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Let's Learn Icelandic!
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Do you want to learn Icelandic?
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Consider supporting this channel:
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"Small" in Icelandic [EP.54]
Continuation of my lessons for understanding the grammar behind adjective.
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Link to look up the different grammatical forms of words in Icelandic:
bin.arnastofnun.is/
For this lesson it is helpful to understand the pronunciation of NN and LL,
[EP.05] Pronunciation of N
th-cam.com/video/E9KtB4Dho_w/w-d-xo.html
[EP.06] Pronunciation of L
th-cam.com/video/TRJQgsOWfkY/w-d-xo.html
Previous lessons on Adjectives are recommended to watch before this video (especially the -legur adjectives and the colors)
[EP.23] The -legur Adjectives
th-cam.com/video/ydi9Lc53xAk/w-d-xo.html
[EP.25] The -samur adjectives
th-cam.com/video/uTJzTxV4sqY/w-d-xo.html
[EP.33] “Bad” in Icelandic[EP.43] “Good” in Icelandic
th-cam.com/video/3uqreo6BoYo/w-d-xo.html
[EP.47] The Icelandic Colors I
th-cam.com/video/x580LnuQHGE/w-d-xo.html
[EP.51] “Big” in Icelandic
th-cam.com/video/Kasn1B_XnBI/w-d-xo.html
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Link to look up the different grammatical forms of words in Icelandic:
bin.arnastofnun.is/
For this lesson it is helpful to understand the pronunciation of NN and LL,
[EP.05] Pronunciation of N
th-cam.com/video/E9KtB4Dho_w/w-d-xo.html
[EP.06] Pronunciation of L
th-cam.com/video/TRJQgsOWfkY/w-d-xo.html
Previous lessons on Adjectives are recommended to watch before this video (especially the -legur adjectives and the colors)
[EP.23] The -legur Adjectives
th-cam.com/video/ydi9Lc53xAk/w-d-xo.html
[EP.25] The -samur adjectives
th-cam.com/video/uTJzTxV4sqY/w-d-xo.html
[EP.33] “Bad” in Icelandic[EP.43] “Good” in Icelandic
th-cam.com/video/3uqreo6BoYo/w-d-xo.html
[EP.47] The Icelandic Colors I
th-cam.com/video/x580LnuQHGE/w-d-xo.html
[EP.51] “Big” in Icelandic
th-cam.com/video/Kasn1B_XnBI/w-d-xo.html
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How is the Weather? [EP.53]
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Suited for beginners and more advanced students alike. Buy Me a Coffee www.buymeacoffee.com/letslearnice Twitter laerumislensku This episode covers some phrases to discuss the weather. Beginners can use this to pick up some weather phrases, but I also discuss some grammar, which is based on some of our previous lessons, like those listed here below. The Icelandic "The" [EP.16] th-ca...
How to tell time in Icelandic [EP.52]
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How to tell time in Icelandic. Ideally for students with some minor background in Icelandic (see links to lessons below). But beginners could also learn from this - but then I recommend only the first 10 minutes! Buy Me a Coffee www.buymeacoffee.com/letslearnice Twitter laerumislensku Recommended to watch before this one: The Icelandic "The" [EP.16] th-cam.com/video/TKWmHlRdiUY/w-d-...
"Big" in Icelandic [EP 51]
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Suited for students who have seen some of my previous videos and/or those that know some basic things about Icelandic adjectives. We learn the Icelandic word for "Big" and other grammatically related words. We learn and practise how to use them in all the genders, plural and singular, in the nominative. Buy Me a Coffee www.buymeacoffee.com/letslearnice Twitter laerumislensku Before ...
The Icelandic Song About Icelandic [EP.50]
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Suited for everyone! You can watch this video independently, but it is also related to the following videos: What Languages Do You Speak? - In Icelandic [EP.49] th-cam.com/video/PNQJEFDjhdM/w-d-xo.html What Languages Does Ása Speak? [Icelandic Chat 12] th-cam.com/video/rg3xz50sjJU/w-d-xo.html The official version of this song is here: Íslenska er okkar mál (Icelandic is our language): th-cam.co...
