C1 · Upper advanced
You use Norwegian flexibly in demanding professional, academic, and social settings. You understand long texts, catch implicit meaning, and speak without an obvious search for words. You write structured texts on complex topics and shift register: formal, informal, technical. Locals hear a competent speaker, not necessarily a native one. An accent, an odd collocation, or a very specialized doubt may remain. Units are no longer about getting through the day. The axis is precision, register, and the implicit.
Exit. Work or study in Norwegian without the language being the bottleneck, except in very local jargon.