American Reacts to Norwegian TikToks (Part 2)
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- čas přidán 28. 01. 2023
- TikToks are some of the funniest and most interesting videos on the internet, which is why today I am very excited to enjoy some of the most popular Norwegian TikToks so I can learn some interesting things about Norway while also being entertained. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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About the "excuse me" part when we are getting out of the seat, we usually don't say "excuse me" preemptively. We basically have this sense of body language etc. so that when people would like to move into our personal space so we just make space for them. If unsure we just ask "Skal du..." ("Are you..."), and wait for a yes or no.
Jeg sier alltid unnskyld når jeg skal frem. I always say excuse me when I wanna get true, but hey we are all different 😊
You don't throw plastic bottles, I liked that video a lot.
In Norway we deliver them back into a machine (panteautomat) which gives us money back for the bottle, in terms we "rent" the bottle and get money back when we return it for recycling.
It's a great, great, great system.
it is very normal here in Norway to use the top part of the house just like any other part of the house, so that you get that triangular shape.
I remember I met a Brit on a plane to Gatwick airport ( from Bergen, Norway ) and I mention the light in the night in northern Norway. He said it would be difficult for him to sleep. Then I told him..We have curtains...And he was embarrassed and looked away.. Well sometimes we also use carpet over the curtains, so it really gets dark...
No, you can actually move to Norway to get free education. The rules are about to change though, where foreigners won't get the same benefits anymore.
Idiotic decision. It really makes me angry.
EU citizens still get it free.
wait we do?
@@jeschinstad Agreed, and I'm a Norwegian so I'm not affected by the change anyways. It's not really decided yet, but our gov wants it
@@Henoik: If there's one thing we need, it's to attract good people and the majority of people on Earth, will not be naturally attracted to our climate. We need incentives. Google and Facebook could both have been Norwegian. Back in the nineties, Norway was a global leader in IT. I remember in 1994, I visited NRK on Lillehammer and they were using touch screens. In 1994. :)
Tut tut when trying to pass someone is just a childish way stuck from childhood. Haha.. the car/train etc says tut tut. (You pronounce it like a long u. Like several in a row)
So tuut tuut Im trying to walk past you😹 like beeping the horn.
My big dog often gets in the way. Then I say tut-tut, and he moves away.
@@ahkkariq7406 haha, I gotta admit I do the same. But only to people I know hopefully as it sounds a bit silly. Some things you do out of habit😄
Attic apartments are common in cities. The old apartment buildings used the attic for drying clothes and storage, but a few decades ago it became common to convert them into apartments. They are usually attractive for several reasons. They are often centrally located, the large skylights make them bright, they have a large floor area, a patio with a view and they are rustic with exposed beams, which gives character.
Only issue is insulation from my experience, in the summers it was very hot when the sun is beaming on the roof and very cold during winter, at least from my experience,
we didn't get permission to open the inside of the ceiling to insulate better.
but 30K nok for that is extreamly much for that, I live in Bergen and I have a house for 9.5M and I pay 10K every month
@@DraslyThe1 That looks like Oscars Gate, Frogner. Probably the most expensive street in Norway
These are actually quiet funny: In Norway we don't say "see you later", we say the rhyme "Ha det på badet din gamle sjokolade", which means: "Good bye in the bathroom you old chocolate".
In Norway we don't say merry Christmas, we say "Uffda lutefisk hygge friluftsliv lefse mange takk", which is not a common phrase, but it translates "Ouch lye fish, enjoyment, outdoor life, lefse, thank you".
In Norway we don't say "What is happening", we say "Du store alpakka", which translates "You big Alpaca".
In Norway we don't say "Sorry", we say "Den som er med på leken må tåle steken", which translates "Whoever takes part in the game must endure the roasting."
And I think that is beautiful. Or rather typical Norwegian.
the "hade på bade din gamle sjokolade" is actually translated to "See you later alligator"
@@DraslyThe1 Sure. This was a literal translation, to tell what the words actually means.
