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  • @RCN565
    @RCN565 8 місяців тому +5100

    Norwegians talking different as soon as they live 25km away from each other:🗿

    • @christiannicolasborgenstee3092
      @christiannicolasborgenstee3092 4 місяці тому +360

      we dont whatsoever, its more like a 5km difference

    • @fniks12northboy31
      @fniks12northboy31 4 місяці тому +195

      You mean across the street, right?

    • @unamusedmule
      @unamusedmule 4 місяці тому +13

      ​@@fniks12northboy31😂😂

    • @Xirque666
      @Xirque666 4 місяці тому +34

      ​@@fniks12northboy31no, no, that's Denmark, we're not as diverse as the danes 😂😂😂

    • @chillz5434
      @chillz5434 4 місяці тому +2

      So true

  • @Tonnex
    @Tonnex Рік тому +3814

    Norwegian is easy to learn, but a good dialekt is really hard

    • @Frenchtoast4
      @Frenchtoast4 Рік тому +26

      Are you Norwegian

    • @Frenchtoast4
      @Frenchtoast4 Рік тому +19

      I am

    • @scottvelez3154
      @scottvelez3154 Рік тому +32

      ​​@@Frenchtoast4 jeg er meksikansk

    • @Depreuz
      @Depreuz Рік тому +50

      ​@@scottvelez3154 visste du at vi har "taco-fredag" i Norge?

    • @blacksaltscotland
      @blacksaltscotland Рік тому +60

      Ja, eg lærer norsk og e frå skottland. Eg vei'kje kva dialekt eg snakker 😅
      Også eg skiver ikkje bra

  • @Sof_rha
    @Sof_rha 8 місяців тому +1638

    As a Norwegian, pretty accurate but dialects can throw learners for a loop LMAO

    • @The_KJ8
      @The_KJ8 5 місяців тому +35

      E e a å ede, that means I’m out eating (usually at a restaurant)

    • @SarahCroessmann
      @SarahCroessmann 5 місяців тому +2

      same

    • @helixxia9320
      @helixxia9320 4 місяці тому +3

      @user-kw2hx8yr5t kordan dialekt??

    • @northernleigonare
      @northernleigonare 4 місяці тому +4

      Made my Norwegian friend sad as I laughed, trying and failing to say Peppes restaurant, as well as other things. It was a fun holiday.

    • @itskarl7575
      @itskarl7575 4 місяці тому +14

      @@The_KJ8 Like the old joke:
      "Hvilken klasse går du i (what class are you in)"?
      "Æ e i a. Enn du?" ("I'm in A. And you?")
      "Æ e i a æ å." ("I'm in A, too.")

  • @nokbeen3654
    @nokbeen3654 6 місяців тому +1093

    As a norwegian, my favorite Word to tell foreigners is «Rombeporfyrkonglomerat» which is a vulcanic rock type only found on Hvaler in Norway, and Iceland.

    • @erikje0821
      @erikje0821 5 місяців тому +39

      It is also in the oslo area, leftovers from when ullern was a volcano. You see tons of them in the mountain Kolsås

    • @mikoro88
      @mikoro88 5 місяців тому +29

      Høyesterettsjustitiarius is a good one too. 😅

    • @TheChaoticBeanBinky
      @TheChaoticBeanBinky 5 місяців тому +2

      Så sant😂😂

    • @torantontuftin8874
      @torantontuftin8874 5 місяців тому +2

      I have a collection of those that I found in "saltholmen" I live in Norway btw

    • @skaervan
      @skaervan 5 місяців тому +1

      Names of other porphyrs must be REALLY hard for you then. 😜

  • @jessiesims1741
    @jessiesims1741 8 місяців тому +1295

    He transformed into the Swedish Chef right in front of my eyes

  • @itskarl7575
    @itskarl7575 4 місяці тому +101

    I once had a girlfriend from a different part of Norway. We communicated exclusively in English because she could hardly understand my dialect, and I got fed up having to repeat every single sentence.