What Languages Does Ása Speak? [Icelandic Chat 12]
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Suitable for everyone. A short chat where I speak about my own language experience. The aim is to practise the material from [EP.49], so please watch that one first (or after): th-cam.com/video/PNQJEFDjhdM/w-d-xo.html Buy Me a Coffee www.buymeacoffee.com/letslearnice Twitter laerumislensku For more lessons about Icelandic, check out my channel and please remember to subscribe ♥
What Languages Do You Speak? - In Icelandic [EP.49]
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A lesson in Icelandic that should be suitable for everyone. Note that if you are a beginner, some grammar points might go over your head, so just watch with the aim of getting from it what you can, and leave the rest for later. Buy Me a Coffee www.buymeacoffee.com/letslearnice Twitter laerumislensku For more lessons about Icelandic, check out my channel and please remember to subscr...
The Icelandic Cases with Verbs [EP.48]
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Introduction to how verbs control the grammatical cases in Icelandic. Buy Me a Coffee www.buymeacoffee.com/letslearnice Twitter laerumislensku Before watching this lesson, I recommend first watching: Personal Pronouns in Icelandic [EP.18] th-cam.com/video/XB2UgA7VPME/w-d-xo.html The Icelandic Cases - Introduction [EP.44] th-cam.com/video/NIb6VhmJ1ns/w-d-xo.html I & You in all the Ca...
The Triangle of Language Learning
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A balanced and an efficient way of learning languages. Buy Me a Coffee www.buymeacoffee.com/letslearnice Twitter laerumislensku For more lessons about Icelandic, check out my channel and please remember to subscribe ♥
The Icelandic Colors I [EP.47]
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Suited for students who have seen some of my previous videos and/or those that know some basic things about Icelandic adjectives. We go over the colors: black, white, red, pink, yellow and orange. We learn and practise how to use them in all the genders, plural and singular, in the nominative. This is useful for Icelandic adjectives in general, nor just the colors! Buy Me a Coffee www.buymeacof...
Lyrics for the Icelandic Eurovision Song 2022 [EP.46]
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I explain the lyrics for the Icelandic Eurovision song 2022: Með hækkandi sól. The aim is to help people learning Icelandic, but this is in principle suitable for everyone. The song is here as sung by Sigga, Beta and Elín th-cam.com/video/vk9D10EyxHA/w-d-xo.html The song is by the Icelandic singer-songwriter Lay Low, one of her earlier song is here: th-cam.com/video/xUReM558GTU/w-d-xo.html For ...
"I" & "You" in all the Icelandic Cases [EP.45]
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I will go over how Icelanders do the cases, and then more specifically cover the cases of "I" and "You" (singular) with some examples. Before this it is useful to have seen: Personal Pronouns in Icelandic [EP.18] th-cam.com/video/XB2UgA7VPME/w-d-xo.html To be in Icelandic [EP.19] th-cam.com/video/VofRGA2XXg8/w-d-xo.html The Icelandic Cases - Introduction [EP.44] th-cam.com/video/NIb6VhmJ1ns/w-d...
The Icelandic Cases - Introduction [EP.44]
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Introduction to the grammatical cases in Icelandic. Suitable for beginners and more advanced students alike. This can be the first video of mine that you watch! It only relies (very) mildly on: Icelandic Numbers 1-4 [Ep.28] th-cam.com/video/DZ6RsmxTX8c/w-d-xo.html Icelandic Plurals - ∅ [EP.35] th-cam.com/video/4GdYfqV_8Hk/w-d-xo.html For tips on how to pronounce LL see [EP.06]: th-cam.com/video...
The Explosion Day! [Icelandic Chat 11]
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Short chat in Icelandic for language learning purposes. Both Icelandic and English subtitles. I talk about the Icelandic Explosion day, always on a Tuesday around this time of year - on the 1st of March in 2022. Google: "saltkjöt og baunir" for pictures! Introduction to my Icelandic Chat series is here: th-cam.com/video/MEZOef_5F7A/w-d-xo.html For a playlist with all the Icelandic Chats series,...
