[ksimukka]

As a student of Bokmål (for immigration and integration), Nynorsk is an ongoing mystery to me.

I think that I'm still at the A level (A1/A2). My auditory processing disorder adds an extra variable that I'm still learning how to work with as an adult. If anyone (in Norway) knows of someone who has or is interested in APD (https://www.statped.no/horsel/andre-utfordringer/auditive-pr...), please reach out to me.

Anyways, always happy to see Norwegian related news in HN.

[matsemann]

Had a remote meeting with someone from Finland today. She speaks a bit Swedish, so I speak Norwegian and we can understand each other. Then today some other Norwegian joined in on the meeting, but she's from western Norway with a heavy dialect, and we had to switch to English for everyone to understand each other, heh.

[Broken_Hippo]

Nynorsk isn't so bad once you get used to Bokmål. When I come across it in writing, it just seems like everything is spelled wrong. (am an immigrant as well)

It won't be such a mystery forever - at least not for reading. I struggle with many of the dialects down there (but then again... I'm listening to folks around Trondheim and I know others think that dialect is weird, too)

[sundvor]

I'm in my 50s now and emigrated, but as a Norwegian child growing up in Oslo/Fredrikstad (both bokmål districts) I absolutely loathed the forced Nynorsk classes in the 80s/early 90s.

It absolutely felt as a political box ticking exercise, and a complete waste of time - I readily observed that people were struggling enough with bokmål as it was.

Never had a single use for it after leaving school.

As for the dialects, 100% agree - they are very very different indeed.

[bigpeopleareold]

A fun and relevant challenge would be to read some works by Jon Fosse, who was the recent Nobel Prize winner. He writes in Nynorsk. It's just different at a reading level (writing it is different, since there are some different grammar rules with it.)

[vintermann]

For an easier challenge, there's the comic artist Jens K. Styve, who makes a newspaper comic ("Dunce") good enough that even the national newspapers didn't mind that it was in Nynorsk.