Norwegians sure love their bread. I want to point out a small error in the video: The Asian boy says "i" to mean "jeg", but I wrote "e" in his subtitles. It sounded a lot like "e" but upon editing the next video and researching the dialect (Romsdal) I found that they actually say "i".
What’s interesting is many people said they ate liver pate for breakfast, but nobody said that it was a traditional Norwegian breakfast! Thank you for sharing!!
@@MrMKE100 I spent a couple of yrs in England and some other European countries during my childhood.My gran asked for liverpate in a" yellow, round box"(A pretty simple,mild livermate,made for children,there's a picture of a child on it too.And it's not in a box, it's a tin.It's very norwegian indeed,brand is "Stabburet" Gran was very stubborn though...She argued with the shop assistant for about halv an hour or so lol😂"She'd also ask for appelsine juice(Orange juice) or asked for a paraply🌂(UK seem to love rain but so does Westcoast of Norw.where she was brought up so....Anyw.she gave me plenty of laughs😅
@@rebeccajelenawang4306 Haha, nice. I didn't know you could get it in the UK. Our kids love it, so we always buy 2-4 cans. :D We have even bought lids with pictures of our kids. I live on the Westcoast of Norway. And we don't love the rain. We love Spain for the weather :D
@@iamrichlol Yeah, but for me I was trying to learn specifically Bokmål, and at this point I'm just learning bokmål and nynorsk because the different textbooks are never the same dialect lol. Hopefully that doesn't throw me off later!
Learning all the different ways a single word can be spelled helps you memorize how the tongue moves and generally rest in your mouth compared to your native language. Having a different resting point in each language/dialect helps a lot.
These videos are amazing. Please keep doing them as it helps me so much to learn Norwegian. This is almost the only way where I can learn to understand spoken Norwegian from different dialects.
I've been studying Norwegian for 2 months and this video is helping me with subtitles! Thank you so much for this interview! There are few channels that show Norwegian life in such a simple and natural way.
@@GarnetsWebI learn from things I like. I'm a Harry Potter fan, so I downloaded the Harry Potter book in Norwegian and searched UA-cam for an audiobook of that book in Norwegian as well. I also listen to podcasts and watch many Norwegian movie. 😊
@Frida Gylterud Thanks! I hope I can find them for free and/or with subtitles. Anything normally sold outside of the US including books, it's extremely hard to find. I spent 2 hours looking through amazon for Norwegian books, got to page 0 and found only 3 textbooks that weren't madly overpriced 😂
That guy from Romsdalen, only guy who said breakfast was an important part of the day where the family would gather, and discuss and plan their day. His family must be nice. I never heard of such a concept before.
@@pancake_ghosty Might be natural, but it's not normal in my view. If you're Norwegian and you have a family that takes time for their breakfast meals, then I would say you should appreciate it. That sounds a bit foreign to me. Of the families I've had breakfast with at their home(which were mostly when I was a kid sleeping over at friends or as a teen sleeping over at different gfs houses), I would say it's very individual. People, including the kids, make their own slices of bread or cereal and eats it while other family members are doing different things in the morning routine; in the shower, making packed lunch. Being efficiant and individual, like Norwegians are known for. It's each to their own. Setting up a breakfast and eating it together is to me something you do on special events like christmas, going on holidays or perhaps just a sunday.
Btw there was one guy commenting here earlier, but the comment got removed, who said that this dude prob ate like that because he had an Asian family. He was complimenting Asian eating routines. Which might be fair, I have no knowledge of this. The only time I had breakfast at Asian families was when I was in Thailand and lived with a family in the countryside for some months and they did make a warm meal for breakfast, but they didn't eat it organized. Just shoved the food in their mouths by themselves as a Norwegian would. But that's just one experience, I have no idea. The YT algoritm prob removed his comment because it can't separate between positive comments on Asian culture and hateful comments and bigotry(I've experienced that once when I praised aspects of askhanazi heritage and culture only to have the comment removed, and I know of vids that were pro lgbt which got removed because the algoritm thought they were hateful). But I really wanted to answer that comment, because I think this dude in the vid is Norwegian and not Asian. Yes he doesn't look Norwegian, but I think that he is probably adopted. It's just my guess, but it's an estimated guess. But he would have Norwegian parents then, so Asian eating routines wouldn't be relevant. Living in the part of Norway where he says he is from, having lived here 7 years now, I have not seen many Asian _families_ here. There are a lot of South-East Asian(Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines) women with Norwegian husbands, and there are a lot of adopted Korean and Chinese children living in Norwegian families. And I would guess he probably is the latter of those, as his appearance looks more East Asian than South East Asian to me, and he doesn't look mixed. I might be wrong here, just basing that on how he looks. If you look at the Asian looking woman in this vid, for contrast, she looks half Asian and half European to me. Maybe one of her parents were adopted, or maybe she has an Asian mother. But she def has a European look in her as well. She also looks more East Asian than South-East Asian, but if she's mixed I guess that would be really hard to tell. She could I guess also have a central-Asian background as they are somewhere inbetween Asia, Middle East and Europe genetically and looks very similar to mixed European/Asian. But that would be a surprising find, I'm guessing adopted Korean mother/father and Norwegian father/mother. There are a lot of Vietnamese in Norway and Vietnamese can sometimes look more East Asian than South-East Asian, but I haven't seen them in this part of Norway. I knew a lot of Vietnamese in the Oslo-area, but I can't think of meeting a single Vietnamese here except at the Sushi restaurants in the towns. (Btw fun fact: a majority of Sushi restaurants in Norway are run by Vietnamese, and I recommend them as well, I've experienced their Sushi geuinely tastes better than the Norwegian run restaurants that costs 3x as much, at least the salmon that I get, maybe the tuna might be a dif story). Further I think he might be adopted because of his eating habits themselves. In my experience a lot of families that adopts children are religious and focus more on what Americans call "family values". There's a lot of religious people in this part of Norway, and I know several religious families which have adopted, so that's why I make this induction. Using the breakfast as a time for the family to gather and talk to each other seem to me to be a conservative and "family value" thing to do. Anyway these are just estimated guesses. Not trying to be judgingly stereotypical here or trying to pass this off as some truth, I really have no idea at all, just interested in trying to understand the world in general and interested in making inductive reasoning. Hope everyone sees my intentions here, because some people are very sensitive about this issue and wants to project negative intent. Would be awesome if the dude in the vid ever saw this comment, so he could clear things out for me. He seems like a really chill dude, polite and friendly. What-ever his background is he can be proud. Cheers.