Btw 30,000 nok is overpay for that little house
Unless it's in Oslo
@@chaidie7056 oh lol Thats true
Tyler, university in Norway is free for everyone, including foreign students, books, room, and board is not included, but cheap student accomodation is possible to find, and you can buy the books used
fact: about the thing about darkness at winter, in norway around mid december, the sun turns so from christmas it gets brighter and days gets longer for each day, so right now(29.01) it gets dark around 1700 - 1730 ish
16:22
No, Å is not a A with a accent mark at all, it's a 100% separate letter in our system.
It was just simpler to add "accents" then to invent completely new letter symbols from scratch.
Æ, Ø and Å are all considered separate letters with their own spots in the alphabet and their own distinct sounds.
This
Polar bears do live in norway and yes she was right but they live on Svalbard and not the mainland
They also usually don't walk in the streets, although it happens that they are close to town (Longyearbyen)
There are no polar bears in mainland Norway, however there are tons of polar bears on Svalbard/Spitsbergen island/arcipelago north of mainland Norway. There are more polar bears than actual people there, and you are required by law to bring an armed guide or go armed yourself if you decide to go outside of the largest town Longyearbyen. This is due to the high risk of potentially meeting a Polar Bear, and it's illegal to put yourself in that situation unarmed.
True. Norwegians often fool foreigners with polar bear pranks and stories. I used to say that I was chased by a polar bear when I rode my bike to school. It wasn't actually a polar bear, off course, but a badger, but some truth made it more believable 😅
8:05
Attic apartments like that under the triangular roofs are actually somewhat common here, especially in older houses.
They're usually not this fancy though, being more of the budget option.
My sister used to live in one in Trondheim.
Basically in Norway when buying cans, bottles etc you pay for it + "Pant" which is what you get back when you recycle it so you basically rent the bottles and then deliver them back
Yeah we pay a small fee for bottles, so when we return them we get that back. Its a incentive to recycle.
If you see in the video. The baby carriages, are 'parked' outside the windows.
The parents, are out there checking with only a few minutes interval.
In mainland Norway wo do NOT have polar bears, Svaldbard does. But that is an island faaar off the coast. We have brown bears on the main land. And for a short time we had a kangaroo in Trøndelag. :D
you get like 20 cents for a small bottle or can. 30 cents for the big ones. Quickly becomes some 10-50 dollars like once every 2-3 months depending on how many bottles you buy. Its enough to have some bags of bottles laying around in your closet or shed.
A "Å" is *not* an A, not even modified.
It's a 100% different letter in the Norwegian alphabet.
And you actually kind of pronounced its sound instead of the "o" sound when you tried to say "Lofoten".
So. I don’t think you understand completely the light and dark situation.
Up north theres a period in winter where its dark a lot, the same places is the opposite in the summer.
Further south in Norway it gets dark between 3.30-4.30 in winter time, but eventually it does get lighter. The exact time depends on location. In the summer its light till 11 or 12.30 aprox. Also depending how south you live how long it stays light. While very north its 24/7
The bus thing is exstremely convinient beacuse evryone is so good at reading the body language if somone plans to get off the bus. You just lift up you bag, or sit a bit straighter and they get the point. Some might need clearer signs, and you just place yourself more on the edge of the seat and turn you body slightly as if preparing for getting up. Most of the time you dont even need to look at them lol They just move as the bus stops to let you pass before sitting back down.
I think I can count on one hand the amount of times I needed to ask or be asked to move.
As an introvert, I never realised how good I had it until I started watching foreigners learn about norway.
I have learned lots of stuff and widend my perspective of own country and culture, as well as the American culture because of this :)
Liver pate is a deli, especially when you have mayo on it! Love it.
no, it is not a generalisation - every norwegian can sense if the person next to you needs to get off the bus. They just need to move their bag a little or put their phone in their pocket :P
😅
It's not even dark for that time. That time of the year it's dark where I live in Denmark, streetlights are on and what not. And we're waaay south comoared to Norway ;)
If your far enough north in Norway, it’s light both day and night at summer and dark all winter
I have a sauna in my house. It's not very common, but you definitely will find one if you search a whole street 😂
By the way: Alaska gets midnight sun.
