Quote Originally Posted by Lise
Duck, does that story say the black bear is in New Jersey? I used to speak some Swedish, so I was trying to see what I could read in Norwegian (answer: not much). I could pick up black bear, cat, and New Jersey. This did not require a year of study of the Swedish language at the University of Chicago. But that's what I have left.

Also, I can say, "Jag har glompt nesta alla mina Svenska". I wonder how much I paid for that.

But really, was it in NJ, USA?
If it's any comfort:
1) Swedish and Norwegian are not all that similar on the page. I can follow spoken Swedish, but reading it is a slog. With Danish it's the other way around. Looks almost exactly like Norwegian on the page, but sounds like it comes from Mars.
2) You got the gist of it right -- black bear, 7 kilo orange tabby tom cat named Jack, cat's back yard, bear chased up a tree, bear makes a run for it and gets chased up another tree, and yes -- New Jersey, USA.