Such english

Edit: Hvis det ikke er spam: You'll learn the language, but I'v heard its one of the hardest to learn. The people are nice tho. Everyone settle great here

I don't think there will be a problem living in Norway without knowing the language, most Norwegians are more than capable to speak and have a conversation in English.

As Nexusone is saying here, norwegians can be quite serious and won't talk to people they don't know. Anyway, most of norwegian people speaks english fluently, and because of that, I don't think you would have any problem being integrated to the norwegian society.

I would advice you to head to Oslo at first, maybe Bergen. Many coffee-houses and brand clothing shops actually do hire people from other countries, as long as they speak english. Get a job, go drink a few beers with your co-workers, make friends, and learn the language and norwegian culture from there.

At the same time, if you do have the capacity and resources to go to a norwegian course to learn the language and the culture - I would recommend you to do.


Anyway,
Norway is a fantastic country, so get here and follow your dreams!

I disagree. If you're coming to a country to stay, and wont be bothered to learn the language, that sends a message that you are not willing to adapt or integrate.
Even though most Norwegians, especially the ones at your age, late teens, are quite good in English, I think they will find it exhausting to converse for a long time. It's one thing to be one on one with someone, but a different thing when you are several people.
Let's say that you are a group of people in a room, you're the only one who doesn't speak Norwegian, and everybody else talks Norwegian, you will feel left out and wont be able to participate in conversations. You wont be able to know what other people are saying between them, so you won't be able to just "jump in".

I think the Norwegians would start to feel guilty and bad when you're sitting there not understanding shit, and then next time they wont invite you.

The situation may not always be like I described, but you cant expect everybody to speak English.

I speak from experience. I remember me and some friends had pre drinks or an after party this year in England, we were like 7 Norwegians and there was this 1 british dude. In the beginning we all spoke English, but after a while more and more of them got tired of it, and he just sat there all alone not understanding shieeeet.
We felt really bad and guilty, but at the same time we were tired and just wanted to relax and speak Norwegian, but then he couldn't follow what we were saying, and not having a clue what the conversation was about...

I think most people at your age will have no problem keeping the conversation in english - and my experoence from hanging out with people I study with si that whenever we have a foreign student with us everyone just keeps talking english, even to each other - and we kinda just forget about it. We often end up keeping the conversation in english even after the foreign student leaves (until someone asks "Why do we keep talking english?"). Also most courses at the bigger universities are given in both english and norwegian so if you plan to come here to study it should not be a problem at all.

My experoence when talking with some people is that getting a job without beeing fluent in norwegian might be hard - but it is possible. And much easier if you are going after jobs that require a masters degree. And if you get a master in computer science you should not have a problem getting a job here in Norway.

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.

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.

Nynorsk er et skriftspråk, ikke en dialekt. På vestlandet går det vel i dialekter fra blandt annet Stavanger, Bergen og Haugesund, hvorav nynorsk fortsatt bare er et skriftspråk.

Ser og at nFF har blitt fleksible på bruk av språk her på forumet. Svensk, engelsk og dyselektilekilisi er også blitt godkjent ved siden av bokmål og nynorsk.