Footnotes to 'Introduction to Norwegian' 

I'm happy to hear it! I must admit I have not, but on the other hand people familiar with Greenlandic at all tend to also have some knowledge about languages in general :) I have encountered several people wondering if Swedish and Finnish are related, though. There's a lot of material for Nordic language videos already here, it would seem!

Thank you for the kind words! I am familiar with the Stavanger dialect, but unfortunately there isn't much room for variation in an overview like mine! In a proper video about Norwegian dialects or similar, it would have a better shot at being included :) Og det er vel aldri for seint å lære ei ny målform? ;)

Very glad to hear that you liked it!

Take the British and American English written standards as a comparison. There you also have different spellings and preferred words, such as colour/color, kerb/curb, lorry/truck, trousers/pants, but both are considered versions of English. It's the same thing with BM/NN, only a lot more, because they have different origins (unlike BrE/AmE).

@@AcademiaCervena Ah right that makes sense. Dunno why your videos don't get more subs, they are great. Also your English is fantastic. Good job !

​@@AcademiaCervenabecause no matter how you write a word/say it out loud when reading, its not gonna sound like how you say it naturally anyways. But it can be more or less similar, which is why i prefer NN.

Bokmål. I am very biased since I am a bokmål user myself, but bokmål is easier. It is much closer to the Norwegian you will hear, and its morphology is much more regular. Its easier to identify if a word is in plural or singular, while in nynorsk it can be difficult to know if it is plural, or if its a new word. Nynorsk is also much more idiosyncratic and different from Swedish, Danish and German by design, and often nynorsk has some very unique words for things where bokmål would be more similar to other languages. Bokmål is also much more accesible, as translations of books between bokmål and nynorsk is uncommon. Most of the time works are translated into bokmål.

@@jrgenm.dsollie4849 Thank you for the nice answer.

@@ruralsquirrel5158 I also recently read an recommendation that you should actually read non-Norwegians books translated into Norwegian, as those translations are written in a very regular way, as opposed to Norwegian literature that often contains more idiomatic language and non-standard dialogue.

This is true for any language really

If you're interested in self-study, there's an English-language coursebook from 2009 by Adams & Petersen.

@@AcademiaCervena ok

Spelling checks out

i have no clue kind of phonetic spelling you're going for (is it based off of Latvian or something?), but "Nynorsk" makes complete sense. when an r sound meets with another consonant, like t, d, s, l, or n, it turns it into a retroflex consonant. However, this is only in dialects where r is pronounced alveolarly. in dialects where it's a velar or uvular sound, the 's' remains its default quality. and the 'y' in nynorsk is not the same as i or ī. it's a different vowel sound completely.