I'm an American living in Norway with my wife and kids. I'm studying norsk bokmål and learning local dialekt! So far I have passed nivå A2 and I'm waiting to start B1 class. I'm sharing information that other students may find useful.
Thank you for a very comprehensive explanation of the different Norwegian dialects!🙏🏼 (Funny it took an American (?) immigrant 11 years ago to finally make it make sense...!) / Greetings from a Swedish Neighbour born in the Arctic North 👊🏼❤️🇸🇪❤️🇳🇴
Lovely video. Hearing you telling your story learning the language brings me so much joy. I'll leave in some popular tounge-twisters from my town. Dykke dykken dykt når dykken dykke? (BM: Dykker dere dypt når dere dykker?) Do you dive deep (in the water) when you dive Æ e i a, æ. Æ e i a, æ å! (BM: Jeg er i a, jeg. Jeg er i a jeg også!) I am in A. I am in A too! (Children are divided up in classes in school when they're too many. Class A, B, C, and so forth)
Watch "Runes dialektreise langs kysten med kart" on RU-vid. Always fun. Of course he skips a lot of different dialects and nuances, but I think he got a lot of the characteristics spot on.
Thank you for such a good video , you highlighted all grammatical essentials in a sentence not only for me here Pa and I is well explained as well definite and indefinite articles . I study on my own and there is chaos in my head : D When I listen to Norwegians on the street, I think that it is impossible for me to eveunderstand , I don't understand anything. I guess it will come with time. All in all a great video, quite understandable.
So to learn Norwegian, you must inevitably learn multiple languages? How to read Bokmål + how to speak a local dialect which is essentially another language? Also, you have to learn how to pronounce Bokmål words in order to comprehend and read it no? So if I "speak" Bokmål in Norway will I still be understood?
Bokmål is the written language, dialekts are spoken. Eastern Norwegian (Oslo dialect) is still a dialect, even if it is spoken by a lot of people, it is still not the majority of Norway. I agree that most of Norway understand this dialect though, but to assume it is the same as spoken bokmål is in my view wrong. Nynorsk is closer to the old Norwegian once spoken in Norway (though Nynorsk means New Norwegian). If you want to speak closer to what the Vikings did, go to Sogndal (in Norway) or Iceland (which is even closer to Norse).
can this sentence be written like this also either or type like det er bilen hans or det er hans bil . is this indicte the same meaning of these sentences ? please answer