Cream Bun Day! [Icelandic Chat 10]
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Short chat in Icelandic for language learning purposes. Both Icelandic and English subtitles. I talk about the Icelandic Cream Bun Day, which is always on a Monday around this time of year - now on the 28th of February in 2022. Introduction to my Icelandic Chat series is here: th-cam.com/video/MEZOef_5F7A/w-d-xo.html For a playlist with all the Icelandic Chats series, and more lessons about Ice...
Happy/Unhappy in Icelandic (Negative Prefixes) [EP.41]
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Happy/Unhappy in Icelandic (Negative Prefixes) [EP.41]
The 13 Icelandic Santa Clauses (+Parents+Cat) [EP.40]
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The 13 Icelandic Santa Clauses ( Parents Cat) [EP.40]
The Icelandic Happy Birthday Song [EP.39]
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The Icelandic Happy Birthday Song [EP.39]
Merry Christmas in Icelandic (+Happy New Year!) [EP.38]
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Merry Christmas in Icelandic ( Happy New Year!) [EP.38]
Icelandic Folk Song - Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu [EP.36]
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Icelandic Folk Song - Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu [EP.36]
Glacier Trips [Icelandic Chat 9, from EP.29]
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Glacier Trips [Icelandic Chat 9, from EP.29]
Vegetable Soup [Icelandic Chat 8, from EP.28]
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Vegetable Soup [Icelandic Chat 8, from EP.28]
Love and Hate [Icelandic Chat 7, from EP.26]
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Love and Hate [Icelandic Chat 7, from EP.26]
The Beautiful but Dangerous Iceland [Icelandic Chat 6, from EP.23]
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The Beautiful but Dangerous Iceland [Icelandic Chat 6, from EP.23]
Krummavísur [Icelandic Chat 5, from EP.22]
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Krummavísur [Icelandic Chat 5, from EP.22]
My Name Sister [Icelandic Chat 4, from EP.21]
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My Name Sister [Icelandic Chat 4, from EP.21]
I do not think I can ever think again, "Oh, 4 numbers, must be like the letter K (because you can breathe again in between the weird and difficult letters". But then you started to explain everything and I can follow you. You explain (most) things super clear, and if I do not understand it at first glance, I do at second glance. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much!!!!!!
I follow Bónus on social media and I do pick up Icelandic words from them. I also pick up words from Bónus products that we purchase whenever we go to Iceland!
Asa what about when the FL is the beginning of the word like Flaska?
'The sky is the limit', er pad (I do not know how to type the letters) ekki?
In Spanish sol is so similar to sól and means the same :0
Thanks for this, very helpful!
Hi! Men are det sant at dere forstår norsk eller dansk også? Jeg skal reise til Island på neste helgen! Gleder meg 😊
You are an amazing teacher!! Thank you so much for your videos! :)
This is awesome!! Thank you for your videos! I just found out about Icelandic and really want to speak it now :) I've been to Iceland on a school trip a couple of years ago and I really liked it! So I hope to be able to speak with Icelanders someday in their native language :)) Thank you so much!!!
In the Ukrainian language, the sound G is also soft, we pronounce it exactly the same as in the phrase "Ég er konna" and as in the word “saga”. In the Ukrainian language there is no hard G sound at all, only soft, with only a few exceptions.
Takk! That was a very interesting grammatical twist on the "góðan daginn" expression. I'm Norwegian so this rings a familiar bell to me, but what's even more interesting is that we also do the "wrong" adjective form. Norwegian has lost the case system in general (officially; many dialects still use especially dative), but the gender and definiteness is still reflected. The modern grammatically correct equivalents to the Icelandic variants are "god dag" or "(den) gode dagen" (yes, double definite article when an adjective is there), but it is _very_ common to say "god dagen" instead, just like in Icelandic... Actually the correct definite form is never used as a greeting, only the first and last of the three.
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Awesome teacher
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Am from Morocco and I would like to learn I Icelandic despite its ifficulty so thank you so much
Frábær kennsla. Takk fyrir. Mjög gagnlegt til að senda erlendum vinum, þeim til hjálpar 😊
This is fucking easy. Did not know that my Haugesund dialect was that similar to Icelandic.
