Your Norwegian is very good you have talant. i can!t speak Norwegian good but i love learn languages.But only can speak good Spanish because is my mother language.Jeg laere norsk pa RU-vid .Det hjelper meg sa nya Svensk.Jeg snakker litt Svensk ogsa pa RU-vid.Jeg ar 53 gammel og det kommer meg veldig vanskelig.
It's amazing how you can speak Norwegian so smoothly like It's your native language. I related to your story about "learning" a language at school over and over and yet not making any progress (in my case it was English bc I'm Brazilian), then I took a course and actually learned it. Some time later, I also tried to learn French, which I did, but only the basics and now I'm interested and studying Norwegian :)
Nå som at jeg har lært Norsk så mye jeg kunne... Jeg er ferdig med Duolingo nå... Må jeg finne muligheter å snakke språket. Det er ikke lett her i Sør Afrika fordi jeg kan ingen her som snakker Norsk. Det er målet mitt å snakke flyttende innen 31 Desember i år. Jeg vet ikke om jeg kan gjøre det men alt begynner med et ønske
As a Norwegian who has Norwegian as their 1st language, and being a fluent speaker, you almost sound native. Some words/tones are off, but overall it’s really good! Impressive! You and Norwegian with ilys are the only two I’ve seen that has suck a clear speech even though a few tones are off with certain words, for not being Norwegian or a native speaker, you’re really good! Well done😄😊😉
I was actually just driving around Portland on 17 May (norways constitution day) and there were a bunch of people wearing their bunad standing outside of a church building, I walked up and asked what was going on and they said that that building had a Norwegian library, conversation group, lots of stuff going on there. Probably you could just search “Norwegian _____” and then your city name on fb and find something though
As others have said, your Norwegian is excellent. Only tiny nuances reveal that you are not a native Norwegian speaker. And actually, if I were to guess where your are from, I would say Sweden. It sounds like you have a slight Swedish accent. I would never have guessed that you are an American.
i haven't followed it closely lately but prior to 2022, anyone of any nationality could study free.. unfortunately in 2022 there was a push to charge international student fees and i think it got approved
I’ve got about half way through this video and there’s no sign of how you learned Norwegian in 6 months. Can someone tell me that this isn’t yet another clickbait video and I’ll come back to it.
I'm learning Norwegian, such videos help me stay motivated. As well as numerous films about views, culture, construction and law that interest me. I speak Polish, Russian, intermediate English and I'm learning Norwegian. Wish me luck! haha I have one year of studies left, then postgraduate studies and I'm going to Norway, I still have time, but it's still hard to understand when they talk fast!
Nah, I just focused on bokmål and then read news on NRK, I think by law they have to write a certain percentage of news stories in nynorsk, and generally you can tell what a word’s alternate would be in the other standard just by looking at it (ikke vs ikkje, jeg vs eg) etc, in the rare case the word is totally different you can just look it up, it’s not too tricky tbh
Whay because you think its a quiet city and country aa😂you mistaking it dose Metter which part you live in those but when ther is traffic and ther is mosley traffic and lost of drank people but ther is some part thet ther is like this
Glad to hear it! VPNs used to work on tv.nrk.no, but unfortunately that is no longer the case, at least I haven't had any luck with it anyway. There are still a few shows on their site that you are allowed to access from outside of Norway though. Unfortunately it isn't possible to sort by category, but NRK keeps a complete list of shows available outside of Norway here: tv.nrk.no/programmer/utland/ Side om side is a good example. It's quite good for "everyday language". It's basically a sitcom about neighbours. Sometimes kind of funny, but most importantly: lots and lots of episodes. "Debatten" is another good option, if you think you'll enjoy Norwegian politics. The RU-vid channel "Bildeglimt" is very good for more active, practice-focused comprehensible input. The above are all good options for learning, and should be available. If you can manage to get your hands on them "Exit" and "Hvite gutter" are some of my all time favourites. SKAM is good too, as it's quite simple and not too fast-paced, lots of on-screen text (text messages) etc. I used to read the news on nrk.no and tv2.no everyday too, and you should check out reddit.com/r/norsk for some more options
Your Norwegian is almost flawless, and in 6 months and doing it on your own, that's amazing. I think I have used English for like 35 years and still can't speak fluently or write fluently, but it's understandable for most english people. After youtube came along my english writing skills improved and I no longer have problems with english software, I even tend to read the english manual if I don't understand it in Norwegian as sometimes some useful information get lost in translation. I follow some colouring classes online and the Australian english sometimes gets me allthough I spent a lot of time watching "Home and away" and "Paradise beach" and "Neighbours" back in the 80's and 90's there's words that are slightly different than American english, and we actually learned Oxford English in school. I'm really impressed with you learning the r, the æ,ø,å sounds and so on that good in such short amount of time. . In like three years no one would tell that your not a native Norwegian and I think people would be impressed by your english 😂. We have some British popstars living in Norway that can't speak Norwegian so you can understand even one word. This person is joking about it themself, but I think they would like to speak the language their friends use. (OMG that sentence was hard for me to write and I'm not sure I got the grammar correct.) 😮
Your Norwegian is easier to understand than your English, and I am Danish but I spent one year in US so it's not foreign to me. You could teach me Norwegian!
