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I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish 2gether as they are as pretty / refined / poetic as English and way too pretty not to know - I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic / Norse / German and advanced level in Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch at the moment, and these languages are real fun as the words are so pretty and magical, just like the English words!
By the way, my current levels are... - upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian - intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / Urkers / Hunsrik / East Norse / Ruhrpöttisch / Alemannic / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Pälzische Deutsch / Austrian German / Waddisch / Palatine German / Westföälsk Sassisk / Austro-Bavarian / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / Sognamål / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc) (I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)
By the way, I would highly suggest making videos about all the less known languages that are on my list as well, including the wonderful Norse and Gothic and East Norse and Old Icelandic and Greenlandic Norse etc and the Old / Middle versions of each Norse / Germanic / Nordic language - for example, languages such as Faroese / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Friulian / Sicilian / Elfdalian / Ladin / East Frisian / Gallo / North Frisian / Luxembourgish / Guernsey / PlatDeitsch / Walloon / Limburgish / Aranese / Galician / Occitan / Latin / Sognamål etc and the other Dutch-based and German-based and Norwegian-based etc languages that haven’t been recognized as an official language yet (even though they are different languages with different spelling and grammar etc) have very few native speakers, so they are very unknown, and because of this, there aren’t many resources / videos on yt teaching them, and most of them aren’t even on Google translate yet, and there aren’t any dictionaries or wordlists on the Net for many of them either, which makes it very difficult for one to learn them fluently, so hopefully they will get more éxpòsure in the near future, so that more and more ppl that know them get inspired to start teaching them, as these languages are super pretty and they definitely need all the help they can get!
Oh wow. I remember reading his messages on a language learning forum way back. That is unless there is another person from Quebec who mastered Icelandic.
It's pretty close to many ways to pronounce letters in English, but I find it a bit more complicated wit 32 letters to choose on in the alphabet 😂 I understand some of what hey says, as a native dane and living in Norway, its closer to Norwegian than Danish.
The only thing more beautiful than listening to an Icelander speak English is hearing him or her speak their own language. It's the best thing in the world!
We had a listening comprehension exercise in our Swedish class. But it was in ICELANDIC. It was hilarious. All the people in the classroom just stared at each other, confused. We couldn't really understand more than a couple of words here and there. (I'm a native Finnish speaker)
@@ritajn1689 In Swedish classes we explore all the Nordic countries. We had a chapter about Iceland and our teacher just wanted us to hear what Icelandic sounds like compared to Swedish. We did the same with Danish and Norwegian too. Danish and Icelandic sounded like gibberish Swedish. Norwegian was almost comprehensible :D
i'm an american who recently moved to helsinki and nordic languages are fucking difficult but swedish is easy mode compared to icelandic and finnish. regardless i'm still a typical monolingual american, hopefully changing that over the next couple years lmao
Takk fyrir, Ljóni! Ég skildi næstum allt sem þú sagðir í þessu myndbandi. Mér finnst mjög gaman að hlusta á íslenskuna þína! Ég ætla að halda áfram að læra þessa fallega tungumál!
@@jakecooke422 That is not an actual language. You're just hitting keys randomly on your keyboard, aren't you? Five and six consonants in a row? Wild! LOL
I absolutely love Icelandic. It's such a unique-sounding language; very whispy yet soft and pillowy - the type of language you immediate associate with the mystic landscape of Iceland. I'd love to learn this language one day.
_Íslenska!_ Oh, so beautiful! Thank you very, very much, Ljóni, for making this video! I understand some words since my native language is Swedish and I also speak German, so I get a hang of what you’re saying. Trust me, Icelandic is on my list (of language to learn)!
For me as a Norwegian, it is almost like hearing a very strange Norwegian dialect that I "mysteriously" can't understand. I get many individual words and sometimes entire sentence fragments, but it is JUST different enough to be unintelligible.
I am 100% Icelandic but a lot of people say I could be Swedish since my last name is Magnusson. I definitely got my strength from my Icelandic heritage though!!
@@dreamerwav698as someone who is fluent in spanish and almost half in italian, italian doesn’t look like spanish lol maybe with some mental gymnastics but…lol
In the old days of Hansaforbundet low German was the lingua franca in Norway and so it greatly influenced norwegian vocabulary and grammar. Norwegian language is like little brother of big German language.
