Norway is awesome.

[Reyoru]

Check this out: 

 

 

Fjords! Unbelievable views! 

 

 

Who is up for a trip to Norway? Anyone been before?

[Niniel]

lol I lived there for 6 months.  Norway is a beautiful country. I´m sure Mish could tell you about fjords.

[Tiinker]

My family went without me. -_-

 

My sister went to that very spot though I think. She loves the country and the scenery. Not a fan of the cities.

[Niniel]

I lived in Oslo. It´s a very small capital. One minute you can go shopping and the next minute you can skii in Holmenkollen. I really liked Oslo. Too expencive though.

[Reyoru]

Thats awesome Tina! Alas at the expensive part though.

 

Yeah Tiinker, I would go purely to see some fjords. Who cares about cities! 

[Ryrin]

I have friends who traveled there. The pictures were gorgeous.

[michellem]

I live here It's pretty darn awesome, yes. I live on the east coast, so no amazing fjords right here. But my dad lives here:

 

 

 

 

 

[Reyoru]

I HAVE to visit Norway!

 

Heres to hoping that this time next year, I go with a friend :grin:

[Leyrann]

I really want to visit Norway once...

 

We've been planning to go there on holiday for three years now, but it nver happened.

[michellem]

Well hit me up if you're coming, I'll be your tourguide

 

[michellem]

Been there, btw, several times. About an hours drive from where my dad lives. We drove up there on his motorbike once, that was awesome.

[Panchi]

Now I want to visit Norway. Maybe in a decade or two... Mish, I am booking you as tourguide in advance

[Ithillian Turambar]

I could go for a Norway Trip one day. I do mean to start visiting places and having adventures again. I shall add it to the List.

 

The List is getting very long indeed.

[Reyoru]

Maybe I should make a list....

 

The List will be completed one day Ithi!

[Ithillian Turambar]

Lists are good. At the moment The List is one of the things that are making me happy.

[Reyoru]

I shall make a list then.

 

I'm gonna pre-emptively start learning some Norwegian phrases...

 

Eg heiter Rey!

[michellem]

Hmm. That's New Norwegian, Rey. We have two written languages; bokmål (directly translated: Book Speech) and nynorsk (New Norwegian). You see, our langauge is very affected by the fact that we were under danish rule for a couple hundred years. Our written language bokmål is very similar to danish. So a man called Ivar Aasen went on a quest (lol) to find back to the old norwegian written language. He combined parts of all the old Norwegian dialects, and made New Norwegian out of it. We learn it in school, and it has to be used for a certain % in all written communicatons from media sources and businesses owned by the goverment.

 

New Norwegian is only a written language, but there is a number of dialects that resemble it. Personally, my dialect is quite similar to bokmål (wich is also just a written language; it's very "clean" and there's very few people who speak exactly like it). Think of it was Oxford English and normal spoken english.

 

So in bokmål, and my dialect (wich most people on the east coast speak) it would be:

 

Jeg heter Rey

 

"Jeg" is pronounced like "Jei" (yey), while the New Norwegian "Eg" is pronounced like "egg", just with a shorter, simple g.

[_CLOUD]

That's really interesting. You should start Norwegian language classes on DM ;)

 

 

From what I've seen the nature of Norway looks beautiful! It would be great to go on a big trip once and see all the fjords etc

[Reyoru]

Thanks a lot for the information Mish, much appreciated!

 

Think I'm gonna get Rosetta stone, and make learning the language my next challenge.... let's see if I can get a decent grasp within a couple of years.

[michellem]

Well grammar is pretty close to English, so that helps in the learning process! I tried to learn french on my own once, and had to give up, because the grammar was so extremely different from everything I knew...!

[Leyrann]

French is weird, but I haven't had real problems with it. Of course it's weird, with "ne (verb) pas" as "not" and such things, and always all verbs behind each other (note: all verbs except the most important one (and no, I don't know the english name for that one) are AFTER the "pas" if it's that type of sentence), but meh, the reason I had bad marks for French was just because I didn't know the vocabulary. And I hate France. That'll have been part of it too.

 

*looks around to see if there are any French people here*

 

*hides away just in case*

[Panchi]

I wanted to learn French but my school does not offer French as third language. The only option for third language(we don't have the option not to choose) is Sanskrit and I barely got through it last year. Good thing about Sanskrit: everything is pretty much based on some rules. Bad thing: there are too many rules. There are 24 ways to use a noun, 45 ways to use a verb and rules on which word should be where, which noun to use if it does not exactly fit into those 24 kinds...pretty much headache

[Niniel]

Hmm. That's New Norwegian, Rey. We have two written languages; bokmål (directly translated: Book Speech) and nynorsk (New Norwegian). You see, our langauge is very affected by the fact that we were under danish rule for a couple hundred years. Our written language bokmål is very similar to danish. So a man called Ivar Aasen went on a quest (lol) to find back to the old norwegian written language. He combined parts of all the old Norwegian dialects, and made New Norwegian out of it. We learn it in school, and it has to be used for a certain % in all written communicatons from media sources and businesses owned by the goverment.

 

New Norwegian is only a written language, but there is a number of dialects that resemble it. Personally, my dialect is quite similar to bokmål (wich is also just a written language; it's very "clean" and there's very few people who speak exactly like it). Think of it was Oxford English and normal spoken english.

 

So in bokmål, and my dialect (wich most people on the east coast speak) it would be:

 

Jeg heter Rey

 

"Jeg" is pronounced like "Jei" (yey), while the New Norwegian "Eg" is pronounced like "egg", just with a shorter, simple g.

 

I found it easier to understand bokmål. That is closer to Swedish than nynorsk.  I have friends from Lofoten and around Oslo so those dialects are easy to understand but the dialect on the south west coast are harder. 

[michellem]

Yeah bokmål is way closer to Swedish. I talk kinda like they do in Oslo, just a bit broader. I imagine your troubles with the south/west coast is like mine with Skåne XD I don't understand a word! And don't even get me started on Danish. It's all blablablablakartoffelblabla XD

[Niniel]

Ha, ha. No one understand Danish. Well, reading it isn´t that hard, especially if you are used to reading in Bokmål. And Skåne... it belonged to Denmark for too long. :D