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Typisk norsk (2004)

Typisk norsk poster
Genre
documentary television program
Country
Norway
Length
3 seasons, 26 episodes
Rating
8.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is a Norwegian documentary series about language and communication. The host visits researchers and language enthusiasts to explore topics like dialects, slang, and how Norwegian sounds to immigrants. It is a straightforward educational program that examines everyday quirks of the Norwegian language.

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What happens

Typisk norsk (lit. 'Typical Norwegian') is a news and magazine program about language and communication produced by Dropout Productions (seasons 1 and 2) and Rubicon TV (season 3) for NRK. Three seasons of the program were produced (2004, 2005, and 2006). The concept is inspired by the Swedish SVT-produced series Värsta språket (lit. 'The Worst Language') with Fredrik Lindström as the host. Petter Schjerven is the host of Typisk norsk. The program covers interesting topics in language and communication, among others. It also deals with language enthusiasts and researchers and discusses problems with the Norwegian language. The first season had 453,000 viewers, the second season 553,000, and the third 622,000. Typisk norsk won the Gullruten Award in 2005 for Best Culture or Magazine Program and Best Male Host. In 2006, the editors of the program received Den Store Journalistprisen. Typisk norsk has covered, among other things: Word separation and hyphenation Slang How Norwegian sounds to immigrants Dialects Norwegian in comparison to Danish and Swedish Old Norse Where language ability comes from The guttural R sound The Norwegian method of counting Odd translations in films (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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