When I whatch this video, when you are happy telling us that you have over 100 subscribers, you have 6,78 K subscribers. I think, I know this means the world needs your lessons & you are very clear axplaining the stuff. Thank you thank you thank you thank you for everything!!!!
Why is the name of the twins not 'annadottir/annason'? Why is it changed into önnu?
How do you pause for a second and then think of such complicated long names??? Amazing!!
Takk fyrir lærdóminn
The Icelandic accent/pronunciation is my favorite, and the language intrigues me. I'm a linguist and language teacher. I was first introduced to Icelandic pronunciation by listening to Björk's songs. I notice the pronunciation significantly when she sings "...army of me": the 'a' and 'me'.
Uppáhalds tungumálið mitt er norska. Norska er svo gaman að tala. Og íslenska er uppáhalds tungumálið mitt.
Absolutely amazing for a language/grammar nerd like me 😊. From Sweden, learning Icelandic. Will follow you here!
Thanks for this. My partner is Dutch but lived in Iceland for 13 years. She wants to take me to Iceland and I want to learn Icelandic (I have already learnt enough Dutch to be proficient (I come from England)) This has been very helpful
Pínulítil könguló fór upp í vatnstútinn. :D
það var mikið rok á Íslandi. Ég hélt að það myndi sprengja mig fram af bjargbrúninni. :D Uppahálds veður mitt er hlýtt og blær og sól. 16 gráður er frábært! Í dag veðrið er allskýjað og rigning. Þoð er áttatán stiga hiti.
klukkana vantar korter í átta.
Mitt hús er rauður. Kötúrinn minn er svartur. Annar kötturinn minn er káli. Bíllin minn er blá. Ég vona að þessar setningar séu réttar. :D þetta kennlustund er frábæar! kærar þakkir!
My boyfriend is Icelandic and I’m Canadian/Pakistani. I have been trying to learn how to speak, I tried apps to learn but I found the pronunciation was so off! I’m so glad I came across your page. 🎉
halló! kærar þakkir fyrir your videos on this youtube channel!! I'm from Russia and im just at the beginning of a long way to learn Icelandic but I really love this language(especially its pronunciation) and every time I study Íslenska with your new episodes I feel fantastic. I have never wanted to learn language before svona and now almost every day I watch your videos here and know something new for myself ^^ tysm Asa(sorry i cant write your name normally from labtop)
Nafni in spanish (at least in Mexico) is "Tocayo"
I want to visit Iceland, maybe for our 30th anniversary in 2027. I've always felt that it shows more respect, when traveling, to try to speak a little bit of the language. I love listening to you, your accent is beautiful and you seem like you have a good heart. I hope you are successful! And way to go living in Italia, that's my dream! 😊
I want to learn Icelandic because I visited it last year, and I had never felt ANYTHING in my entire life before that. The nature is so pretty out there, unbelievable. I want to convince my teachers of the university that I can do my stage in Iceland, so that I can be there for at least a couple of months. If that does not works, I will travel there myself, for months. Never ever ever ever in my life have I seen so many pretty things, and the language is super pretty too.
Thank you so much! I have found two apps that teach words, (Drops, the two versions), but they do not teach the pronounciation of the letters alone. Thanks to you, Ása, I now understand why sometimes the person speaks it a certain way and sometimes another. I cannot express enough how thankful I am. By the way, even a course that has cost me over €100, does not explain the rules of pronounciation. I owe you so much!! Thank you for everything! I also love your accent, bit by bit I understand why you breathe so mucht when you pronounce. I have learned that trying to speak English whith Icelandic breaths, is way funnier, and also makes it easier to remember when to breate.
The Borg thing still works if you think of a city as a collective of people.
uppahálds tungumálið mitt er spænsku en ég tala hanni ekki mjög oft. Ég elska líka Íslensku. kærar þakkir fyrir allt myndbandinnir!