    • @hawaianico
      @hawaianico 7 днів тому +1

      Maybe speaking Swedish both could be a point

    • @itskarl7575
      @itskarl7575 7 днів тому +5

      @@hawaianico Much easier to speak English.

    • @herrbonk3635
      @herrbonk3635 6 днів тому +4

      @@itskarl7575 What about "standard" Oslo-Norsk then? You must know that, both of you, right?

    • @itskarl7575
      @itskarl7575 6 днів тому +6

      @@herrbonk3635 Yes, she spoke it - I don't. When I try, I sound like a first generation immigrant, it's just stupid and annoying. Much better to speak something we're both comfortable with. We were both fluent English speakers. For some reason, it's a lat more taxing to speak your own language in a different way than it is to speak a different language altogether.

    • @herrbonk3635
      @herrbonk3635 5 днів тому +7

      @@itskarl7575 To me, that's the definition of a country or culture falling apart. 😟Makes me sad. (On the other hand, I'm myself writing to you in English, instead of in Swedish or Scandinavian. But that's because others might be interested, of course.)

  • @RationallySkeptical
    @RationallySkeptical 16 днів тому +20

    Allow me to translate:
    Good morning.
    Good mornin'!
    Hurdigurdi?
    Yeah I'm playing the hurdigurdi!

  • @MUCK-the-monster-addict
    @MUCK-the-monster-addict 2 місяці тому +108

    As a Norwegian it took me 3 rewatches to realise he said "vordan går de"

    • @KingofTrondelag
      @KingofTrondelag 25 днів тому +4

      Utale va itj pærfæky

    • @nonewnameformenuhuh9594
      @nonewnameformenuhuh9594 9 днів тому +4

      you are not norwegian if you misspelled 2/3 words in that common sentence.

    • @MUCK-the-monster-addict
      @MUCK-the-monster-addict 9 днів тому

      @@nonewnameformenuhuh9594 eg har så vit vert ute av Norge? Har dysleksi og eg dobbel skjeke sjelden når eg skrive. Men vis du vil vera gatekeeper for kem som e norsk så slå deg løs

    • @WilliamW2010
      @WilliamW2010 7 днів тому +2

      *Hvordan
      *det

    • @MUCK-the-monster-addict
      @MUCK-the-monster-addict 7 днів тому

      ​@@WilliamW2010 ikkje gid 😉

  • @su1z.1d
    @su1z.1d Рік тому +796

    im trying to learn Norwegian and my favourite word rn is edderkoppen (spider)

    • @astrobaconyt
      @astrobaconyt Рік тому +39

      Same it’s funny I’m at 133 days in

    • @rewae
      @rewae Рік тому +155

      Telling me, you learn norwegian on duolingo without telling me

    • @astrobaconyt
      @astrobaconyt Рік тому +74

      @@rewae jeg lærer norsk på duolingo

    • @rewae
      @rewae Рік тому +35

      @@astrobaconyt bra, jeg ågso. Hvor er du fra?

    • @astrobaconyt
      @astrobaconyt Рік тому +16

      @@rewae Amerika

  • @Ir0nP8ri0t
    @Ir0nP8ri0t Рік тому +624

    English: slowly exits the room

    • @sekhmet7774
      @sekhmet7774 Рік тому +51

      As a native speaker I didn't realise how messed up English grammar and spelling is until I started learning Russian.

    • @Nepetita69696
      @Nepetita69696 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Ben_2040Exactly

    • @dunkleosteusterrelli
      @dunkleosteusterrelli 7 місяців тому +12

      ​@@sekhmet7774Russian is literally the English of Slavic Languages

    • @DarkLordSauronrocks
      @DarkLordSauronrocks 7 місяців тому

      Bruh it's short and easy 💀

    • @hucknanjing1083
      @hucknanjing1083 4 місяці тому +3

      ​@@sekhmet7774there's actually way more thought put into how the English language is structured just most people never look into it they just say English dumb lol and make a meme. (not an attack btw) An example is how in American English we use spelling conventions to show where the word came from originally that's why we pronounce the h in herb but the British largely don't.