I'm convinced Wikitongues deliberately picks the good lookers for these videos. Not always, but there are too many for it to be a coincidence. Have a look at the videos on Bahau, Gallo, Acadian French and Twents.
Just look for web radios. Always a great ides if you want to get the sound of a language. Search for Icelandic radio. My first results are TuneIn and Radio.net
I hope that's sarcasm, in case you didn't know Icelandic is the closest language to old norse, the people that spoke this extinct language are famous for being raiders which.... is not kind at all.
There's always that one person who has to be overly serious. He/she is clearly talking about modern Icelandic and the Icelandic people today. If he/she meant Old Norse, he/she would've said "Old Norse".
@@scorpionfiresome3834 Because the rest of the people, including your ancestors were peaceful farmers? Stick to the main theme and do not deviate being attacking a population especially as you have no idea what this thread is about apparently.
Wow Ljóni I am so glad that you are an Icelander!!! At least mostly 😀 I have never been to Iceland but I have been trying to learn the language by myself here in Australia for 45 years!!! When I saw you I thought you were some young guy from America who had taught himself for the last six months and I felt like slitting my wrist because you were speaking so fast and with what sounds to me like a perfect Icelandic accent ha ha only an Icelander would think you have an accent. Extremely hard to get it perfect isn't it. I can speak educated Australian or very broad bush Australian and I can always pick up somebody trying to speak our way even if they're very good, it's just born and bred into us isn't it. But you inspired me, if I could ever get to your standard I'll be bloody happy. I am quite pleased that I understood about half of what you were saying and when I read the transcript I saw that I was mostly correct. I am just about to turn 63 and I am determined to speak Icelandic reasonably well before I go senile 😂
For those of you who are not aware, Icelandic is ranked the hardest Germanic language to learn for English speakers due to the language's complex case system through which numerous declensions of words are formed to indicate their function in a given sentence which is a long-lost characteristic of English. Having taken cases into account, there is also the matter of preserved vocabulary in Icelandic that bears a strong resemblance to the vocabulary of the ancestral Germanic language spoken in north mainland Europe and southern Scandinavia, more or less during the Roman Republic and also in dialectal form during the 9th century. In detail, the reason why Icelandic managed to stay conservative in vocabulary for such a long period of its existence is the fact that it was (and still is) spoken on a remote island relatively far from Europe where influences coming from the continent's mainland could not reach the Icelandic population, allowing the language to develop freely and independently. To this day onwards, Icelandic is deemed to be the Germanic language possessing the most archaic vocabulary that has been lost to different extents in the other Germanic languages of today in contrast.
is it a base language then from which words are borrowed for later use in other languages? My whole life I have been interested in language but alas I do not have the intellect necessary to remember what I have learned for longer than a few minutes. My first language was French, my second childhood languages were first Spanish for a year and by the time I was 7 I was speaking English. My native languages should have been Armenian, Hungarian and Arabic....but I was deliberately prevented from learning those three languages...O think as I grew older my parents made us speak the language who country we were in on our way to America. Which took a long time.
@@Ftmyersbeachlizard No, I don't think Icelandic, or back then referred to as Old Norse, had any kind of dominion in Europe whose sphere of influence reached a remarkable number of languages in the continent's mainland. Latin and Greek were always the top leading influential languages whose vocabulary can be found to various extents in EVERY European language existing today, all thanks to the Roman and Greek Empires that had spread their customs to extensive parts of the world for us to end up loaning many of their words. With my lack of expanded historical knowledge, this is the best answer I can give you, despite its vagueness.
@@mikoajbojarczuk9395 thank you Armenian is a language with a different linguistic mark....they call it indo European and is in its present state the same as it was in 400AD....
@@LegoCityFilms "nordic" language family doesn't exist, you're thinking of North Germanic, and North Germanic is part of the Germanic language family...
