There's a new guy working at one of the local stores

@FreddieUK I laugh bc I wish I coumd skip the "good" part of the sentence, not bc he says it wrong

@FreddieUK Norwegian isn't a difficult language! Especially for English speakers. The syntax is very similar and quite a lot of the vocabulary is recognizable, especially if you speak with a Newcastle/Northumberland accent. The biggest difficulty is the huge variety of accents and dialects that simply make it difficult to recognize the words that people are saying. Even native speakers sometimes have difficulty; for instance when a boy from Trøndelag, same age as No. 2 son, moved to our village (about 40 km south of Oslo) the whole class at school had trouble understanding him speak.

Well actually around Oslo the biggest difficulty is that practically everyone speaks pretty good English so there's not much pressure to learn Norwegian. I often find that it's when I speak to immigrants that I really need to speak Norwegian because it's sometimes the only language we have in common.

@ninalanyon He says "ha en dag" instead of "ha en god/fin dag"

@LordBarbossa "Ha en god dag." isn't very common where I live but it is definitely used more now than it was forty years ago. Seems like creeping Americanisation to me when shop assistants say it.

@ninalanyon it's relatively common around here.