  • @MiniTrainLoco
    @MiniTrainLoco Місяць тому +42

    ‘Hurdigurden’ made me think there’s a Norwedisch Chef out there somewhere 😂

  • @themixedcorner
    @themixedcorner Рік тому +266

    If you know one scandinavian language, it is pretty easy to understand the other ones

    • @SvupperD
      @SvupperD Рік тому +24

      Yeah im from 🇩🇰 and i understand it like My own language

    • @noahrice6671
      @noahrice6671 10 місяців тому +16

      Well, what about Faroese and Icelandic? They’ve barely changed from old Norse. That makes them pretty hard to understand, right?

    • @themixedcorner
      @themixedcorner 10 місяців тому +24

      @@noahrice6671 ye i mean if you speak norwegian, danish or swedish, it is pretty easy to understand one anothers language, it may be hard for swedes to understand danish because of obvious reasons (joke, have to write it because nowadays people think everything is serious)

    • @FredrikSkievan
      @FredrikSkievan 10 місяців тому +16

      @@themixedcorner Who dosen't know that Scandinavians like to joke and mess with eachother? I feel like that's pretty established lore by now

    • @themixedcorner
      @themixedcorner 10 місяців тому +10

      @@FredrikSkievan nowadays everyone gets offended by a joke so idk

  • @itsukishark
    @itsukishark Рік тому +176

    Detgårbramedmeg! 😃

  • @Tayisanangel
    @Tayisanangel 9 місяців тому +103

    I’m Norwegian and I just understood the first one💀

    • @minafoshaug3952
      @minafoshaug3952 6 місяців тому +2

      Me to😂😂🤣

    • @goingslowlynowhere
      @goingslowlynowhere 5 місяців тому +3

      Deke ekkje tilfeldigvis østlenninga? 😂

    • @user-sd3oi2nk3u
      @user-sd3oi2nk3u 2 місяці тому

      Me to

    • @Joaohcd
      @Joaohcd Місяць тому +3

      you're scaring me. I'm brazilian and my native language is so distant of Norwegian and you, that is Native, cannot understand, what about me?

  • @Vuosta
    @Vuosta 5 місяців тому +74

    Whenever someone is from Sogn og Fjordane or Vestlandet i just smile and nod when they speak to me.

    • @helixxia9320
      @helixxia9320 4 місяці тому +5

      🥲

    • @havtor007
      @havtor007 Місяць тому +2

      Oh then you would not understand anyone outside of Oslo and even there you would not understand most people.

    • @antrfun
      @antrfun Місяць тому +6

      Jaha? Eg føler at sogningane er ganske enkle å forstå?

    • @zurzulzurzul3119
      @zurzulzurzul3119 Місяць тому +3

      when your mom is from alta your dad from sogn but you live in stavanger... yeah my dialect is one hell of a mess

  • @littlebodylittleheart.
    @littlebodylittleheart. Рік тому +141

    you didn't have to do us like that 😭

  • @Jumpingonpaws
    @Jumpingonpaws Рік тому +28

    Basically, what he said the first time was “how are you?” In one word. So, “howareyou”

    • @jasonhenson7948
      @jasonhenson7948 6 місяців тому +5

      "Vorrangårre" is "Howdy" but less rhetorical?

    • @helixxia9320
      @helixxia9320 4 місяці тому +3

      @jasonhenson7948 it’s a mumbled version of hvordan går det
      how goes it

  • @bobbobowski9760
    @bobbobowski9760 6 місяців тому +44

    Holy shit that one SpongeBob episode was accurate as hell

    • @The360MlgNoscoper
      @The360MlgNoscoper 11 днів тому +1

      Which one

    • @bobbobowski9760
      @bobbobowski9760 11 днів тому +3

      @@The360MlgNoscoper the one with Leif Erickson

    • @wolfxlover
      @wolfxlover 8 днів тому +1

      @@bobbobowski9760I was thinking of this.
      Hinga dinga dergen ~ !