Hæ Ljóni I watched your video two years ago and I could hardly understand a word of it now after studying Icelandic every day I am amazed by how much I understand. Thanks very much mate, and especially for that exposition of the different 'r's thats something new😀 Cheers from Dave, Australia
i was able to understand a few sentences just from my basic norwegian knowledge! striking how close norwegian (probably more nynorsk than bokmal, though there are features of both in icelandic, like ég which is more common in nynorsk in the form of "eg" and ekki which is similar to bokmal "ikke") is to the icelandic language. would love to learn it one day, though it is probably the 'big boss' of germanic languages, with multiple cases and sounds that had gone extinct in other, more spoken languages
Icelandic is so fun yet incredibly difficult to learn. I had a great friend from Iceland for over 8 years until she moved to mainland Europe. I ended up learning enough of the language to be able to "speak" it with her 6 year old brother when I finally visited her (I have a great video of myself playing Guess Who with him). She taught me how to pronounce the "ll" sound which is absolutely foreign to English speakers. I still remember how to count to 20, even though it's been 9 years since I've been there. Ég elska íslensku. :)
I look at the script, and it looks like something straight out of a literal magic world. Like, it looks like something you’d use for magic incantations.
+2tz02 Yes, I think so. When the 'r' and the 'l' are after a voiceless consonant or at the end of the word they are devoice. The 'r' could be either tapped /ɾ̥/ o trilled /r̥/.
Holy God, is he an Icelander? His speech sounds so smooth and cute; I think I will never speak like him... Very good video, so you have a new subscriber... Ég elska Íslensku 💟👍👌
People sometimes ask what irish sounds like and Icelandic is the closest sounding language. It isn't related in terms of syntax or vocab but the sounds are the most similar.
I thought Icelandic didn’t have voiced plosives (I got the impression that I heard) Anyway this languages’ complexity is enough to make it absolutely fascinating
It sounds similarly to Celtic languages such as Gaelic to my ears. Does anyone one of any study that points that these two branches of languages have a close connection?
They are not really related besides being european. Celtic languages are genetically closer to romance languages but are unique in their own right. I would say however that the two language families can have very similar sounds and phonemes. Welsh is very airy and light like icelandic for example, and has similar vowel sounds. If you read the two languages however they are completely different
Lots of Vikings settled in Ireland and Western Scotland, hence the Norse-Gaels, who were a mix of Norse and Gaelic speakers but who eventually just became Gaels. You can definitely hear the Norse influence in people's accents from the Western Isles in Scotland; Ireland less so perhaps. I read somewhere that male DNA in Iceland is mostly from Norway and female DNA is from Ireland and Scotland - I don't know how DNA analysis works though but I think you can guess what was going on back when the Vikings settled in Iceland!
I have a hard time with my native English lol lol as far as speaking properly... but it would take me all my life to nail an Icelandic sentence I believe... I don't believe I would have much hope
I'd guess the icelandic can understand all the others relatively well, but the others can't understand icelandic. A few words stand out and are understandable, but most isn't. Unless we read it, then it's a bit easier to understand. Icelandic is so old and uses so many letters we aren't used to so it's very hard to understand even though our languages are related. Also iceland don't take/borrow new words from other languages like everyone else, they create their own out of words they already have, if that makes sense.
Icelandic is very similar to gammel norsk and because of how little it has changed, by changing a bit of the way we speak and talking more formaly, we could go back to the year ~1000 and speak to the people there.
plz don't molest me plz Yep, so I've heard. It has been such an isolated place with little outside influence for such a long time that the language hasn't evolved that much compared to others, not the case anymore though, with the internet and airplanes and all. Pretty damn cool if you ask me.
JRR Tolkien was very much inspired by ancient Icelandic sagas, which is why some of his words and names (such as most of the names of the dwarves in "The Hobbit") are in fact, Icelandic. It's not that he sounds like someone from Lord of the Rings but Lord of the Rings sounds Icelandic.
+Adam Hovey Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian are all descended from Old West Norse. Faroese is closer to Icelandic than Norwegian is, since Norwegian was quite influenced by Low Saxon and Danish (the latter being descended from Old East Norse) during the later middle ages and modern period.
+The505Guys Because of trade. Low Saxon was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League, so the continental scandinavian languges were influenced by it. As far as I know, the influence of Low Saxon was mainly on vocabulary, a lot of words were imported.
It's uncanny listening to this as a native speaker of Danish; Swedish and Norwegian is... alright (?) Listening to, but Icelandic is like listening to someone mumbling and randomly dropping words into the utterance that I know
when i watch on youtube on safari browser no English subtitle but when I open up the actual youtube app, then it automatically has the Enlish translated subtitles. Probably something in my settings. Fascinating nonetheless!
