the reason why norwegian prisons work like that is bc in norway we view prison as a place to improve (a penitentiary according to google translate), not a place to be punished. In Norway we want to prepare the inmates for life outside, and how to live it according to the law when they get out, not create an environment where inmates just meet and befriend more criminals. I really think more countries should learn from norway in this way. Although i think the punishment can be a bit light sometimes in norway, especially when it comes to really terrible crimes.
If I were still young I'd choose to live and work in Norway ... but neither am I that old yet. Who knows . I think Scandinavian countries are wonderful places.
If you want prisoners to become productive members of society after they are released, you need to give them comfort and education so they feel... I don't know... HUMAN! not like freaks or monsters, they feel like when they are in say, American prisons. There's a reason we have 20% of our inmates getting back in prison compared to other countries.
Lol! Speaking of dialects: When I served in the army, there was this one dude from rural Trøndelag village, who spoke so fast and incomprehensible, I literally had the option of either speaking English with him, or using an interpreter from anywhere else in Trøndelag. I’ve got fond memories of bringing disposable barbecues out into the middle of nowhere. Don’t forget to actually dispose of it when done using it! I showed a Polish colleague photos from Åna Kretsfengsel once. “How many stars does that hotel have? Three? Four?” He reacted with shock and disbelief when I told him it was a prison.
When I was a Russ, I was "fortunate" enough to live right inbetween two elementary schools. Kids here are crazy about collecting Russekort (little cards the russ can give to each other with quotes etc), and getting almost assaulted by a whole class having an outdoors PE class on my way home was...interesting. Being in a school band on May 17th is also amazing because I got to parade in front of the royal palace for 11 years straight, duh.
Haha!!! lt's true ! My Norwegian friends make that deep inward breath while talking. I really love it!!! I live in Northern Norway, Tromsø!! Thanks for these hints about the country!!!
Hi David! I was at Erasmus Programme in Oslo (so I don't know true Norway lol :P) and I'm thinking to move to Tromsø. How do you like it? How do you endure the low temperatures and how hard it is for a foreigner to find a job without knowing Norsk? Would appreciate your comment. Cheers!
Well, Tromsø is great! Though according to my opinion, l think Oslo has the highest oppotunities for jobs. Haha😃😁😁! With the low temperaturen, it's a matter of just endurance! However now it's kinda warmer. I'm still in videregående, hopping to join univercity in Bergen, in about 2yrs time!
@@PrinceDOfficial Thanks for a reply David! Fingers crossed for your Universitetet i Bergen application! I thought Oslo was packed already...for example during Erasmus I tried to find a job but they didn't even accept me at McDonald's -.-...but maybe I didn't try that much because finding a job in Norway is totally different than finding a job in my motherland. For tempetares...I guess I will become a Viking myself to endure it XD.
Lovely and very useful videos. Great background music. I had visited Stavanger once and simply loved the country, except the high costs of living. I miss the Petroleum Museum!!
Haha, when you spoke about another "strange thing that Norwegians do" I immediately knew what you were referring to. I'm from the Netherlands and I go to Norway on holiday every year. They say "Ja" while inhaling. Really many of them do this. It is also funny because here in the Netherlands some elder people coming from small villages do this too. My grandmother for example always did the exact same thing :) So when I'm in Norway i do this too :P
You are kind of right about that the 17.th of may is a day Norway sought independance from Denmark, but later that year (1814) we lost our independance to Sweden. What we are really celebrating is that we wrote the constitution. That day is called "Grunnlovsdagen", meaning Constitutionday. I love your videos. Keep up with the good work.
I come from Northern Norway and I moved to Stavanger and I didn't understand anything hahaha! But I've learned to understand it now :) It's funny how different the dialects are.
@@gymnasstick292 i am from south norway, and there is only one dialect i have really trouble understand, and thats the people comming from "setersdalen", its the place you get to just driving north from kristiansand on R9, up to bykle, close to hovden
@@goldeneagle256 ok, i don't know where it is, but I've only been in kristansan one time when i was little so if i had been a little older maybe i could know (when i going on holydays we usually drives)
@@goldeneagle256 Well some dialects can be difficult. I don't think I have been exactly there, but the dialects in some other places has the same effect. Like "Jæren".
Thanks for a great video. :-) About dialects; as I am sure you know in Norway we not only have many different dialects we also have two official languages; Bokmål (book language) and Nynorsk (new Norwegian) which is also called Landsmål (rural language). An interesting thing is that while Bokmål in many respects is very similar to Danish, Nynorsk (and some other rural dialects) are in the same respects very similar to Swedish. This is particularly noticeable when it comes to the use of suffixes to nouns. In Bokmål we use -het and -else, while in Nynorsk we use -leik and -ing. (The use of these suffixes is similar to the use of the English suffix -ness.) I will give you a couple of examples. Let's take the word 'love' (as a noun). In Bokmål it is called 'kjærlighet' (literally it will translate into English as 'lovinglyness'), in Danish it is called 'kærlighed', while in Nynorsk it is called 'kjærleik' (lovingness, dearness) and in Swedish it is called 'kärlek'. I will give you an other example, and let's keep it romantic. :-) Bokmål: 'forelskelse' (the state of being in love), Danish: 'forelskelse' (identical), Nynorsk: 'forelsking', Swedish: 'förtjusning' (the basis of the word is a little different in Swedish, but as you can see the suffix is the same as in Nynorsk). In addition I will mention that the difference between the suffixes -ing and -ning is only a dialect difference and that the suffix -ning is also used in some words in Bokmål (as it is in Swedish).