  • @lailana3325
    @lailana3325 9 місяців тому +21

    lol as a Dane, i approve of this message. much love from DK

  • @TorIverWilhelmsen
    @TorIverWilhelmsen 2 місяці тому +7

    Always fun to see English-language cruise UA-camrs who take Hurtigruten (either along the coast or some of the other itineraries) try to pronounce it. :D

    • @loreman7267
      @loreman7267 Місяць тому

      Whenever I hear the Hurtigruten ad, I smile, thinking of Swedish Chef!

  • @elliottandersson3157
    @elliottandersson3157 Місяць тому +6

    There is a fun saying in sweden which is "Norska är danska fast på svenska" "Norwegian is danish but in swedish"

  • @stormroot_dragon299
    @stormroot_dragon299 Рік тому +20

    As a norwegian this is just- ok😂

  • @JennyIui
    @JennyIui Місяць тому

    the only thing I love searching up is ppl trying norigan snacks and trying to pronounce Them is just to good 😄

  • @kiznaive_1764
    @kiznaive_1764 Рік тому +47

    I am learning German rn.I mean it seems easy compared to German…

    • @sipalingpaham
      @sipalingpaham Рік тому +24

      Life is too short to learn german.

    • @mtndewmslayer2564
      @mtndewmslayer2564 Рік тому +6

      German was pretty easy to learn for me

    • @fahadhussain66
      @fahadhussain66 Рік тому +7

      German is a piece of cake until you come to French. The pronunciation is too damn complex.

    • @kiznaive_1764
      @kiznaive_1764 Рік тому

      @@fahadhussain66 Well if you know english french is actually easy cause the words are %40 the same

    • @ImAgentK
      @ImAgentK 11 місяців тому +2

      ​​@@fahadhussain66t least French doesn't have a 3rd gender unlike German.

  • @bjornaandalsnes
    @bjornaandalsnes 8 місяців тому +6

    Good work from Norway 🇸🇯🇸🇯 håpper du har det bra

  • @michalthetraveller3919
    @michalthetraveller3919 Рік тому +21

    LOL 😂😂 Det er ingen tvil om hvorfor vi elsker Norsk 🇳🇴

  • @moristar
    @moristar Місяць тому +1

    Back in the day you could say which school somebody in Bergen went to just from their dialects.

  • @swedneck
    @swedneck Місяць тому +1

    When i first heard bergen dialect my brain had to reboot because it sounds like a swede trying to speak while having a stroke

  • @Yukithetiger
    @Yukithetiger 3 місяці тому +2

    Tbh i didn’t understand a thing except Hei which is hi in Norwegian and I lived here my hole life❤

  • @Leeberry01
    @Leeberry01 7 місяців тому +3

    Oh, gosh, I'm dead🤣🤣💀💀I'm Norwegian and this is just too funny🤣🤣

  • @oh_my_science
    @oh_my_science 21 день тому +1

    I love this man. ♡

  • @FrogeniusW.G.
    @FrogeniusW.G. Місяць тому +1

    So glad I found your channel!
    I love our fellow Scandinavians. 😊❤
    Greetings from Germany.

  • @bjrnnikolaisen1656
    @bjrnnikolaisen1656 Рік тому +8

    Worst thing, I actually understood that!!! hehe

  • @anakinx363
    @anakinx363 11 місяців тому +6

    Im Polish and i think its fucking hard 😂

    • @MNM-lq9te
      @MNM-lq9te Місяць тому

      I pity you who has to learn bokmål and think every Norwegian speaks bokmål and doesn't have a dialect.
      The effort you made by learning the language and it was all for nothing the moment you come across an Norwegian who speaks with a dialect.

