Not at all. Norwegian is a member of the germanic language group, and any native speaker of English will, with some effort, be able to learn Norwegian just fine. While German is easy enough to learn, it is considerably more difficult than Norwegian, thanks to German's big amount of grammatical cases.
http://www.pagef30.com/2008/08/why-n...guage-for.html

If the OP wanted to learn Finnish or Hungarian however, you would be absolutely correct.

Someone has probably pointed this out earlier, but I'm full of leftover christmas food and beer, so I don't care.