Episodes

Send us Fan Mail “His car” sounds clear until it suddenly isn’t. When the subject is third person, English often forces us to guess who owns what, but Norwegian grammar refuses to let that ambiguity s...

Send us Fan Mail That one little choice between infinitive and present tense van be tricky. We sit down and untangle the confusion from the ground up, because most learners were taught a shortcut that...

Send us Fan Mail Norwegian adjective endings can feel like a guessing game until you learn what they are really doing. We focus on one practical distinction that clears up a ton of confusion fast: are...

Send us Fan Mail We start with the everyday question, “What time is it at your place?”, and use it to unpack why telling time in Norwegian can feel strangely hard at first. We walk through two reliabl...

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Send us Fan Mail The Norwegian R is the sound everyone worries about, and it turns out the worry is pointed in the wrong direction. We talk through what many learners are actually hearing in everyday ...

Send us Fan Mail “Connect” feels like a simple word until you try to say it in Norwegian and realise you’re actually talking about five different things. We unpack the real meanings hiding inside that...

Send us Fan Mail “Fresh” sounds simple until you try to say it in Norwegian and suddenly you have two options that both seem right. We unpack the real difference between frisk and fersk, and it turns ...

Send us Fan Mail We start with the quick foundation: how comparative and superlative forms work (think -ere and -est), and why the English habit of avoiding endings on “long words” doesn’t translate c...