Since you have reacted to two Norwegian Eurovision entries, you should watch and react to this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s7L_W9ZRU_g.html
Norwegian here, sold my car and moved to a town of approx. 35-40.000 inhabitants. My closest grocery store is a 15 min walk from home. That equates to 30 mins of walking daily (at the minimum). And in the year since, I've gone down from 90 to 79 kg. So yes, walking helps. I may drink loads of beers but next to no chocolate/candy/cola. I feel guilty buying a bag of chips so do it rarely. Although the US is *made* for the car, I'm sure if you move to a close-knit community, you could walk wherever and lose weight. Now If I could just stop drinking those yummy yummy beers 🤨At home, I'll fry up a steak but with NO carbohydrate rich sides like potatoes or pasta. Meat and a f*ck-load of vegetables. Remember, you can eat as much vegetables as you want. Steak, a WHOLE fried broccoli, peppers, garlic, onions, tomato and salad and no potatoes. It's so good. (If I'm bad, I'll do garlic bread and Béarnaise sauce, but this is really what makes you fat.)
- No pedestrian deaths? *NO*. 2019 must have been an exception, the average is 15 per year over the last 5 year period. - Drive 1 silly kph over the limit = big fine? *NOPE*. Margin of error. You'd have to do at least 5 kph over to be stopped in 99% of cases. - Honor system in shops? *NOT SO*. Random checks are more and more frequent due to LARSENY! (In any case there are cameras all over.) - Practically no police shootings? *TRUE*. Because there are practically no guns. The situation has worsened a bit last 2-3 years though :/ - Cops are always happy and nice? 😂Yeah, *nah*. Perhaps more so than many other countries though. I think US cops are better in many ways. (Some cops in Norway seem to take it reeeeeally personally when someone has broken the law where US cops will stay emotionally neutral.) - Licorice is kicka*s. *YES*. - Cars become vintage at 30? *YEP*. No import tax, heavily reduced insurance and road tax is almost nothing. Also only inspected each 5 years as opposed to every second year. It is beyond me how some states in the US have absolutely no mandatory inspection of cars. What??
Students as young as elementary school are including in self evaluation and student/teacher/parent progress meets. Norway schools focus on students thriving emotionally and socially over academically.
When my son struggled with truancy. The school contacted "barnevern" CPS. Investigated my family for abuse. Only after we were cleared, 1yr later. Did the school try to adjust to suit my son's needs. Despite his older sibling transferring schools because of bullying.
It’s so good for us, and for kids and old people. It means many people never work on Sundays, or even Saturday. It means that when you want to meet family of friends, many people are free on the same day. You can manage to visit or invite over your old parents. The kids can do sleepovers at friends or relatives, or invite friends to your home for this, or dinner, lunch, supper even, You can invite people over for watching a movie together, barbecue, play games. You can stay in bed all day and eat leftovers from Saturday. You can catch up with laundry and cleaning and making sure you’re set for school, work, exercise,choir and all kinds of activities that happens during the week. You can be mindful and do everything slowly. You can go for a day trip, or a weekend trip to the other parts of Norway. You can take the kids to amusement parks, museums, the cinema, or restaurants. Stuff like that is expensive here, which means we get to do stuff at home more, and be more self sufficient with making food from scratch, baking, gardening, and so on and so forth. Religious people often go to church on Sundays, and socialise with church friends and family after. Since Norway used to be considered a Christian country, for a long time, and so many kept the Sunday “holy” as a resting day, like the jews with sabbath, It was a quiet day for mindfulness, spirituality and rest. The tradition of not moving the lawn, or cut down trees with chainsaw, repair your house, or party and make noice on Sundays are barely living on still, in some neighbourhoods. 😂❤
In America, people are really great at cheering each other on whilst in Norway, you're not supposed to say anything because everything is considered bragging. As a Norwegian, I'd prefer the American way on this one. "Janteloven" is some useless crap. With regards to small talk, it seems Americans are much more socially adept. Much better than having the whole country be introverts, imo.
Your norwegian would be better if you knew the difference between t and tt. K and kk. And so on. Its tuuut tuuut not tutt tutt... Its directly translatet to honk honk... Like honking your car to get someone to move you honk at them with your words. Tuuuut tuuuut...
Oslo is the closest dialect to how most Norwegians write. The people from Oslo rarely hear other accents coz that what most people on tv speak. Also they dont even try to learn it so for them the rest of us speak another language even tho its all Norwegian. Im from close to Stavanger, on the west coast we speak a little different, different tone, some different words different way of saying r 😂😂😂 and more. Still Norwegian but Oslo people just doesnt try to learn it so for them its Greek
I saw a video of another American tha thought reindeer was a mythical creature, like a unicorn made up for stories. He did not believe it when he saw videos of reindeer farms in North of Norway. 😂😂😂
Most of our food is travel friendly, like hike, in your backpack kinda travel. Hense the squeeze tubes and yoghurt in a bag that can be opened and closed.