+theworldvideos1 ''Good morning, today i'm going to speak Icelandic and about Icelandic. Icelandic is difficult and complicated and there's a lot in it that confuses Icelanders and foreigners. Uhmm there are some difficult words like gills (in icelandic tálkn) that is very difficult to say. Gills, if you're not born in Iceland and raised. Oops. There is uhmm, there are words like inlet which decline (decline as in the verb for declension) a lot and are modified a lot. (0:32 to 0:43 are just a bunch of declensions and different sayings of the word fjord/inlet depending in wich context you're using the word) And then there are irregular words like mare and sheep, here is a mare, about a mare, from a mare, to a mare. Or something, who knows? Then there, there is the blessed extension manner in past tense. I came, i came, i would come. I won, i won, that i would win. I must, i had to, that i would become. (I'm sorry if none of this is making any sense, this is just how some Icelandic words decline and are changed :/) Uhh what else is there that is impossible to remember, increased. That will increase, it increased, we increased, it increased or increased. You could say both. (Again remember what i said above :/) Yeah Icelandic really is a cool language but very difficult, very demanding. The pronunciation is what it is. Difficult with a lot of sounds. Well, mountain. There are four r's. Uhhh Robbery, Carcass, Orri, Man, Ari. But, it's very nice to be able to speak Icelandic, it's very nice to be able to blabber in Icelandic. Icelanders are naturally very pleased to be able to create some words which don't mean anything or.. you can just say whatever you want. Nobody knows whatsoever any good Icelandic that well anymore. Nah, i'm just saying. Uhmm i'm a foreigner, i do have an accent i know that, i don't speak perfect Icelandic and i am not born and raised here. I am an Icelander but i am not an Icelander from birth. Uhh i was an Icelandic teacher for about four to five years. Taught other foreigners Icelandic. Did good but i felt sorry for them afterwards for having to learn this and having me as a teacher. But i love linguistics and i put a lot of effort so that people can understand and know what's happening. Why is this in dative form and why is this in genitive form. What controls this word and often at times the answer is i don't know it just is the way it is. But yeah i just wanted to do a little promotion video about Icelandic because there's missing, there's missing a video about Icelandic on wikitongues. And i don't know whether or not any real Icelander thus seen could do a better video with a less of an accent. Uhhmm so yeah! That's just what i wanted to say.. Thank you for listening'' Here you go!! I just translated the entire video ^_^
Maybe I will never learn Icelandic, but I love to hear it. (I really tried, but there are too many irregularities which confuse me a lot. Ever Finnish is easier, at least for me.)
I can catch the commonality with Old English. Some people say that some of the Frisian dialects are the closest of the modern spoken languages (and it, of course, depends on which of the Old English dialects), but hearing this I'm convinced Icelandic is closer. A bit like Old English under a Swedish influence, I'd say, and not even that strong of a Swedish influence.
@@michaelgarrido8810 While this was my exact reaction, I understand how someone who knows neither Icelandic nor Spanish could mistake the sound of the video's speaker for a Spaniard speaking Spanish.
@@khaotik.weirdo I know Greek, Spanish and Icelandic (on pronunciation level) and I would say they do sound somewhat similar, especially since all 3 languages have dental fricatives, the velar fricative (though in Icelandic it's only pronounced when g is at the end of syllables) and they all have a trilled r.
Gabriel Taylor that’s coz Iceland was first settled by Norwegians who took Irish slaves with them. Icelandic is, as far as I am tell, old Norwegian with a few Celtic words thrown in, and Icelandic hasn’t really evolved much since. Essentially it’s ancient Norse.
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I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish 2gether as they are as pretty / refined / poetic as English and way too pretty not to know - I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic / Norse / German and advanced level in Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch at the moment, and these languages are real fun as the words are so pretty and magical, just like the English words!
By the way, my current levels are...
- upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German
- writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish
- upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian
- intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh
- beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene
- total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / Urkers / Hunsrik / East Norse / Ruhrpöttisch / Alemannic / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Pälzische Deutsch / Austrian German / Waddisch / Palatine German / Westföälsk Sassisk / Austro-Bavarian / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / Sognamål / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc)
(I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)
By the way, I would highly suggest making videos about all the less known languages that are on my list as well, including the wonderful Norse and Gothic and East Norse and Old Icelandic and Greenlandic Norse etc and the Old / Middle versions of each Norse / Germanic / Nordic language - for example, languages such as Faroese / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Friulian / Sicilian / Elfdalian / Ladin / East Frisian / Gallo / North Frisian / Luxembourgish / Guernsey / PlatDeitsch / Walloon / Limburgish / Aranese / Galician / Occitan / Latin / Sognamål etc and the other Dutch-based and German-based and Norwegian-based etc languages that haven’t been recognized as an official language yet (even though they are different languages with different spelling and grammar etc) have very few native speakers, so they are very unknown, and because of this, there aren’t many resources / videos on yt teaching them, and most of them aren’t even on Google translate yet, and there aren’t any dictionaries or wordlists on the Net for many of them either, which makes it very difficult for one to learn them fluently, so hopefully they will get more éxpòsure in the near future, so that more and more ppl that know them get inspired to start teaching them, as these languages are super pretty and they definitely need all the help they can get!
Yo, I'm Icelandic but this guy speaks extremely well. He says he wasnt born there and has a accent but I couldn't even hear it. Good job man.
He's from Quebec.
@Paul i think he's lived in Iceland for a while.
I'm learn old norse little bit and it is easy to became from old norse to Icelandic I think.
Hlw can we talk
Oh wow. I remember reading his messages on a language learning forum way back. That is unless there is another person from Quebec who mastered Icelandic.
No idea what he’s saying but he’s so happy it’s so cute
@@tahiame Quarantine hits different
Hello fellow American ... sammeee
there's subtitle haha he's just talking about how hard it is to speak Icelandic
Haha thats funny couse i am icelandic
There are subtitles there.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Icelandic speakers have little air-holes in their tongues
It's pretty close to many ways to pronounce letters in English, but I find it a bit more complicated wit 32 letters to choose on in the alphabet 😂
I understand some of what hey says, as a native dane and living in Norway, its closer to Norwegian than Danish.
i assume that's cos of this little guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_lateral_fricative
The air is blown out the sides of the tongue while the tip of the tongue is at the back of the upper teeth, lol.
Its dat gap tooth
@@SteveWilliamsD oh so like Sid from Ice Age then
Icelandic is such a beautiful soothing language. It's so...pillowy? Like...soft.
Its the closest language to what the Vikings were speaking i think.
@@timmyl5830 Followed by Elfdalian/Övdalian, Faroese and Vallemål(a Norwegian dialect).
huh
@@iamverycool69 Huh?
I always equated it to speaking like a butterfly hahaha
The only thing more beautiful than listening to an Icelander speak English is hearing him or her speak their own language. It's the best thing in the world!
Is it kind of like listening to German speak English? They're so cute, not being able to get the English phonemes right.
ghenulo No.
ghenulo Germans speaking english sound horrible... german sounds so ugly apart from the French adopted words and the -chen phoneme :/
Pretty sure this guy's french.
Lisa Chiapputo whaaat i hate my accent so much omygod thank you tho
We had a listening comprehension exercise in our Swedish class. But it was in ICELANDIC. It was hilarious. All the people in the classroom just stared at each other, confused. We couldn't really understand more than a couple of words here and there.
(I'm a native Finnish speaker)
haha excellent, was it April's fool or something and the teaching was having fun? ;-)
@@ritajn1689 In Swedish classes we explore all the Nordic countries. We had a chapter about Iceland and our teacher just wanted us to hear what Icelandic sounds like compared to Swedish. We did the same with Danish and Norwegian too. Danish and Icelandic sounded like gibberish Swedish. Norwegian was almost comprehensible :D
I hope to find some finnish materials to learn from soon.
@@spudmckenzie4959 Good luck! :)
i'm an american who recently moved to helsinki and nordic languages are fucking difficult but swedish is easy mode compared to icelandic and finnish. regardless i'm still a typical monolingual american, hopefully changing that over the next couple years lmao
Ah, the sweet sound of humiliating England in the euros.
Look how well that worked..
yeah but every invention you use on your shitty isle as invented by us or the americans. EVERYTHING.