In the Nordics I would say a natural look normally is preferred, especially on regular days. No need to "make up" for how you look, people will eventually find out 😉
@Creed Bratton for sure, especially if being a professional in the area. Well, guess you can always generalise to cover 80% or so, but it certainly won't be true for all. There are subgroups of niches in all areas of life 😊👍☀️
@smadge100 yeah I guess this is a problem as many idealize tanned skin, but I feel the younger generation at least realizes this more than earlier ones and at least apply more sunscreen.
I was struck by the bread and liver pate for breakfast. I knew about the brown cheese which I haven't tasted. New Scan cooking was show on channel 13 ( PBS ) in New York city where I live. The chef/host made some incredible Norwegian and Scandinavian dishes. In the US there is huge amount of processed foods that are high in sodium and sugar and contribute to all sorts of health problems. The Norwegian diet is much healthier.
I'm in love with Norway now! I immigrated to Canada but I wish I had the option to go to Norway However, the language seems to be hard to learn And as an efficient person I'm not sure I would want to learn a language that not many people speak I learned French but there are tens of millions of people who speak French
im currently learning Norwegian right now and its not as hard as you think ! plus i think its cool being able to speak a language not many people speak or know about
I'm more interested to learn of other people than learn the language. It's particulary inyetresting as I am Scot and we have historical connections with the old Norwegian peoples.
You asked about the trill R in your other comment - Most of Norway actually roll/trill their Rs, except for the south-western region around Bergen/Stavanger/Kristiansand, where people use a throaty "skarre-R" as we call it in Norwegian.
I work in south east Norway and we have a few people from Trøndelag at my job. When they speak to me they speak a mix of bokmål and their dialect, but when they speak to each other it's all out heavy dialect, i like that! Edit: correction; bokmål and nynorsk is a written language, you don't say that you speak nyorsk or bokmål. What i should have said was "a mix of east norwegian dialect and their own dialect". It sounds complicated but it's nothing you should worry about at all if you are learning norwegian.
so that mix of trøndesk and østlandsk we call "fintrøndersk". As a trønder living in oslo it is a means to survive as many cant really understand what you are trying to say down here when speaking dialect
I really enjoyed watching your video, my friend. The Winter in Trondheim, Norway is aesthetic, and then the residential view is so beautiful... Great footage, my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting. The most traditional italian breakfast is Cappuccino + croissant (or other sweet pastry) at the cafe', caffelatte + cookies or cereals if you're at home.
I love your videos, you can learn both, language and culture at the same time, thanks 😊. Will you ever make again videos teaching norwegian (like the first ones you have)? I love these videos too, they're great with a very clear explanation 💜
Thanks! I’m not sure. The regular lessons I made kind of dropped off in viewership after the first 15 or so, very few people seem to be interested enough in learning the language to stick it out any longer. These interview types of videos have a broader appeal for many reasons, even for some Norwegians, although they require a lot more effort
@@SimpleNorwegian ok, thanks for answering my question. We can see all the effort you put in your videos, I hope this effort will be rewarded and wish you the best luck 🍀. I'll be waiting for the next video 😉
I love these! I really hope you get a lot of views as there is ZERO content from Norway except maybe personal blogs! I reaaally reaaally hope I can master Norwegian enough to watch YT and videos in Norsk :) Thanks
You might take a look at the Arne and Carlos videos on UA-cam. They are needlework designers of international renown, and they live near Lillehammer, Norway. Many of their videos are about knitting and crocheting, but an impressive number of them are about life in Norway. For example, they vacationed in the Lofoten Islands above the Arctic Circle this past summer, and they shared a most entertaining video travelogue of that trip. They also have regular videos about Norwegian foods and cooking, and they share gardening information as well. Their home is a renovated train station in a rural mountainous community.
I had a hard time to get used to Norwegian breakfast (mostly leverpostei) but I loooooved fresh baked bread with jam and butter🥰 Greetings from Central America 💕
Heyo! At 2:47 he says "geitost", and while that sometimes is a white cheese (as you pictured), most of the times it's brown. And if we account in his age, he is most likely referring to the brown cheese, as it wasn't as usual to say "brunost/brown cheese" around the time he was growing up.
@@SimpleNorwegian the brunost, often Gudbrandsdal gjetost is made by boiling the milk so eventually the water evaporates and the sugars caramelize. That's what gives it the brown colour. It is an unnecessary step that causes a bad taste
True. My grandparents prefer the strong type of brown cheese, and call it geitost. They also buy the "real" kind of brown goat cheese whenever they are around Valdres or wherever it is.
Interessant læringsformat. Med minste kan man høre hvordan virkelig norsk og "tusenvis" av dens dialektene høres ut. Takk skal du ha! Når youtube foreslår en av videoene dine neste gang, vil jeg absolutt klikke på den.
The reason I'm not a big fan of bread today, is because almost all the meals we have in Norway, are bread. Bread for breakfast, lunch and then again for supper. Give me greek yoghurt with granola, scrambled eggs with veggies or some boujee oats :)
Agreed. You do get sick of bread when you're raised on it... But with me not being very creative, I still make matpakke with bread, cause it's relatively cheap, easy and that's what I've done all my life
Me: eating rye bread with live pate while watching this. Also it‘s so much easier for me to understand south eastern dialects (as I learn Oslo dialect in uni)
My name is Taha and I live in Morocco. I am looking for a Norwegian girl to get to know for the sake of marriage and not for fun if any girl is interested in it 🌺🙏
I think in Norway older people still remember hunger times from the beginning of 20th century. The reason I'm saying that is my own experience. I was living in Norway in Oslo with a Norwegian family for 3 months in 1993. For breakfast they had some eggs, bred milk and cereal as typical. Once they had a small can of sardines and I opened it and started to eat and they were so upset because of that. They told me after that that small can of sardines was for all of them including me. I must say there was 5 people at the breakfast in total. I was so surprised by that- 5 people trying to eat 3 small sardines in tomato sauce.