Ég tala reiprennandi engsku og ég kann spænsku og ég er lelegur að tala Íslensku. :D Ég kann líka svolítið kóresku.
listened to this again because love the culture shock story so much. heyrðu: no way do anglophones recite from memory insane lists i.e. 'I, me, me, me; you, you, you, you; she, her, her, her' (etc.) either. Vá!! Finally get to say it: "E[h]k[h]ki, ekki, EKKI!" I very, very vaguely recall something along the lines of "to, from or by her" but just a fragment.
hamarinn af ása?
kærar takkir! Ég elska þissí kenlustund. It's funny you mention heavy metal bands because my mind instantly made that connection. :D Dímmu borgír = dark (dim) city Dokken = Darkness/Dark Opeth is close to opið. I'm sure there's many more.
kæra ása, þakka pér fyrir. hér í kanada seyjum við venjulega bara "it's all me, me, me" for self-absorption. which is v. funny as you listed our three non-nefnifall cases as exactly that trio! 🙏vertu með á netinu þegar þu getur✨
One thing I've noticed with translating the pronoun "Hán", it really should say "They is good at biking." The singular form of "are" would be "is". Of course that just sounds wrong in English. :D
It's just that English uses the same version for the verb "to be" for plural They and singular They. Like: "They are a cyclist" vs. "They are cyclists", in a similar way to the word "you". But yes it is indeed quite confusing when translating between English and Icelandic!
@@letslearnicelandic405 It doesn't help that we have no gender neutral pronouns.
I quit trying to learn Icelandic when I got to the cases but now that I found you I am going to push on through because you break things down so well and succinctly. Maybe someday I can read my favorite author Arnaldur Indridason in his native language….😌
Good luck! I am sure that someday you will read an Arnaldur Indriðason book in Icelandic! - or at least a part of it 😊
This is unreplaceable! Thank you!
Glad you like it!
Grýla borðar vond börnin 😅
Já! Eins gott að vera gott og hlýðið barn!
What if it's an old Santa? Could you call him Jólamaðurinn?
🤣🤣🤣 All Santas are old, so "Jólamaðurinn" would have a different meaning. Depending on context it could mean a (human) guy who is obsessed with Christmas, though most likely we would more commonly use "Jólakarl" as in "Hann er algjör jólakarl" or "Hún er algjör jólakerling" but Jólamaður/kona would work in a similar way. Otherwise "Jólamaðurinn" could be used in a slightly condescending way to describe the international Santa Clause, with the implication that this is just some Christmas-dude and not one of the "real" Santa Clauses. But no, I don't think we would typically use Jólamaðurinn to describe the santa clauses, but it would be understandable!
@@letslearnicelandic405 Kærar takkir!
Ég er fjörtiu og fimm ára. I hope I said that right. 😂
Við erum bara á svipuðum aldri! Mjög margir Íslendingar myndu skrifa þetta eins og þú gerðir (því þannig er það borið fram), en tæknilega er rétt stafsetning "fjörUtíu".
I am just now seeing this episode as I just found your channel, and I am so glad I did. I have learned more from your lessons, which I watch over and over and over, than from all of the books and workbooks I bought in Iceland 10 years ago. You are a fantastic teacher with a terrific sense of humor. My question is why is the plural form of my bananas bananar and not bananir since it is male? Am I missing something? I was up all night thinking there is something I am not getting 😫
Hey! So glad you are enjoying the channel. Okay... so this is something that I have not gotten into yet, because I didn't want to scare you guys too much... But when it comes to male plurals, they are all over the place, lots of irregularities and so on. But to simplify a bit, in some cases, when changing from singular to plural, the word takes an ending more often associated with the opposite gender. Like: Ein kona - tvær konur Ein dúkka - margar dúkkur -ur is typically a male ending of singular words, but female words ending with -a typically get an -ur ending in the plural. In the same way Banani - Bananar Takki - Takkar Spói - Spóar Male words that end with -i typically get an -ar ending in the plural, although "a" is typically a more female ending. Hope that helps!
Great story! This gives me flashbacks to when I almost got stuck in Eyvindarhola. That would have been a bad day.
Sounds like you have a great story of your own! Thanks so much for listening!
@@letslearnicelandic405 Ég held ekki er saga "gott" 😄. Eg er gleðilegur er ivar.