14:50 Translations
-"Hade på bade din gamle sjokolade" directly translates to "bye on bath you old chocolate" lol
But "hade(bye)" and "bade(bath)" is just a fun rhyme, and "bade(bath)" doesn't actually mean anything in this context. Its a playful/teasing goodbye. Often used around children.
-"tut tut" is also a lighthearted and often playful way to get someone to move. Again, I say it mostly towards children. It's an imitation of honking, a warning that someone needs you to move. Short and easy without it sounding stern or harsh.
-The third one is not something used where I live in Norway. I don't even think I have even tasted "lutefisk(lutefish)" before. But I don't doubt it is said, and again it seems like a playful saying to me :)
-"Du store alpakka" translates to "You big alpaca". I have not heard that saying where i live, but I have heard "Du store min" which I think means pretty much the same. It translates to "You big mine", but it's used similarly to the surprised "Oh my" that is said in English.
-"Den som er med på leken må tåle steken", directly translates to "Those that play must endure the the roast".
It's said to people who can't handle not winning or not getting what they want in a game. Again, often used on or by children, but adults still use it. A very playful/teasing saying.
And yeah, the pronunciation is not the best lol
The way Americans pronounce letters is not the same as the Norwegians do
You can go to sleep with blackout curtains or a sleep mask. But it seems that many people go to bed much too late and are tired the whole summer.
Maybe that' s the reason everybody takes a loong summer vacation😉
Come on 'Muricans, let the babies sleep outside in the fresh air. A little blizzard will make them tough. ;) haha
There are no polar bears in mainland Norway. It's a joke. (But there are polar bears in Svalbard, but they don't roam the streets)
The Island is a part of Lofoten. You should check it out.
We recycle for money AND the environment 😉
Å is the 'o' sound in 'bored'.
Polar bear is not walking in the street allaround in Norway, is just one place u can see them - SVALBARD 😄
We can take our bottles back to the store and get either 2 or 3 NOK pr bottle. But you pay those 2 or 3 NOK when you buy them, on top of the cost of the soda/beer...so it's just getting your own money back. And those young woman who tried to talk Norwegian, I think that migth have been late saturday evening. :D
Think those girls have misunderstood those phrases and sayings completely 😆
15:21
Never heard anyone using "Tør tøt" before.
"Tut, tut"...
Maybe a couple of times as a kid on the school bus...
Tip: that a with the circle above it (å) is pronounced like the ‘a’ in ALL
8:37 my house actually has a sauna downstairs, but now my dad uses it to keep his beer making stuff in there (basically a storage room)🥲
That is pretty normal that house, especially if you have a nice salery. maybe not the first appartment you get. But Norways in general live quite luxurious in comparison to pretty much any country.
13:56 it's all seasonal. The midnight sun is at the height of summer when the North Pole is pointed at the sun. The getting dark at 4pm is a winter thing, when the North Pole tilts away from the sun and all the midnight sun regions are plunged into darkness. We've got sunset around 5pm at the moment in the UK, Norway has more extremes due to being further north.
3000 USD in rent is a eather posh place in one of our big cities. I live (literally) in the middle of the woods. In a two-story house with a big barn and everything. We pay about 650 USD a month. But, then again, we don't have an indor toilet, we have to pay for someone to remove the 5 feet of snow from our 5 km of dirt road every year...and fire wood and so on. But around 650 USD. :) But we have a bigger sauna than that in our basement!! It can take...10 people. It's heated by wood though. :D But no, this is NOT your average apartment in Norway!
10:26 that is so accurate! XD
Jeg er 5 minutter for sen men jeg er den andre kommentaren ialfall
In December the sun go down at like two 😅😅😅
Hi Tyler!
