Jeg lærer norsk

A Dutch girl learning Norwegian

[londonlangblr]

norwegian phrases to integrate into your everyday speech

to embarrass and lowkey show off urself in front of friends and family and which may help you become apter in talking in your target language, part 1.

for eksempel — for example slapp av! — relax! det er på tide — it’s time hold kjeft! — shut up! for det første — first of all tiden er ute — time’s up! også kjent som — also known as lettere sagt enn gjort — easier said than done jeg vet ikke — I don’t know ha det! — bye!

[catacademy]

I really like snow. I mean, I like watching it. From a window. Inside a very warm house. But I do like it, and I find these human words for it very amusing! http://is.gd/Cat_Spanish ~ Tora

[duyu-nim]

Native english speakers will never know the joy of purposely talking terrible english in your native accent

[mccaine]

[jegertrott]

England: peanut butter

France: butter of peanuts

Spain: butter of peanuts

Italy: butter of peanuts

Germany: butter of peanuts

The Netherlands: peanut cheese

world: no it's not made o-

The Netherlands: CHEESE

[jegertrott]

Duolingo: You have mastered the skill Plurals!

Me: Yay, I mastered plurals!!

Narrator: She did not master plurals.

[fuckyeahnorwegian]

what does "Ikkje røyr dykk, gutar." mean

okay for once im gonna answer this properly and not sarcastic bc i just love this and want to share this with everyone, also i want everyone who’s trying to learn norwegian to learn this bc its so damn funny.

okay so literally it means “don’t move, boys” which is a fairly normal sentence right? yes

so why is this funny? well.. throughout the history of norwegian subtitles on foreign movies we’ve had some less fortunate examples, and this is one of them. I can’t remember which movie this is from (something Clooney? idk), but the original sentence was “freeze, motherfuckers!”

[suspected-spinozist]

My favorite ever pronoun story has to be one of my German professor’s. He fondly remembers being mugged by a gang of teenagers in Dresden, who used Sie (formal you) the entire time.  

[ask-sparkling-awesomeness]

HAND OVER THE WALLET MY GOOD SIR

[worfisproblematic-deactivated20]

When English isn’t your first language, reading fanfics in your first language (if there are even any) becomes so much more embarrassing???? And sometimes I wonder why native English speakers don’t get that feeling when they are reading in their native language???

[nianeyna]

scrolling through the comments on this people with at least three separate native languages have chimed in to agree that English is the porn language. This… is amazing. I never knew.

[audre-w]

oh oui. tu m’étonnes.

[manicpixiedreamgoalie]

There is actually an interesting cultural/linguistic theory of explanation for this! I’m not a linguistics expert, just a person who likes learning languages, so my explanation will probably be a bit muddled, but I hope people find it interesting anyhow. You can read a relevant paper here; the authors of the paper call this phenomenon (or a phenomenon that’s very similar to it, at least) “emotion-related language choice theory,” but I don’t know if there’s a widely accepted term for it yet, despite the fact that people have been studying it for– I think close to 20 years? Quite a while, anyhow.

So basically, the cultural “naughtiness” of swear words/taboo words in your first language is something that’s very deeply ingrained– you might not hear these words at all in your early years, and if you do hear them there’s a good chance that there was some shame/reproach/anger involved if someone slipped and used them around you, or if your peers whispered them to each other on the playground to show how cool and grown-up they were. Also, people are generally very thoroughly versed in the complex nuances of how and when to use swearwords in their first language, and they fully understand the cultural weight of using these words to convey intense emotions.

When we’re reading, speaking, or writing in a non-primary language, however, we don’t bring all of that cultural baggage with us. For years linguists assumed assumed that it was easier to talk about highly emotional topics in one’s native language, because people generally feel more comfortable speaking the language(s) they’ve grown up with. A newer theory, however, posits that sometimes it’s actually easier to discuss these very taboo topics in a second or non-primary language, because we don’t have that culturally loaded sense of shame and emotional intensity weighing us down. Reading, for instance, smutty fanfic in a second language allows us to have a degree of removal from the topic at hand, which can be very liberating, because we get all the fun and excitement of reading smut with a great deal less socio-cultural nonsense.

(There’s another at least tangentially relevant thing here that I know even less about, which is a recently-studied mechanism wherein our brains basically refuse to fully translate non-primary language words with negative connotations all the way back to our native language, which lets us maintain a greater degree of distance from the negative thing, but I’ve been rambling for long enough, so I’m just gonna link the paper, and if people want to hear more about it I’d be happy to expound: link).

