While counting how many people worldwide speak norwegian, we should make a difference between those who speak that language as a first and those, who learn it in school of courses. There also lots of bilingual pairs living in Norway and outside it. Norwegian emigrants living all over the world obviously trying to learn their children their mother tongue, but this is the blind-alley for the language. Children of their children probably won’t speak norwegian language because there will be no need in it.

On the other side we should count student, which start to learn Norwegian in Russia, North America, Finland and other countries. Norwegian is taught in hundreds of schools, colleges and universities not only in Europe.

The best way of saying “I love you” in norwegian is to say “Jeg elsker deg”. This phrase means you have serious feeling to your opponent (girlfriend, boyfriend). I guess “jeg elsker deg” is even more serious and stronger than merely “I love you” in english, keep it in mind. If you really love your girl (-boy), you can also say “Du betyr så mye for meg” ( = You mean so much to me). When you’re in love, you surely need to learn the phrase “Jeg savner deg”, which means “I miss you”. After being apart for a long time you can also say “Jeg har savnet deg” ( =” I’ve missed you”).

When you love is so hot, and you can’t even breathe withour your sweetheart, you should learn very romantic phrase ” Jeg lengter etter deg”, which means “I long for you”

There are more ways of saying that you just like a girl or a boy in norwegian, for example:

Du er søt = You’re cute. Don’t use that phrase to date with somebody. You’ll fail!

There are those groups:

• Ja, jeg snakker (litt) Norsk - Yes I speak (a little of) Norwegian
• Jeg elsker Norge!!
• Learning Norwegian

If you think there’re no interesting groups listed, you can try to create your own one. Remember, you should collect interesting material and invite a lot of facebook members in your group to meet success.

Learning of every language is related to learning the culture of a countries where the language is spoken. Then students learn a little about a history of a language as well. So, you already know something about two official forms of norwegian language: its written forms Bokmål and Nynorsk. People are free to choose, which form they could speak. When we look to the history, we can find that Bokmål is based on danish language. A group of people decided to opposite Bokmål and then they created Nynorsk. Nynorsk is based on different norwegian dialects, and it seems to be more “pure” form of norwegian language than Bokmål. Actually danish language is very similar to Bokmål.

So when starting to learn norwegian you should know that there are two forms of norwegian. Don’t ask which language should you learn: Nynorks of Bokmål, because there’s still one language — norwegian and you only choose whay form do you want to learn more. In normal life you will meet both of them. When you have an aim to learn spoken norwegian, keep in mind that Nynorsk is widely spoken in Western and Southern Norway, while Bokmål is mostly used in Eastern Norway (especially in the Oslo and its areas).

While learning written norwegian, keep in mind that there’ll be differences between Nynorsk and Bokmål. In this case Bokmål will be more useful to learn first.

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When you ask people, wheather they need to know a foreign language, the major of them would answer no. A lot of people are fine without knowing any foreign language at all, they simply don’t need it. They can also say that the most important and well-known literature are already translated into english and the other part, which was not translated has not so much importance.

I think when you want to know, if you really need to know a foreign language, you should rather talk to somebody, who knows more than one foreign language. Why? It is a little bit strange to talk about learning foreign language with a man who can speak only his mother tongue.

So what are the most valuable advantages of knowing foreign languages?

1. Broaden the number of your information sources. When you know one more language, you can use all the heritage of that language: literature, news, tutorials etc.
2. Knowing a laguages makes possible to see films in original, without dubbing. Just imagine that you hear the original voices of the actors. You can also hear some phrases (often spoken or dirty talking) which are usually left untranslated.
3. Music, songs. Do you really want to know, what are they singing about?
4. New friends. A lot of people who started to learn a foreign language noticed that they started to see that there are so many foreigner around! Nice source of new dates, isn’t it?