True. No written language would help you understand much of those dialects/accents anyway, but nynorsk is a bit closer than bokmål. As soon as you master our vowels, "thick l"s and purring "r"'s, you may find that translating written Norwegian to spoken Norwegian is less nauseating than doing the same in English (e.g., our language(s) ha(s/ve) fewer awkward truncation rules à la "Leicester", "Greenwich", etc…).

Conjugating nouns and verbs is an utter and inconsistent mess, though, especially when writing in bokmål. I have no friends or family who would ever bother complying with each and every conjugation rule when speaking.


The posts in this thread alone should provide sufficient evidence of why the "more than" part should be left out here.