Every one likes Friday, unless you have to work Saturday! When she was talking about the different language dialects I thought of America. My husband & I went down south on a vacation. The 1st time we stopped in a restaurant in Appalachia, I had to translate for the waitress to my husband and then from my husband to the waitress! It was hilarious to me. Not only do we have regional dialects, USA has so many immigrants that we also have to learn how to understand the English language with a multitude of accents. I worked in a medical facility that hired Peruvians, Venezuelans, Koreans, Columbians and they even hired USA born people (who would have thought?). So, my ear was well trained at deciphering accents. Now that I think of it, I used to translate for my fellow employees.
@@solivagant1170 Dont. its not so good here... Netherlands has way more freedom than norwegians... "Everything" is illegal herer. read about jantaloven... thats typical Norwegian. Im a norwegian, but i dont feel like a norwegian tho...
Sven Berglund Doubt it’s any worse than here. Too many people in a small country. I believe the population density in every province in my country to be atleast 400 people per kilometer. The nature there is also significantly better. I also really just like Norway as a whole.
also one thing that is really great about norway is that we have free hospital rights. because we pay taxes we dont have to pay if we get sick of break a bone or something we grmet help for free:)
About the thing that Norwegian are inhaling while approving sth we have the same in France. Sometimes you can hear french people saying "ouais" (which is a way of saying yes but kind of familiar) and inhaling at the same time. And we call it "Les ouais aspirés" literally "the inhaled yeahs"
thank you so much! i'm an actuary, have a ms degree in data mining and I'm soooooo looking forward to live in norway. Your vídeos are really hepfull. Thank you!
You are so right in all you say. It's interesting to hear all the "strange" things from one that sees us a bit from the outside. The dialekts must be difficult for foreigners. I understand all dialekts, except the one from Lom. I really struggle with that one. My family is from Svarstad, 1 hour from Oslo, and we say some strange things: For elbow you have learned that it's ALBUE in Norwegian. We say ØLBÅGA, with a thick L. I say dessert now, but my parents always said SKIMAT, which means food eaten with a spoon. In Telemark some call potatoes JORDEPLE (apple in the ground). Have a nice summer! And all work places, organizations and so on have SOMMERAVSLUTNING. That is Julebord-light, and the persons pay the food/drinks themselves some times.
That is very interesting! And the different words you just mention are very funny. It's so strange that just because of a few kilometres people actually have different dialects! But I think it just makes Norway even more special :) Thanks! I hope you have a nice summer too! :D
The Russ celebration is probably the most crazy celebration we have, and the colors mostly used are Red, Blue and Black. Red and Blue are used by "studiespesialiserende utdanning" or general studies according to Google Translate, where Blue is used within economy or sales and service (A small part of general studies). Black is vocational education, mechanical, electricity (yay!) etc. The celebration ends 17. by the way.
Also the weird sound is us saying "Ja" while breathing. Almost sounds like a reversed sigh lol. So we're not just making a weird breathing sound, but saying "ja" to agree
yeah when it was cheap in sweden it was fun it was really fun in the early 2000s and late 90s when you could buy firecrackers there and cheap booze and tons of cigareets and fireworks without a Toll in miles to see now in 2017 sweden are almost the same price expensive wise as norway and the country are full of Toll stopping every fcking car there is to go tru everything you have + to see if you have hide some immigrants from swedistan back into youre trunk ugh the years change friend so for me it has ruin the fun so i simply dont visit sweden anymore
The shopping trips to Sweden aren't that strange... For different reasons certain goods are quite a lot cheaper in Sweden, and many also make a day out of it. Walk around for a bit, eat out and so on. Swedish people living close to Denmark will go there to shop ( for the same reasons), Danes go to Germany, and some Germans will go to Poland, I guess. The one thing all (or most) of these trips have in common is alcohol. A bottle of Absolut vodka (70 cl) cost NOK 335 in Norway. The same bottle cost around NOK 230 in Sweden. In Denmark it's about NOK 150 and so on...
The reason why our prisons are so nice is because we focus on rehab of criminals. The prison guards are not there to punish you, you got your sentence from the judge and then you go to prison for rehab. Youre still losing your freedom and contact with family and friends, so the guards treat you like a person that are just there to do the sentence. There is different kinds of prisons tho, so the two you showed here are the NICE ones! But we also got some prisons that can be pretty bad, to our standards of a prison tho! But its like, who do you want to live next to you out of these two types: A person that have been rehabilitated and come out from prison as a better human, or do you want a human that are treated as an animal and not cared for, so when they come out they are loose cannons. Norway got the lowest % of people who comes out of jail and goes back. Because they get rehab instead of pissed on and ignored/hated. It really make sense when you get in to how it works. A lot of people kind of mock Norway for the prisons, but it truly work to focus on rehab and treat them as humans.
I honestly didn't know that engangsgrill was a typical thing in Norway! I thought it was normal all over the world. so I guss I learned something new about my own country! Great video by the way! Keep up the good work
Ahh, the russetid.. I was Russ 7 years ago and still get a bit of nostalgia when we hit May ;) And it's definitely true about the dialects, I once was speaking to a Norwegian friend of mine here where I live (Japan) and someone asked us if we were even speaking the same language, hah! Also I miss "harrytur" to Sweden to buy cheap stuff.. Great vid :)
I don't. I only associate that sound with when I explain a problem to my doctor. So it really bugs me when ANY of my friends do it. (luckily, close to none of them do it. But the "mhm" is something everyone does, even me)
Nice video! I'm Norwegian and can relate to most of it. :D But I just want to say; it's less and less common that work places pay for "julebord", it is mostly the "upper class" work places (oil companies etc) that do this. The rest of us have to pay for our own julebord, but that said, I have never worked a single place that DIDN'T have julebord. :)
People in New Brunswick, Canada do the same inhale-yes sound. It sounds like, "hee-yuh". Usually it's said quickly two or three times in rapid sequence.