Hehe! I think sardines are mostly considered as something to enhance taste, not as food in itself, that's why people eat one single sardin, in general I do not people still have the the attitude to food from the old times, but you are partly right, some elderly people had this strange attitude to food as if it was scarse way up to the 80'ties
When you asked the interviewees what a typical or traditional breakfast is, I’m not sure if they understood the question in the same way. Some took it to mean what one or two items is most likely to be part of someone’s breakfast and others thought of it as meaning what did your parents or grandparents eat for breakfast.
As a Dane i am really surprised to hear that breakfast in Norwegian is called Frokost as in Denmark that is at a completely different time of the day ( in Denmark frokost is normally around 12am 1pm )
Why are you surprised? Sweden has frukost, Germany and Austria have frühstücken and it's eaten in the morning. The word origin is vrōkost (Old German) and it literally means “early food”
in turkey we eat everything in breakfast :D (jam,butter,menemen[a turkish food],sausage, egg, black-green olives, 4 or 5 types cheeses, egg with sausage etc. and more :D ) btw, i love your videos! i want to travel norway...♥
my native language is spanish, i speak english as my second language and i've been learning norwegian for 3 months (so far) and i'm surprised that i can understand many words and phrases from those people, i hope jeg går til Norge en dag! ♡
Extremely healthy. Liver has easily assimilated forms of b12 and folate, some other B vitamins, vitamin A, copper, etc.. In the US in previous generations people would try to eat it once a week for health.
My name is Taha and I live in Morocco. I am looking for a Norwegian girl to get to know for the sake of marriage and not for fun if any girl is interested in it 🌺🙏
Meanwhile in The Philippines, there's a wide variety of breakfast depending on the person. We have Tapsilog (dried beef, garlic fried rice and sunny side up) or anything with silog (fried rice and egg). We also have Pan de Sal and a cup of coffee or whatever suits your taste but mostly coffee. Instant noodles for people who's always on the go. There's Rice Porridge too. Champorado (a kind of rice porridge with tablea or dark chocolate). It's really interesting to know other countries' breakfast. Nice!
They eat porridge (grøt) at any time of the day, breakfast, lunch, dinner or supper although mainly for breakfast or supper real late at night as they tend to have dinner earlier than most western countries especially in he winter and especially if they have kids. The porridge is usually made with cinnamon and butter.
Recently moved to Norway from Sweden but I’m not a fan of bread. My children only get bread at kindergarten. while back in Sweden, they had prepared meals every day.
I'm from Brazil and I'm kinda fascinated how Sweden works.... Such a good example to the world to follow in many aspects, I think I'm gonna learn Norwegian just because of your videos, so I can visit for myself one day 😂😂🇧🇷♥️
@@heidifarstadkvalheim4952человек же сказал вам что он из Бразилии Зачем вы делаете вид что ничего не понимаете ? Он каждый день видит обезьян и может отличить одну обезьяну от другой А шведов и норвежцев он только в Ютубе видит Конечно он мог перепутать
I lived in Norway for 2 yrs, in the South. Grimstad. My girls would have a quick bite of breakfast and then at school they would have there lunch at 11:00 I would try to make a salad and sandwich for them but for the most part they ended up getting a bun of some sort with their friends.
I eat a half boiled egg, slice of bread with butter toasted and cut into 6 soldiers, small cup of coffee with milk and honey and vitamin powder, tea with milk with honey and vitamin powder and last but not least granola sprinkled on oatmeal with raspberries and mixed berries. Baring in mind I also work out 💪💪 Now that's a Norwegian breakfast before pushing a heavy truck tire 6 miles in 10 reps with a 2 minute break in between each set 💪💪 I liked this video yes!!!! 👍😅
1: I'm glad I found this channel. 2: I really MISS the show, New Scandinavian Cooking. 3: I need a new channel in the style of New Scandinavian Cooking...🎉🎉❤❤ 4: I wish New Scandinavian Cooking would return ❤❤❤😢😢
Very good idea to make such videos with three ways of texting -well done! But there is a mistake that should be corrected: a man mentions «geitost» which in a Norwegian context is s brown cheese «brunost» hence the picture illustrating geitost is wrong! Talking about typical / traditional Norwegian food, «geitost» means «brunost», the one we «all» have in the fridge. The normal brunost only contains a small amount of goat milk, but there is a brunost which is made from goat milk and called «Geitost», but not very common any more.
I am from Canada but my mom's side came from Norway way back in the late 1870s cuz my grandpa said when he met his great grandpa he had a Buffalo hide coat his name was ildris and shortened to olson cuz they still did thst weird name thing back in Norway then but they brought a cool recipe with them we call them sinkers my grandpa showed me how to make them and they are kinda like klubb it's pork shoulder cut into cubes potatoes flour and salt but instead of small dumplings tho they are about the size of a small cooking pot and after you boil them cuz you gotta wrap them in a cloth sheet you let them cool and slice them and fry them in a pan or they are semi mushy when you first pull them outta the pot and it's also just fire to eat in a bowl with some pepper but we call them sinkers cuz they sink to the bottom of the stomach and you don't gotta eat for a while cuz them fill you up so much but soooo good with piece of bread and slight runny egg
So for learning norwegian language this channel gonna help me alot hopefully.i just started 2 days before and i have some words to understand..takk @simple norwegian
In France we eat bread on breakfast with cereals and cheese too but never with meat and we add lot of butter. Croissant and pain au chocolat on week end only !
