Preguntas frecuentes

• Is the Fast-Track Online course approved for Norway's permanent residency purposes?

  
  Yes, Lingu is an officially certified provider of Norwegian language courses for adult immigrants, and the Fast-Track Online course is approved for Norway's permanent residence purposes. 
  
  Once you have completed the course, you will receive a course certificate with totals the number of hours you have attended. 
  You can submit this certificate as documentation for your permanent residence permit application.
  

• How many hours per week can I collect towards my certificate during the Fast-Track Online course?

  You are welcome to study as much as you want during your during the Fast-Track Online course, but please remember that by regulations by Kompetanse Norge, we are allowed to accredit you with a maximum of 12 hours per week (on average) towards your certification.
  Every 2 out of 12 hours of the accreditation must come from attending live instructor-led classes.

• How will learn I to speak the language if the Fast Track Online course is only online?

  
  You will soon find that learning online is actually very easy and brings great and quick results.
  
  The Fast-Track Online course allows you to learn to speak in many ways, by practicing talking, by listening, and by self-learning and reading. We have over 10 years of experience with online courses and we are very confident in our learning techniques.
  
  By choosing the Fast-Track Online course you will have access to:
  

  
  
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    a regular online study group with the same group of students  and same teacher closely navigating your progress
  
  
  • flexibly scheduled Simply Online lessons which you are welcome to use to practice your live language contact too
  
  
  • access to a great newly developed e-learning platform based on the newest learning technologies, allowing you to achieve your goals even faster
  
  

  
  
  All the learning methods combined, will soon give you the ability to express yourself verbally in the language.
  
  
   

• How is the Fast-track Online course different than a Simply Online and Single Player courses?

  
  The Fast-track Online course is a more structured and more intensive version of our course.
  
  The Fast-track Online course offers: 
  

  
  
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    twice-weekly scheduled Fast-Track live classes on Zoom, with a teacher and a well-organized group
    
  
  
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    full access to our regular, Simply Online live classes in Adobe Connect, scheduled flexibly which you can join on a drop-in basis
    
  
  
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    full access to our Single Player self-study online materials based on the newest e-learning technologies
    
  
  
  • a real classroom feeling just as if you were attending lessons at Lingu school in person.  
  
  
  • a regular group of classroom members, to work together and communicate with, just like at school
    
  
  
  • personal feedback and learning navigation from a teacher.
  
  
  • approved course certificate which can be used for permanent residence purposes (with the amount of completed learning time stated).
  
  
  • access to our online and school-based Språkkaffees allowing you to practice your speaking skills with students from all other courses during weekly conversational meetings.
    
    
    
  
  

  This course is great for you if you like the flexibility of learning, but you also work better with personal feedback direct navigation, and regularly scheduled group tasks and conversations, to make sure your progress is navigated and organised in a regular timely manner. 

• Which books and learning materials do you use for the Fast-Track Online course?

  
  There is no need to purchase any additional learning materials when you join our Fast-Track Online Course.
  All our materials are included in the course.
  
  Once you have joined the course, you will receive access to our fantastic new e-learning platform based on the most recent and best learning technologies, where whilst using various kinds of educational tasks and games, you will be able to make your progress quickly and learn efficiently.  

• Is learning online with Fast-Track Online course efficient?

  
  Yes, learning online with the Fast-Track course is extremely efficient. It all, of course, depends on your personal learning preferences, however, we have thousands of success stories.
  
  Some students are a little bit reserved when it comes to online learning at the beginning, however after giving it some time they simply adore it! The feedback we get is that the way that the Fast-Track Online classes are constructed, provides the students with the full-on classroom feeling, and they feel just as if they were at school learning together in a classroom. 
  
  At Lingu, we have many years of online learning experience, and our outstanding, professional teachers are all specially trained to teach online. We also offer access to the fantastic e-learning platform which is designed based on the newest language learning technologies, which makes the learning experience even more pleasant and of course effective, and from what we have heard so far, really fun!.
  
  The course is intensive and requires work from your side, but it is also entertaining and we have fantastic feedback from our students.