  • @rastusodanga
    @rastusodanga Місяць тому +1

    How did this even show up on my feed? Now I can't stop watching!

  • @BarPoloG
    @BarPoloG Рік тому +17

    I’m Norwegian and even tho he didn’t say anything I still understand

  • @nivalindroth
    @nivalindroth Рік тому +5

    As a swede. I can confirm that i understand a bit lol

    • @SWE70
      @SWE70 9 місяців тому +1

      As an American I don’t understand a shit 😂

    • @TullaRask
      @TullaRask 8 місяців тому

      Only because it's followed by pictures. Without them no chance.

    • @Hrng270
      @Hrng270 21 день тому +1

      😅😅😅 normal statenitans don't understand english is romanic chameleon idiom 😅😅😅😅

  • @FraJa1980
    @FraJa1980 Місяць тому +1

    Dude is just asking the other guy if he's the Hurdy Gurdy player they've been expecting.

  • @mairimmh
    @mairimmh Місяць тому

    I can’t stop watching this and it keeps making me crack up, thanks for the ear worm! 🤯🤣

  • @sunsetvalleystables9850
    @sunsetvalleystables9850 9 місяців тому +3

    It sounded similar, but as a Norwegian I still didn't understand

  • @helgekrosvik2144
    @helgekrosvik2144 Рік тому +51

    Det var morsomt det han sa haha

    • @Kittongrl720
      @Kittongrl720 Рік тому +2

      He made me laugh too and the Google translate is very handy!

  • @SiriusMined
    @SiriusMined Місяць тому +2

    Bork, bork, bork!!! 😂😅

  • @darkdevotion9506
    @darkdevotion9506 28 днів тому

    I think hva skjer is probably my favorite thing when I started learning norsk. It has its weird moments but I think it’s a fairly solid language

  • @gamlemor86
    @gamlemor86 9 місяців тому +4

    Jeg er fra norge🇧🇻

  • @Could_be_Amy
    @Could_be_Amy Рік тому +9

    Hva faen det er ikke sån vi snakker😂😂😂

  • @rodneydelboy6910
    @rodneydelboy6910 12 днів тому

    Croatia is like this. Every village around my hometown has their own accent.

  • @wolf310ii
    @wolf310ii 22 дні тому

    A few month ago when i did a little research on stockfish, i was surprised that i, as a german, can read norwegian websites.

  • @tilmill8962
    @tilmill8962 Рік тому +3

    I am from Norway😁🇳🇴
    And that is not a Word in Norway❤️🇳🇴

  • @R3DSHlFT
    @R3DSHlFT 17 днів тому

    In the top of the Netherlands we have Friesland, even tho it's Dutch, it's still another language. We went to Norway through a Cruze and when we left the terminal, my mom recognised some words because the fries dialect used some of those words

  • @arnehubner5530
    @arnehubner5530 16 днів тому

    A friend of mine really likes to learn languages. He was in finland for some time and tried finish. But he gave up to learn it 😂

  • @Bjowolf2
    @Bjowolf2 2 місяці тому

    Just very relieved that you didn't get started about Danish 😂

  • @Hrng270
    @Hrng270 21 день тому +1

    Norwegian is guttural and laryngeal language it's 👍😊 and possible to talk with and learn it, and I like norwegian ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @sannaolsen8665
    @sannaolsen8665 17 днів тому +1

    I am living in Norway i can speak it
    Hei jeg heter Sanna jeg bor i et sted som heter Vennesla det ligger lit nærme Sørlandet 😊 jeg håpoer dere for en fin dag for alltid😊❤

  • @cathrinekruger5499
    @cathrinekruger5499 Місяць тому

    I'm danish, and this is straight up what you sound like all the time 😅😅

  • @merrydaye4763
    @merrydaye4763 8 днів тому

    Just learned Chef from the Muppets is spot on😂

  • @k0gle
    @k0gle Місяць тому

    As a hurdy gurdy player, you deserve my like

  • @oleeriksunde8223
    @oleeriksunde8223 Годину тому

    Ja det er så fint å møtte deg! ❤

  • @Roman_the_black_cat
    @Roman_the_black_cat Місяць тому

    Bro became a tabs character 😂

  • @chriss2452
    @chriss2452 Рік тому +1

    You sound like the swedish chef on the muppet show with that hurdigurden.

