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Y U always mix up Norwegian vowels Posted by on Jun 20, 2016

Unless you’re a Norwegian (or a Swede), you’ll probably find the language a bit difficult to pronouce. I think Norwegian (and Swedish) dialects are a sonical challenge mainly because – they’ve got 2 different word melodies – think Chinese – the vowels are not what you’d expect – many dialects have tricky consonant combos (often involving the…

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As Easy As ÆØÅ Posted by on Sep 30, 2012

Alt er større i USA. Everything is bigger in the US. That’s what we Scandinavians often think when we’re suffering from an attack of mindreverdighetskompleks (inferiority complex). The Americans have got bigger cars, houses, plains, trees and burgers than us. But wait… Is that always so? Norwegian komikere (comedians) Fridtjof Stensæth Josefsen and Jakob Schøyen Andersen, of the TV2 programme Kollektivet (The…

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Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish-mutually intelligible Posted by on Nov 30, 2010

Most people give me a very strange look when I tell them that I speak Norwegian.  They give me an even stranger look when I say that one of my majors was Norwegian.  After the look sets in for a few seconds, they typically ask, “why?”  A simple, straight-forward and fair question, although I get…

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