I'm norwegian and lived in Norway my whole life. And certain things you say is wrong. "Julebord" is correct but its getting less and less rare that work pays for the dinner. In privat sector some pay for everything, while some pay for alchohol. But if u work for the goverment (hospital,police etc etc) you have to pay for everything yourself. The reason it's so many electric cars here is the toll-charges on the road. They are everywere and myself is maying over 2000NOK (210dollars) each month just to use the road towards work/home. Many pay 2x that, and the prices will go up 4x within 2018 most likely. For electric it's free (for now)
Great video, very informative. I subscribed to your channel not too long still I need to watch the older videos. I find it interesting to hear about Norway from the perspective of a foreigner (I'm a foreigner as well). I am fascinated by Norway and its culture. I've been reading about it and the more I read the more amazed I get. I'm even studying Norwegian :) . Parabéns pelo canal e pela dedicação, sou admirador do seu trabalho.
Olá Fábio! Obrigada pelo simpático comentario! :) It's very nice to know you are so interested in Norway and that you are studying the language. How is that going for you? You say you are a foreigner as well. Do you also live in Norway?
+Mon Amie You are very welcome. It has been fun learning Norwegian. It's challenging, the pronunciation is the trickiest I would say. It requires lots of listening. I started by reading books for child where I had to complete simple tasks at the end of each chapter. Like, filling the blank type of exercises. Now I'm reading a really interesting book that tells you a story but in order to get to next chapter you have to read about grammar rules and get some exercises done. Yes, I am foreigner as well, but no I don't live in Norway. I'll be visiting Norway next month tho. I'm originally from Brazil, but I went to college in the USA and I've been here for 4 years.
Bom dia, minha nova amiga. Os dialetos são tão estranhos e difíceis que me fizeram desistir de aprender o norueguês. Sempre que vou aí falo só o inglês e viajo feliz por todo o país. Certas diferenças são maiores do que o nosso português entre o Brasil e Portugal. Estou adorando teus vídeos. Você é muito bonita e fala um inglês lindo de se ouvir. Parabéns.
I grew up in Minnesota in the US where most of my friends were second and third generation Norwegains. Most of what you talk about is very familiar to me and I had no idea had come from Norway. Even your Norwegian accent is familiar.
@@Србомбоница86 Wow, How did she perfect that Norwegian accent so well..ha. She does pronounce a lot of English in a very Norwegian way though. Especially the way she says Norway without really saying much of the W.
Hi :)I think its wrong to say the its expensive to live in Norway. Its expensive to visit here as a tourist. But if you work here, your income compensate for the higher prices. In fact i think we are the second or third country in Europe that has the most to spend on pleasure like travelling after paying taxes and other regular expenses. In fact most Norwegians can afford at least one or two weeks travel abroad each year. Maybe not people that live on social welfare. The reason why people travel to Sweden is like people from Sweden goes to Denmark for shopping, people from Denmark goes to Germany for shopping and people from Germany goes to Polen for shopping. We all want to save money when shopping so its natural :))
My office in Norway lets us go 2 hours early on friday and I thought that it was just something our company did! Funny to think that it's normal because I almost felt guilty about it the first few times.
Jha, I know what you are talking about. If I want to make the sound, but am writing, i usually put an H behind the first letter, to signify that you breathe in the word. So instead of writing, Ja ( yes), i write Jha. I dont think u will find that rule anywhere, its just how i do it :)
This is so incredibly interesting, I already mentioned in your last video that I had never seen those little grills before, I think that is so cool! The bit about the prison system is also something I've never known before but reading the comments here I understand it more. Very cool video! Today is Friday and I wish we had cake :)
You may have heard about "Burzum". He actually recorded several albums while he was in prison. By the way, is Black Metal a cliché in Norway? Greetings from México.
@@daniel4647 thats so weird. I absolutely love BM and I honestly think it is wrong to censor it, even though it is sometimes extreme in lyrics, but that is rare. Then again, Satyricon did perfom Mother North at the Opera so what was that all about? Banned on radio but allowed at OSLO OPERA HOUSE??? Weird :'D, but damn I am thankfull for it!
i don't know if you are still in Norway, but if you won't some cheap food, would i recommend a store named, Rema1000 or Coop. btw, try to say, sta van ger, an easyer way to say Stavanger
If I could ask... what would you say is the typical September experience in Oslo? Festivals, weather, etc. Since September sits between Summer weather and Autumn weather. In Sweden I went in Sept it was already Winter weather. What has your experience been so far in a Norwegian September? I will be traveling to Oslo Sept this year. Maybe you could do a video for each month in the same way, if you feel up to it. Thanks and good work on your vids.
Hi! nice video, I'm planning to move to Norway and this helped me. Can you make a video on how you learned Norsk and how did you move? like are you studying there? and if yes, talk about studying in Norway and the budget and all!. THANK YOU
When you talk about prison, in Norway, you need to investigate a little more. those who are in these prisons are prisoners who behave properly, or prisoners who have had long sentences to return to the community for and take care of themselves. When the sentence is completed,
It is to let them be ready for the life after prison not when they get out that they find other criminals to be friends with but to have a normal good life after
I'm from Norway and I have a hard time understanding people from Bergen lol. They sound so Danish. My mom laughed at me when a relative from Bergen tried to talk to me and I was saying "Hæ?" many times, which is 'what' in English btw. My school once showed me a video from a series where they put two of the most hard to understand dialects together to build a bridge by communicating with eachother. They couldn't see what eachother were doing. And it was funny when they didn't understand eachother and the bridge ended up looking like shit 😂 Dialects are hard man, I can't even understand my fellow Norwegians.