As a Aegean Turkish, lemme cry for a sec. In general, breakfast is the most valued meal in Turkey and it's like extra super rich. I'm talking about egg or could be anything made with it(especially menemen), cheese (a lot of types), olive is a must, honey, jams, could be anything with potato, cucumber, tomato, sausage or light meat products, simit, some poğaça maybe and it goes. And also tea. Personally i don't drink but in general Turkish ppl drink tea a lot.
* *NORWEGIAN'S!* * - Roald Amundsen!!! He's the man, where upon learning he discovered the south pole, led me to volunteer for military duty in Antarctica. I didn't have the job specifics to qualify (long story).
But favorite dish for breakfast is fish carrots outta the garden same with potatoes and some berries afterwards to snack on (mostly Saskatoons, raspberrys, and huckleberrys when in season)
I heard that they need to eat more fish than they used to...liver pate is good...fish helps with brain function...they are a very enlightened country...their traditional diet is most healthy.
Norwegians sure love their bread.
I want to point out a small error in the video: The Asian boy says "i" to mean "jeg", but I wrote "e" in his subtitles. It sounded a lot like "e" but upon editing the next video and researching the dialect (Romsdal) I found that they actually say "i".
Simple Norwegian also seem to like liver pate
Mm liver paste. I had my fair share of it growing up 😀 Tastes pretty good actually
Def more street interviews
@@thomasjefferson6225 Definitely not the USA. Save yourself (especially your wife!) the suffering.
I personally think the best breakfast is brown cheese with waffles
Im not learning Norwegian, I just really love learning about breakfast norms around the world!
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If you don't want to learn Norwegian why are you here?
@@lavenderflowersfall280 The reason is literally in my comment.
@@semt9 get rekt :D
Yeah!!! I love it too...so curious about it...sometimes I like to have breakfast frome somewhere around the world...!!!!😁😋
What’s interesting is many people said they ate liver pate for breakfast, but nobody said that it was a traditional Norwegian breakfast! Thank you for sharing!!
Yea, it's very common. There are many different leverposteier. Even with chili 😁
@@MrMKE100 I spent a couple of yrs in England and some other European countries during my childhood.My gran asked for liverpate in a" yellow, round box"(A pretty simple,mild livermate,made for children,there's a picture of a child on it too.And it's not in a box, it's a tin.It's very norwegian indeed,brand is "Stabburet" Gran was very stubborn though...She argued with the shop assistant for about halv an hour or so lol😂"She'd also ask for appelsine juice(Orange juice) or asked for a paraply🌂(UK seem to love rain but so does Westcoast of Norw.where she was brought up so....Anyw.she gave me plenty of laughs😅
@@rebeccajelenawang4306 Haha, nice. I didn't know you could get it in the UK. Our kids love it, so we always buy 2-4 cans. :D We have even bought lids with pictures of our kids. I live on the Westcoast of Norway. And we don't love the rain. We love Spain for the weather :D
@@MrMKE100 U can't.My gran was so stubborn though, they eventually ordered some for her lol.
@@rebeccajelenawang4306 Haha! :D
Can't thank you enough for all the dialect subtitles!
True that :)
For me it's confusing, I don't know which one to look at :(
@@GarnetsWeb I don' think they're dialects. It's bokmal and nynorsk, the two different written variants
@@iamrichlol Yeah, but for me I was trying to learn specifically Bokmål, and at this point I'm just learning bokmål and nynorsk because the different textbooks are never the same dialect lol. Hopefully that doesn't throw me off later!
@@iamrichlol No, the subtitles at the top are dialect and the subtitles in the middle are bokmål :)
I just love listening to Norwegian language even through I don’t understand it. So relaxed 😌
Ugh im norwegian and i dont like the language
I love norway im norwigen
@@Amadeakristine i like norway but i dont LOVE it
@@mariloom i love norway
I just love these interviews that you do. There's so much in them for me. I feel like I learned more from these than I do from my Norwegian lessons.
Learning all the different ways a single word can be spelled helps you memorize how the tongue moves and generally rest in your mouth compared to your native language.
Having a different resting point in each language/dialect helps a lot.
fell madly in love with Norway during a vacation a couple of years ago. Been dreaming of moving there ever since. Keep the videos coming, please.
Welcome back! Greetings from Telemark😊
Tourism and immigration are 2 different things my dear!
@@Shamansdurx fully aware of that. Thanks
@Rod OB U.S.
I am loving it in here. Beautiful country and people ❤️
These videos are amazing. Please keep doing them as it helps me so much to learn Norwegian. This is almost the only way where I can learn to understand spoken Norwegian from different dialects.
I've been studying Norwegian for 2 months and this video is helping me with subtitles! Thank you so much for this interview! There are few channels that show Norwegian life in such a simple and natural way.
Hey! I'm learning Norsk as well. Any tips you have for me, as you've been learning for 2 months?
@@GarnetsWebI learn from things I like. I'm a Harry Potter fan, so I downloaded the Harry Potter book in Norwegian and searched UA-cam for an audiobook of that book in Norwegian as well. I also listen to podcasts and watch many Norwegian movie. 😊
@@AlineLeeman which Norwegian movies? I haven't been able to find any. And that's partly how I've been learning as well!
@Frida Gylterud Thanks! I hope I can find them for free and/or with subtitles. Anything normally sold outside of the US including books, it's extremely hard to find. I spent 2 hours looking through amazon for Norwegian books, got to page 0 and found only 3 textbooks that weren't madly overpriced 😂
@Frida Gylterud I found The Wave for free on UA-cam!
That guy from Romsdalen, only guy who said breakfast was an important part of the day where the family would gather, and discuss and plan their day.
His family must be nice. I never heard of such a concept before.
Wouldn't it be natural to talk about the day at breakfast though?
@@pancake_ghosty Might be natural, but it's not normal in my view.
If you're Norwegian and you have a family that takes time for their breakfast meals, then I would say you should appreciate it. That sounds a bit foreign to me.
Of the families I've had breakfast with at their home(which were mostly when I was a kid sleeping over at friends or as a teen sleeping over at different gfs houses), I would say it's very individual. People, including the kids, make their own slices of bread or cereal and eats it while other family members are doing different things in the morning routine; in the shower, making packed lunch. Being efficiant and individual, like Norwegians are known for. It's each to their own. Setting up a breakfast and eating it together is to me something you do on special events like christmas, going on holidays or perhaps just a sunday.