  • @parksideevangelicalchurch2886
    @parksideevangelicalchurch2886 Місяць тому

    Are you telling me that the Swedish Chef in the Muppets was actually speaking Norwegian? I had no idea!

  • @1SLMusic
    @1SLMusic Місяць тому

    I didn’t know the Swedish chef from the Muppets was actually speaking Norwegian.

  • @Turagrong
    @Turagrong Місяць тому

    We need someone to do these videos about West Slavs

  • @AllisonHShamrell
    @AllisonHShamrell Місяць тому

    I read a poem in Nynorsk today that literally had Bokmål synonyms in parentheses for a few super dialecty words. I was so grateful. 😂

  • @TheSovietGuy1
    @TheSovietGuy1 3 місяці тому +1

    In your neighborhood you say hi : hello. The next neighborhood and how they say hi :hieiello

  • @brigittedemers1607
    @brigittedemers1607 Місяць тому

    My poor sister did an exchange in Denmark. She wanted to, and did manage to learn how to speak Danish; but even the Danes asked her why she was bothering to learn Danish. That and whenever she tried to speak Danish they would just speak English, which annoyed her because she was trying to learn Danish😅

  • @democraticrepublicofsprout7263
    @democraticrepublicofsprout7263 Місяць тому

    Im just going to go to Norway, say hurdlgurgble a couple times and see how far that gets me.

  • @Stelphy876
    @Stelphy876 2 місяці тому

    Hahaha. As a dutchie i recently went to Copenhagen. Now i feel inspired to learn Danish because it's literally the same language just pronounced differently and then there is words like this xD haha

  • @ultranites8994
    @ultranites8994 2 місяці тому +1

    Whaaat
    You're telling me it was a green screen this whole time?

  • @OleKristianSkogum
    @OleKristianSkogum 17 днів тому

    This is really good 😂

  • @SylviusTheMad
    @SylviusTheMad Місяць тому

    Two people from Olso and Tromsø meet for lunch in Odda, and neither can understand the waitress.

  • @jonkristiankveli6870
    @jonkristiankveli6870 Місяць тому

    Last study i saw was that Norwegian had an easier time understanding swedish and danish then those 2 has the other 2😅

  • @thenamesianna
    @thenamesianna 2 місяці тому +1

    This is weird, here in Italy there was a comedy movie where the protagonist an Italian in Norway, said that Norwegian was "so unnecessarily complicated" because in Italian you can simply answer most questions in a conversation with a variation of "eh" lmao.

  • @smellysam
    @smellysam 6 місяців тому

    There’s a muppet cook that speaks that way.

  • @Shortparks
    @Shortparks Місяць тому

    Hurdygurdy is a instrument my dude! Woor daan goor dé!

  • @paulgallagher5889
    @paulgallagher5889 23 дні тому

    You're telling me the Swedish Chef was speaking Norwegian this whole time?!?!?

  • @bedheadninja
    @bedheadninja Місяць тому

    To be fair
    That is a pretty nice and simple language
    Only like 3 sounds

  • @violetatapia2563
    @violetatapia2563 Місяць тому

    I read somewhere that Norwegian score a 5 in the scale of difficulty to learn, right up there with Georgian language.

