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>>Isn't the only difference between them the way they are written. Bokmal is the traditional writing system, and Nynorsk is the new one, but they are both spoken the same, amirite?
Nope.
First of all, the Norwegian language is separated into so many dialects that some people don't even understand some dialects (I understand them all, as I'm not a retard). If you take Norway's population into account, Norwegian has the most dialects per inhabitant out of any language in the world. Hell, I'm pretty sure we could give Chinese a run for its money even without taking inhabitants into account. Anyway, I digress.
If you are just reading out of a book, and are supposed to use the nynorsk and bokmål "dialects" (in lack of a better word), they will sound completely different. If you talk using nynorsk, you pretty much sound like a homosexual Swede. If you talk using bokmål, you sound a little bit better, but not a lot. The only place in Norway where they still speak using bokmål is Kirkenes, the northernmost town in Norway. I do not believe nynorsk is spoken anywhere in Norway nowadays, though I have not researched this, and might thus be wrong.
Also, a fun note: Norwegian is just between English and Finnish when it comes to pronouncing words. In English, you don't pronounce any words at all the way they are written (slight exaggeration, you might be able to find some, maybe 50 if you're lucky), which is one big reason for English sucking balls as a language, next to the 5 million exceptions to rules problem, while in Finnish, you pronounce every single goddamned word exactly the way they are written (which would make it the world's best language, if only they didn't have like 24 goddamned tenses).