Btw there was one guy commenting here earlier, but the comment got removed, who said that this dude prob ate like that because he had an Asian family. He was complimenting Asian eating routines.
Which might be fair, I have no knowledge of this. The only time I had breakfast at Asian families was when I was in Thailand and lived with a family in the countryside for some months and they did make a warm meal for breakfast, but they didn't eat it organized. Just shoved the food in their mouths by themselves as a Norwegian would. But that's just one experience, I have no idea.
The YT algoritm prob removed his comment because it can't separate between positive comments on Asian culture and hateful comments and bigotry(I've experienced that once when I praised aspects of askhanazi heritage and culture only to have the comment removed, and I know of vids that were pro lgbt which got removed because the algoritm thought they were hateful).
But I really wanted to answer that comment, because I think this dude in the vid is Norwegian and not Asian. Yes he doesn't look Norwegian, but I think that he is probably adopted. It's just my guess, but it's an estimated guess. But he would have Norwegian parents then, so Asian eating routines wouldn't be relevant.
Living in the part of Norway where he says he is from, having lived here 7 years now, I have not seen many Asian _families_ here. There are a lot of South-East Asian(Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines) women with Norwegian husbands, and there are a lot of adopted Korean and Chinese children living in Norwegian families. And I would guess he probably is the latter of those, as his appearance looks more East Asian than South East Asian to me, and he doesn't look mixed. I might be wrong here, just basing that on how he looks.
If you look at the Asian looking woman in this vid, for contrast, she looks half Asian and half European to me. Maybe one of her parents were adopted, or maybe she has an Asian mother. But she def has a European look in her as well. She also looks more East Asian than South-East Asian, but if she's mixed I guess that would be really hard to tell. She could I guess also have a central-Asian background as they are somewhere inbetween Asia, Middle East and Europe genetically and looks very similar to mixed European/Asian. But that would be a surprising find, I'm guessing adopted Korean mother/father and Norwegian father/mother.
There are a lot of Vietnamese in Norway and Vietnamese can sometimes look more East Asian than South-East Asian, but I haven't seen them in this part of Norway. I knew a lot of Vietnamese in the Oslo-area, but I can't think of meeting a single Vietnamese here except at the Sushi restaurants in the towns. (Btw fun fact: a majority of Sushi restaurants in Norway are run by Vietnamese, and I recommend them as well, I've experienced their Sushi geuinely tastes better than the Norwegian run restaurants that costs 3x as much, at least the salmon that I get, maybe the tuna might be a dif story).
Further I think he might be adopted because of his eating habits themselves. In my experience a lot of families that adopts children are religious and focus more on what Americans call "family values". There's a lot of religious people in this part of Norway, and I know several religious families which have adopted, so that's why I make this induction. Using the breakfast as a time for the family to gather and talk to each other seem to me to be a conservative and "family value" thing to do.
Anyway these are just estimated guesses. Not trying to be judgingly stereotypical here or trying to pass this off as some truth, I really have no idea at all, just interested in trying to understand the world in general and interested in making inductive reasoning. Hope everyone sees my intentions here, because some people are very sensitive about this issue and wants to project negative intent.
Would be awesome if the dude in the vid ever saw this comment, so he could clear things out for me. He seems like a really chill dude, polite and friendly. What-ever his background is he can be proud. Cheers.
As usual for anything from Norway, the video quality and the production values are very high. This was very entertaining and informative. Thanks!
I notice the women have really nice fresh bright skin. Maybe their diet? They don't seem to be wearing so much makeup up either.
In the Nordics I would say a natural look normally is preferred, especially on regular days. No need to "make up" for how you look, people will eventually find out 😉
@Creed Bratton for sure, especially if being a professional in the area. Well, guess you can always generalise to cover 80% or so, but it certainly won't be true for all. There are subgroups of niches in all areas of life 😊👍☀️
The cool climate helps too.
@smadge100 yeah I guess this is a problem as many idealize tanned skin, but I feel the younger generation at least realizes this more than earlier ones and at least apply more sunscreen.
It's called "no makeup look", make it look like you are not weraing makeup to make it seem like you are a natural beauty.
I love videos like this. I'm nosey and interested in everything, no matter how trivial the topic initially seems! So thank you for this video.
I love that guys reaction when the bird sat on his arm
it seems the pigeons are friendly in Norway🤣 Here in Australia they'd be running away from you at all costs! 🐦
Yeah the pigeons jumping on the guy was very unusual, it was because he was feeding them
It is not normal in Norway either
Австралийцы перестаньте жрать голубей.)))
Ксилокопа обыкновенная ???
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I was struck by the bread and liver pate for breakfast. I knew about the brown cheese which I haven't tasted. New Scan cooking was show on channel 13 ( PBS ) in New York city where I live. The chef/host made some incredible Norwegian and Scandinavian dishes. In the US there is huge amount of processed foods that are high in sodium and sugar and contribute to all sorts of health problems. The Norwegian diet is much healthier.
The entire Europe eats liver patte ,it's sooooo delicious
Greetings from Germany. We are also a Leberwurst nation 😁
Finaly another country that doesnt projectile vomit when they eat leverpostei :)
Been to Norway before and Norwegian bread is indeed really good. This video makes me remembering moments I had back then
I'm in love with Norway now!
I immigrated to Canada but I wish I had the option to go to Norway
However, the language seems to be hard to learn
And as an efficient person I'm not sure I would want to learn a language that not many people speak
I learned French but there are tens of millions of people who speak French
im currently learning Norwegian right now and its not as hard as you think ! plus i think its cool being able to speak a language not many people speak or know about
Norwegian is one of the easier lanhuages to learn
Well if you properly learn Norwegian you Will also be able to conoverse with swedes and danes aswell
Norwegian: A little bit harder than English, but easier than German
I'm more interested to learn of other people than learn the language. It's particulary inyetresting as I am Scot and we have historical connections with the old Norwegian peoples.
