American Reacts to AMAZING Facts About Norway
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As an American it is always exciting to learn interesting facts about Norway from a Norwegian's point of view. I am very interested in reacting to this list of amazing facts because there is always something new and fascinating for me to learn and compare to the United States. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
When learning another language you don't have to be able to speak it without accent. Being able to communicate, even if it's just basic, is already fantastic. The Norwegian grammar is actually very simple and like you already noticed, many words are quite easy to understand. So yes, you will definitely be able to learn Norwegian 🙂.
Also English is a Germanic language after all related to Norwegian thanks to the Danish and Norwegian vikings who colonized Britain. It used to be even closer as Old English and Old Norse was similar. And yes the most important part is to be understood. Not to pronounce it 100% perfectly, but of course it helps if you do.
@@kilipaki87oritahiti Indeed, a lot of the words stem directly from old Norse that are used in English commonly today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old_Norse_origin
The only issue I've discovered for people learning Norwegian are the amount of exceptions on how we pronounce things and the lack of written emphasis on those pronunciations, an example is how we pronounce 'Brød' where the d is silent, but nothing says it it is.
@@norXmal if not for the french occupying britain, it would probably be very mutually intelligable to this day.
Norwegians will pretty much always be able to tell that you are American. Even if you are really fluent in Norwegian. Americans tends get stuck with the American "R"
"When learning another language you don't have to be able to speak it without accent. Being able to communicate, even if it's just basic, is already fantastic."
I agree and it is probably especially true for Norwegian we have so many dialects which varies so much so having a bit of an accent doesn't matter much as long as you are understandable at least in my opinion.
Norwegians are taught English all the way back to first grade actually, and when Norwegians start middle school it is really common for us to have to choose a third language to learn beside english and norwegian. The languages we usally can choose from is Spanish, French and German! That also gives us a better chance to get into the high school or Videregående as we say it as well!
Haha, one thing I found funny was your reaction to and view on skiing. In Norway it will to most people be viewed in the "opposite direction" from your example. Cross country skiing is considered the "normal" and default form of skiing here. Meaning that if someone just says they're going "skiing", that's probably what they mean. You have to specify down hill, and you would probably say that you would go "slalom" instead.
Confirmed, cross-country is the default way to ski, anything else is a -skiing, like downhill-skiing, slopestyle-skiing and so on.
The autumn vacation (potato vacation) was introduced as help to reduce famine (1940) and the idea that school Kids could help harvest potatoes from the fields.
I was born in 87 and remember being a part of this.
Being a kid and running behind a tractor was quite fun.
The same in Sweden. Now it's named Autumn vacation.
Between 900-1000 words in the English language come from Norwegian, Swedish or Danish. these words entered the English language when Old English and Old Norwegian became the English language we have today.
It is actually more than 2000 words
My two favourites are bag and fuck.
14% of the base words in English comes from Norwegian.
@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 Dollar-Daler ? ;)
We also frequently use the word "Oi!" Which roughly translate to "Excuse my clumsiness, I seem to have accidentally bumped into you and I am sorry."
Why say what everyone know you will say? Right? 😂
This was a correct description of Norway. Such a good video. Love your videos Tyler. From Norway
In Sweden we also have "Potatoe vacation" but it was implemented to hunt moose. But these days its renamed into "Reading vacation" because it's fall, it's cold outside and it's a great opportunity to read a book or two.
we call it fall/autum vcation. Efterårsferie.
Originally it was for the kids helping harvesting potatoes though, at least in the south of Sweden. My parents born in the 1930s remember it.
Hot tips! Learn how the pronunciation of vowels in Norwegian differs from English and you will have a solid ground to build your repertoire.
Also, we have three more letters than in English; Æ, Ø, Å. Æ: like the A in "bad". Ø: like in the U in "burn". Å: like the O in "gold".
I hope you see this comment and that it helps in some way. Would love to speak or write with you in my tongue someday. Your videos have given me a newfound love for my country and I have the outmost appreciation for your work and open-mindedness.
Love from Norway! 🙏😃
I have always taken the fall vacation for granted. It was always just a truth of fall, you get a week off from school. I never even questioned why we had a holiday in the fall, and today I learned why it exists, and that it isn't common elsewhere! I learned something new about my country through you learning something new about MY country. That is amazing!
Some Norse influence from back when: They, them, their, are, take, guess, skull, bag, fuck, slaughter, knife, ransack, club, egg, fish, skipper, ship, skirt, short, shirt, husband, sky. Also endings on cities like -gate and -by. The prefix Mac is old Norwegian for "son of" like the suffix -son means the same and is also from here.
Skiing was basically invented here, the modern binding was invented here and there are rock carvings of skiers dating back thousands of years. Going down a slope is downhill or slalom (Norwegian word meaning sloping track). Cross country (langrenn) is to go skiing.
Nokre ord som er like: arm,film,bank,bitter,egg,ski,fjord,form,glass,hammer,over,storm,stress,ring,post,park. Under it is a link to a list of english word of old norse orign. List_of_English_words_of_Old_Norse_origin
Though most scholars place English in the West Germanic family, some believes it’s more closely related to the Scandinavian languages.