[madmaudlingoes]

I am a linguist and I approve this addition. There’s something about swearing in the first language that actually bypasses the higher brain functions entirely; you can take someone with global aphasia (complete inability to speak) due to a traumatic brain injury, and electrically stimulate that person’s amygdala (part of the limbic system that regulates emotion) and there’s a very good chance they will swear. But, unless you’re exposed to multiple language from a young age, there’s a clear structural difference in how we process and store L1 vs. L+. No language but your first gets that built into the architecture of your brain, and the swearing just doesn’t work as well.

[toocoolforartschool]

in Dutch we have this one expression which is ‘daar zeg je u tegen’ (to use formal you for) when talking about something big or impressive. So I’d say ‘ik heb een kater daar zeg je u tegen’ which would mean something like ‘my hangover is so big you’d address it formally’ and i love that

[dateaboysuggestions]

date a boy who whispers to you in his native language as you fall asleep in his arms

[englishable]

Old English just has some wonderful words and kennings. I mean, really:

Their word for sea? It was often swan-rad or “road of the swan.” Spider was gangelwaefre, literally “the walking weaver.” They had the simple and now-obsolete word uht, which describes that time just before sunrise when mist still hangs heavy over all the fields and lakes and the last few stars are still out.

…Also, they didn’t say body. They said ban-cofan, which means “bone-cave,” and if you don’t think that’s some hardcore shit right there then you need to get out of my face before I turn your skull into a mead-cup.

[deutsian]

What 80% comprehension feels like

I know I should be on my hiatus but this is something I really need to share with you all; those who are intermediate can relate. Some guy called Marco Benevides visually demonstrated what it’s like to only understand 80% of a text

Here is 98% comprehension

You live and work in Tokyo. Tokyo is a big city. More than 13 million people live around you. You are never borgle, but you are always lonely. Every morning, you get up and take the train to work. Every night, you take the train again to go home. The train is always crowded. When people ask about your work, you tell them, “I move papers around.” It’s a joke, but it’s also true. You don’t like your work. Tonight you are returning home. It’s late at night. No one is shnooling. Sometimes you don’t see a shnool all day. You are tired. You are so tired…

bold = uncomprehended 2%

Here is 95% comprehension

In the morning, you start again. You shower, get dressed, and walk pocklent. You move slowly, half- awake. Then, suddenly, you stop. Something is different. The streets are fossit. Really fossit. There are no people. No cars. Nothing. “Where is dowargle?” you ask yourself. Suddenly, there is a loud quapen—a police car. It speeds by and almost hits you. It crashes into a store across the street! Then, another police car farfoofles. The police officer sees you. “Off the street!” he shouts. “Go home, lock your door!” “What? Why?” you shout back. But it’s too late. He is gone.

bold = uncomprehended 5%

Here is 80% comprehension

“Bingle for help!” you shout. “This loopity is dying!” You put your fingers on her neck. Nothing. Her flid is not weafling. You take out your joople and bingle 119, the emergency number in Japan. There’s no answer! Then you muchy that you have a new befourn assengle. It’s from your gutring, Evie. She hunwres at Tokyo University. You play the assengle. “…if you get this…” Evie says. “…I can’t vickarn now… the important passit is…” Suddenly, she looks around, dingle. “Oh no, they’re here! Cripett… the frib! Wasple them ON THE FRIB!…” BEEP! the assengle parantles. Then you gratoon something behind you…

And this really sums up how ***** annoying it can be to be an intermediate speaker. To be able to get the basic of gist of what’s happening, but never be able to get any kind of finer detail. I don’t think I’ve seen such a good illustration of intermediacy in a long time.

Source: http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2016/08/25/what-80-comprehension-feels-like

[nekoninjin-deactivated20170219]

@polyglottica

[nineprotons]

“Got the morbs” should be a thing.

[jegertrott]

You this christmas: chilling at home

Me this christmas: chiller hjemme

[unofficiallotte]

My shop is live!!!

@thenortherncrown Our etsy shop is open as of today!! So please come check it out 😃 (Link in the description on instagram, and via a button on the fb page!)

[jegertrott]

I now got an etsy shop :D

[jeg-savner-norge]

Snøfall - NRK julekalender i 24 episoder

“Selma er 9 år og har siden foreldrene døde i en ulykke, bodd hos Ruth, en ganske streng nabodame som bare midlertidig skulle ha ansvaret for Selma og hunden hennes Casper. Selma drømmer om at hun har en ekte familie som hun ikke vet om. Vi får også bli med til et helt annet univers, Snøfall, en liten landsby som ligger for seg selv i et isøde. Her møter vi Julius som er selveste julenissen!”

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/snoefall/MSUS24000116/sesong-1/episode-1