I stumbled across one of your videos a couple of months ago and have been watching them every since. It’s really interesting watching someone react to things that are so normal to us Norwegians that we don’t really think about.
Anyway, I would love to jump on a video-call with you one day so we can talk about all things Norway and maybe I can answer some of your questions. I think it could be fun. Just hit me up if you’re interested!
Tik tok nr 2 is from an island called VÆRØY ,3 1/2 hour ferry trip from the city Bodø in North-Norway ♥
9:55 Yes, but not in a lot of places. They are on Svalbard
8:40 I don't think a lot of norwegians have a sauna at home, though there tends to be one not so far away, I think in finland a lot of people have saunas.
The joke about the bottels is called "pant" here in Norway! Basically, whenever you buy a soda, beer etc from the store, you pay a little extra (only like 2kr more though, so its basically nothing). Then, if you are good at collecting bottels and cans, you can put them into a machine and basically get free money from it! The more bottlels, the more money! So throwing away bottels here is essentially throwing away free money! Im pretty sure this concept is very scandinavian though, its used to get the procentage of plastic waste down! I hope this made sense lol
They have them in the US and Canada too, actually, but they are not very common yet.
The liqur stores in norway is called monopolet whitch means monopoly😂 so the goverment has monoploy on liqur sales is basicly what they are saying.
Actually, beer can be just as expnsive in the US. Just go to a major sports event, or an amusement park. Beer prices there can surpass the prices in Norway.
15:03 BRUH THATS SOME SERIAL KILLER PRONOUNCIATION
Leverpostei - liver paste is very good and healthy, especially with pickles on it, or cucumber and tomato 👍🙂
My last comment 😅
Alcohol is not diffecult to get. Vinmonepolet(Wine-monopoly) is open the same day as every other shops here (Monday to
Saturday). It closes early 5-6 pm tho, so you can't be spontaneous buying it in the evening. Most people plan if they wanna have a drink or get drunk. Buying it the same day for the evening/night, or maybe a few days before meeting up with friends or go to a party or something if they dont already have anything at their house.
The convenient store also have alcohol, but the prosent of the alcohol is limited to 4.7, anything higher you buy at "Vinmonepolet". But after a certain time (often around 18-20 pm) the alcohol is closed off at stores as well.
(And you need to be 18 to by alcohol under 22% procent, and 22 years ld to buy alcohol with 22% or more)
So it's not difficult to get alcohol, you just need to be awhere of closing times when you wanna buy some alcohol :)
But I understand it seems quite limiting to people that live at places where alcohol is always available to buy.
7:25 technically it's 9 or 8, but we tend to divide it by 10 to make it easier to do in your head. (technically it's 10.17 NOK for 1 USD atm, but it is usually around 8-9)
"Pronunciate?" Multiple times? ::shaking head::
They are not accent marks, they are letters in the alphabet :p
That apartment is High End, and saunas are not common, unless a Finnish person has lived there earlier, then there's guaranteed a sauna there.
The Polar bear thing is a joke that we tell ignorant Americans 😈...the only place that we have them is in on Svalbard.
The thing with the bottles is that it is pawn on them, so for every bottle you pay the price of the bottle as well as the liquid, but this money you get back when you deliver the empty bottles to the bottle robots in the stores. The Pawn price is 2NOK for each of the small bottles/alu box and 3 NOK for the bigger. So yes, throwing bottles in the garbitch is the same as throwing money
15:36
Okay, I've *never* heard that one used before...
The words are of course used separately a lot, but that combination?
Regarding alcohol, things like beer and cheap wine is expensive but expensive wines are actually cheap
Here's a video that shows how the "pant" system works from a foreigner living in Norway's point of view: czcams.com/video/FsCRrWn10Eo/video.html
(And I just realized it's actually recorded in the area I live in, the supermarket she goes to is only 5 minutes from my house.)
