggested this site, and it’s incredible. If you want to learn a language on your own, you need this. And it’s free!