It can be argued that because Old English borrowed significant amounts of vocabulary and grammar from Old Norse when England was under Viking rule, Old Norse essentially “replaced” Old English as the language transitioned into Middle English.
The Vikings left a huge impact in the English language. Old Norse and Norwegian words and expressions are commonplace in everyday English.
Here are some examples, with the english word first, followed by the norse origin, then the modern norwegian:
Gun / Gunn (war) / pistol, club / klubba (blunt weapon) / klubbe, ransack / rannsaka (to search a house) / ransake, slaughter / slatra / slakte, Hell / hel (Loki's daugther and ruler of the underworld) / helvete, house / hús / hus, law / lag / lov, loan / lán/ låne, sale / sala / selge, yule / jol (pagan winther solstice feast) / jul, saga / saga / saga, troll / troll / troll, wing / vængr/ vinge, mire / myrr (bog) / myr, rotten / rotinn/ råtten, cast / kasta (to throw) / kaste, mug / mugg / mugge (kopp) ...
The list is literally endless, there is no doubt that English and Norwegian at the very least have common ancestry.
Hope this made you want to learn some Norwegian or maybe try duolingo for a video. Remeber mastering a language is not about perfect pronunciation, but about understanding one another. F.ex the current secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, is one of the most wellspoken people you'll ever hear, but his English pronunciation is a bit lacking to say the least.
+ Norwegians love hearing people care enough about them to try and actually learn the language.
the scandinavian languages and german is the same language group as english, and the sentence structure is mostly the same. Many of the words themselves are also similar, so there is that. (all of them are part of the germanic language tree)
Yes "potetferie", potato vacation. I'm 70, and when I was in school you were expected to actually help pick potatoes or other root crops. It wasn't mandatory, but the following Monday, teachers would ask where you had helped pick. I don't know if the farmers actually took attendance, but you were shamed if it was found that you hadn't actually helped pick. We were paid, but it was a pittance based on how many boxes you filled. I hated it, and especially hated reaching into the dirt expecting to find a potato but instead found a squishy, rotten one; that didn't even count towards you quota.
Norwegian is indeed easy to learn for English speaking. Pronounciation and making yourself understood are two different things though. :) As for the culture you would melt in very quickly given your amazing down to Earth and open minded personality. I think I speak on behalf of all Norwegians wathing your vlogs when I say you make US look really good. Sadly Norway has become a bit sceptical to the US lately due to things like religion, Trump, guns, death penalty, anti LGBT and now even letting States form their own views on abortion. Unfair as US is huge and vary a lot. It would almost be like branding Europe for something - say Germany does and says. As for cross-skiing - it's not meant litterally. It just means skiing on a flat surface instead of down hill. The reason why we go "Hu" or don't often say things like "please" and so on is that we put a lot of value on equality and treating everyone as an old friend. While an American may say "respect your elders", we'll say "Respect goes both ways!". That still doesn't exclude the respect for elders, but if that elder is a grumpy old sod, they'll very quickly get a cold shoulder! :)
Høst, as in høst ferie means both Autumn, and to harvest
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13 to 15.
You are required by law to attend 10.
Then the next 3-5 (depending on the subject) is a *right*.
Then after 13 years you can apply to study in a university, and if there's space in your topic and you fulfill the entry requirements (like biology to study to become a doctor) you get in, if not the people with best average (I think, or perhaps median?) grades will get in while the rest move on to their second choice study topic.
When finishing 13 years of studying everyone that hasn't studied something that gives them qualifications for a job will list 10 study topics that they qualify for and want to study and they'll essentially go down that list till something sticks.
Good grades makes it more likely that you get a topic you genuinely like in university.
Once in the university you'll ghen study 3 years for a bachelor (but no one really gets a job with that), then another 2 years for a master (that's usually the minimum for a job that requires a university education), then typically another 3-4 years for a doctorate.
People can mix and match bachelors, masters and doctorates as long as they have the prerequisites filled (bachelors before masters etc).
As a rule of thumb the minimum to get a job where having a university education is a benefit at all is to have two degrees, could be two bachelors, a bachelor and a master both and another bachelor, both and a doctorate, etc, etc.
If you count kindergarten then we're in kindergarten from the age of 2 to 6, then we join a school in our 6th year and do the elementary school for 7 years, then 3 years in the middle school, then 3-5 years in the last school that's a *right*.
So that would be 16 years in some kind of educational system at the age of 18, and you're probably going to be in the education system for at least 18 years and be done at 20 before you even have a full-time job.
People of course have jobs before that, but that's usually part time.
That said, kindergartens don't really focus much on education here.
Crosscountry skiing is the one that is popular in Norway and we win all our medals in.
Hei (or hello) from a Norwegian person!
First of all: Hvordan går det? (How are you?)
Håper du har det bra. (Hope you're doing well.)
