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Hi everybody. Anette here. Welcome back to Top Norwegian words. Today, we are going to look at 10 Phrases to Amaze a Native Speaker. Let’s get started.
1. Takk, men norsk er faktisk ikke mitt morsmål. "Thank you, but Norwegian is actually not my native tongue."
In recent years, there is actually a lot of people who have different ethnical backgrounds but who has been adopted. So even though people don’t look Norwegian, they might actually be a native level talking about their language. So never judge a book by its cover.
2. Det tok meg bare ett år for å bli flytende. "It took me only one year to become fluent."
Especially if you know English or German or any other western European language, then you are going to find Norwegian quite easy to learn.
3. Jeg vil snakke norsk som en nordmann innen 3 år. "I want to speak Norwegian like a native in 3 years."
You can do it. You can practice your Norwegian with us here at norwegianclass101.com
4. Jeg har lært norsk i 10 år. "I've been learning Norwegian for 10 years."
Well, yeah if you study Norwegian for 10 years, I can guarantee you are going to be very good.
5. Jeg kan se norske filmer uten undertekster. "I can watch Norwegian movies without subtitles."
As you know, Norway is a very small country. So we don’t produce that many movies but there are some good ones out there, like Kon-Tiki, for instance, was nominated for Oscar a couple of years ago and recent days, you have the Norwegian drama Skam which is very popular which I really recommend you guys to check out.
6. Jeg kan huske rundt 50 nye norske ord om dagen. "I can memorize around 50 new Norwegian words a day."
Well, 50 words is quite impressive. If you can memorize 50 words a day, you are going to be at native level in no time.
Go for it!
7. Bortsett fra å kunne norsk, kan jeg også snakke noen andre språk. "Apart from knowing Norwegian, I can speak a few other languages as well."
Did you know that Norwegian and Swedish and Danish are really, really similar? So, just by learning Norwegian, you can actually learn three languages at once. That’s pretty cool, right?
8. Jeg forsto alt du sa. "I completely understood everything you said."
Great. That means your Norwegian is improving, right? Keep it up.
9. Jeg leser ofte norsk skjønnlitteratur. "I often read Norwegian fiction."
In the Scandinavian countries, we have a genre called Kim which is about kind of detective mystery novels that are really, really popular. You can check out for instance, Varg Veum. He is a detective from my hometown. You can also check out Jo Nesbø, who is a very famous Norwegian writer and his book, The Snowman, Snømannen, is going to be made into a movie, actually. So yeah, you should definitely check that one out.
10. Jeg studerer norsk på universitetet. “I study Norwegian at the university."
In Norway, we don’t really judge people based on which university they study at. We judge it based on which major people choose. So you can actually get into, for instance, Universitetet i Oslo, The University of Oslo without having good grades if you choose an unpopular major.
Okay, everybody, that’s all for now. Thank you so much for watching. If you have any phrases that you can impress me with, then, please leave them in the comments section below and I will do my best to answer them. Thank you, ha det bra, vi ses senere.

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