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A Brain Like Siv
After class I was chatting with some friends. I was invited to a dance party. I grabbed out my phone and said with my Australian laziness ‘Better write this down, have a brain like sieve’. An...
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Buying Your Bong at the Movies!
I was at the movies with my Norwegian friend the other day and she asked me ‘Har du en bong med deg? (Have you a ‘bong’ with you?’) I stopped ‘I didn’t think it was that kind of movie!’ A moment of...
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Farmor’s Pepperkaker
Farmor doesn’t use recipes so it is mighty hard to get any kind of standard from her. For her pepperkaker recipe she gave me a little sheet of paper with primitive-Norwegian writing (Farmor is...
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Three Spices in One
When you live in Norway, Norwegian is not the only language you have to learn. You also live with Nynorsk and Sami and even Danish, Swedish and Finnish. English is also a prominent language in Norway...
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Dott, Kom!
Språkrådet, the Norwegian Language Council, tries very hard to come up with Norwegian words to replace English words. Languages progress and in the world new words are being made up all the time such...
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Having a Different Opinion and Culture in Norway
I often can't be myself, even when I speak Norwegian. I feel boring and uncreative. It is not fun to constantly guard you communication - language, facial expressions and body language. Related posts:...
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The Silence in Bilingual Families
No one gets offended at a wrong word or meaning, there is no point. So we live our lives without the trickiness of words. We know that there are things more important than language - like, our hearts....
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