I love how friendly the pigeons are!!
You asked about the trill R in your other comment - Most of Norway actually roll/trill their Rs, except for the south-western region around Bergen/Stavanger/Kristiansand, where people use a throaty "skarre-R" as we call it in Norwegian.
I work in south east Norway and we have a few people from Trøndelag at my job. When they speak to me they speak a mix of bokmål and their dialect, but when they speak to each other it's all out heavy dialect, i like that!
Edit: correction; bokmål and nynorsk is a written language, you don't say that you speak nyorsk or bokmål. What i should have said was "a mix of east norwegian dialect and their own dialect". It sounds complicated but it's nothing you should worry about at all if you are learning norwegian.
so I know this might be confusing for people who doesn’t have Norwegian as their mother language, but you can’t actually speak bokmål 😬
@@Mari-eq8rx You are absolutely right, my bad! East Norwegian is more correct, even though there are some differences in the dialects.
Cromsen Wow you really have more sense about this than most of my fellow Norwegians 😅
so that mix of trøndesk and østlandsk we call "fintrøndersk". As a trønder living in oslo it is a means to survive as many cant really understand what you are trying to say down here when speaking dialect
HoWii I know what you mean 😅 I have a mix of many western dialects, and none of my cousins from the east understand me 😂
I really enjoyed watching your video, my friend. The Winter in Trondheim, Norway is aesthetic, and then the residential view is so beautiful... Great footage, my friend. Thanks for sharing.
I love the dialect the gentleman from Lier is speaking. It got that extra zing and colour that is lacking in the broader Oslo dialect.
I’m happy you are posting again!!! I stopped learning for a little but I’m getting back into it.
Interesting. The most traditional italian breakfast is Cappuccino + croissant (or other sweet pastry) at the cafe', caffelatte + cookies or cereals if you're at home.
I love the melody that this language carries
4:57 A special feathered angel makes an appearance and blesses the young man.
I love your videos, you can learn both, language and culture at the same time, thanks 😊. Will you ever make again videos teaching norwegian (like the first ones you have)? I love these videos too, they're great with a very clear explanation 💜
Thanks! I’m not sure. The regular lessons I made kind of dropped off in viewership after the first 15 or so, very few people seem to be interested enough in learning the language to stick it out any longer. These interview types of videos have a broader appeal for many reasons, even for some Norwegians, although they require a lot more effort
@@SimpleNorwegian ok, thanks for answering my question. We can see all the effort you put in your videos, I hope this effort will be rewarded and wish you the best luck 🍀. I'll be waiting for the next video 😉
@@SimpleNorwegian - I hope you do, I enjoy watching them in my journey learning Norwegian. Maybe a mix of the cultural videos and instructional ones?
I love these! I really hope you get a lot of views as there is ZERO content from Norway except maybe personal blogs! I reaaally reaaally hope I can master Norwegian enough to watch YT and videos in Norsk :) Thanks
Aregon972 me too
You might take a look at the Arne and Carlos videos on UA-cam. They are needlework designers of international renown, and they live near Lillehammer, Norway. Many of their videos are about knitting and crocheting, but an impressive number of them are about life in Norway. For example, they vacationed in the Lofoten Islands above the Arctic Circle this past summer, and they shared a most entertaining video travelogue of that trip.
They also have regular videos about Norwegian foods and cooking, and they share gardening information as well. Their home is a renovated train station in a rural mountainous community.
Try UA-camr "Your Way to Norway" it is really funny.
I had a hard time to get used to Norwegian breakfast (mostly leverpostei) but I loooooved fresh baked bread with jam and butter🥰 Greetings from Central America 💕
I'd say three open faced sandwiches, one with brown cheese, one with liver paté and one with mackerel in tomatosauce. Classic combo :)
Heyo!
At 2:47 he says "geitost", and while that sometimes is a white cheese (as you pictured), most of the times it's brown. And if we account in his age, he is most likely referring to the brown cheese, as it wasn't as usual to say "brunost/brown cheese" around the time he was growing up.
👍 thanks. Makes sense, google shows brown cheese. I thought it was white cause the only goat cheese I ever had was tine’s white goat cheese
True, my grandma (born in 1932) called it geitost and she said hvitost instead of gulost.
@@SimpleNorwegian the brunost, often Gudbrandsdal gjetost is made by boiling the milk so eventually the water evaporates and the sugars caramelize. That's what gives it the brown colour. It is an unnecessary step that causes a bad taste
True. My grandparents prefer the strong type of brown cheese, and call it geitost. They also buy the "real" kind of brown goat cheese whenever they are around Valdres or wherever it is.
Interessant læringsformat. Med minste kan man høre hvordan virkelig norsk og "tusenvis" av dens dialektene høres ut. Takk skal du ha! Når youtube foreslår en av videoene dine neste gang, vil jeg absolutt klikke på den.
The reason I'm not a big fan of bread today, is because almost all the meals we have in Norway, are bread. Bread for breakfast, lunch and then again for supper. Give me greek yoghurt with granola, scrambled eggs with veggies or some boujee oats :)
Agreed. You do get sick of bread when you're raised on it... But with me not being very creative, I still make matpakke with bread, cause it's relatively cheap, easy and that's what I've done all my life
Me: eating rye bread with live pate while watching this.
Also it‘s so much easier for me to understand south eastern dialects (as I learn Oslo dialect in uni)
Where are you from? 😀
New video! Awesome! Great job. Thank you!
I don't know why this was on my suggested videos, but it was extremely interesting!
My name is Taha and I live in Morocco. I am looking for a Norwegian girl to get to know for the sake of marriage and not for fun if any girl is interested in it 🌺🙏
I think in Norway older people still remember hunger times from the beginning of 20th century. The reason I'm saying that is my own experience. I was living in Norway in Oslo with a Norwegian family for 3 months in 1993. For breakfast they had some eggs, bred milk and cereal as typical. Once they had a small can of sardines and I opened it and started to eat and they were so upset because of that. They told me after that that small can of sardines was for all of them including me. I must say there was 5 people at the breakfast in total. I was so surprised by that- 5 people trying to eat 3 small sardines in tomato sauce.
