Not Every Norwegian Speaks English

[@Mikeoneus]

"Among other things, yes" gets me every time.

[@Amphibiot]

"Among other things, yes." The last hilariously pathetic attempt at saving face.

[@eduardojorgedesouzalimanet2474]

next time your girl throws you an "i love you" after the deed, you guys already know what to say.

[@furiousinsects6386]

I'm a big boy? 😂

[@MsDefenestrator]

"I am a boy". I laughed so hard at that! I'm from the USA, and sadly, that's about all they teach us when we learn Spanish (or any other language). But it was hilarious to see that being done with English.

[@whatsaygirl1507]

He do know english fluently in real life. This is a comedy show.

[@dancingnancy09]

I remember seeing this mockumentary many years ago.... i still to this day think its one of the funniest movies ive ever seen

[@mhdunknown]

Hahahaha! I lost it when he was all smiling and crap and said "One million dollars!" ROFL I can't stop laughin' xD

[@ruantengyi]

Timothy obviously had no clue what Brian was saying. So much for a manager who can’t speak or understand an international language. 😢

[@jonelordieta7481]

Boyzvoiced was such a hilarious movie...brilliantly done...the spinal tap of boy bands

[@mrc25381]

There’s an Australian one called Boytown. It’s pretty funny too.

[@remihovland5543]

I`m a big boy xD

[@josephneyland7604]

Heia Brann

[@christopherwood9009]

it's "i'm" not "i`m"

[@MrLiverpoolfan92]

@@christopherwood9009 grammar nazi

[@EricTheBroBean]

This is a classic! But i see some comments saying its normal to learn a language before visiting, which isnt necessary here in Norway. Most of us would communicate in english without hesitation if you dont speak the language, and we would even go out of our way to keep the communication going in english when we talk to eachother, just to make sure the non-native speaker doesnt feel left out.

[@SaturnineXTS]

men norsk er ikke engang så vanskelig for en engelsktalende

[@christianhuston897]

I love his sheer stupidity - even if he couldn't understand the manager's words, he should've been able to judge from the body language and face that it was bad news. But instead he somehow interprets it as being offered a million dollar deal and sits there grinning like an idiot.

[@NicoTown]

I still quote Timothy to this day! Hilarious!

[@fillfreire2169]

Seriøst geniaaaaaal sketch!!! I'M A BIG BOY! HAHAHAA

[@Brzeczyszczykiewicz1]

It's not the fart that kills you, it's the smell! -Petter Solberg

[@vicky881931]

"I'am a big boy"......lmao!!!...omg wat the hell was dat??...i was thinking of pursuing my masters from either norway / canada....!!!!

[@sighansen9147]

det var så morsom xD Honestly, he should have known English, it's kind of a universal language up there as how French was.

[@1sb3rg34]

Its from a tv show...

[@tmapaman7080]

"I'M A BOY" haha lol

[@ruantengyi]

Yeah, Timothy is also a big dork!!!

[@kangawroon]

This scene is f*cking EPIC!

[@LezaThereza]

Lol. Timothy Dahle is from the norwegian christmas calendar on tv. its called "nissene på låven". he is a manager.

[@coldacre]

"I'm a big dork!" hahaha.... brilliant movie

[@ruantengyi]

That guy is a legend by saying that! 😊

[@Lunchpacked180]

*Luna has licked her wound again*

[@jorgepeterbarton]

Me too, I am from UK and they 'taught' us spanish and russian. (others learnt french or german too) I don't think anyone came out being able to make a conversation. I've been learning some norwegian and have possibly passed Spanish secondary education in a couple of months.

[@kittykat490]

"I am a big boy."

[@98babycakes]

I know español & English trying to learn a third language I really want to learn Norwegian :)

[@gilberttiborjakub9890]

I have started norwegian as a third language also (after english and german) and I have to tell you I love the Norwegian langauge. It became my favorite after Hungarian which is mother language.based on the fact it is very similar to the other germanic languages it just takes a year to reach a confident intermediate level!

[@gilberttiborjakub9890]

+Paula Deen Vil du snakke med meg på skype? Fordi jeg har ingen å snakke sammen, og mitt norsk på skriflig er mye mer bedre enn på muntlig. :/

[@Fishfingers232]

+AbbyRockx56 It might be a bit difficult when you're trying to learn with daily conversations in Norway. They're apparently so good at it and they think it's so cool that they'll just speak English to any foreigner.