Tyler you've pronounced Norway (Norr-Gee) right several times before. - Norwegian isn't really a very hard language to learn as a native English speaker
Å = like O in english
Ø = like U in fur in english
Æ = like A in fast in english
A lot of homes in Norway have saunas.
Penguin is prob more like a mascot
The prices in restaurants - we don't expect tip...
"å" = the vowel sound in haul. "Ä" is more difficult, I can think of the vowel sound in Age, but only the first part of the sound before you bite down on it. "Ö" would be the same vowel sound as in heard and earn. edit: this is using Swedish sounds though..
You should react to the island «Senja», which is Norway’s second largest island, and is often reffered to as «Norway in miniature»
I went to a Orca (Killerwhale) safari there :)
Tyler, the people you reacted to at 11:24 saying they won't come back, are being very obviously sarcastic.. All their clips are of them smiling and having fun.
Alaska do have midnight sun also 👍
Norwegian universities are indeed free also for foreigners who live here
the couple who would never go back to lofoten bc it was too bright at night, do they not google the basic weather conditions before going somewhere? norway is bright in summer lmao
Hello :) the Norwegian aphabet is not the same as english, we have three more letters. Æ,Ø,Å
That appartment is NOT average in Norway 😄u can get a smaller appartment and pay about 650 - 1000 dollar at month, but Oslo is very exspensive. I live in a city about 25 miles away from Oslo, and here u can get a small appartment called "hybel" for 650 - 900 dollar at month. Everything over 900 dollar is called appartment. Hybel is between 270 - 485 square feet, very small.
Alt for norge has a video where they show what we do with soda bottles
This is normal IF you earn a lot of money. My rent is about 1050 dollars. It is about 70 squere meters plus electricty about 100 dollars in the winter months. I have one bedroom, kitchen, livingroom and a bathroom. The appartment comes with appliances. No sauna.
Å is separate letter. It sounds like AWE.
07:35 This could easily be true in larger cities, closer to the middle of Centrum as you can get, or if you are renting a large apartment, or a house. In some areas in Norway, the Rent can get truly mind-bogglingly expensive, even for Norwegians.
10:48 Ok, so this depends entirely on the person, honestly. Personally, I would do what she did, start getting ready, then stand up and make as to leave while expecting them to make room for me to leave, and if they don't move or make space for me, I'd say something like "sorry" (with a Norwegian accent, we often and routinely use "Sorry" in Norway, especially the younger generations) or "Gir du rom for meg? Eg ska forbi." (informal way of saying "Could you make room for me? I'm gonna pass you."), I wouldn't just stand/sit around waiting until the bus passes by my busstop or whatever.
13:13 Cans and 0.5L (17.5oz) bottles can be recycled for 2 NOK (20 Cents) each, 1.5L (52.7oz) bottles can be recycled for 3 NOK (31 Cents) each, grocery stores will have recycling machines that are about the size of a Vending Machine that you might be used to, there are two types of machines now, one is the old and true kind that has a hole near the top with a conveyer belt inside that you place your cans and bottles for recycling, or you have the newer kind that makes recycling large trash-bags full of bottles much more convenient, it has a great big hole behind a sort of door that you lift up by the handle, you empty all your bottles into it and close the door behind them, then the machine will count each individual can and bottle to give you the right amount of money.
14:09 December 22nd is the shortest, and darkest, day of the year for Norway, during the days surrounding that date, it isn't unheard of that (south-western part of Norway perspective) the sun will rise at 10 am, or even later, and set at 2 pm or 3 pm
14:58 In Norwegian it rhymes, and is a silly farewell you would generally say to your friends/family when you want to be silly, or to your children when you want to make them happy. Directly translated into English, it won't make much sense at all, but here it is: "Good bye in the bathroom you old chocolate."
15:20 "Tut tut" is "Honk honk" in English, we'll sometimes go "Tut tut" when we need to pass by, or get around, someone that's in our way, but generally only when we feel like being silly about it.