I saw your's previously video check this video... and you know what? Now I want to meet some from Norway) Or make a friends )) Awe positive video! Thanks!) PS And Norwegians are cool)
Hello, I will come with my boyfriend at the beginning of March and I want to ask you if we, as a tourists can go with the free buses to Sweden to buy things more cheaper, if the answer it's yes, where can I obtain more information about the schedule? Thank you very much, I love your videos!!!
Norway wasn't really independent in 1814, that's just the year our laws were written down. But yes I guess the (independent) laws sort of made Norway independent even though.. We were a part of Sweden untill 1905.
Yes, but that "union" was more like a formality. The old kingdom of Norway however was born over 1000 years ago when Harald Hairfair defeated all the earls and gathered the nation. At the kingdom's peak it included Denmark and Sweden as well. The real birthday of the nation is actually the battle of Stiklestad, not the (new) constitution day 17 May 1814. However - Norway was hit very hard by the plague "Black Death in the 14th century". Almost 3/4 of the population died and weakened the country which led to the 400 years of union with Denmark.
"Russ" colors: Blue is economics Black is labours like electricians, plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, etc. Red is regular studies without any specification Green is those who finished studies related to farming and animals (Sometimes you can see a small child in similar outfit which is pink and that is symbolizing finishing kindergarten #BigGirl/#BigBoy) I'm sorry, but I need to correct you on something regarding the ban on cars. It was never the intention to ban all petrol powered cars in general, but we like to try to ban car dealers to sell brand new petrol powered cars. That means you can buy second hand or also import them from other countries. So it's more correct to say that it's not a total ban, but an encouragement to go for electric cars because it will be an easier option. However, even though the government wants to do this everyone knows it is very unrealistic to have in done by 2025, but you should always have ambitious goals, right?
the reason why norwegian prisons work like that is bc in norway we view prison as a place to improve (a penitentiary according to google translate), not a place to be punished. In Norway we want to prepare the inmates for life outside, and how to live it according to the law when they get out, not create an environment where inmates just meet and befriend more criminals. I really think more countries should learn from norway in this way. Although i think the punishment can be a bit light sometimes in norway, especially when it comes to really terrible crimes.
in the jewish bible criminals get sent to a special villege were they live regiler lives antil the main chohen is ded.jast thot this is similer
What about murderers? I mean real murderers. Do you think they can be improved?
hi dont be mean to my contry i live hear i am from the south but i studies on the west side of norway
@@hannahglendrange7555 I am not being mean to your country, i am actually like it, but this thing i do not understand
@@tziborova i think the mentioned island prison is where the murdrers go actualy
If I were still young I'd choose to live and work in Norway ... but neither am I that old yet. Who knows . I think Scandinavian countries are wonderful places.
That feeling when a prison in Norway looks better than my apartment.
If you want prisoners to become productive members of society after they are released, you need to give them comfort and education so they feel... I don't know... HUMAN! not like freaks or monsters, they feel like when they are in say, American prisons. There's a reason we have 20% of our inmates getting back in prison compared to other countries.
But you are free and the inmate is not. A gilded cage is nevertheless a cage.
Really though. I'm from Norway and the prison cell's bed look more comfy then mine lol
same for me
I think if the cage is made of gold, the bird is not happy with it
Lol! Speaking of dialects: When I served in the army, there was this one dude from rural Trøndelag village, who spoke so fast and incomprehensible, I literally had the option of either speaking English with him, or using an interpreter from anywhere else in Trøndelag.
I’ve got fond memories of bringing disposable barbecues out into the middle of nowhere. Don’t forget to actually dispose of it when done using it!
I showed a Polish colleague photos from Åna Kretsfengsel once. “How many stars does that hotel have? Three? Four?” He reacted with shock and disbelief when I told him it was a prison.
When I was a Russ, I was "fortunate" enough to live right inbetween two elementary schools. Kids here are crazy about collecting Russekort (little cards the russ can give to each other with quotes etc), and getting almost assaulted by a whole class having an outdoors PE class on my way home was...interesting. Being in a school band on May 17th is also amazing because I got to parade in front of the royal palace for 11 years straight, duh.
I'm from Norway and I approve! :D
Tor Alexander Sæther umm, no. Norway has been under both Denmark and Sweden. We got independent from Sweden in 1905.
Haha!!! lt's true ! My Norwegian friends make that deep inward breath while talking. I really love it!!! I live in Northern Norway, Tromsø!! Thanks for these hints about the country!!!
Hi David! I was at Erasmus Programme in Oslo (so I don't know true Norway lol :P) and I'm thinking to move to Tromsø. How do you like it? How do you endure the low temperatures and how hard it is for a foreigner to find a job without knowing Norsk? Would appreciate your comment. Cheers!
Well, Tromsø is great! Though according to my opinion, l think Oslo has the highest oppotunities for jobs. Haha😃😁😁! With the low temperaturen, it's a matter of just endurance! However now it's kinda warmer. I'm still in videregående, hopping to join univercity in Bergen, in about 2yrs time!
@@PrinceDOfficial Thanks for a reply David! Fingers crossed for your Universitetet i Bergen application! I thought Oslo was packed already...for example during Erasmus I tried to find a job but they didn't even accept me at McDonald's -.-...but maybe I didn't try that much because finding a job in Norway is totally different than finding a job in my motherland.
For tempetares...I guess I will become a Viking myself to endure it XD.
Hehe😃, true! We have just to be Vikings!
I just love studying my universitetet in Bergen!
Lovely and very useful videos. Great background music. I had visited Stavanger once and simply loved the country, except the high costs of living. I miss the Petroleum Museum!!
