Love.  How could I forget the importance of knowing how to discuss love, dating, etc. in Norwegian?  These kinds of things usually peak interest in beginning foreign language students.  It’s nice to be able to ask someone out on a date and then to be able to ask them about their interests when you are on the date.  So let’s go through a scenario.  Say you are girl out at a bar in Oslo with your friends and you notice a kjekk fyr (attractive guy).  You want to talk to him, but you don’t know how to ask the questions you want to ask på norsk.  You could start with ”Heisann, jeg tror jeg har sett deg her før.  Du ser ut som en snill mann.  Jobber du her i området eller…?”  Hi, I think I’ve seen you here before.  You look like a nice man.  Do you work here in this area or…?”  Then he might respond with ”Ja, jeg er tannlege tvers over gata.  Skal dere være her sent i kveld?”  Yes, I am a dentist across the street.  Are you guys going to be her late tonight?”  Then you would be smoothe and say ”Egentlig, de andre har andre ting å gjøre snart.  Vil du ta et øl med meg et annet sted?”  ”Actually, the others have other things to do soon.  Do you want to have a beer with me another place?”  Hopefully he would say ”Ja, takk.”  and you would mosey on to the next place.  During the conversation, you would probably ask each other ”Hvor bor du?” 
”Where do you live?” and ”Hvor kommer du fra?”  ”Where are you from?”  ”Hva liker du å gjøre i fritiden?  ”What do you like to do in your free time?”  Hopefully the conversation goes well and at the end of your date, one of you says something like ”Dette var fint.  Skal vi gjøre det igjen?”  This was nice.  Do you want to do it again?”  After numerous dates you begin to refer to each other as a kjæreste-a boyfriend or girlfriend.  Maybe you are even forelsket-in love.  Somewhere down the line you are forlovet-engaged, and eventually you decide you want to be gift-married.  Of course, as I’ve said before, many Norwegian couples never end up marrying, but certainly may do.  If only every relationship were so lett-easy, ikke sant?-right?