The Norwegian Society

"Norwegians are the best foreign English-speakers in the world, according to new results from the English Proficiency Index."

Hoho
http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/updated-norway-top-in-english/

1. Norway
2. The Netherlands
3. Denmark
4. Sweden
5. Finland.

Haha. Brilliant.



Strange. I've always heard the Dutch were really good. Hmm. But yay for Nordic countries.
Isn't that Frisian?

I just love that the parliament passed the Data Retention Directive. Really, jolly good. We're all so happy about it.

Storing all information about you for 6 months! Great. Oh yes, it will definitely stop those nasty criminals. Not.

Yeah.. I reckon it's Dutch after Frisian. Dutch is such a strange language.
In a way, it sounds strangely like Norwegian. Though it doesn't really sound like Norwegian at all. If I'm not paying attention, it can sound rather like Norwegian. Once I even understood a couple of Dutch sentences.

Stortinget. I don't like it! It's more the principle.



Yes, there are similarities. But there is just something strange about it!

Have you ever watched a Disney film in Norwegian? I guess not. But for all my nagging about how much I love English. I actually prefer the Norwegian versions.
Though that's probably because I grew up with them. Disney during the 90's was great. No... Not so much.

Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan etc..

I think they have it in Britain. Or maybe not. Anyway, not a good idea!

I used to love Mummitrollet! Swedish and Norwegian works when it comes to cartoons. But definitely not Danish .. I saw a clip of Pippi Langstrømpe, the English dubbed version on Youtube. And it was horrible! I grew up watching Pippi in Swedish. Any other language sounds very wrong. Swedish makes the whole show.

Childhood nostalgia.. I miss the 90's, haha.


Pochahontas :

This was my favourite show when I was little though. But I reckon it scarred me for life. It's awfully dramatic. Animals getting killed left and right! Haha.
But it's a million times better than the rubbish they send these days.

I just love that the parliament passed the Data Retention Directive. Really, jolly good. We're all so happy about it.

Storing all information about you for 6 months! Great. Oh yes, it will definitely stop those nasty criminals. Not.

I don't really think it's mainly intended for girls (that's a silly reason to dislike a film anyway, haha. I don't give a damn if a film is intended for boys or girls). Mulan is better though. I never watched "Beauty and the Beast" when I was younger. First time I watched it was three years ago. Some people seem to find that weird!

In Norway it's called "Flukten fra Dyreskogen" (and it was one of the few shows in nynorsk!). Most people would probably say "farting". Stupid th sound that doesn't exist in the Norwegian language. Took me ages to learn how to say "think" properly!

Oh I remember. You could scare a boy to death at that age by threatening to kiss him. Still have fond memories of watching girls chasing terrified boys.

Why must it not exist? Haha. I mean, we used to have it. I've gotten better though! But still a few issues. Then there is Z and S. And the W and V. My English teacher always went on about those.

Would have been a lot easier! Somehow I managed to achieve the highest grade in oral English (*coughnottobragcough*). But that damn th sound
sure did complicate things for several years.

proto-Norse... What? That's the most crazy language I've seen. Haha

Maybe.. I've never really heard about it before. I think. But it's rather interesting!

I remember when Cartoon Network was very language confused many years ago. Switched between Nordic languages and English. I could watch it in English, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish. But Finnish isn't a Scandinavian
language, and I don't understand a word. So yes.. Haha. Though it did change back.

There is a fake runestone at Avaldsnes . Really? That's terrible.

Yes. Which is just insane really. It's not a Scandinavian language (and Finland is not in Scandinavia!) . So it's not like anyone understood anything at all. Haha. Very confused indeed.

I'm not sure, but it's at the Viking farm. Would have been cool with a random runestone out in the wild though. I remember when I was 11 and we learnt to write our names in runes at school. My name is luckily short! I think I've said this before. But we also got to be Vikings for a day on the Viking farm. Dressed up etc. Hard work, but fun.

And one of the people working there very kindly told my 11 year old self that brunettes weren't worth much when it came to slavery. Haha. I think it was that anyway. As he pointed at my blonde friend, and apparently she would have been worth a lot more.

Wouldn't surprise me!

This was my favourite show when I was little though. But I reckon it scarred me for life. It's awfully dramatic. Animals getting killed left and right! Haha.
But it's a million times better than the rubbish they send these days.

Lovely.

Yay for random fridager . I can only think of two in May though. Are there even any in June? I don't know. Most of them are for "religious" reasons, but hardly anyone
remembers why.

I'm rather sick of hearing about the royal wedding. They're just two people getting married. Weddings bore me to death!

Pinsedag or something?
Also Jesusgoingtoheaven Day.

Påsklovet? Påskeferien? 18 April tror jeg? Er ikke helt sikker.

Jeg spammer denne tråden. Uten meg hadde den nok vært død. Haha. Uff.

Svensdag? Hva?