Haha, when you spoke about another "strange thing that Norwegians do" I immediately knew what you were referring to. I'm from the Netherlands and I go to Norway on holiday every year. They say "Ja" while inhaling. Really many of them do this. It is also funny because here in the Netherlands some elder people coming from small villages do this too. My grandmother for example always did the exact same thing :) So when I'm in Norway i do this too :P
You are kind of right about that the 17.th of may is a day Norway sought independance from Denmark, but later that year (1814) we lost our independance to Sweden. What we are really celebrating is that we wrote the constitution. That day is called "Grunnlovsdagen", meaning Constitutionday. I love your videos. Keep up with the good work.
in Norway we usually understand the other dialects
Spanish too?
spanish-norwegian?
Polar Music No.
but spanish is not a dialect in norway thou.
but we learn a little bit spanish on school.
but we understand english a lot more than spanish.
Polar Music I speak spanish and English, in 2 years i will go to Norway, but, i dont now where.
I come from Northern Norway and I moved to Stavanger and I didn't understand anything hahaha! But I've learned to understand it now :) It's funny how different the dialects are.
I am from northern norway and i understand almost every dialects in this country
@@gymnasstick292 i am from south norway, and there is only one dialect i have really trouble understand, and thats the people comming from "setersdalen", its the place you get to just driving north from kristiansand on R9, up to bykle, close to hovden
@@goldeneagle256 ok, i don't know where it is, but I've only been in kristansan one time when i was little so if i had been a little older maybe i could know (when i going on holydays we usually drives)
@@goldeneagle256 Well some dialects can be difficult. I don't think I have been exactly there, but the dialects in some other places has the same effect. Like "Jæren".
Thanks for a great video. :-)
About dialects; as I am sure you know in Norway we not only have many different dialects we also have two official languages; Bokmål (book language) and Nynorsk (new Norwegian) which is also called Landsmål (rural language).
An interesting thing is that while Bokmål in many respects is very similar to Danish, Nynorsk (and some other rural dialects) are in the same respects very similar to Swedish. This is particularly noticeable when it comes to the use of suffixes to nouns. In Bokmål we use -het and -else, while in Nynorsk we use -leik and -ing.
(The use of these suffixes is similar to the use of the English suffix -ness.)
I will give you a couple of examples. Let's take the word 'love' (as a noun). In Bokmål it is called 'kjærlighet' (literally it will translate into English as 'lovinglyness'), in Danish it is called 'kærlighed', while in Nynorsk it is called 'kjærleik' (lovingness, dearness) and in Swedish it is called 'kärlek'.
I will give you an other example, and let's keep it romantic. :-) Bokmål: 'forelskelse' (the state of being in love), Danish: 'forelskelse' (identical), Nynorsk: 'forelsking', Swedish: 'förtjusning' (the basis of the word is a little different in Swedish, but as you can see the suffix is the same as in Nynorsk).
In addition I will mention that the difference between the suffixes -ing and -ning is only a dialect difference and that the suffix -ning is also used in some words in Bokmål (as it is in Swedish).
Every one likes Friday, unless you have to work Saturday! When she was talking about the different language dialects I thought of America. My husband & I went down south on a vacation. The 1st time we stopped in a restaurant in Appalachia, I had to translate for the waitress to my husband and then from my husband to the waitress! It was hilarious to me. Not only do we have regional dialects, USA has so many immigrants that we also have to learn how to understand the English language with a multitude of accents. I worked in a medical facility that hired Peruvians, Venezuelans, Koreans, Columbians and they even hired USA born people (who would have thought?). So, my ear was well trained at deciphering accents. Now that I think of it, I used to translate for my fellow employees.
Norway got a constitution in 1814, it did not become independant. Norway became independant from Sweden in 1905.
No one asked you swede :|
@@limonada7 I'm Norwegian
this makes me want to go Norway so baaad!!
It is really beautiful here in the summer :-)
Yeah, I wanna move there in the future. I currently live in the Netherlands.
@@fingerboard202 In June, it is sooo great (I have friend in Oslo)
@@solivagant1170 Dont. its not so good here... Netherlands has way more freedom than norwegians... "Everything" is illegal herer. read about jantaloven... thats typical Norwegian. Im a norwegian, but i dont feel like a norwegian tho...
Sven Berglund Doubt it’s any worse than here. Too many people in a small country. I believe the population density in every province in my country to be atleast 400 people per kilometer. The nature there is also significantly better. I also really just like Norway as a whole.
also one thing that is really great about norway is that we have free hospital rights. because we pay taxes we dont have to pay if we get sick of break a bone or something we grmet help for free:)
MarieIvanda Undseth there are only 5 million people there. US wants the same but we have 380 million people. The wait would be well over a year.
@@letmetellya9571 There's also 380 million people paying taxes and running hospitals. Statistics involving population are to scale.
About the thing that Norwegian are inhaling while approving sth we have the same in France. Sometimes you can hear french people saying "ouais" (which is a way of saying yes but kind of familiar) and inhaling at the same time. And we call it "Les ouais aspirés" literally "the inhaled yeahs"
Very interesting as always. This typical things make me want to move to Norway!
i never herad of cake on friday at work.. i must have the wrong job .
thank you so much! i'm an actuary, have a ms degree in data mining and I'm soooooo looking forward to live in norway. Your vídeos are really hepfull. Thank you!
Welcome to us:-)
so interesting again to hear about the cultural differences and normalities of various places!