[@ColdSpring1984]

+00alas Kan du vær så snill og send meg skype navn din i en melding?

[@TheKristian1996]

Har du ikke Norske venner som du kan lære av? Prøv å se Norske filmer med tekst. Eller skaff deg en hobby som du både liker og blir tvunget til å lese eller snakke. Lykke til Dont you have any Norwegian friends who can help you out? Try watching Norwegian movies with Norwegian texts. That and games worked really well for me as a child as i enjoyed it. Good luck

[@TheMercedesFan1]

Ser denna filmen i klassen nå! Den er hysterisk morsom! Hvertfall denne scenen, genialt ^^

[@SSlammedSociety]

Ending is freakin hilarious

[@gamegeekx]

Lol I love his English. It was very funny. Not from how it sounds but how it was the first thing he said.

[@Thelavendel]

Average comment on a Norwegian video that for some reason went viral: "It's like not sirius. It is from tv-show!! So like hahahaha to you! All we from Norway no English purfekt!"

[@menglinhai]

Well I'm from the UK, and I would never go to a country without at least making some effort to learn the language! Also, Norwegian is easy for English speakers, the syntax is almost identical, the pronunciation is not too hard, and there's a lot of common vocabulary.

[@ILOVEDAVIDCAVAZIS]

I love Norway and I love Norwegian language, I'm Mexican og jeg snakker bare litt norsk :)

[@TC-fk8bh]

“Where on a mission from God”, “”He’s not the messiah, He’s just a naughty boy”, “ Your terrible Muriel”. Examples of great Comedy Movie quotes. However I remember watching this movie years ago and I remember thinking it was solid however when I got to the set up and the delivery of 2 of the greatest Comedy Movie quotes, “I’m a Boy” and to emphasise his wide vocabulary “I’m a Big Boy” had me laughing my ass off and was forever etched in my memory.

[@Snasamannen-qj4uz]

HVOR KAN MAN FÅ SETT FILMEN?!?

[@wrouillie]

Lol, Thank you for this.This is doubly funny to me, because this is the kind of dialogue I'm learning online as a beginning Norwegian speaker! But I assure you, 3 months of environmental inundation, and I will pick it up nearly as well as a local, although my vocabulary wont be very big.

[@TheSocalkid92]

I don't know if you got the other two comment posts I sent days ago because KZbin has a habit of not posting all my comments...I was saying that of course it is necessary when you move to another country and live there, you must assimilate into that new culture, society, and language 100%...but if you are doing business there for 1 day or just visiting as a tourist for a couple of days or weeks, then just learn a few phrases and words in their language to be polite. Takk! :)

[@CHRISTAFARIAN777]

This had me Rollin!!

[@einareiriksson1350]

Exciting! Really interesting to hear. Greets from Norway.

[@KigreTheViking]

This is a comedy sketch. Hook up Petter and/or Henning Solberg for the real deal. Peace.

[@samaimdeda]

I guess it depends how you use a language. English helped me a lot when I moved to USA XD I would be very lost if I did not learn it in school. Hey maybe you will be hired in France so speaking French will help you!

[@thecraftyfeline]

Lmao! XD thank Odin for subtitles. I wouldn't be able to understand all that norsk.

[@chillbro2275]

hahaha this is hilarious! Is the movie funny throughout like this? :D

[@zupran]

It is

[@BeansproutPost]

This video made me laugh so hard. XD

[@lunde4life]

Hahahahahahahahaha... i was laughing my ass off, lol! :P

[@aaaaa87bn]

lol I'm a boy...That's funny ..Nice video ...Greetings From america

[@Helnaxthefourth]

We start to learn English in the first year of school (when we're 5-6 years old) and tv-series and movies which are ment for teens and adults are always in the original language, never dubbed. It's not like we have to learn English because English speaking people come to our country, it's more that there's only 5 million people speaking Norwegian and we have to communicate with other countries to function. I would like to add that we also learn a third language, mainly Spanish, German or French.

[@cristobalhollin]

Rolig Luna, rolig!!