@@libertydefenders8276, go stick these inventions up your ass.
CHILL PEOPLE
Not as sweet as Gordon Brown using anti-terrorist legislation against Icelandic banks.
Takk fyrir, Ljóni! Ég skildi næstum allt sem þú sagðir í þessu myndbandi. Mér finnst mjög gaman að hlusta á íslenskuna þína! Ég ætla að halda áfram að læra þessa fallega tungumál!
"þetta fallega"*** af því að tungumal er hvorugt kyn! annars ertu frábær!:)
@@jakecooke422 That is not an actual language. You're just hitting keys randomly on your keyboard, aren't you? Five and six consonants in a row? Wild! LOL
@@jakecooke422 Hey, what do you mean? I'm not sure what you're asking.
@@rr7firefly if you think it's a thing in Icelandic check out these Czech words: čtvrthrst, scvrkl and a sentence: Strč prst skrz krk
@@rr7firefly r/woooosh
I absolutely love Icelandic. It's such a unique-sounding language; very whispy yet soft and pillowy - the type of language you immediate associate with the mystic landscape of Iceland. I'd love to learn this language one day.
_Íslenska!_ Oh, so beautiful! Thank you very, very much, Ljóni, for making this video! I understand some words since my native language is Swedish and I also speak German, so I get a hang of what you’re saying. Trust me, Icelandic is on my list (of language to learn)!
Robert Andersson mine to!😊 I love the language! (I‘m German)
I only know English and chinese this is going to be hard
Its on my list too.
More icelandic in wikitongues please
For me as a Norwegian, it is almost like hearing a very strange Norwegian dialect that I "mysteriously" can't understand. I get many individual words and sometimes entire sentence fragments, but it is JUST different enough to be unintelligible.
Fun fact: Icelandic is actually related to Norwegian. The Icelandic language is heavily based on Old Norse (or old Norwegian)
i always know when somethings in italian bc it looks like spanish but i have no idea whats its saying
I am 100% Icelandic but a lot of people say I could be Swedish since my last name is Magnusson. I definitely got my strength from my Icelandic heritage though!!
@@dreamerwav698as someone who is fluent in spanish and almost half in italian, italian doesn’t look like spanish lol maybe with some mental gymnastics but…lol
@@Magnus_Magnusson_702nicee, and sidenote: I think the old norse/viking hair would suit you
The Norse gods would be pleased to hear people speak their language.
Norwegian. They used to be one and the same at one point in time :)
Alice In Salt Land What? You mean Old Norse? Icelandic is far closer to Old Norse than Norwegian.
Norwegian is just a dialect of German.
@@milo4008 I hope this comment is just ironical
In the old days of Hansaforbundet low German was the lingua franca in Norway and so it greatly influenced norwegian vocabulary and grammar. Norwegian language is like little brother of big German language.
He's so cute 😍
He damn right is, really cute guy
Yes!! 😍😍
Why do i find you people in every comment section of this channel 🤔
I'm convinced Wikitongues deliberately picks the good lookers for these videos. Not always, but there are too many for it to be a coincidence. Have a look at the videos on Bahau, Gallo, Acadian French and Twents.
And there's more. Take a look at Yusuf speaking Sundanese (not Sudanese) and Siro speaking Nauruan.
Þakka þér fyrir, Ljóni! Lovely to hear as we slowly learn Icelandic.
This is great. So hard to just find a video of someone speaking a language to get samples of how it sounds.
Just look for web radios. Always a great ides if you want to get the sound of a language. Search for Icelandic radio. My first results are TuneIn and Radio.net
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this is strangely true
the national language of kindness
I hope that's sarcasm, in case you didn't know Icelandic is the closest language to old norse, the people that spoke this extinct language are famous for being raiders which.... is not kind at all.
There's always that one person who has to be overly serious. He/she is clearly talking about modern Icelandic and the Icelandic people today. If he/she meant Old Norse, he/she would've said "Old Norse".
@@scorpionfiresome3834 Because the rest of the people, including your ancestors were peaceful farmers? Stick to the main theme and do not deviate being attacking a population especially as you have no idea what this thread is about apparently.
@@scorpionfiresome3834 everyone was raiding each other in the medieval period. The Vikings were just better at it in their time.