15:56 Can't say that I have personally ever heard this exclamation of surprise said in Norway before, but it definitely sounds like something someone that doesn't like to swear or curse would say instead of something like "Holy f~~k!"
15:58 Aside from her pronunciation of "Store" ("Big" or "Large" in English), she was pretty spot on with the phrase.
16:14 Aside from her having a clear foreign accent, her pronunciation of each word was pretty good, more than enough to make it impossible not to understand her. Also, the phrase is directly translated to "Whoever who is with on the game has to tolerate the steak," more accurately translated would be something like "Whoever joins the game has to handle the pain." It's the kind of warning you would give that they shouldn't come to you and cry if they get hurt in any way because they were warned beforehand that it can - and most likely will - get rough/painful.
16:23 Speaking of the Å, she actually nailed the pronunciation of the Å, so perfectly that I'm almost certain she's either heard a Norwegian (or someone fluent enough) pronounce it before, because that was absolutely perfect.
Aren't most of these Tiktoks the same ones you reacted to in part 1? Or am I confusing it with another youtuber...
you are right
Tyler has the memory of a snake. He never remembers anything from the recent past.
@@steinarhaugen7617 Yeah, he has like 2-3 other channels (UK based is one of them), so I think he's only milking the communities for views. He very rarely responds in comments, and when he gets the answers he asks for in the vids he doesn't bring it back up. If it continues I'll just be done watching him.
5:10 You don't have to be a Norwegian citizen. It's available for anyone.
14:52 NNOOO NO NO NO NOO NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
buying alcohol in US depends on the state. Wyoming you cant buy in gas stations and regular stores. We have bought alcohol on gas stations in some states (Florida was one of them as far as I remember) - but when we an evening in Wyoming would buy some wine etc to a BBQ evening - we had no succes - too late :/
16:42 yes it do
part 1 is taken down?
15:59
Yeah, it was.
It essentially means holy cow, or my gosh or some such.
Literal translation is "You big/great alpaca"
I'm not sure but I think "Du store" (you big/great" originally was referring to God, without the whole saying the lord's name in wane or whatever Christians considered a sin back then...
Then the Norwegian word for "alpaca" was added, perhaps to ensure that it couldn't be mistaken for a reference to God...
Polar Bears dont live in most of Norway. They only live on Svalbard
9:58
She's pulling your leg,they don't exist at all on the mainland.
Svalbard is a different matter.
There you are required to be armed at all times outside.
10:11
Oh my goodness, no, don't do that.
Stay calm and hold your ground.
Either try to scare it away by seeming larger then you are if it comes towards you (waving branches etc) or play dead and hope for the best...
I also have a sauna in my bathroom😲
She was joking. No Polar bears, in mainland Norway.
Only on Svalbard.
sauna is quite a luxury thing to have. But it is not insanely expencive to build. So i guess it is possible in a lot of houses and bigger apartements:)
A surprising amount of houses have one around where I live. The upkeep so much easier than a pool or something els.
i rented a shitty basement appartment in oslo, it was like 350 dollars a month back in 2006 it had a sauna too XD
8:40 is it normal? No. No it is not. But it does happen. My grandparents built their own house. So they chose to have a sauna. But yea. Usually its not something people just have.
8:41
It's normal in posh houses, your average one, not really, unless it was built by someone from Finland.
9:18
Perhaps do a few videos like that?
Polar Bears arent in mainland Norway, its a joke...only on the island of Svalbard are there polar bears, but very few live there.
5:29 I beleave that the "Semester fee" is about 10$ Not a 100.
This Man must have a lot of money. His Apartment is for the rich people.
Hey Tyler, can you react to Ylvis - Radio Taxi, episode 1, 2 and 3? It's 3 minutes each, so 9 minutes of video total. I think it's possibly the best prank ever. If you enjoy them, "intellevator" is also great.
Saunas were more popular before tbh... My parents house has a sauna as well as my sisters, but we never really used it...