Just wanted to hike by and say, man, I've spent the last few days at home with a cold (yeah, we can just do that here in Norway when we're feeling too sick to work. Amazing, right?) and your reaction videos to the culture, customs and nature of Norway have been a real treat in helping the countless hours of runny noses be way more entertaining. Takk! (thanks!)
Seeing my (beloved) country through the eyes of a foreigner really puts things in a different perspective. I know I'm very lucky to be born here, but (sadly) with so many other things in life it's easy to slip into the habit of ignorance or taking things for granted. You've highlighted hings I had never even considered as being strange (like liver paste or fish patty) and facts that I realized I've never really appreciated to the extent that it deserves (like our governments transparency and our work-life balance). It all just seem so NORMAL to us Norwegians!
However, what actually drove me to write all this is (mainly) one thing I've noticed you've been confused about and none of the videos (admittedly, I haven't watched them all, so you might already have had this explained. My bad!) is the whole sun-situation and the fluctuations in light and dark over the seasons.
I realize- now that I quickly try to make a brief summary in my head- that for someone that's used to having sunlight in the day and dark in the night all year around it might be a difficult subject to wrap up in an easy-to-understand package, but I'll try.
(Note: what you're about to read applies for the northernmost part of Norway. The middle and southern parts of Norway does not experience this to the extreme extent one does in the North. That being said, in the south the daylight hours in winter are noticeably shorter, with the sun setting earlier and rising later than it does in the summer months.)
So, the northernmost part of Norway is situated inside the latitude circle known as the arctic circle. This is crutial for the two fenomenons known as Polar nights ("Polarnatt" or "mørketid" in Norwegian) and the midnight sun ("midnattssol" in Norwegian) These two extreme counterparts of day and night cycles are due to the earths axial tilt. The furter north, the more pronounced these cycles are through the summer and winter seasons.
The winter (when the axial is tilted away from the sun) seem like one, long night. In fact - inside (or above) the arctic circle the sun - never(!) rises above the horizon from about mid November til about mid January, depending on where you're situated. Although the sun never rises there is still a few hours around noon with a sertain amount of twilight. These few hours are often a strikingly beautiful display of red, orange, turquoise and purple colors in the sky.
The winter (and autumn) is also the best time to spot the aurora borealis or commonly named the northern lights ("Nordlys" in Norwegian) since it can only be spotted in the dark.
(Note2: the northern light is a fenomenon that occurs when particles from the sun enters the atmosphere at the magnetic poles of the earth. Periods of rapid explosions and eruptions on the surface of the sun means more vivid and stunning northern lights - sometimes even so vivid that southerners - like people in Oslo - can experience it in the night. There's even a northern light forecast that, based on the activity on the sun's surface, will tell you if there's a good chance of getting a glimpse of the aurora.)
The summer in Northern Norway is the complete opposite! When the axial tilt of the earth is turned toward the sun in the summer months the sun - never(!) sets under the horizon from about mid May to about mid July, again depending on how far north you are.
(Note3: If you've read this far and think to yourself: "Huh! That's just crazy! Unbelievable even! Actually, I'm pretty sure this random person on the internet is just having a hoot and saw a golden opportunity to fool an unknowing victim. This all sound too unreal to even be close to how it really is in the arctic end of Norway!" - you're wrong! It's exactly like I've described. I was born and spent my first 20+ years up there, I am a living witness to the absolute madness that is the arctic seasons.)
Alright! I tried to make it short but here we are. Again - thanks for the great content you've created and I hope to see more in the future!
Vi sees! (See ya!)
Btw.. I don't go hiking.. every sunday. Many don't. But, both summer and winter, spring and autumn, i have 1-2 weeks hiking trips 5-6 times a year. Forests or mountains.
Also - Every summer, me and my friend, and Dog, which is my the name of my friend dog. Dog.
We have this tradition or more precise, a bucketlist we follow, by going for longer (3-4 week mini ''expeditions'')
Either in one go, or do mountain runs = reach as many mountains-tops in those weeks, driving from place to place. Or do like i said, mini-expeditions, crossing a national park, or some other thing. But that bucket list.. never gets shorter. Cause every year, we find more thing we NEED TO DO, than we have the time to do. So... maybe next year!
I take my two little boys haiking in the woods every weekend so that they don’t start fighting and going crazy with all the video games they are playing. We are not that healthy though. We roast hot dogs on a camp fire and i have to lure them out with some candy bars 😂. I live in Oslo now but i am from Stavanger on the south west coast where there is not much snow, so i’m not used to skiing.
This winter vacation, in february, I am taking my 3 kids to New York for 10 days. They are so exited. And they all speak english, they are 14 10 And 7.
Im english born, norwegian is my second language. Norwegian has alot of english words, these words are actually old Viking words that appeard in the english language during the Viking times. I have finally learnt to think in norwegian when speaking norwegian, that helps 😁
I couldn't tell that she's Norwegian by the way she speaks. She speaks fluent English with an insane speed :)
I can.. because I'm Norwegian. And speak English not American like her.. and her style is Norwegian
Yeah, and that's normal her age in Norway.
It's rare with people under 60 being worse then this in vocabulary etc.
