Stephen Fry "snakke ikke norsk"

[TheStigma]

Fry sounds like your typical brit with a heavy heavy accent - but is actually pretty understandable. The other guy sounds like an actor who tried but failed to actually make it sound convincing. It sounds like a mishmash of danish and german to me, and I had to really focus to make out what the hell he was saying.

Of course - unless you are speaking to very old people "everyone" in Norway speaks english decently well. We'd prefer you stick to english rather than this *points up* haha ;)

[AdoniBezek]

actually mafham is talking danish, at least he sounds like he is.

[Spid3r90]

This is actually rather good, and i did understand most of it. And for those norewgians who think this is bad norwegian, try watching Monty Pythons Norwegian party

[TheVildee]

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA they sound completely retarded :)

[higfny]

I'm also Norwegian (seems like we flock to any youtube vid with someone trying to speak our language). Stephen says "what it says in the tin", but what the other person says is completely incomprehensible.

And as other people have already mentioned, all norwegians at least all under 75, have at least a rudementary grasp of english :)

[Guilthas]

@higfny Your issue does not stand alone. We Finnish people also seem to flock towards videos of people trying to speak Finnish. They never get it right. Norwegian at least resembles Swedish and English but no-one gets our language right ever.

[damechastain]

Oh Simon...

[stoprainingonme]

@antiblondine went to norway last year, and i met elderly rural norweigians that speak English better than our newsreaders (i'm from New Zealand).

[SethWreckLollis]

Q:"How do you say "I wanna sue your bottom off" in Norwegian?"

A:"Æ ska saksøke ræva av dæ" works just fine.

[Fanouriou]

@SethWreckLollis Q:"How do you say "I wanna sue your bottom off" in Norwegian?" A: "I'll sue your ass off!" Works like a charm. Without exception, I don't know a single Norwegian who wouldn't prefere a nice conversation in English rather than deciphering the intent of a rather broken translation. So unless you try to learn the silly language just speak English.

[SethWreckLollis]

@Fanouriou Well, obviously, but the question was how to say it in Norwegian - not whether or not that would ever be necessary.

Besides, it sounds a bit more wonderful in a North Norwegian dialect.

[temporaldisplacement]

The only thing I'll fein a nordic accent when saying is: "In Norway; we call this Reptile Weather." cause it sounds nice. =)

[lastclickgoodbye]

I am norwegian, and both speak it fairly well. It sounded a bit odd off course, but good effort. Better than Antonio Banderas.

[temporaldisplacement]

When did Antonio try to speak Norsk? (or is it 'norske' in nordic?) 13th warrior?

[pestlett]

hei, jeg har et stort problem...ja, ja han kalles Peter Kingdom. I so hope they make another series.

[FordPrefect23]

I lived in Norway for two years and had to go through "Norske Skole" and most of that sounds like utter gibberish to me! The accent/pronounciation sounds more like a soft danish accent than norwegian.

[Hattrem]

Fry: Jeg snakker ikke norsk. (I don't speak Norwegian.)

Mafham: Ye ha(?).

Je[g] har stort problem. (I have big problem.)

[gibberish] kjøpte jeg en Nordic Ski Trainer, (... I bought a Nordic Ski Trainer,)

og den virker ikke. (and it doesn't work.)

[gibberish] erstatte [...] den? (... replace ... it?)

Ja? Ja! Ja. (Yes? Yes! Yes.)

[ImeldaLumos]

Haha, I'm Swedish and that's definitely not Norwegian Simon's speaking. That's just some gibberish - he pulled it of very well, though! Served a laugh...

Fry talked something similar anyway, made my lips stretch a bit.

Thanks for uploading!

[Pladask]

Hehe!