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ilovehillsong

Guest
lol, it will turn into Aksel teaching us languages, and us mixing them up and getting it wrong to wind him up!!:D
 
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wwjd_kilden

Guest
:D I won't even have to TRY to mix it up

dutch is confusing.. some sounds german, some sounds norwegian and some is just dutch :p
 
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ilovehillsong

Guest
I know, there's a dutch boy at school, he trys to teach people dutch but it fails!
 
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wwjd_kilden

Guest
hehe, we had a dutch guy at folk high school, but there it was the russion guy who was trying to teach us his language ! that def didn't work
 
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Belgian_Pilot

Guest
Hee hee :D And flemish sounds even more different. :D

I learned that there are 2 norwegian variants. Right?
 
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wwjd_kilden

Guest
right: bokmål and nynorsk, I speak a bit like the nynorsk version
 
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Belgian_Pilot

Guest
Whats the differents between those two? Like dialects?
 
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wwjd_kilden

Guest
a bit, only they are both official written languages

if I write a letter in nynorsk to some official thing, they have to reply in nynorsk
dialects have more variety
 
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Belgian_Pilot

Guest
Written? Does that mean they sound the same?
 
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wwjd_kilden

Guest
nope

lemmsee, strictly speaking, no one speaks neither pure nynorsk nor pure bokmål, but Oslo- dialect is a bit like bokmål, and Vestlandet has something like nynorsk

No skriv eg nynorsk
Nå skriver jeg bokmål
 
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Belgian_Pilot

Guest
Cool that is so close to Dutch.

Nu schrijf ik Nynorsk
Nu schrijf ik bokma°l

And you understand both? Are they closely related?
 
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wwjd_kilden

Guest
yes they are closely related, they are the same langauge, only that bokmål is based on danish

Her kommer det litt mer som er skrevet på bokmål
her kjem det litt meir som er skreven på nynorsk
 
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Belgian_Pilot

Guest
Oh I see :) And Nynorsk is based on what?
 
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wwjd_kilden

Guest
lots of random dialects, some writer named Ivar Aasen walked through about the southern half of norway and collected samples of the dialect to make a "landsmål"
 
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Belgian_Pilot

Guest
Ah I see. ISn't that confusing sometimes?
 
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wwjd_kilden

Guest
not to me, I grew up writing nynorsk and was forced to write bokmål at school when I moved (which I got to know later they had no right to do...)

but at least that means I can read both without problems, and write , ell, not very good nynorsk anymore, but better than most who have Bokmål as main

it's a bit tricky to explain, those who write bokmål have to learn some nynorsk in 8-10th grade, most who write nynorsk automatically learn bokmål as that is what most newspapers, books etc are in
 
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Belgian_Pilot

Guest
So you are the weird one in Norway :D :D :D

I should have known that :p
 
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wwjd_kilden

Guest
lol, everyone from Møre og Romsdal and Sogn og Fjordande write like that :p and probably more too, here and there