Typical Norwegian

”Typical Norwegian” is a magazine series, dealing with useful and useless, but always entertaining explorations of the Norwegian language. In this episode we get introduced to the art form 'Battling' – where contestants compete in rap, singing their own lyrics, and get rewarded for the best rhymes and the best messages. We also meet a guy who finds and samples wonderful music in the reading of the safety instructions on board a plane. Music in the human language is this episode’s topic, and maybe there are things to be learned from the way birds communicate? Language is power. Language is identity. Language is culture. Language is important. This is the basis for host Petter Schjerven, when he gives you facts, statistics, useful guiding and absurd oddities in the universe of every day language.