That said, older people often have more of a accent.
Still, if you know what to look for you can tell that she has a accent too.
I was already following Macerly 😃. This was an old video as she has finished uni now and lives in the UK and have got a great paying job over there! (I recently started following her).
What she said is pretty accurate. The marius sweater is made from a pattern from 1950’s or 60’s and I think Marius was an athlete or some other famous person, and they made a knitting pattern using his name. It’s a nice sweater so it became popular to knit, and it just became something people wanted to wear. We are very traditional here in Norway with all the customs we have. And Norwegians in general are very proud of their country ☺️. We don’t use flags that much to show we are proud (not like in the US) but we use bunads and marius sweaters and other traditonal stuff that shows where we are from in a way:) we also use flags like on our national day but it’s not that common with Norwegian flags around all year.
Also one thing people don’t mention is that we often respond with yes or no while breathing in, basically only with short words. I have no idea why that’s a thing, but it is many places in Norway 😂. Very strange sounding for a foreigner Ive heard.
There are two versions of the story of the sweater's origin. According to one, it was knitted in 1928 or 1929 by Bitten Eriksen and worn by her son, the later aviator and alpinist Marius Eriksen. The other says that the designer Unn Søiland Dale made the Mariusgenser pattern which was presented in 1954 in the film Troll i ord. Søiland Dale had taken inspiration from Annichen Sibbern's book Norske Strikkemustner from 1929, where, among other things, the traditional tables in patterns for the Setesdal koften were presented. Søiland Dale was inspired by the Setesdal koften, but reworked the tables and put them together in a new combination. All the different sweaters and patterns in Troll i ord were designed by Unn Søiland and supplied to the film by her company Lillunn Sport AS, which produced ready-made hand knits. Marius Eriksen, who after the war also made a living as an actor, wore several color versions of the marius pattern, both white, black and red, and a blue and white version in the film, and Henki Kolstad wore the three-color variant in the film, with blue bottom color, white pattern and red shoulder borders, and the demand for this pattern became huge after the film.
The potato holiday is very abundant. There are maybe 100 kids helping potatofarmers or any farmer to get their harvest that one week. It used to be a national movement to help the farmers to harvest their growth before winter sat in. It is a logistical nightmare for parents, along with the 2 months of holiday for kids during summer.
Russetiden, the graduation party, was originally held after their exams, to celebrate completing school. After some time, they moved the exams after the celebration, in an attempt to keep them more civilized. The result was worse exam grades lol. People still go crazy during this time. A lot of people even spend insane amounts of money on a "russebuss", which is a rebuilt bus with massive speakers and lights, made just for a few trips to party at specific locations. Everyone has done something as a russ that they never would have done otherwise. They don't get a free pass, but generally the police are very easy on the graduates for what you could call offenses to be expected.
The struggle with learning the Norwegian language would come when dealing with the dialects. Depending on the dialect, it could end up feeling like you need to re-learn the language itself whenever exposed to a new dialect.
Not everyone here has 13 years of school. We have two different paths you can take in high school. If you plan to move on to college/uni you typically take 3 years. But if you go into a trade, you take 2 years of school and then have a 2 year internship that follows. So it's 13 years traditionally, but if you go the trade route is 12+2 (you have some assignments during your internship, plus a final practical test). Those that do the trade path who changes their mind can also go back to get that last year of school to move onto college/uni if they so wish to.
Crosscountry sking is the "normal" skiing in Norway, it is the most common, and most everyone has done it, many do it every year, but Slalom skiing is also very normal.
I recommend this video if you haven't watched it!! "Norwegian Prison - Michael Moore" Its about a prison called Bastøy in Norway. The prisoners have their own houses.....
to learn more about cross country skiing you should know more about your fellow countrymen that are some of the best skiiers in the world, like Jessica Diggins :-)
Crosscontry skiing is actually more comonplace in Norway than "slalom" which is downhill skiing. CCS is basicly just hiking.
I haven´t actually heard that about English speakers learning Norwegian before, but maybe it´s because of all the common words, like loan words between us that´s been going on for ages. However, Norwegian has quite a few grammatical quirks that you won´t find in English, and we love to combine words into one. I do know a few people in Wisconsin though, that actually took classes and have gotten to speak it quite well. They´re also family from way back, so that´s really cool!
As far as your own knowledge of Norwegian goes, I´ve been watching quite a few of your videos by now, and you´re really getting the hang of it, so you might be surprised about how fast you´d be picking it up ;) Give DuoLingo a shot, at least!
86% (150,000) of all new cars sold in Norway in 2021 were plug-in electric cars, so yes, they are EVERYWHERE.
As for learning Norwegian, pronunciation is the biggest hurdle. If you can get that down, Norwegian is easier to learn because it has simpler grammar and smaller vocabulary than most other European languages.
I thought you should know that the marius sweater is usually home knit.
The hiking depends on where you are from, any big cities obv have less options unless you actively look for places to hike so not all family’s are going hiking. But if you arent in the city life then most norwegian places have easy access to nature so it makes for great walks and hence we tend to on average do more hiking yes.
