https://kulturambisjon.no/en/Stian Håklev, in EnglishenWed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kulturambisjon.no/en/nasjonalmuseet.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/nasjonalmuseet.htmlWed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000A year pass, an adult with no background in visual art, and Claude, who makes the program: the concept, the background, the rest of the year and the visits so far.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/a-map-for-one-reader.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/a-map-for-one-reader.htmlTue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000Sicily in June with a guide that exists in no app store — and the Norman king, the Arab geographer and the Athenian actor who kept turning up in ithttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/babel-fish.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/babel-fish.htmlFri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000How AI lets us find, follow and join conversations in languages we don’t speakhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/reading-together.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/reading-together.htmlSun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000One concrete idea I've been carrying for fifteen years and still haven't built — a way to read hard things with other people that doesn't collapse the moment someone's schedule gets tight.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/petrarca-as-method.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/petrarca-as-method.htmlTue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000Crete, the fog-of-war map, Charlemagne as an anchor, why hooks need a skeleton, and reading by the fireplace. Excerpts about method from a 2026 essay.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/iraqi-play-cain-and-abel.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/iraqi-play-cain-and-abel.htmlTue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000Testing twenty years of ideas about language learning, finally building the ultimate app for myselfhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/cricket-in-australia.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/cricket-in-australia.htmlThu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000Some kids get it from home, and some don't. It's not enough that some teachers are heroic.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/from-1885.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/from-1885.htmlFri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000Robin Hood from 1938, a boys' book from 1931, Little Lord Fauntleroy from 1885. About old books and movies for an eleven-year-old, and what rubs off.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/plato-in-athens.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/plato-in-athens.htmlWed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000Thirty days in Athens in the summer of 2025: an 1872 Plato from an auction, a bookbinder, Elektra and Oedipus in Epidaurus, and the dialogues read on the spots where they are set.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/never-heard-of-hirsch.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/never-heard-of-hirsch.htmlWed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000What is even the point of lots of fancy theories and PhDs when you don't do the absolute simplest thing possible?https://kulturambisjon.no/en/it-all-started-with-kirsten-flagstad.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/it-all-started-with-kirsten-flagstad.htmlThu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000The Flagstad festival, a book from the library, a recording from Stockholm on Youtube, and a year later Copenhagen with my son.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/still-an-atheist.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/still-an-atheist.htmlWed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000Matthew in Greek at Easter, Bondestudentar with no background knowledge, Wergeland's "Mennesket", and the plan for the Old Testament. The Bible as literature, for someone who quit the church at sixteen.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/the-high-school-education-i-never-got.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/the-high-school-education-i-never-got.htmlTue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000From «never too late» in June 2020 to «in five years, you'll be five years older no matter what» in 2025: threads about starting late and building the education I never got.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/opera-with-a-ten-year-old.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/opera-with-a-ten-year-old.htmlTue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000The Barber of Seville as a first opera, Figaro two weeks later, then L'elisir d'amore with live translation on the couch.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/the-language-learning-holy-grail.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/the-language-learning-holy-grail.htmlMon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000Parallel texts, Anki verses, the New Testament in Greek, and a method for reading in another language.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/adult-beginners.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/adult-beginners.htmlTue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000Uneducated rogues, happy amateurs and a study that should have been done: how adults get started with literature, art and music.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/reading-plays.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/reading-plays.htmlFri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000From «I find it very hard to read and enjoy a play» in April 2024 to twenty plays a year later, and the one piece of advice that helped: be patient, keep reading, it comes together.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/one-thing-led-to-another.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/one-thing-led-to-another.htmlMon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000From a poster on Crete to Greek, Latin, Shakespeare, Racine and opera. It snowballed, one thing led to another.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/input-only.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/input-only.htmlFri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000Athenaze, a Latin reading circle, and why the dead languages have better textbooks than the living ones.https://kulturambisjon.no/en/learning-effectively-with-podcasts.htmlhttps://kulturambisjon.no/en/learning-effectively-with-podcasts.htmlMon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000Walks, a lecture series of 50 episodes, voice notes, and how the notes are processed days later.