  • @okaylars3248
    @okaylars3248 Місяць тому +1

    Bro turned Indian

  • @bokopperud5267
    @bokopperud5267 Місяць тому

    I'm Norwegian and grew-up in a small hamlet that was part of a larger village - all inside one municipality that included a town. The hamlet was actually pretty much right at the border of the neighboring municipality - with it's villages and and hamlets. Anyway, my hamlet, the village it was part of, the nearby town, and the neighboring municipalities *all* had slightly different dialects - and no matter which of them we came from, we thought the *other* three dialects (those that weren't ours), were the ugliest dialects around!
    I should add, that my municipality and the neighboring municipality, had other villages and hamlets, no doubt each with their own *slightly* different dialects compared to the other ones.

  • @anizm.lys.9526
    @anizm.lys.9526 25 днів тому

    Ah, i know he may not be from norway but i can see why Swedish chef talked like that

  • @3p1cand3rs0n
    @3p1cand3rs0n Місяць тому

    i've never been to Norwegia, but their accents are cute 😘

  • @kingkramer
    @kingkramer Місяць тому

    "Hurdigurdi" is quite accurate, seeing as we're only an estimated maximum of 12-16 hurdy-gurdy players in Norway

  • @thewildbunchASD
    @thewildbunchASD 23 дні тому

    The Swedish chef totally agrees! Hurdy gurdy! Bork, bork, bork! En hende nu... Chocolate Moose!... Moose, Moose, Moose!

  • @NiegelDK
    @NiegelDK 7 днів тому

    He’s talking about the Fast Route by ship hurtig ruten

  • @Codfish73
    @Codfish73 4 місяці тому

    I’m Swedish and I can confirm some words in Swedish are hard some aren’t for example island is ö 💀

  • @jum4092
    @jum4092 23 дні тому

    My favourite Norwegian word is the inhaled "Ja". Once you know that you truly sound like a native speaker. I'm trying but it's so difficult to get right.

  • @Boop__Doop
    @Boop__Doop Місяць тому +1

    "I dont understand my neighbour because he speaks a diferent norwegian" avarage norwegian person

  • @Helios8170
    @Helios8170 Місяць тому

    That damn chef wasn't Swedish, he's Norwegian!

  • @madman4955
    @madman4955 Місяць тому

    They been real quiet ever since Clontarf

  • @RustOnWheels
    @RustOnWheels Місяць тому

    I once was stranded on the road to Bergen and I could only talk and understand Bokmål. I walked up to a farm to ask for help and the 80+ year old farmer only spoke Nynorsk while whistling through his three last teeth. It was quite the experience to try to understand them.

    • @Nabium
      @Nabium Місяць тому

      No-one talks bokmål and no-one talks nynorsk(apart from certain news anchors).
      Everyone has their own dialect, and the various Hordaland dialects will be different from nynorsk.

    • @RustOnWheels
      @RustOnWheels Місяць тому

      @@Nabium sure, but there is a general difference between Bokmål and Nynorsk, which you are aware of, right? Dialects aside, differences like “eg” and “jeg” et cetera. I’ve learned Oslo Norsk (Bokmål) and in the beginning of my Norwegian adventure I didn’t know a lot of words used in the Nynorsk-oriented areas like in the southwest. A Nynorsk dictionary is more helpful there than a Bokmål one. Especially when I started going to the greater Stavanger region more 😁