No, because we do not pronounce 'a' as 'ae', but we do have a placename in Trøndelag: Hell (which does not mean 'hell') and recycling water bottles gets you 2 or 3 kroner per bottle
Nynorsk Ordliste: a Norwegian dictionary for nynorsk, one of the two official versions of norwegian that we have (based on the oldest version, and hated by the eastern norwegians: they 'cannot' understand it...HAHA)
I mean its all Norwegian but the dialects are so very different some parts of Norway dont understand each other. Almost every town has their own dialect. The same fylke (counties) speak close to each other and will understand. But within that there are different dialects if that make sense
A typical souvenir from Norway would be a troll. Every souvenir shop has trolls with the name of the town on. Even some without the name... Lots of places in Norway has trolls in it. Troll👅 is a mountain cliff, troll 🍆 (Trollpikken) is a mountain with a rock that looks like a boner. No joke. 😂😂😂 We have more names with troll in it. Trollstigen f.eks.
When you pack for a campingtrip or trip in general in Norway no matter the time of year you pack wool. Thick knitted sweaters and rain clothes. Coz you never know what weather you get
In Norway we have "pant" on bottles. You put it into this machine and get money for it (money you have already played when you bought the bottle) but if you throw it in the trash you lost those money.
I live in a small town (its not even big enough to be called town) everything here is closed except for one museum. If i have forgotten something and have to buy it we have something called "express shop" which is a smaller Sunday open version of a grocery store... Its almost double the price tho as a way of saying "you idiot, why didnt you buy this earlier in the week" 2 towns over i can use the pool. Or cinema, Restaurant. But every mall is closed. Gas stations are open but very few are open 24/7 most close at 10 or 11 an night and open at 6 or 7. Most stuff does that. Nothing in my town is open after 11 pm. NOTHING! Its just how it is.
Regarding Søndagstur, I’ve never really questioned it. It’s not tradition, per se, it’s just culture. The fact that it has a term is no different than “dinner” having a term - it’s just an activity associated with a certain occasion, just like you wouldn’t question dinner being part of your everyday routine or consider “dinner” a tradition. Sometimes you skip dinner, sometimes you skip Søndagstur, or vice versa. Sundays are considered Holy days (Holidays) in Norway. Stores can be open, but there are regulations; I think they need to be less than 10 square meters, but there’s absolutely no sale of alcohol on Sundays. As for me, I typically enjoy a nice coffee at a café, and read, stare people down intensely as I drift into my own thoughts, or do some light work on my computer. I shouldn’t be working on my computer, though, I should give myself enough respect to take a break.
Some stuff are open. Like bowling places, cinema, museums and restaurants. Stuff like that. Norwegians usually doesnt go out to eat during week days. 9 out of 10 eat at home every day and if we go out its during the weekend. I remember if we ever went out it was at a Chinese Restaurant on sundays. But malls and such are closed. A few shops are open but it has "Sunday tax" like its extra expensive. Sunday is a day of rest. Some go to church. Family dinners. Basicly hanging out in your home. Some go hiking with family. I remember a sa child at least one Sunday a month we would do a long hike. We were never an outdoorsy family so we didnt do it every week.
When you read any book, in bokmål or nynorsk, you still read it in your own dialekt too :-) As in, reading out loud. Different dialekts here sound different, like english and irish sounds to you guys, I would say. You still understand irish mostly? But it sounds different.
Norway has 576 medals in winter and summer Olympics together. In winter olympics Norway is in first place with 371 medals, 132 of them Gold, we have only 5 million People. Second place is USA with 330 million People: 307 medals, witch 105 are Gold.
Jens Stoltenberg became NATO Secretary General in October 2014. As a former Prime Minister of Norway and UN Special Envoy, Mr Stoltenberg has a distinguished record of domestic and international achievements spanning security, defence, climate, energy, and economics. He is a strong supporter of greater global and transatlantic cooperation. NATO Allies have extended Mr Stoltenberg’s term by unanimous consent four times, and his term will end on 1 October 2024.
Technically the King is above the law and he has to sign every law to make it legalized. In practicality he is just another safety net for the nation. Example, invaded by Nazi Germany they were unable to capture him and in turn their occupation was never legalized in the eyes of Norwegian law. Another thing I like about the King is that even the prime minster has to bow to someone... Just makes em a bit more humble and the King is a none political leaning figurehead. He is not, by law, allowed to have a political leaning outside of what is best for Norwegians. So he can be pro middle class, speak proactive for the poor and so on.
16:16 Oh, I don't know. Maybe I could do that at home or when visiting someone with food that's been bought on previous days. Hmm, no that wouldn't work...