You are so right in all you say. It's interesting to hear all the "strange" things from one that sees us a bit from the outside. The dialekts must be difficult for foreigners. I understand all dialekts, except the one from Lom. I really struggle with that one. My family is from Svarstad, 1 hour from Oslo, and we say some strange things: For elbow you have learned that it's ALBUE in Norwegian. We say ØLBÅGA, with a thick L. I say dessert now, but my parents always said SKIMAT, which means food eaten with a spoon. In Telemark some call potatoes JORDEPLE (apple in the ground). Have a nice summer! And all work places, organizations and so on have SOMMERAVSLUTNING. That is Julebord-light, and the persons pay the food/drinks themselves some times.
That is very interesting! And the different words you just mention are very funny. It's so strange that just because of a few kilometres people actually have different dialects! But I think it just makes Norway even more special :)
Thanks! I hope you have a nice summer too! :D
It's like saying "hja" whil ebreathing in :)
The Russ celebration is probably the most crazy celebration we have, and the colors mostly used are Red, Blue and Black. Red and Blue are used by "studiespesialiserende utdanning" or general studies according to Google Translate, where Blue is used within economy or sales and service (A small part of general studies). Black is vocational education, mechanical, electricity (yay!) etc. The celebration ends 17. by the way.
I fell in love with a Norwegian !!
Im here to know more about them (ppl)hahah
I’m brazilian ... greetings from italy
You are very upbeat annd you come accross really sincere. Excellent review. Thank you
Your English is very good.
Interessant å se perspektivet til noen fra et annet land. Jeg tror ikke du har såret noen nordmenn forresten.
Jeg elsker deg 😹😹
Hun såra meg. 😭 Se så lei meg jeg er. Hun må gjøre mer research.
Also the weird sound is us saying "Ja" while breathing. Almost sounds like a reversed sigh lol. So we're not just making a weird breathing sound, but saying "ja" to agree
Going to Sweden for shopping was sooo fun
yeah when it was cheap in sweden it was fun it was really fun in the early 2000s and late 90s when you could buy firecrackers there and cheap booze and tons of cigareets and fireworks without a Toll in miles to see now in 2017 sweden are almost the same price expensive wise as norway and the country are full of Toll stopping every fcking car there is to go tru everything you have + to see if you have hide some immigrants from swedistan back into youre trunk ugh the years change friend so for me it has ruin the fun so i simply dont visit sweden anymore
Your hair is amazing, so shiny
The shopping trips to Sweden aren't that strange... For different reasons certain goods are quite a lot cheaper in Sweden, and many also make a day out of it. Walk around for a bit, eat out and so on. Swedish people living close to Denmark will go there to shop ( for the same reasons), Danes go to Germany, and some Germans will go to Poland, I guess. The one thing all (or most) of these trips have in common is alcohol. A bottle of Absolut vodka (70 cl) cost NOK 335 in Norway. The same bottle cost around NOK 230 in Sweden. In Denmark it's about NOK 150 and so on...
I know there are also 1 day trips to northern Jutland (Denmark) from Norway, to buy cheap meat, alcohol etc.
I'm enjoying my time in Tromsø, Norway right now..and yes, what you say is right :-)
Russ are in red, blue, black and green, not just red, blue and black. It depends on what classes you take to which color you are when you are russ
I also have cake at work every Friday! :))
The reason why our prisons are so nice is because we focus on rehab of criminals. The prison guards are not there to punish you, you got your sentence from the judge and then you go to prison for rehab. Youre still losing your freedom and contact with family and friends, so the guards treat you like a person that are just there to do the sentence. There is different kinds of prisons tho, so the two you showed here are the NICE ones! But we also got some prisons that can be pretty bad, to our standards of a prison tho! But its like, who do you want to live next to you out of these two types: A person that have been rehabilitated and come out from prison as a better human, or do you want a human that are treated as an animal and not cared for, so when they come out they are loose cannons. Norway got the lowest % of people who comes out of jail and goes back. Because they get rehab instead of pissed on and ignored/hated. It really make sense when you get in to how it works. A lot of people kind of mock Norway for the prisons, but it truly work to focus on rehab and treat them as humans.
I honestly didn't know that engangsgrill was a typical thing in Norway! I thought it was normal all over the world. so I guss I learned something new about my own country! Great video by the way! Keep up the good work
I guess more countries also have it! But I had never seen it before I came to Norway ;)
Ahh, the russetid.. I was Russ 7 years ago and still get a bit of nostalgia when we hit May ;)
And it's definitely true about the dialects, I once was speaking to a Norwegian friend of mine here where I live (Japan) and someone asked us if we were even speaking the same language, hah!
Also I miss "harrytur" to Sweden to buy cheap stuff..
Great vid :)
We yes "Ja" and "Nei" while we inhale.
Sondre Pettersen yes you go and it's horrible. And Danes do the exact same thing
I don't. I only associate that sound with when I explain a problem to my doctor. So it really bugs me when ANY of my friends do it. (luckily, close to none of them do it. But the "mhm" is something everyone does, even me)
Nice video! I'm Norwegian and can relate to most of it. :D But I just want to say; it's less and less common that work places pay for "julebord", it is mostly the "upper class" work places (oil companies etc) that do this. The rest of us have to pay for our own julebord, but that said, I have never worked a single place that DIDN'T have julebord. :)
1:42 damn do that all the time.
yes, norwegian here.
everything you say is true....
People in New Brunswick, Canada do the same inhale-yes sound. It sounds like, "hee-yuh". Usually it's said quickly two or three times in rapid sequence.
Isn't New Brunswick a typical area where many Scandinavians settled? That can be an explanation for the inhale sound.
hahaha i totally agree with you about that sound norwegian people make. I live in Tøyen, Oslo.
Haha It's such a strange sound xD I don't think I did it well enough :P
I'm norwegian and lived in Norway my whole life. And certain things you say is wrong.
"Julebord" is correct but its getting less and less rare that work pays for the dinner. In privat sector some pay for everything, while some pay for alchohol. But if u work for the goverment (hospital,police etc etc) you have to pay for everything yourself.
