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What it's about: Amina, who baked bread every morning in Mogadishu, applies for a baker's job in Stavanger with an application translated by an app, full of early birds, warm hands and buns in big ovens. The owner reads it aloud to his staff and calls her out of pure curiosity, and her own simple Norwegian turns out to be much better than the app's.
Amina hadde sett annonsen på nettet: Et bakeri i Stavanger søkte en baker. I ti år hadde hun bakt brød hver morgen i kafeen til tanta si i Mogadishu. Dette var jobben for henne. Men søknaden måtte være på norsk. Amina hadde gått på norskkurs i ett år, og hun var redd for å gjøre feil. Derfor skrev hun søknaden på somali og brukte en app for å oversette den. Teksten så fin ut, med lange setninger og mange vanskelige ord. Hun trykket på send.
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