Another Meme! (My Excuse this Time? I Was Tagged!)
Hooray! Another fun meme for me to do. This time I was tagged by http://a1cmustangpilot.livejournal.com/, so I have a good excuse! :) Now, without further ado...the rules
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Awwwwwww, Andrew Lloyd Webber :D
Out of curiosity, in what language did the Austrian Cast record the songs?
Icelandic would be on my list, too :) Just like the country itself ;)
With your command of the Norwegian language it'd probably be quiet easy for you to learn Icelandic, wouldn't it?
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Icelandic sounds awesome, but it's really different from Norwegian. Danish and Swedish (and even German) would be easier for me to pick up than Icelandic...but I love a challenge! And there are very few people in the world who can speak it, so I'd love to be able to promote the language that way!
And it would be amazing to visit there! I've only been through their airport at Reykjavik. :)
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Why would that be sad?!
I was told that Norwegian is more similar to Icelandic than to Danish and Swedish and that a Norwegian and an Icelander are more likely to understand each other than a Norwegian coming from the south and a Norwegian coming from the north ;)
Well, the airport at Reykjavik is a start :)
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In a way that's true about the Norwegian and Icelandic languages...Icelandic bears a HUGE resemblance to the old Norwegian language spoken by the Vikings.
LOL about Southern vs. Northern Norwegians. It's very true; having lived in a few different Norwegian cities, I can attest to that. Personally, "jeg snakke Norlanning", which means I speak like a Northerner - blame it on my relatives! (Honestly, the Southerners have a much more whiny way of speaking than we do... :D)
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"jeg snakke Norlanning"
LOL, that phrase sounds very much like Low German (spoken in the far North of Germany) ;)
Whiny? LOL!
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I really wish I knew more German...I need to get cracking on learning that language!
Heh - the whiny Southern Norwegian thing is kind of a joke among Norwegians, I guess...but the accent really is very different. Actually, I'd say the whiniest are the Trønders (people from Trondheim, where I lived for a while). And the people from Bergen sound a LOT like Germans with the gutteral "r"s and everything. :)
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Maybe there is a reason, why the Northerners are living in the North and the "whiny" Southerners...well, erm... don't ;)
So the whiniest Southerners don't even come from the "real" South at all? ;)
Trondheim must be beautiful with the Fjord right next to the city :D
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Heh - yeah, that's my theory, too. The whiny folks can't stand to live up in the North anyway...of course, some of the northernmost Norwegians don't speak Norwegian at all; they speak Sami. But it is kinda strange that the whinest Norwegians are actually from slightly-south-of-central Norway.
Trondheim really was a beautiful city, and fantastic to live in. They have a great deal of history. Their big church (and main tourist attraction), Nidarosdommen, has roots back to the Viking era. And the city itself has had an official charter for over 1000 years...they call it the "cultural capital" of Norway. It's also surrounded by all that beautiful countryside you mentioned! Really wonderful to take the train into the city during the winter when the sun never broke the horizon, and see the moon reflected in the fjord the whole way. I miss it a lot sometimes, as you can imagine! Nothing like that in CA!
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