Love love love your videos, you are a fresh breath of air, always so positive and sweet🥰 keep up the good work 😊 hugs from Norway 🇳🇴
Norwegian is actually an easy language to learn because the grammar is similar to English but the vocabulary is small. However you have to remember that languages are vocal and social. You learn by speaking it and correcting yourself on the fly and getting corrected by others. Reading and writing is a different part of your brain. The languages that are fundamentally written are algorithmic or programming languages.
Norwegian is in fact a language with a rich vocabulary. However, like English speakers, we use only a small part of it in our everyday conversations. That's enough to get by in the beginning. The vocabulary grows naturally over time.
"The vocabulary is small"? Seriously?
There are over 500,000 Norwegian words registered, with around 330,000 in use today. There are currently 170,146 English words in use, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. In other words, the English language is half the size of the Norwegian.
@@johnnymartinjohansen I am familiar with Norsk Ordbok but they only print around 300,000 words. And I own the Oxford English Dictionary. But you have to remember that English is the true Latin of our time. We now have words in Norwegian like gaid (guide) and sørvis (service) and countless others of the same kind. English words are not fornorsket, but norvagisert. Professional Norwegian basically consists of English words and our text books are mostly English.
What matters is the active vocabulary, not the passive one. But if you are counting passive words the English Wiktionary contains 578,707 gloss entries and 1,317,179 total definitions. And I think we can agree that the definition matters most.
We all the word free, but is it an adjective, adverb or verb? All of the above, therefore it needs three definitions. You can say free speech. What does it mean? Is speech not imprisoned? Do you mean that the speech is free, but the rest you have to pay for. Who knows without a definition. ;-)
I love that you are looking into Norway, because i am from Norway myself. Please continue with it.
I am from Stjørdal, like hallf an hour from Trondheim, wich is the third largest city in Norway
The "potato vacation" could be renamed "Moose vacation" because it misterily is timed with the first week of moose hunting. ;)
For eastern norway, we in west dont go hunting much, but many pick the potato...😂
@@monicabredenbekkskaar1612 Ever tried potatohunting?? ;)
Jeg bor på Jæren. Først flyttet jeg fra Stavanger i 1995 til Sele. Der bodde vi i et hus på en gård. Så flyttet vi til Bryne, nærmest nabo til gårdsbruk nr 1. Garden Bryne er oppkalt etter. Så flyttet vi til Kvetnaland. Dette er bakrunnshistorie. Så for å svare på ditt spørsmål. Nei, jeg har ikke direkte hentet "eple" eller poteter fra åkeren. Mine naboer og venner har derimot hentet tonn av epler. Min datter er samboer med en bonde på Liste, i sør.
Videregående skole (high school) is optional! IF you are lucky and get a job right after the 10th year of school, you can skip high school. But most people want an education, and ofcourse choose to go for another 3+ years.
What about Yellowstone ,Oregon, the Rocky Mountains, and f.ex the appalanches. America is FULL of mindblowing places to bring a kvikklunsj.
You should react to Norwegian explorers, we have some famous ones. And you sholud look up citys from the southern part of norway, the lowlands of the country,its where the most of us vacation in the summer. And also how abort the oldest City of norway, Tønsberg? Or the whale City Sandefjord? There are so much more than motains, fjord And skiing in Norway.
Lol, funny meeting you here Lars😁 Hope you have a nice December and a wonderful Christmas m8😊👍
Potato holiday ,and also in other areas Moose Holiday ,since they pretty much started similar of both harvest holidays weeks.
I am intrigued by Norway's "potato vacation". This is because where I lived in Scotland children had a holiday in late autumn, and local famers would hire them to help with the potato harvest. Back-breaking dirty work, but we all liked getting paid at the end of the week.
Yes. Thats the same thing
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You just managed the "Ø" sound there.
In "hø", except it sounds a little bit like "høa' when you say it while we skip the "a" at the end.
fall/potato vacation is brilliant, 1month after school starts after the summer holiday we get a new week-long holiday, just to help us adjust to back-to-school lol... we don't get it when working though... but for students it's great
Window - vindu
Eye - øye
Egg - egg
Leg - legg
Knife - kniv
Bread - brød
Arm - arm
Thumb - tommel
Bone - bein
Sword - sverd
and theres many many more (viking exportwords to english)
Fjord - fjord
Katt - cat
Hus - house
Buss - bus
Skitt - shit
Kukk - cock
Fin - fine
Eple - apple
Banan - banana
Opp - up
Liv - life
Vind - wind
Storm - storm
Rose - rose
Bibel - bible
Sko - shoe
welcome to Norway Ålesund! i will show you everything and we do love your videos:)
In my county potato-vacation is a thing - kids get off school - but they actually have to help out harvesting potatoes....
Hey man!
Just came across a very good Norwegian commercial that you must react to!! It's brand new and runds on television right now. It's called:
"father christmas and mother earth" here on TH-cam.
