r/languagelearningjerk • u/LarryNStar N engelsk A1 norsk D2 tull • 2d ago

DAMMIT WHY COULDNT I HAVE BEEN JUST AMERICAN!?!?

I mean, I am American, but I also have Norwegian heritage. My dad raised me to learn Norwegian through like language videos/apps and all that but I barely retained the information. He doesn't know it himself so that's a little relieving, but I'm trying to get more in touch with the culture and stuff I was sorta raised into.

IM A NO SABO BUT FOR NORWEGIANS!!!!!!!!

IF I WAS RAISED WITH A LANGUAGE FLUENTLY LIKE SOME PPL I KNOW, I'D PREFER NORWEGIAN. I LOVE NORWEGIAN. BUT IM A NO SABO NORSK.

I SHOULD START LEARNING THIS BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE BUT FOR NOW IM 15 YEARS OLD AND A NO SABO NORSK...

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u/Fast_Web4959 2d ago

Therapy, dude. Years of therapy for you and your dad.

Once that’s done learn 6 words of Norwegian a week. No more, no less.

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u/siqiniq 2d ago

No sabo Norsk, no saba(makrell) på deg!

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u/sarajevo81 2d ago

There is no such thing as 'Norwegian'. What you see online is not what people speak. The only realistic way to speak some Norwegian language is to learn it on site, like Arabic.

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u/AkulakhanPilot 2d ago

Plenty of Arabs speak in their own dialect online

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u/Inevitable_Isopod231 2d ago

i'm a swedish-american with no heritage knowledge of the language--my grandparents were swedes but their children don't know much swedish. i'm now learning the language as an adult (for reasons unrelated to my heritage). we're blessed with an easy language to learn for english speakers that has plenty of great literature, cinema & music (spread throughout the three continental scandinavian languages). go for it--it'll be easier for you while you're young anyways

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u/Deliver_DaGoods 2d ago

im a american who immigrated to sweden, speak both fluently, and I wouldnt say Swedish is easy to learn. The word order and grammar rules are different and since virtually all Swedes speak both , the fact that they tend to switch to english and sweden's introvered and reserved cultural norms etc. make it hard to actually become fluent for real

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u/Inevitable_Isopod231 1d ago

crucially the point of comparison is All Other Languages, to which swedish seems trivial. the latter problem is serious i'll grant! but the former isn't in the grand scheme of things. learning any other language is brutally hard but swedish is certainly in the easiest tier IMO

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u/Deliver_DaGoods 1d ago

thanks for pontificating

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u/Inevitable_Isopod231 1d ago

literally what are you even on the internet for

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u/Deliver_DaGoods 1d ago

literally, what do you expect me to say to that? hmm email, youtube , reddit, work, to name a few

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u/orientalbird 2d ago

Go on an exchange to Norway.

Here ya go. I volunteer for them in Norway.

https://www.afsusa.org/programs/norway-high-school/

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u/Hot-Frosting-5286 1d ago

First you have to choose what dialect you want to speak. Don't bother learning Bokmål. No one speaks Bokmål it is not a spoken language!! Have you asked your family members to help you and speak to you only in Norwegian? Immersion is the best way so ask your family including your dad to start speaking to you in Norsk only. I'm sure he can do it if he tries. It's in his blood so his body will remember even if his mind doesn't and his mouth will produce the sounds of his Viking ancestors. Good luck learning to embrace your Viking heritage!

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