[@smartercat]

@Finskelars lol you obviously don't know that some people have learning skills and just like some people learn languages easily some have difficulties. And obviously he know more then one word -.-

[@samaimdeda]

Mandarin. Korean schools aren't that cruel :) You mainly use characters over speaking it, since there's a lot of trade between Korea and China but not many face-to-face confrontations. And Korean names are written in Chinese characters so we usually have to memorize all the flowery characters so we can name our children. Like Eun Jung means "faith and respect" and Hee Ja means "happy child"

[@Stheens]

Awesome! I'm Norwegian and I'm an exchange student, and I study at York College (York lol). We have our own Norwegian teacher from Norway there to teach the Norwegians (about 85 of us), and she also teaches some english students in Norwegian! :D

[@Fawrikawl]

Jeg gleder meg til disse tre månedene. ;)

[@CodyK9L]

hahahhahahaha! "i'm a boy" i beleve i need to watch this movie

[@SprayMyDeagle]

what have you learned so far?

[@hollikeillor596]

For certain a Canadian accent, knew as soon as he spoke!

[@FennerenDrawsOo]

I would love to learn Chinese or Korean.. Our govermen decided we had to do two types of norwegian (different grammar and all that) + english + ether german, spanish or french, so it doesn't relay make me feel better no, but thatnks for trying :) Though, I think ether Korean or Chinese would be harder to learn than all those combined.

[@scaniawahl]

if you move to norway and get a job, its a advantage you learn norwegian :) especially if the job involves customer contact :) but the topic in this sketch was that he didnt speak english :)

[@thepuksu]

In Finland you have to learn 3 languages

[@august8090]

Same in norway i have had to learn norwegian, englisk, swedish, icelandic, danish and finish

[@linkskywalker5417]

@@august8090 In America, while you do have to learn a foreign language, you'll rarely have anyone to talk to in that language, unless you're latino and live in an area with a large population of speakers of the foreign language in question. We Americans suck with languages, admittedly, as do most anglophones.

[@FennerenDrawsOo]

I have no problem learningenglish, I am not great at it, but I understand the ned of a language most people can understand when out traveling. What I dont understand if why I have to learn two types norwegian, almost same kind og words, but different grammar, and spanish, when am I ever going to use that? They just make my grades worse by forsing me to take a language I dont want to learn.

[@mlm74799]

sucks to be that guy.. am proud that i am a Norwegian guy that also can write english, in most cases understandable and that i can speak it. i love english and am learning every day!

[@sondreh.srheim7266]

I am a boy! De burde lagd flere sånne..de som lagde den

[@sheltersteps3084]

kan du ikkje et kløyva ord nord-engelsk?

[@pymandr]

he sounds canadian.

[@henrikloberg]

Below 65.

[@CBM64]

LÅLL Denne er så konge :D

[@anonymous.t6649]

*_I'M A BIG KID NOW!_*

[@michaelhansen2818]

that dude was so lost

[@ruantengyi]

who?

[@PowerLord83]

I heard from a lot british friends that they are like "What you can't Russian?" I'm like "What'a fuuu?"

[@kalfaxplays7899]

lol, maybe the last decade.. nowadays everyone speaks english in norway. fluently, no issues.

[@villipoi]

It's pretty obvious that you can speak Norwegian if you lived in Norway for 12 years :) Tror du skreiv litt feil :p

[@scaniawahl]

im aware of the problem with youtube, now :) no we dont expect tourists to learn our language. In norway is there a lot of immigrants who are to ignorant to learn norwegian before they gets a job :) I know one guy from USA who married a norwegian woman, and they moved to Norway some years ago. he was a cop in utah before, and here he worked in a little warehouse at the westside of Norway. He was not so happy in speaking norwegian but he understood most of it if people spoke norwegian t him :)

[@samanthajags5945]

Can Norwegians understand Yorkshire slang? Yorkshire people use many old Norse words, as Yorkshire was part of the Viking kingdom and many have Norwegian heritage even if they don`t know it , but Yorkshire people use words like Oreyt = Alright, and Owt = Anything

[@money763]

Are you guys even.... dont you... nevermind

[@mlm74799]

@dusern100 i know

[@TheSocalkid92]

But just be grateful that you live in one of the most beautiful places in the world...The most Northeastern part of North America, Quebec, Canada and the New England area...

[@asdfdjhgk]

Name?

[@HyeungJoo]

Tout à fait d'accord mon ami ! Notre langue se perd ces derniers temps.

[@ta-seenislam4684]

Wow this is funny 😂

[@TheRavenir]

Ja, wirklich. Das war urkomisch, voll geil.

