American Reacts to Norwegian Months

We do pronounce the J. Also the U. They're just pronounced in a very different way than in English.

Not all Norwegians use the rolling R, you can also use a “skarre” R like in France witch comes more from the throat 😊

As always you are doing great,Tyler.I really enjoy and respect all your content.Keep being you,and keep up the good work !

Personally, I think it's harder to learn when words are very similar. It's easy to end up with a pronunciation that is half English, half Norwegian.

J is not silent, but it's very subtle

The rolling of the R, is just because he is talking slow. In normal tempo it's not said like that

Funfact: it's an old saying that you should take your vitamin D suppliments in all months that end with an R. Probably due to the lack of sunlight

Your R's is getting better. For the J sound you can think about what you use for the Y sound in English: "Yes, "Year", "You"

You nail those rolling R’s Tyler 😅. Not everyone can do them. Ask people from other parts of Norway and they may not be able to!

Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch and German are the easiest languages for English speakers to learn due to them being Germanic, so a lot of grammatical and vocabulary similarities. Though romance languages like Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese also share a fair amount of similarities with English.

In the Viking Age, a Briton and a Norwegian could understand each other. In Shetland, many Norwegian words are still used.

From viking-age there are a big influence of skandinavian in the English languige.

You got it. And you got the O sound so that will help you in 3 countries now. English speakers rarely get the scandi O sound down. But trust me, the J sound is being said. If the J was gone it wouldn't sound like that word at all.. The J is strong in the scandi languages. 😊

You are getting alot better at the norweigan language, tyler! Here in the south of norway we use the skarre-r ( like in German or French) instead of rolling r which is used in east, northeast and north, The skarre-r is used in the west and in the south!

The roll is dialect-variable. In the south we don't do that. Instead we use harsh, guttural Rs. Oslo'ites use the """posh""" rolling Rs really heavy (also also sometimes can't roll Rs and instead pronounce them as Ls)

You are doing very well Tyler. He is exaggerating the R sound, but that is for your benefit as most Norwegians use trill R, unlike the American retroflex R which is never used in Norwegian. In daily speech the trilled R sound doesn't last any longer than the rest of the letters in the word. Notice how he said that it was very strange to pronounce the words so slowly, so he is really stretching it out for clarity. The reason the Norwegian names for the months is so similar to the English names is that both of them stem from the Latin names: Ianuarius Februarius Martius Aprilis Maius Iunius Iulius Augustus September October November December

I was sitting here giving you thumbs up during the entire video. Good job on the pronunciation. :)

14:18 The pronunciation of Mars differs from dialect to dialect, it seems, in Stavangersk we pronounce Mars a lot closer to how you pronounce it in English, with only a few minor differences in the A and R between the two.

the rr rrr sound is because of his Norwegian accent there are different accents in Norway. The biggest difference isn't the r sounds, but that here in Norway we pronounce letters different. When speaking english you kinda stetch the letters, like for example j. When americans say june they pronounce it JJ but in norwegian we say juni with j. it has to do with the american accent. Most norwegians say words very straightforward if you know what I mean. we have more basic and flat sounds and you have more accent and more stretched words. most americans say the o with a dark voice like å, but the o is actually kinda light.

We do pronounce the J sound, it's just that he J sound in Norwegian is without any d sound in front of it, it is like ie or initial y in words like Yesterday. If we had had a norwegian word like Yesterday we would spell it Jesterdei also note that the ay at end becomes ei in norwegian because that is how it is pronounced. So we do pronounce the J, if you skipped the J in Januar it owuld be Anuar a very different sounding word in the initial part.