The reason it's so many electric cars here is the toll-charges on the road. They are everywere and myself is maying over 2000NOK (210dollars) each month just to use the road towards work/home. Many pay 2x that, and the prices will go up 4x within 2018 most likely. For electric it's free (for now)
Great video, very informative. I subscribed to your channel not too long still I need to watch the older videos. I find it interesting to hear about Norway from the perspective of a foreigner (I'm a foreigner as well). I am fascinated by Norway and its culture. I've been reading about it and the more I read the more amazed I get. I'm even studying Norwegian :) . Parabéns pelo canal e pela dedicação, sou admirador do seu trabalho.
Olá Fábio! Obrigada pelo simpático comentario! :) It's very nice to know you are so interested in Norway and that you are studying the language. How is that going for you?
You say you are a foreigner as well. Do you also live in Norway?
+Mon Amie You are very welcome. It has been fun learning Norwegian. It's challenging, the pronunciation is the trickiest I would say. It requires lots of listening. I started by reading books for child where I had to complete simple tasks at the end of each chapter. Like, filling the blank type of exercises. Now I'm reading a really interesting book that tells you a story but in order to get to next chapter you have to read about grammar rules and get some exercises done. Yes, I am foreigner as well, but no I don't live in Norway. I'll be visiting Norway next month tho. I'm originally from Brazil, but I went to college in the USA and I've been here for 4 years.
Hey, greetings from Medellin Colombia, some day i will go to see that wonderful place that you love, thanks for all the information
Hi!! I hope you fulfil your dreams! :)
im from the north :P where its long long months of darkness compare to the south/east
Bom dia, minha nova amiga.
Os dialetos são tão estranhos e difíceis que me fizeram desistir de aprender o norueguês. Sempre que vou aí falo só o inglês e viajo feliz por todo o país. Certas diferenças são maiores do que o nosso português entre o Brasil e Portugal.
Estou adorando teus vídeos. Você é muito bonita e fala um inglês lindo de se ouvir. Parabéns.
Obrigada! ☺️
1:55 in the video. they are named russ. and the colours stand fore what you are going to be when you are getting an adult. pink is also a colour.
very useful video
ur voice and way to tell is very nice😉Want to meet u if I go Norway someday😊
I grew up in Minnesota in the US where most of my friends were second and third generation Norwegains. Most of what you talk about is very familiar to me and I had no idea had come from Norway. Even your Norwegian accent is familiar.
@@Србомбоница86 Wow, How did she perfect that Norwegian accent so well..ha. She does pronounce a lot of English in a very Norwegian way though. Especially the way she says Norway without really saying much of the W.
im going to norway in march. cant wait to see northern lights
Hi :)I think its wrong to say the its expensive to live in Norway. Its expensive to visit here as a tourist. But if you work here, your income compensate for the higher prices. In fact i think we are the second or third country in Europe that has the most to spend on pleasure like travelling after paying taxes and other regular expenses. In fact most Norwegians can afford at least one or two weeks travel abroad each year. Maybe not people that live on social welfare. The reason why people travel to Sweden is like people from Sweden goes to Denmark for shopping, people from Denmark goes to Germany for shopping and people from Germany goes to Polen for shopping. We all want to save money when shopping so its natural :))
we wear the russclothes all year basicly, not only in may~~
My office in Norway lets us go 2 hours early on friday and I thought that it was just something our company did! Funny to think that it's normal because I almost felt guilty about it the first few times.
Jha, I know what you are talking about. If I want to make the sound, but am writing, i usually put an H behind the first letter, to signify that you breathe in the word. So instead of writing, Ja ( yes), i write Jha. I dont think u will find that rule anywhere, its just how i do it :)
You looked grown up in this video...but once again a very nice one.....kjempebra :)!
This is so incredibly interesting, I already mentioned in your last video that I had never seen those little grills before, I think that is so cool! The bit about the prison system is also something I've never known before but reading the comments here I understand it more. Very cool video! Today is Friday and I wish we had cake :)
Thank you Katie! :) That's true! We should be having some cake right now hahah
cake before we geting of work fore the wekend :) that shoud eweryone try
Great video! :-) I love Norway as well
YAY! :D Thanks!
It's very interesting to hear how your accent was changed towards more norwegian accent :)
Hahahah You think?! xD
For sure :)
How do you study your norwegian? i'm learning from Doulingo and i like it alot :)
oriz45 Duolingo it's great! I also use it a lot! I also have lessons once a week with a norwegian teacher, and my norwegian friends help me a lot! :)
that's good to hear :)
Norway sounds great! The only thing missing is the nice weather :p Xx
We also have nice weather here ;) "Hot" sunny days in the summer (and I mean always sunny ;) ) and cold snowy winters! ;) heheheh
seu ingles é tão perfeito! parabéns pela pronuncia! se não tivesse dito no video que era portuguesa jamais imaginaria;
Obrigada! :D
6:07
no, those must be old numbers, actually in June when you made this video 42 % of all cars sold in Norway were electric
I love Norway!
Another great video about Norway 😊💖
christmas dinner exist also in luxemburg and belgium and normally the company pay
You may have heard about "Burzum". He actually recorded several albums while he was in prison. By the way, is Black Metal a cliché in Norway? Greetings from México.
Few Norwegian actually like black metal, but Norwegian black metal music seams to be far more popular abroad than in Norway.
Black metal is actually illegal to play on the radio here, it's weird. Lots of us like it though, but yeah, it's much more popular outside of Norway.
