God, so sexy! The video was great too!

I just want to point out for anyone outside of Norway who doesn't know. The standard Norwegian read and written language form is called ''Bokmål'', most foreigners who move to Norway will begin speaking Norwegian in Bokmål and over time their spoken Norwegian will mold into whatever accent is spoken where they live, because people around them will speak in that accent. The Eastern Norwegian accent (Østlandsk) spoken in Oslo for example is the CLOSEST accent to Bokmål in direct pronunciation, however there are differences because no one in Norway truly speaks ''Bokmål'', it's just the standard written form of Norwegian.

Very interesting! I now know why my Norwegian grandfather used to speak English... but often overlay a 'low high' type pitch pattern to it.

Darn, so complicated. I'm never gonna learn this. Oh, wait, I'm already a Norwegian native speaker, so I don't have to think about it. But it's fascinating.

We moved to Bergen and my understanding for Norwegian was blown to pieces :D

Great video, thanks. Just one thing: I would probably get rid of the music, it's not too bad, but it can interfere if you are trying to listen carefully to and remember a particular pitch accent for the first time.

I'm Norwegian and I still find this interesting.

Probably the best and most detailed video I've found on this topic! Felt very helpful and as an intermediate learner I'll be coming back to it. Would absolutely love more content like this, about norwegian pitch accent and pronunciation

Tusen takk for det! Skulle ønske jeg visste dette for en stund siden.

i'm not Norwegian, but i approve of this message

Man, I was having the biggest trouble understanding the pitch accent 2, thinking I was far from figuring it out and using it myself. But when you mentioned the verbs ending with "e" as common examples of it, I realized that I have been imitating that sound from Duolingo exercises for more than a year now. It all makes a lot more sense (I still have a long way to improve my listening skills). Thank you!

Takk for video! Du seier "ein skulle læra seg standard austnorsk, når ein lærer seg norsk". Ja, slik er det, og slik blir det jo. Men som min lærar i nordisk ein gong sa det: dei burde lært finnmarksidalekt, som ikkje har tonelagskille. Dette nemner du òg i videoen. Dei uttaler bokmålet slik det blir skrive, i endå større grad enn standard austnorsk. I austnorsk har ein i tillegg retrofleksar, nokre av dei er svært sjeldan i språka i verda. Dette er uttalemessig vanskeleg nok for oss frå Vestlandet. For innvandrarar, med dei aller fleste språk, med unntak av nokre språk i India som har tilsvarande retrofleksar, bortimot umogleg å få til. Så eg stemmer for språk-kassettar med folk frå Finnmark 🙂 Lars Arne, Bernt og Erling i partiet åt erter og sardiner!

This is really helpful. I would love to see more videos about Norweigian!

This was great! Very useful :)

the best video on Norwegian pitch accent I've seen so far!

As someone from south norway i find it so funny how people learning norwegian always try so hard to get these typical oslo dialect pitches correct, when the way i and people from here are speaking is completely different in the pitches. Just going for a random dialect is understandable though.

Yo this was so helpful! Thanks!

This is helpful to me :D, im still a newbie at Norwegian

Not learning Norwegian and not planning too, oh dear, I'm at 5th foreign language and I have 2 mother tongues, so 😅 But omg, this sounds good, the way you pronounce this skrive, snakket, lopet, hoppet, I'm dying! If Norwegian were an international language, I would learn it, not trying to sound disrespectful. It's just that I have to learn all the UN languages first, and that's already quite a lot. They're also quite difficult, a lot of unknow alphabets 😅 Thank you for making the video by the way, definitely learned something interesting.

This language sounds so happy

Oh goodness, very useful. Thank you. 😊

Its also prayers wich is also pronounced just beraly different

Thank you for a very interesting video. Cheers for Lille, France.

The video was great, but dude, you are Norwegian yourself, how did you achieve such a pristine English accent?

SUCH a good vid man

Thank you for this

Love your linguistics videos, man! Does this apply to any extent to danish/swedish/icelantic/faroese?

Patrick: first of all, thank you very much, this video was the only one that perfectly explained what I was trying to understand! I'm Italian and I have a channel about Germanic Linguistics. Would you mind if I just use your audio (as you're a native speaker), just the part where you say the two words "bønder" vs "bønner", for one of my videos? I'll be happy to give you credit in the description. Please let me know asap :-) thanks

Some comments are so rude for no reason. I guess that's just the internet for you. It's a great video. He's a great teacher.

Your American accent is perfect! How come? Did you lived there or something like that? It's quite impressive!

Thanks for a very informal video. It answered a lot of things regarding the language I have always found peculiar but not known the reason or answers to. The south-eastern dialect intonation must sound really strange to foreigners 👍

Could you illustrate pitch accent in the Bergen dialect?

I thought i left this behind when i quit Japanese 😭

good

Do high/low dialects invert pitch accent 2 to where it goes low high low rather than high low high?

My partner is from Hausesund and I have been learning Norwegian as a result. You mentioned South/West Norway has High to Low pitch accent - do you ever think you would cover that? ^^

is toneme 1 or toneme 2 more common? (eg about 70% of nouns are masculine gender, which makes remembering gender easier)

Wow, I would never have realized you weren't a native English speaker!

Your Chinese third tone needs to dip deeper. The sound is like a capital V, but right now you're not making the distinction enough so it's more like a lower case v. You still have good Chinese though, but fixing that would make you sound much more native.

Jag är amerikan som talar bra svenska, och ska ta en biltur i Norge till sommaren. Jag vet att norrmännen kommer att förstå mig men har du någon tips för mig, som talar svenska som andraspråk? Jag håller på och läser ”Norwegian Tutor”. Tack för dina videon! Historien om landsmål/nynorsk och riksmål/bokmål var väldigt intressant! 😊👍🏻

It would be a lot easier to hear the accent if the music weren't so loud. (Why even have music during a language lesson?)

they sound the same to me

Isnt swedish the same? I mean just off the top of my head ”banan” and ”banan” the road and banana.

not you giving me hope for my Japanese since I am a Norwegian native speaker

YAY NORSK

Well, my compliments to you fella. I thought you were from the US midwest (native English speaker) and of Hungarian or Italian descent.

You must have learned English in USA or Canada. I cannot detect any Norwegian accent in your English!

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Stop cutting video after every third word, it is so annoying!

You're not a very good teacher.

In Danish, which is closely related to Norwegian, we have 'stød' which seems to affect some of the same words as in Norwegian, e.g. 'bønder' (with stød) and 'bønner' (without stød). Reading the Wikipedia article I learned that some Danish dialects have no stød but instead a pitch accent like Norwegian (and Swedish). 🤯 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%B8d