[@TheSocalkid92]

The only thing you can do, I suppose, would be to write your political leaders, specifically the leaders of the Quebecois Party, and join the separatists movement which has almost succeeded in their attempt to secede Quebec from Canada in 1995. But they lost the vote by less than 1%. If you join the movement and a vote like this comes about again, then your vote can make a difference and Quebec's succession would ensure the survival of the Francophone culture, with immigration restriction...

[@lunhil12]

That was pretty funny, what's the name of this show?

[@TheSocalkid92]

But if we were to visit your country as a tourist or for a business meeting, it is common for Americans to learn basic phrases or words in your language to be polite and show you we care...basic words such as "please" and "thank you"...

[@retroHC]

Witch country do you come from? And do they have fish fingers there? ;)

[@KongJulian2k]

By Chinese you mean Hanja characters, or mandarin? Or do you learn both? O_o

[@mohammedlukas4506]

each of person who want to come or holiday in country who isn't speaking english as the first language. they should learning a language before he wanted to holiday in

[@commonsense6257]

Why? Norwegians do not learn Greek, Spanish, Turkish, Thai or Arabic when they go on holiday to Greece, Spain, Turkey, Thailand or Egypt. They usually shout in broken English and complain that the people in the that country do not speak English as well as they do. I have never met people as arrogant as Scandinavians. I have never heard a Brit complain about a person's level of English when abroad.

[@DilailaHP]

We from Norway have to learn two(three with our "wonderful" new norwegian) different foreign languages, no wonder why we forget one of them, it's like someone who comes up at one's face and asks if that person know german "Ich bin eine miechen"

[@samaimdeda]

I never knew Europeans took the English language so seriously XD If it makes Norweigns feel better, the schools in Korea make you learn English AND Chinese :'D So many characters...

[@crayonmccoolihan4619]

nice good

[@tungstenwhizard4361]

Basic what happens in my Japanese class...

[@lakostal]

@TheSupersoppen yeah, i've been there.. its really bad for such a wealthy country.. your educational system must be really bad

[@Fawrikawl]

If an English speaker opened conversation in Norwegian, the common Norwegian would probably be intrigued or overcome with joy for the fact that someone bothered learning their language, and would respond in Norwegian. That being said, as the video and the title kind of suggests, most people do speak English in Norway. Moral of the story: Don't feel ignorant or lost if you don't speak Norwegian coming to Norway. You'll be perfectly fine. ;)

[@wokabomb]

hahahaha, dette er bra :D

[@LoboBrasileiro1]

Ma langue maternelle est anglais, mais je prefère français parce que je pense que français est plus belle que anglais. Français était la langue diplomatique et aujourd'hui il est utilizé dans beaucoup des organizations internationales, par example: FIFA, IOC, Medicins sans Frontières, etc. J'adore Français. (Mais j'adore l'espangol et portugais aussi. :) )

[@deadspiritaspen]

The northern parts of Norway can speak English. Because we have a tone that start high and go lower on end while the south start high and end high. Also the younger generation in norway is the ones that talk well norewegian..

[@Finskelars]

Just to make sure to all those people who are not Norwegian; this is just bullshit for real, because I don't know anyone who can't say even one word in English. Even my grandfather can speak some English! XD (I'm a Norwegian)

[@Iivaitte]

Actually I sympathize the man, it is only right that if you go to a business meeting in another country that you should speak the native tongue. Us Americans will just become lazier if we don't have to even learn a second language. It wouldn't be so hard to learn a second language if our school system and learning system didn't suck. Jeg vil lære dette språket, slik at jeg ikke gjør narr av en uskyldig mann som denne mannen.

[@ottotys]

he is just joking, I have seen him on tv before :P

[@kangawroon]

Nowadays every norwegian below the age of (at least) 50 knows and speaks english.

[@nordicgaming2572]

The American dude sounds Canadian

[@MCullenHightopp]

@TheSupersoppen He/she isn't stupid, just a very, very obvious troll! xD

[@Fawrikawl]

Oh, nonono. You're thinking of the French! :p

[@Hellsconsort]

Haha, funny reading Swedes and Norwegians argue over how crap each others English is. You both generally speak great English btw, still funny.

[@motodin4210]

Fucking glad that I dated an english woman and got her help to improve my english

[@stubbisNO]

Many young norwegian speaks english fluently, but many *can’t* write english properly