"Han trenger mer skismøring før vi går på ski."

Translation: He needs more ski wax before we ski.

[LukaAlien]

Hahaha, seriously, this course is teaching me words in english I didn't even know existed! (Ski wax? When will I need to know that!)
Norges duolingo er kult!

[ann_kati]

hahhahah my father has literally 10 kinds of ski wax (for new snow, old snow, old snow that melted and then got frozen again...) :D

[Moongrovenly]

Skiing is not as fun or easy without good wax!

[loladesu]

File under: Phrases I Am Unlikely To Need At Home In Australia.

[Moongrovenly]

But Australia does have some decent skiing!

[Zzzzz...]

Does gå på ski mean skiing in general, or does it refer to cross-country only?

[klart]

"gå på ski" refers to cross-country, "stå på ski" refers to slalom/downhill skiing

[Zzzzz...]

Takk så mye!

[griffindd]

afaik it's skiing in general. cross-country is langrenn; å gå langrenn; slalåm = slalom; utfor downhill

[MiclePlaton]

I had this sentence like 10 times in a row on this lesson. Huh?

[Deliciae]

We've partnered up with a ski wax company and are testing out some not-so-subliminal marketing ploys.

(It's a bug.)

[pablopublico]

"Ski smearing".

[Moongrovenly]

Thank you. I was just about to laugh at the idea of "ski butter", based on the not-exactly-right sense that smør might always and only mean butter. But then i realized smør is more generally a spread or smear, like how you have a shmear (of many kinds, potentially) on a bagel in Yiddish. A Norwegian sandwich is a bread with a spread!

[OwenSannap]

what is ski wakx

[griffindd]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_wax :
" material applied to the bottom of...skis...to improve...performance "

[OwenSannap]

Thank you