Ah Norwegians are separated by huge mountains. In Philippines we are separated by islands. Mostly, just see a few kilometers also. The island you can see over a few kilometers speak a dofferent dialect. I imagine a couple hundred years back mountain/sea were hard to cross…
and here i am in my 900 day streak in duolingo learning bokmal norsk.. i hope this at least let me barely comunicate in norwegian if one day i manage to emigrate to norway
It’s funny because it’s true!
Actually true were i live lol
And then there’s the Netherlands, where neighbouring villages often don’t understand each other because their dialects are so different
It helps to watch news broadcasts from outside Oslo, and Simple Norwegian youtuber puts peoples dialect subtitles alongside bokmal subtitles. That really helps
Må vere heilt fantastisk at Nynorsken eksistere oppå der igjen xD lykje til å forsjtå åss me Nynorsk å dialekt x)
WherE I live within 40 km there is like 5 dialects lol
I’m an American in Nordic Studies and I can confirm – I passed my Norwegian exam with flying colors but can’t understand a fucking thing when I listen to the radio or watch a tv show xD
This is so true XD
More like Speaking english the second they realise they are not talking to a native speaker.
Yes happenes alot to me
I want to move to Norway in a few years and I’m trying to learn both and it’s hard to learn two dialects at the same time.
As someone learning Norwegian in hopes to move there one day, this meme also could’ve gone for “All the fucking compound words”
It’s like y’all watched the “Pineapple Apple Pen” video and decided to turn it into a language.
Me, a brit, working in Oslo…. supposed to be speaking that dialect…. everyone around me is from northern Norway and I tend to learn via subconscious copying like a fuckin parrot…. the amount of times I’ve said ‘eg’ and ‘kvorfor det?’ is embarrassing.
I can barely understand people south of Bodø
I want to move to Norway but I’m currently intimidated by this because I would want to travel around and if I learn bokmal or nynorsk online I’m sure I’ll sound like a blundering idiot and won’t be able to connect to people due to having a low level vocabulary.
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Ah Norwegians are separated by huge mountains. In Philippines we are separated by islands. Mostly, just see a few kilometers also. The island you can see over a few kilometers speak a dofferent dialect. I imagine a couple hundred years back mountain/sea were hard to cross…
and here i am in my 900 day streak in duolingo learning bokmal norsk.. i hope this at least let me barely comunicate in norwegian if one day i manage to emigrate to norway
It’s funny because it’s true!
Actually true were i live lol
And then there’s the Netherlands, where neighbouring villages often don’t understand each other because their dialects are so different
It helps to watch news broadcasts from outside Oslo, and Simple Norwegian youtuber puts peoples dialect subtitles alongside bokmal subtitles. That really helps
Må vere heilt fantastisk at Nynorsken eksistere oppå der igjen xD lykje til å forsjtå åss me Nynorsk å dialekt x)
WherE I live within 40 km there is like 5 dialects lol
I’m an American in Nordic Studies and I can confirm – I passed my Norwegian exam with flying colors but can’t understand a fucking thing when I listen to the radio or watch a tv show xD
This is so true XD
More like Speaking english the second they realise they are not talking to a native speaker.
Yes happenes alot to me
I want to move to Norway in a few years and I’m trying to learn both and it’s hard to learn two dialects at the same time.
As someone learning Norwegian in hopes to move there one day, this meme also could’ve gone for “All the fucking compound words”
It’s like y’all watched the “Pineapple Apple Pen” video and decided to turn it into a language.
Me, a brit, working in Oslo…. supposed to be speaking that dialect…. everyone around me is from northern Norway and I tend to learn via subconscious copying like a fuckin parrot…. the amount of times I’ve said ‘eg’ and ‘kvorfor det?’ is embarrassing.
I can barely understand people south of Bodø
I want to move to Norway but I’m currently intimidated by this because I would want to travel around and if I learn bokmal or nynorsk online I’m sure I’ll sound like a blundering idiot and won’t be able to connect to people due to having a low level vocabulary.