Maybe not your typical reaction footage, but why not? It is from Norway after all 😇
As an Norwegians I have never herd about Poteto vacation
The thing about Norwegian being the easiest to learn, that's only according to one website. Others mention the Romance languages as the easiest, and others mention Frisian and Dutch, before Norwegian.
There's been studies about this, obviously, in how many hours it takes, on average, for people of different peoples to learn different languages, but it's hardly an exact science in any case. It's also hard to say what counts as "learning Norwegian". If it's only to the point of being able to communicate decently well, or even almost fluently, then I'd agree Norwegian is among the easiest to learn, particularly for people who also speak a Germanic language (like English).
The true difficulty of Norwegian is that it's a tonal language, which can be exceedingly difficult for people who don't speak a tonal language natively. So, becoming truly fluent in it, places it in one of the most difficult languages in the world, for many.
It took my English dad 12 years, and he never understood Danish.. and forgot all of it in a few years. But for us, Norwegian ears, we can get a lot of languages.. so maybe we're just the most easily to learn language of all.. I understand 5 . All latin or Germanic. And I don't even want to call them language, only dialects..
"Romance" languages, not "Romantic".
Romantic is a mood.
Probably inspired by a time when the cultures using roman derived languages where seen as what we today call romantic...
France and Italy both have a reputation as being quite romantic places for instance.
@@Luredreier I'm aware. It popped out anyhow, though. Fixed it, thanks for the correction.
I think learning Norwegian for English speakers is easy for a number of reasons.
Like English we're using a language with a simplified grammar due to having had to deal with different people with different languages for a long period of time (Danes ruling us for 400 years, Swedes ruling us, interaction with the Kven, Sami and Forest Finn minorities, trade with low German speakers during the Hanseatic trade and also the Pomor trade with Slavic speakers in Russia.
So it just was better to simplify things.
And with all of our fjórða and valleys we're also really good at understanding each other.
And while we generally can tell if someone is from a non-nordic country I've noticed that Norwegians often don't recognize Faeroese speakers speaking Danish with a Faeroe accent as being a different language, they often genuinely think that it's just a different dialect of Norwegian and struggle with placing itt on the map.
People often catch my mums Icelandic accent though...
@@Luredreier Oh, definitely. The relatively simple verbs, and a large lack of noun cases certainly helps the ease of learning. The most annoying part is probably the three noun genders, and getting used to prepositions being used somewhat differently, but that's a thing in learning just about any foreign language, so...
Icelandic accents are very distinct, yeah. I can't speak to Faeroese Danish, as I've never heard it, though I have heard it is closer in pronunciation to Norwegian. It's on my list of places to visit.
I can recommend the Dexpedition episode from Norway, he shows the Russetid (graduation party) and also our constitution day.
Ron Swanson owns a cabin, making it the most American thing ever!
When is the celebration? Now, it's more Than 24 hours of material in this channel. In addition, and to all fans, Tyler also makes reaction videos about Canada and UK in parallel with this channel.
A Norwegian American is what you typically call an American of Norwegian descent. Their grandparents or great grandparents emigrated in the 19th and 20th century. I have family in the US. The majority of Norwegian emigrants settled in the Midwest for instance Minnesota
Cabins in Norway! There are many cabins in Norway, but the standard is very different from cabin to cabin, if you do not have a cabin on one cabin field, which has become popular in the last 20 years. There are around 450,000 cabins, which means that less than 10% own a cabin in relation to the number of inhabitants in Norway, which is around 5.3 million.
The Marius sweater is named after the father of Stein Eriksen.
One weird thing alot of us do, we may start answering a question with nei (no), for no reason even when the answer ultimately is a positve one.
We also say a few words on in-breath which apparently is weird to some.
Norwegian and english Are Both germanic languages, and the reason english and Norwegian Words Are some similar is because many english Words come from Norwegian, Like Window come from the Norwegian Word Vindu
And the hiking thing, we Even do it with school nearly always with my school, since i am in tenth grade we have a few sleepovers outside like 3 weeks ago we went to gupu
And i dont thinki am very talli am 1,66/1,67 i want to be Iver 1,70
And in my cabin we have to go to the (brønn?) idk What its in english but we have to go there to Get water we carry big buckets usally takes 5 minutes walk but since there is so much snow i think its takes 5 minutes more
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That was a *perfect* Norwegian "Hø"!
Well done!
Hæh....
Fact: It is considered "law" to greet someone when hiking.
By "law" I mean by the people, not in the actual book of laws, but it's very strange NOT to greet someone when hiking. Extremely strange.
PS: How can you not know Marit Bjørgen?! Unforgivable! She is the single most-winning winter athlete, ever. She is literally the greatest winter athlete in history.
Frozen adventures - Spoiler Alert!!!!
About the norwegian language... a lot of scenery in the movie Frozen is taken from Norway AND names and a lot of words are also taken from the norwegian language,
if you check out the different movies from the Frozen universe. Not only the names: Elsa, Anna, Hans, Kristoff(er), Sven, Olaf...If you see the short movie Olafs frozen adventure or frozen fever, they have tons of norwegian words. Such as Yule time (Juletid - Christmas), the phrase: that time of the year - and we automatically think of the stressful or happy (depends how you look at it) juletid. The traditional fruitcake, is probably the referance to Julekake (christmascake) - in the short film Olafs frozen adventures, and ex bukkehorn at end of the movie Frozen fever, is a music instrument.