    • @Nabium
      @Nabium Місяць тому

      @@RustOnWheels All cities in Norway uses bokmål, including the cities in the west, like Bergen and Stavanger. That's why it doesn't really make sense to talk about the Western dialects being nynorsk, and the Eastern ones being bokmål. There's more of an rural/urban divide. A lot of places in Eastern Norway uses nynorsk as well.
      You learned to read and write bokmål with an eastern pronounciation. Aka when you say "jeg" you really say "jæi", etc.
      Speaking bokmål would make zero sense, it would sound very weird, as bokmål is largely based on old Danish. It's been reformed to get closer to Norwegian, but it's not been reformed to Oslo-dialect. For example it's still written "jeg" with a g, even if that's just an old Danish way of pronouncing the word, and zero Norwegian dialects say "jeg".
      Nynorsk have also have problems, in terms of word selection. In nynorsk they've selected dialect words from across the entire country, and made up a written language more neutral to dialects. But every dialect will have hundreds of words not used in nynorsk at all, and nynorsk will have hundreds of words not used in a certain dialect. It's a compromise between the dialects, and while learning nynorsk might make it a little easier - you will still have to rely on the person you're talking to, to tone down his dialect and make himself understandable. Which most of them do. And if they don't, they're intentionally messing with you, like those old guys you met.
      For example, in these old mens dialect they would say something like "dai mao gjedna haim". In nynorsk you will write that as "dei må gjerne heim", and in bokmål you would write that as "de må gjerne hjem".
      You could argue that nynorsk is closer as one of the two diphtongs remained as diphtongs. Ai became ei. But the other diphtong, ao, is written å in both bokmål and nynorsk. And the word gjedna is writte gjerne in both bokmål and nynorsk. So nynorsk is a tiny bit closer to their dialect, but it's still far off. You need exposure to the dialects to understand them, learning nynorsk will not automatically make you understand all Western dialects.
      Especially not among old people. Among younger people who are losing their dialects, maybe, but that's because of the deaths of the dialects. Not because of the dialects being more or less the same as nynorsk.

    • @RustOnWheels
      @RustOnWheels Місяць тому

      @@Nabium okay, fair enough, but my experience stays exactly the same and you understood what I meant 😁 the old farmer was really hard to understand and my friends from Tau & Jørpeland (real Norwegians) told me about the dialects and Nynorsk and that their part of the alley is more Nynorsk.
      Also, I’m a big fan of Kaizers and their Bryn lyrics are written primarily with Nynorsk as a base.
      The whole pedantic differences I understand are important for a Norwegian but that’s not how most Norwegians would describe it to foreigners (IRL). YT comments is different because there one can be as tangential as one likes 😁

    • @Nabium
      @Nabium Місяць тому

      @@RustOnWheels fair

  • @gauteeilertsen974
    @gauteeilertsen974 Місяць тому

    Nowadays "Hurdygurden" has mostly shiped out to north and south pole, and has been replaced by "Heavy-laaaa" (Havila)🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @jonathonsanders1844
    @jonathonsanders1844 Місяць тому

    So was the Muppet a Swedish chef or a Norweigan chef? My childhood is in question. 😅

  • @pandamaster3483
    @pandamaster3483 Місяць тому

    Wait for finnish. We have a word for, not even close to falling (putoamaisillaankaan). Which now while i'm writing this is almost the same length as, not even close to falling

  • @HaShomeret
    @HaShomeret 14 днів тому

    As an english speaker, this sounds like Swedish Chef from the muppets

  • @maxwellbeals9584
    @maxwellbeals9584 Місяць тому

    I used to (somewhat) speak Norwegian. Couldn't recommend a language more.

  • @stanleystrem6029
    @stanleystrem6029 10 місяців тому +1

    As a Norwegian, I think it’s so funny how we contradict ourselves! It makes me laugh

    • @savagegecko4575
      @savagegecko4575 7 місяців тому

      How so? Please explain as I'm confused about what I just watched.

    • @Kali-Yuga-Peace-Corp
      @Kali-Yuga-Peace-Corp Місяць тому

      Norwegian have so many distinct Dialects, that it sounds like 30 extra Scandinavian Languages.

  • @josephreynolds2374
    @josephreynolds2374 Місяць тому

    And now I know why Swedes say the Swedish Chef sounds Norwegian😂

  • @kokojack
    @kokojack 21 день тому

    - Oh, hey! Border Gordon!
    - I bought a garden!
    - Hurt a garden?
    - Yeah I already got a good degree
    Thanks UA-cam subtitles

  • @Yupppi
    @Yupppi 2 місяці тому

    I swear he just came up with that stuff.

  • @gregisk123
    @gregisk123 Місяць тому

    The Swedish Chef makes so much more sense now from Sesame Street