# Norwegian Translator Internship at CryptoMize A Norwegian translator at CryptoMize works between English and Norway’s two written standards — majority Bokmål and minority Nynorsk — on press summaries, engagement documents, and Nordic-facing correspondence. The defining hazard is closeness: Norwegian sits near Danish and Swedish, and near-identical words that mean subtly different things are where careless translation hides. Apply for the Norwegian Translator Internship in Delhi at CryptoMize — six months, certified, rolling intake, with a named senior translator from the opening week. Nordic engagements generate steady work in both directions: Norwegian press coverage, engagement documents, and correspondence moving between Bokmål or Nynorsk and English. Training treats the language as it actually is — two written standards, dialect-rich speech, and a Danish neighborhood full of false friends — while building termbase habits and QA discipline. Freshers with strong Norwegian and English: the work, the eligibility bar, and the selection process follow. ## Facts - Location: New Delhi (HQ), CDR Building, Chhatarpur - Type: 6-month internship, certification provided - Availability: immediate, rolling intake (always hiring) - Compensation: discussed at screening ## What you will actually do - Translate Norwegian press items, engagement documents, and correspondence into English, and English material into Bokmål or Nynorsk as the audience requires - Choose correctly between the two written standards per assignment, defending the choice in review rather than defaulting silently - Guard against Danish and Swedish false friends — near-identical forms whose meanings quietly part ways - Handle dialect-heavy source material by reading for intent first, normalizing into standard Norwegian or English as briefed - Build termbase entries aligned with Språkrådet guidance where terminology disputes arise - Summarize Norwegian press and broadcast coverage for monitoring briefs with attribution kept exact - Pass every deliverable through QA tooling plus a human second read before sign-off - Close with a capstone portfolio across press, document, and correspondence genres in both standards ## Skills - Strong Norwegian across Bokmål and Nynorsk - Dependable English at professional writing standard - Standard-selection judgment per audience - Danish and Swedish false-friend awareness - Dialect-source comprehension with normalization - Termbase discipline aligned to council guidance - Press-summary craft with exact attribution - Register control for client correspondence - QA-pass habits on every single delivery - Parallel small-job deadline management - Care with named entities in two standards - Confidentiality for engagement material under NDA ## Tools - Smartcat with standard-tagged termbase - Phrase for translation-memory leverage - Xbench-class QA before delivery - Norwegian press archives and Språkrådet references ## Questions and answers ### What does a Norwegian Translator intern work on? Norwegian press items, engagement documents, and correspondence in both directions across Bokmål and Nynorsk — QA-passed and reviewed before every delivery. ### What is the eligibility for this Norwegian internship? Strong command of both written standards and professional English. No diploma is mandatory — a two-direction screening translation decides. ### Do I need Nynorsk, or is Bokmål enough? Both, to working level. Nynorsk is a minority standard but a real one, and assignments arrive in it; training strengthens whichever side is weaker. ### Why does Danish matter on a Norwegian desk? Bokmål descends from the Danish written tradition, so the languages look nearly identical while occasionally meaning different things. The desk trains that trap explicitly rather than discovering it in a deliverable. The screening task includes one deliberately tricky Danish-adjacent passage for exactly that reason. ### Is the Norwegian Translator Internship paid? Compensation is discussed during the screening process and depends on demonstrated skill, engagement classification, urgency, and track record — no figures are published. ### How long is the program, and is certification provided? Six months at our New Delhi HQ, certification provided on completion, with a reviewed portfolio of shipped work in both standards attached. ### What does the selection process involve? An application, a Norwegian-to-English and an English-to-Norwegian screening task — one item requiring a standard choice — plus a short interview, typically two weeks. ### Is Norwegian useful if the firm also works in Swedish and Danish? The three markets overlap for readers but not for clients — Norwegian engagements want Norwegian, and near-understanding is exactly where costly misreading hides. This bench keeps the distinction sharp. Apply: https://cryptomize.com/careers/internship/apply/