So the scenery, the names, the phrases, christmas traditions and so on. Check also out Arendelle on the map (especially shown at the end of the short film Frozen fever), and a norwegian city called Arendal, they look like they are at the same place on the map.
The cabins, we are 5,4 million people and there is a little over 440.000 cabins in Norway 😅
Hi Tyler I do appreciate your videos and that you’re so interested in Norway. How come?I’m Swedish+Norwegian like so many living near 😮the border. We are happy that our daughter lives with😅 her family in Oslo and have dual citizenship. Norway is today one of the richest countries in the world, thanks to the revenues from the oil industry but once it was rather poor and there was a rivalry between Sweden and Norway. They still call Sweden “søte bror” meaning dear brother.
On a sidenote though, actually we call Sweden «Söta bror», it has to be in Swedish🤗 «Søte bror» doesn’t really refer to Sweden among Norwegians.
Hej andurk. Jag ville bara visa att jag kunde.och trodde att man på norska skrev ö som ø! Som i pinnekjøtt, min julfavorit. Jag är så glad för min norska familj och har nu ett totalt tvåspråkigt barnbarn!
@@mailyholmertz2006 jo vi bruker ø, men når vi sier søta bror så sier vi det på svensk. Vi sier ikke søte bror men søta bror. Jeg brukte ö bare for å poengtere at vi sier det på svensk🤗 ha en fin dag!
Currently watching this in my Marius sweater 😅
You don`t have to go the last 3 years of school. You can drop out and begin working. The last 3 years can also be trade schools like being a plumber, electritian, road worker or builder.
You should check out Norway's most expensive cabins. Many Norwegian use more money on their cabins than they do to their homes.
Like me. My cabin is bigger than my house and much more luxurious.
Hello from a norwegian living in sweden 😜
Hi Tyler 👍🏼 The reason why it is easyer to learn Scandinavian languages is because you already juse 900 of the Scandinavian words in your English language ..the English language is from the old North languish from 1200 yers ago 🇸🇪🇧🇻🇩🇰
We live in a beautiful country with a lot of nature and because of that we adjust our way of living to use what's free. And the nature is free. Therefore we go hiking every week. And it's healthy for so many fysical damages.
As many mentioned, yoy don't ned a perfect pronanciation when learning a new language, it is totaly expected that one would have an accent.
Our vocabulary is much smaller then the englise one.
But a totaly random but lovely fact, we have a building block language, it is so fun. Meaning that we build words by adding describtion and putting them togheter in Long words Example: scecial plates for your christmas dinner Will be if you like, christmasdinnerplates. Or the bus driver that drives the youngest students to school could be primeryschoolbusdriver.
Its just fun.
The English language comes mainly from whatever language was in England, and then they were dominated by the Vikings for a period of time. This influenced the pre-English language in a profound way, it turned into something more like the modern English language, and you can see that many of the root words for English words come from Norse or old Norse like foot comes from fot and house comes from hus, mouse comes from mus. This isn’t really true, even though it’s true. The Norwegian words are used as rude words comes from the same words in Norse as the English words come from in Norsk so the Norwegian and English words, have the same route words in old Norse🎉
If you try to learn Norwegian, you don't need aim "perfect" pronunciation.
There's no need to get rid of your accent, to be understood.
I think the most difficult sound, to pass as a native (from English) probably is "R". (Different regions have different R, but they are quite different from English R, while an English R would be understood just fine)
Then different vowel sounds. (Some vowel sounds switch place, compared to English, and some are rare or not present)
Then just some consonant sounds. (Most consonants are basically the same, but some have quite a different twist as well)
As well as the tone, (the melody is different, kind of similar to "This one time at band camp" from American Pie, not exactly but similar to English with Norwegian tone).
This is a good video about Norway in contrast to yesterday's disaster.
nah, most people hike, but hiking a proper trip every week consistently is rare, or at least unusual
The similarities between Norwegian and English are many, but granted, the pronunciation can be hard for English speaking people.
Russ have many different colour. Not just blue and red. But those are the most basic. Red means higher ed, blue is travel and economics, green is farming, black is for people that have only 12 years of school. But work for Two years after school to Get an degree. And we have orange and pink too. Pink is when u are finnised with kindergarden. And orange is when u are finnised with 10. grade
Tyler; u should check out the fun song «the cabin» of Ylvis. I think u will like it 😁 💖 From 🇳🇴
Are you going to react to other countries as well, not just Norway? For example Iceland, Sweden, Danmark, etc. 🤔🤔🤔 Anyway, I like your videos. 😊
Norweaguan language is *both* one of the easiest, and the hardest.