I'm sooooo impressed 😊 You're really really good...... Du snakker SÅ bra norsk.... jeg har aldri hørt en amerikaner snakke så bra norsk som du gjør.... 😊
I'm Italian and studied norwegian for one year here, then 2 years later I moved to Norway (Oslo) for a 6 months exchange program with the local university. It was a fantastic chance to put in pratcice what I had been studying, my norwegian when I arrived there was already at a very good level, I could basically read just anything (I had to study law books in the local language) and also my speaking and writing were very good, but I still struggled to understand when people were talking. Many norwegians use dialects, or simply talk so fast and "eat" their words so much that in many occasions I had to ask to switch to english. It was so frustrating, because I couldn't understand the reason for that discrerpancy between my written and spoken norwegian and my ability to understand when others were speaking. Then, when I was finally starting to pick it up, it was time to turn back home. This was in 1999. At the moment being, I translate scandinavian languages into italian for a living, but I never had another chance to practice my spoken norwegian other than during short trips to the country or with the few norwegians I meet here and there in Italy or while travelling, and of course my ability to understand has only gotten worse. Such a shame.
Very interesting story! I am going through something quite similar. This video was filmed while I was in Georgia (the country) and I ended up getting sponsored to work in the UK, so naturally seized the opportunity as my number one priority is getting a second passport as soon as possible. Unfortunately this means my dream of moving to Norway is - at least temporarily - on hold. I have taken a couple trips to Norway and Sweden over the last year or so though. At least it is quite close. But I'm definitely not able to speak Norwegian as much as I used to. Ma ultimamente sto imparando l'italiano haha
Jeg har lært Norsk i 8 måneder.. jeg er sikkert ikke så godt til å snakker sann, men jeg snakket i tre og en halv minutter i forrige uke for den forste gang.
Recently relocated from the states to live in Norway and have begun taking classes, etc. This video is really refreshing to see because I keep true to the American stereotype and language is a hurdle for me. It's nice to see others are able to move past that disconnect American education causes and are able to learn languages! Gives me hope I'll one day be fluent!
du klarer det haha, most important thing / best tip i ever got imo is just to pretend you are an actor, be so over the top with the accent when you are practicing that it almost seems like you are making fun of Norwegians... then when you aren't practicing you'll naturally fall back to a less exaggerated accent that should in theory be pretty good haha. check out reddit.com/r/norsk as well, good community and also there is a good channel on youtube called "ett lite bildeglimt" that is soooooo good, she uploads very regularly
As a Norwegian (born & raised) I would say that I have NEVER heard an American speak better Norwegian! That is absolutely impressive, especially the tone and pronunciation of å ø å, which are letters you don’t even have! I’d say you should start studying MORE languages, because this is definitely something you’re born to do! Bravo!
@@AlexBerish I think as long as you choose a very different language (maybe not Swedish or Danish 😉😉) you’ll be fine! Try Italian 🇮🇹 It’s one of the most beautiful languages, and hands down the most beautiful country in the world! I took Italian when going to school in Oslo.
funny you suggest italian, my family is coming to visit me out here in europe for a couple weeks and they want to do a trip to italy.... maybe i'll make some italian vids hahaha, great suggestion!
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