Hehe! I think sardines are mostly considered as something to enhance taste, not as food in itself, that's why people eat one single sardin, in general I do not people still have the the attitude to food from the old times, but you are partly right, some elderly people had this strange attitude to food as if it was scarse way up to the 80'ties
Tusen takk
When you asked the interviewees what a typical or traditional breakfast is, I’m not sure if they understood the question in the same way. Some took it to mean what one or two items is most likely to be part of someone’s breakfast and others thought of it as meaning what did your parents or grandparents eat for breakfast.
As a Dane i am really surprised to hear that breakfast in Norwegian is called Frokost as in Denmark that is at a completely different time of the day ( in Denmark frokost is normally around 12am 1pm )
Jeg var litt overrasket første gang i Danmark når jeg oppdaget dette.
Why are you surprised? Sweden has frukost, Germany and Austria have frühstücken and it's eaten in the morning. The word origin is vrōkost (Old German) and it literally means “early food”
please keep doing because the videos have become addiction for norsk learners
in turkey we eat everything in breakfast :D (jam,butter,menemen[a turkish food],sausage, egg, black-green olives, 4 or 5 types cheeses, egg with sausage etc. and more :D ) btw, i love your videos! i want to travel norway...♥
I love Turkish breakfast sooo much 🤩🤩 I miss Menemen and sucuk with egg 😍 I also miss Etliekmek, I can even eat it for breakfast 😋😋
That sounds like a fantastic breakfast :)
Don't forget black olives. It's a must
And cheese
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umarim bir gün gideriz.. ben orada yaşamak istiyorum
ᚨᛗᛁᚾᛖ ᚾᚢᚱ ᚨᚱᚨᛒᚢᛚᚢᛏ wow that sounds so good. I’ve always wanted to try Turkish food :)
I was privelidged to spend two weeks in Norway on a vacation. Every breakfast I was served included sliced tomatoes and cucumbers.
Tomatoes give me heartburn
I like how woman in green jacket answers in three paragraphs to a question, and the next one says a single word.
my native language is spanish, i speak english as my second language and i've been learning norwegian for 3 months (so far) and i'm surprised that i can understand many words and phrases from those people, i hope jeg går til Norge en dag! ♡
Two years since you posted this comment, did you get to norway yet? Since you wanted to walk all the way? 😂😂
Breakfast is my fav meal so I enjoy hearing these interviews on food. The liver pate surprised me for a breakfast food.
I am a Spanish living in Norway and in Spain pate on toast is popular for breakfast too 😄
I'm from the USA and I wouldn't eat liver pate at any meal - eewwww
Extremely healthy. Liver has easily assimilated forms of b12 and folate, some other B vitamins, vitamin A, copper, etc.. In the US in previous generations people would try to eat it once a week for health.
@@jeanbean1390 it's the most delicious thing ,I love it so much yummmy
@@Србомбоница86 I'm glad you like it but I can't even imagine eating it.
Hello from the USA to your beautiful country. I’m supposed to come visit in 2021. I pray I still can.
Amazing videos! I am trying to learn norsk, these are very helpful
Awesome interviews 🙌🏻 funny and cute how the pigeons seem to be very friendly towards this boy
I love how the Norwegian sounds
My name is Taha and I live in Morocco. I am looking for a Norwegian girl to get to know for the sake of marriage and not for fun if any girl is interested in it 🌺🙏
@@tahaouahbi6481 ew
How are you doing today my dear
Meanwhile in The Philippines, there's a wide variety of breakfast depending on the person. We have Tapsilog (dried beef, garlic fried rice and sunny side up) or anything with silog (fried rice and egg). We also have Pan de Sal and a cup of coffee or whatever suits your taste but mostly coffee. Instant noodles for people who's always on the go. There's Rice Porridge too. Champorado (a kind of rice porridge with tablea or dark chocolate). It's really interesting to know other countries' breakfast. Nice!
Bro i love this videos format! Keep it going
The pigeon heard about bread and came to his arms, so sweet.
These videos are so lovely and useful. As for breakfast I'd be ok with a cup of coffee.
I always had mom's homemade bread with cheese (Gauda) and sometimes an egg. Of course always with coffee. Enjoyed listening to Norwegian again.
Hearing Norwegians in regular conversations to supplement the scripted learning exercises is great!
Why do birds just love that one kid
Thanks for sharing the Norwegian culture! I live in Italy and I am curious about other cultures and lifestyles.😊
Bread with liver pate sounds delish.
Hello
Love Norway people were so nice there when we went a few years ago.
growing up, I loved rommegrot on Sunday morning.
They eat porridge (grøt) at any time of the day, breakfast, lunch, dinner or supper although mainly for breakfast or supper real late at night as they tend to have dinner earlier than most western countries especially in he winter and especially if they have kids. The porridge is usually made with cinnamon and butter.
I love that as a Dane, i understand them :-D
Excellent video ... very interesting .. good info .. REAL stuff
As a sweden living in norway respect for the girl they did an amazing video
Recently moved to Norway from Sweden but I’m not a fan of bread. My children only get bread at kindergarten. while back in Sweden, they had prepared meals every day.
Ahhh, the good old matpakke... I'm not in school anymore, but I'm jealous that the Swedes get proper food, and for free of I'm not mistaken?
I love Norway❤️
From Philippines 🇵🇭
Same breakfast as we have in germany, you cant deny the germanic kinship ;-)
Yes, i am allways amazed about the similarities in language and a lot of tte cultural aspects :)
Exactly :)
Beautiful language
Thanks for sharing! I come from China. Many people will eat rice porridge and Chinese buns called "Baozi" as breakfast.
