English has a lot of loanwords from Norwegian, and even more from Old Norse.
So many that the language wouldn't be intelligible to someone who somehow didn't know them.
You can tell your counsellor its really "International Norwegian" :-p
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old_Norse_origin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Scandinavian_origin