@@daniel4647 thats so weird. I absolutely love BM and I honestly think it is wrong to censor it, even though it is sometimes extreme in lyrics, but that is rare. Then again, Satyricon did perfom Mother North at the Opera so what was that all about? Banned on radio but allowed at OSLO OPERA HOUSE??? Weird :'D, but damn I am thankfull for it!
love the video. you could make a video where u taste Norwegian candy/sweets.
That is a great idea! :) Now I'm on vacation but when I return to Norway I will definitely make one of those :P
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people do the mmm sound (1.05) in Italy too :)
Really?! I had no idea! :D
So interesting. I love your videos ^_^ Just a less than a month until I go to Norway!!!
Wohooo! You're almost here! :P
Really really loved your voice.. so pretty you are.. waiting for your next video😊😊
Ola Mon, desejo-te um ano de 2023 cheio de coisas boas, os teus videos sao muito bons.
i don't know if you are still in Norway, but if you won't some cheap food, would i recommend a store named, Rema1000 or Coop. btw, try to say, sta van ger, an easyer way to say Stavanger
If I could ask... what would you say is the typical September experience in Oslo? Festivals, weather, etc. Since September sits between Summer weather and Autumn weather. In Sweden I went in Sept it was already Winter weather. What has your experience been so far in a Norwegian September? I will be traveling to Oslo Sept this year. Maybe you could do a video for each month in the same way, if you feel up to it. Thanks and good work on your vids.
Hi! Summer in Oslo in mainly end o may, June and July. September is already autumn. 😉
Mon Amie Yes, I thought it might be. How cold are we talking during September? Appreciate any input. Thank you 👍🏻
Thank you =3 Very helpful!
Hi! nice video, I'm planning to move to Norway and this helped me. Can you make a video on how you learned Norsk and how did you move? like are you studying there? and if yes, talk about studying in Norway and the budget and all!. THANK YOU
1:25 hja and mm m are the typical thing to say when you are agreeing with someone
I know what you mean about the breathing "Mhmm" its the breathing part that's Norweigan about it!
Great vids!
Definitely good information to know...
Im from Norway
Do you want a medal for that?
@@Fellow_Traveller1985 yes because nasty country really good to live
Once again, a great video :D
Thank you!
When you talk about prison, in Norway, you need to investigate a little more. those who are in these prisons are prisoners who behave properly, or prisoners who have had long sentences to return to the community for and take care of themselves. When the sentence is completed,
It is to let them be ready for the life after prison not when they get out that they find other criminals to be friends with but to have a normal good life after
Hi, you did not offended me but I am from Italy and every region you go has their own dilacet, I think Europe does, I am not offended! Thank you!❗💜
I am from norway and i think it too but ppl are not aware of that
I know exactly what sound you're taking about 😂 it's really funny 😁
É tudo muito parecido com a Dinamarca, eu estou a estudar e trabalhar em Copenhaga! Gosto mt dos teus vídeos!!! Keep up the good work! ;)
Obrigada Sofia! Eu estive em Copenhaga á pouco tempo e adorei! Espero que estejas a gostar de estar ai a viver! :)
Great video!
Thanks!!
I'm from Norway and I have a hard time understanding people from Bergen lol. They sound so Danish.
My mom laughed at me when a relative from Bergen tried to talk to me and I was saying "Hæ?" many times, which is 'what' in English btw.
My school once showed me a video from a series where they put two of the most hard to understand dialects together to build a bridge by communicating with eachother. They couldn't see what eachother were doing. And it was funny when they didn't understand eachother and the bridge ended up looking like shit 😂
Dialects are hard man, I can't even understand my fellow Norwegians.
Just awsome ! this world has everything to tell .. Awsome video and all your videos Mon are woow
Aww thank you so much Joshua! :)
I saw your's previously video check this video... and you know what? Now I want to meet some from Norway) Or make a friends )) Awe positive video! Thanks!) PS And Norwegians are cool)
Great videos.
Hello,
I will come with my boyfriend at the beginning of March and I want to ask you if we, as a tourists can go with the free buses to Sweden to buy things more cheaper, if the answer it's yes, where can I obtain more information about the schedule? Thank you very much, I love your videos!!!
Julebord!!! Yule! My celebration!
Norway wasn't really independent in 1814, that's just the year our laws were written down. But yes I guess the (independent) laws sort of made Norway independent even though.. We were a part of Sweden untill 1905.
Yes, but that "union" was more like a formality. The old kingdom of Norway however was born over 1000 years ago when Harald Hairfair defeated all the earls and gathered the nation. At the kingdom's peak it included Denmark and Sweden as well. The real birthday of the nation is actually the battle of Stiklestad, not the (new) constitution day 17 May 1814.
However - Norway was hit very hard by the plague "Black Death in the 14th century". Almost 3/4 of the population died and weakened the country which led to the 400 years of union with Denmark.
Hey Amie, You are looking so beautiful in blue!
In the west part of norway of it,s rain almost the half year and in the east part its almost any rain
the biggest reason for norwegian food/candy being so much more expensive than in sweden is because we have Sugar taxes
"Russ" colors:
Blue is economics
Black is labours like electricians, plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, etc.
Red is regular studies without any specification
Green is those who finished studies related to farming and animals
(Sometimes you can see a small child in similar outfit which is pink and that is symbolizing finishing kindergarten #BigGirl/#BigBoy)
I'm sorry, but I need to correct you on something regarding the ban on cars.
It was never the intention to ban all petrol powered cars in general, but we like to try to ban car dealers to sell brand new petrol powered cars. That means you can buy second hand or also import them from other countries. So it's more correct to say that it's not a total ban, but an encouragement to go for electric cars because it will be an easier option. However, even though the government wants to do this everyone knows it is very unrealistic to have in done by 2025, but you should always have ambitious goals, right?