@@GarnetsWeb Thank you! I'm just a beginner in English and Norwegian .😂
@@GarnetsWeb Thank you very much.😄
@@GarnetsWebя тоже это заметил
Он очень странный
I'm from Brazil and I'm kinda fascinated how Sweden works.... Such a good example to the world to follow in many aspects, I think I'm gonna learn Norwegian just because of your videos, so I can visit for myself one day 😂😂🇧🇷♥️
Welcome to norway😊
@@tone-karinrnningen7570 thanks 😁
…. Sweden? … 😳 where did that fit in?
@@lucasryan4181 sweden hahahaha
@@heidifarstadkvalheim4952человек же сказал вам что он из Бразилии
Зачем вы делаете вид что ничего не понимаете ?
Он каждый день видит обезьян и может отличить одну обезьяну от другой
А шведов и норвежцев он только в Ютубе видит
Конечно он мог перепутать
I wouldn't mind visiting Norway some day just to try out there food and meet some of the locals
“A slice of bread with something on it” I agree with that guy 😂
Best part is: They eat breakfast! They take time to start. Thank you for showing. L G M Berlin 👨🍳🍽💭👍
Norwegian language sounds so beautiful!
Vietnamese breakfast, big bowl of beef soup (Phở), 1 Glass of iced Vietnamese milk coffee.
I like this format of video, very interesting, thank you!
Would like to see more people over 50 being interviewed to get a broader range of approaches to breakfast. Many thanks! 🙂
Older people decline being interviewed at a much higher rate
Mary Oliver: I'm over 50 and I never eat breakfast (just 3 consecutive cups of tea to wake me up) :-)
Hello my dear
I lived in Norway for 2 yrs, in the South. Grimstad. My girls would have a quick bite of breakfast and then at school they would have there lunch at 11:00 I would try to make a salad and sandwich for them but for the most part they ended up getting a bun of some sort with their friends.
Really?? Then how early would they eat dinner?? Lol
I eat a half boiled egg, slice of bread with butter toasted and cut into 6 soldiers, small cup of coffee with milk and honey and vitamin powder, tea with milk with honey and vitamin powder and last but not least granola sprinkled on oatmeal with raspberries and mixed berries. Baring in mind I also work out 💪💪 Now that's a Norwegian breakfast before pushing a heavy truck tire 6 miles in 10 reps with a 2 minute break in between each set 💪💪 I liked this video yes!!!! 👍😅
1: I'm glad I found this channel. 2: I really MISS the show, New Scandinavian Cooking. 3: I need a new channel in the style of New Scandinavian Cooking...🎉🎉❤❤ 4: I wish New Scandinavian Cooking would return ❤❤❤😢😢
I like to try it sometime traveling there... Thanks to the translation as it helps me to understand the interview.
Very good idea to make such videos with three ways of texting -well done!
But there is a mistake that should be corrected: a man mentions «geitost» which in a Norwegian context is s brown cheese «brunost» hence the picture illustrating geitost is wrong!
Talking about typical / traditional Norwegian food, «geitost» means «brunost», the one we «all» have in the fridge. The normal brunost only contains a small amount of goat milk, but there is a brunost which is made from goat milk and called «Geitost», but not very common any more.
I am from Canada but my mom's side came from Norway way back in the late 1870s cuz my grandpa said when he met his great grandpa he had a Buffalo hide coat his name was ildris and shortened to olson cuz they still did thst weird name thing back in Norway then but they brought a cool recipe with them we call them sinkers my grandpa showed me how to make them and they are kinda like klubb it's pork shoulder cut into cubes potatoes flour and salt but instead of small dumplings tho they are about the size of a small cooking pot and after you boil them cuz you gotta wrap them in a cloth sheet you let them cool and slice them and fry them in a pan or they are semi mushy when you first pull them outta the pot and it's also just fire to eat in a bowl with some pepper but we call them sinkers cuz they sink to the bottom of the stomach and you don't gotta eat for a while cuz them fill you up so much but soooo good with piece of bread and slight runny egg
Liver pate in bread is also popular in Philippines. I'm surprised!
Very healthy. Liver has great forms of B12 and folate. It has other b vitamins, vitamin A, and copper. Healthy stuff.
I just found your channel and I subbed.Love your content ❤️❤️👏🏻👏🏻
I love this type of videos, keep on going! (:
So for learning norwegian language this channel gonna help me alot hopefully.i just started 2 days before and i have some words to understand..takk @simple norwegian
I Love your interview Videos!
In France we eat bread on breakfast with cereals and cheese too but never with meat and we add lot of butter. Croissant and pain au chocolat on week end only !
As a Aegean Turkish, lemme cry for a sec. In general, breakfast is the most valued meal in Turkey and it's like extra super rich. I'm talking about egg or could be anything made with it(especially menemen), cheese (a lot of types), olive is a must, honey, jams, could be anything with potato, cucumber, tomato, sausage or light meat products, simit, some poğaça maybe and it goes. And also tea. Personally i don't drink but in general Turkish ppl drink tea a lot.
Büşra Kaya that sounds delicious. I’ve always wanted to try Turkish food
@@Anna-pj8te it is. I love our breakfasts. I definitely recommend it. Our cuisine is quite rich 😊
Büşra Kaya I’ll definitely have to try it.
MashaAllah you are blessed with such healthy food. Wish I had enough money to go to Turkey.
@@Anna-pj8te 😊
* *NORWEGIAN'S!* * - Roald Amundsen!!! He's the man, where upon learning he discovered the south pole, led me to volunteer for military duty in Antarctica. I didn't have the job specifics to qualify (long story).
But favorite dish for breakfast is fish carrots outta the garden same with potatoes and some berries afterwards to snack on (mostly Saskatoons, raspberrys, and huckleberrys when in season)
I eat two slices of bread with caviar, mayo and cucumber. 😊👌🏼🧡 And a glass of black coffee and a glass of water. ☕️
Our caviar is not the real Russian caviar, though. 😁
I heard that they need to eat more fish than they used to...liver pate is good...fish helps with brain function...they are a very enlightened country...their traditional diet is most healthy.
So interesting!
Thank you for very nice video.
hard biscuits with butter, grandma(bestemor) loved it, dunked it in her coffee. calar?