Ordkort in a Norwegian class
Ordkort is a free website where learners study Norwegian words with flashcards and spaced repetition. The words come in ready lists by topic and level, with translations and explanations in each learner’s own language.
This page shows how to use it with a class whose learners speak many different languages, as in most courses for adults in Norway.
What learners get
- 29 topics, from greetings and numbers to health, work, housing and public services, at levels A1–C1.
- Translations and explanations in 60 languages, among them Ukrainian, Arabic, Tigrinya, Somali, Dari, Polish and English.
- Nouns and verbs checked against Bokmålsordboka, the official dictionary, so genders and inflections are right.
- Spaced repetition (FSRS): each word comes back just before it would be forgotten. Words can also be practised by multiple choice, typing, listening and filling the gap in an example.
- It works on phones, offline too, and installs on the home screen like an app.
One topic for the whole class
The links below open Ordkort with Norwegian and the topic already chosen. Each learner picks the language of the translations, so the same link fits the whole class. Share it in your learning platform or the group chat.
- Greetings & politeness
- Most frequent words
- Numbers & quantities
- Time & calendar
- Colors & shapes
- Questions & connectors
- Family
- Body & health
- Feelings & character
- Clothes
- Home
- Food & drinks
- Kitchen & cooking
- Shopping & money
- City & transport
- Nature & weather
- Animals
- Travel
- Sports & hobbies
- Culture & art
- Work & professions
- School & university
- Technology
- At the doctor
- Documents & public services
- Essential verbs
- Essential adjectives
- Prepositions & adverbs
- Phrases & idioms
A link chooses the topic for someone who opens Ordkort for the first time. Someone who already uses Ordkort finds the topic under “New topic” on the first screen.
Your own word list for the week
- Choose “Empty deck for my own words” and give it a name, for example “Week 12”.
- Tap “Add word”. Type the Norwegian word and choose “Fill in with AI”, or write the translation and an example yourself.
- Choose “Share by link”. You get a link and a QR code, and whoever opens them can add a copy of the list to their own cards.
The translations in a shared list are in the language you wrote them in. In a class with many languages the ready topics work best; an own list fits a class that shares a language.
Privacy
Learners need no account, e-mail address or password. Their cards and progress are stored in the browser on their own device, with no ads and no tracking.
The server receives only what is looked up or made – a word, a topic or a text – with the language pair. To keep usage within limits it counts requests under a hash of the IP address whose salt changes every day; the address itself is not stored. Ordkort is open source, so all of this can be checked.
What Ordkort does not do
There is no teacher account and no overview of learners’ progress, because Ordkort does not know who uses it. Each learner sees their own statistics, daily goal and streak.
The word lists are written by AI. Norwegian nouns and verbs are checked against the dictionaries, but a translation or an example can still be wrong. Every entry has a “Report a mistake” button, and after independent reports the entry is written again for everyone.