About this episode

Sondre Lerche discusses A-ha and shares the authentic pronunciations of Norwegian fjord names.

When you’re a Norwegian musician, you get used to hearing a lot of the band A-ha, the biggest ever to come out of the Nordic country shaped like an arm from the elbow down. And that’s fine with Sondre Lerche, the most popular Norwegian solo musicians of all time. Sondre adored A-ha by rarely gets to share all his knowledge. Until this bedtime, that is. Sondre also reads the names of 15 fjords in their authentic pronunciations and also teaches our Norwegian-American host how to accurately pronounce his own middle name and the names of his parents, in both Bergen and Oslo dialects.

People in this episode

Host: John Moe

Guest: Sondre Lerche

Topics covered

• Norwegian music
• A-ha
• fjord names
• pronunciation
• cultural exchange

Keywords

• Sondre Lerche
• A-ha
• Norwegian music
• fjord names
• pronunciation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: A-ha

Places: Norway, Bergen, Oslo

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