I know Explabation needed:
Gramaticly, very easy for youbto learn, vocally, close to impossible. Most Norwegians would know that thoug were American because of your accent, the reason is all our dialects (over 180 of them)
If you want to get better in Norwegian; Practice your vowels. Instead of the usual English pronunciation's of the letter A as 'ey', pronounce it as a clean 'aaa'-sound, only one sounded sounds in the Norwegian vowels, instead of the English pronunciation which can have more than one, as shown in this example. :)
Norwegian is definitely NOT the easiest language for an English speaker to learn. Dutch is far easier, as is Spanish. It took me ages (about a year) to become comfy in Swedish, which is similar to its neighbour, but Spanish seemed quite easy. The worst (of those I know well enough to comment on) are Chinese (esp Cantonese), and Welsh, with German a close third. Understanding someone from the Ozarks was challenging too 🤭😉🙄
makes no sense that spanish is easier to learn for an english speaker, also Swedish pronounciation is quite drifferent from Norwegian and in my opinion definitely harder than norwegian pronounciation
Nah Nah Nah swedish is much more Harder then swedish cause of the prounoncation so dont compare it to swedish i would more compare the Writing to danish but danish and swedish is much more harder
I'm Norwegian, and I haven't been skiing since I was forced to at age 10. No thank you to the whole ski thing.
language thing does not aply if you dont live in oslo.
were i live we say.
Jeans=Bukse or dongribukse
hi=gu dagen
By=Hadet gøtt
but then again people from oslo dont understand what im saying.
Oslo does not count as norway.(its just a big train station:))
this girl is also werry young so shes getting some of the things wrong.
Can you react to norwegian christmas food?
No, no, no. Poffffffff. 😱😱
You should react to our national anthem!
Ok, so Norway is great and such but how about shifting your interest a little bit to the east and just try and see what beautiful Sweden has to offer? Just to change things up, you know. 😊
She is a bit wrong when it comes to the education. Ungdomsskolen is a part of Grunnskolen. Grunnskolen is actually divided in three, småskolen (1 to 4), mellomtrinnet (5 to 7) and ungdomsskolen (8 to 10).
After graduating from grunnskolen, one will be eligable for videregående skole. Vidaregåande is also divided up between studieforberedende (preparing for further studies) and yrkesfaglig (preparing to become an apprentice). Those that go studieforberedende after three years (11 to 13/vgs 1 to vgs 3), will be eligable for higher studies at universities and colleges. Higher studies can last for a year, a bachelor (3 years) or a master (5 years), or even more. Those that go yrkesfaglig have normally two years of normal school (11 to 12/vgs 1 to vgs 2) then two years with working (13 to 14/vgs 3 to vgs 4). After that, they usually joins the workforce.
Graduates from studieforberedende may also choose to wait with higher studies and choose to go a year on folkehøgskole (folk high school) or bibelskole (Bible school). Both have a bigger focus at developing hobbies and friendships, with less academic focus.
Hi Tyler 👍🏼 Congratulations to the Lady ski Team USA in Lillehammer Norway today 2 dec the Winner was 👁️🇺🇲🇺🇲🎇 JESSIE DIGGINS 🎇🇺🇲🇺🇲👁️ She ski better then Germany. Sweden.Norway. today.🇺🇲🇺🇲🎇 So awesome and see Jessie Diggins US fighting spirit 🎇🇺🇲🎇🇺🇲🎇🇺🇲🎇
Some think Norway is the capitol of Sweden.....
Yes, and it is the other way around. 🤣🤗
my parents picked potatoes in autumn. i didnt however
To learn more about the cabin please check out the song "The cabin by Ylvis."
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Puhh.
Haha yes! It’s so accurate, at least to how it used to be. Some have primitive cabins like this still though😁
i think the reason Norwegian is so easy to learn, is that accent and intonation dont really matter to us, and a lot of the words are similar
Yeah, but then we have like hundreds of different dialects which can be very confusing to anyone learning Norwegian since they mostly learn Norwegian in the written language Bokmål.
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You really think that going down hill is "normal" skiing?
Skies are a transportation tool.
And normal skiing is getting from point A to point B by the best route possible using skiis.
For normal skiing look up Telemark skiing for downhill and cross country skiing and biathlon for flat ground skiing.
And remember, people will ski *up hill* to.
If you are in one valley at sea level and trying to get to another you'll ski up the hills to the mountain valley between some mountains separating the valleys, perhaps you'll ski along the side of the mountain to get around it, then in the mountain valley you'll ski on relatively flat ground, then you go down hill on the other side, then there might be some flat ground *in* the coastal valley on either side between the two villages in question, and that has to be crossed too, and that's probably relatively flat.
So yeah, that's normal skiing.
Or perhaps you are out hunting, then you have to ski with a rifle on your back into the forest to try to find something to feed your family.
And do one and so forth.
That's how people hot around back then when there was snow everywhere.
You couldn't walk everywhere.
And skiis are a heck of a lot faster then snow shoes...
Yes, Professor.
the reason tesla is so many cuz it is fast AF, duty free and much cheaper than a 911
I think Americans man have the handsome Gene 😂😂 you can't help but notice 😂😂
Did you know this Tyler?: no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norskamerikanere