@@bestrafung2754 Hint, you can just say they instead of he/she all the time
Nice! There should be a video for Faroese too. 🇸🇪🧡🇫🇴
THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL
Wow Ljóni I am so glad that you are an Icelander!!! At least mostly 😀
I have never been to Iceland but I have been trying to learn the language by myself here in Australia for 45 years!!!
When I saw you I thought you were some young guy from America who had taught himself for the last six months and I felt like slitting my wrist because you were speaking so fast and with what sounds to me like a perfect Icelandic accent ha ha only an Icelander would think you have an accent.
Extremely hard to get it perfect isn't it. I can speak educated Australian or very broad bush Australian and I can always pick up somebody trying to speak our way even if they're very good, it's just born and bred into us isn't it. But you inspired me, if I could ever get to your standard I'll be bloody happy.
I am quite pleased that I understood about half of what you were saying and when I read the transcript I saw that I was mostly correct. I am just about to turn 63 and I am determined to speak Icelandic reasonably well before I go senile 😂
Icelandic is so freaking beautiful! :)
I'm also learning the language and making videos about it. Svo gaman!
I don't understand a word, but I'm in love with this guy/language 💕
Now I understand how 90 day fiance became a thing
For those of you who are not aware, Icelandic is ranked the hardest Germanic language to learn for English speakers due to the language's complex case system through which numerous declensions of words are formed to indicate their function in a given sentence which is a long-lost characteristic of English. Having taken cases into account, there is also the matter of preserved vocabulary in Icelandic that bears a strong resemblance to the vocabulary of the ancestral Germanic language spoken in north mainland Europe and southern Scandinavia, more or less during the Roman Republic and also in dialectal form during the 9th century. In detail, the reason why Icelandic managed to stay conservative in vocabulary for such a long period of its existence is the fact that it was (and still is) spoken on a remote island relatively far from Europe where influences coming from the continent's mainland could not reach the Icelandic population, allowing the language to develop freely and independently. To this day onwards, Icelandic is deemed to be the Germanic language possessing the most archaic vocabulary that has been lost to different extents in the other Germanic languages of today in contrast.
is it a base language then from which words are borrowed for later use in other languages? My whole life I have been interested in language but alas I do not have the intellect necessary to remember what I have learned for longer than a few minutes. My first language was French, my second childhood languages were first Spanish for a year and by the time I was 7 I was speaking English.
My native languages should have been Armenian, Hungarian and Arabic....but I was deliberately prevented from learning those three languages...O think as I grew older my parents made us speak the language who country we were in on our way to America. Which took a long time.
@@Ftmyersbeachlizard No, I don't think Icelandic, or back then referred to as Old Norse, had any kind of dominion in Europe whose sphere of influence reached a remarkable number of languages in the continent's mainland. Latin and Greek were always the top leading influential languages whose vocabulary can be found to various extents in EVERY European language existing today, all thanks to the Roman and Greek Empires that had spread their customs to extensive parts of the world for us to end up loaning many of their words. With my lack of expanded historical knowledge, this is the best answer I can give you, despite its vagueness.
@@mikoajbojarczuk9395 thank you Armenian is a language with a different linguistic mark....they call it indo European and is in its present state the same as it was in 400AD....
Germanic? I would've guessed nordic
@@LegoCityFilms "nordic" language family doesn't exist, you're thinking of North Germanic, and North Germanic is part of the Germanic language family...
Hæ Ljóni I watched your video two years ago and I could hardly understand a word of it now after studying Icelandic every day I am amazed by how much I understand. Thanks very much mate, and especially for that exposition of the different 'r's thats something new😀 Cheers from Dave, Australia
Hey man, I'm looking to learn the language as well. What message did you use to learn?
so cute this guy!!
Wow what a beautiful language.
Yes!
i was able to understand a few sentences just from my basic norwegian knowledge! striking how close norwegian (probably more nynorsk than bokmal, though there are features of both in icelandic, like ég which is more common in nynorsk in the form of "eg" and ekki which is similar to bokmal "ikke") is to the icelandic language. would love to learn it one day, though it is probably the 'big boss' of germanic languages, with multiple cases and sounds that had gone extinct in other, more spoken languages
Icelandic is so fun yet incredibly difficult to learn. I had a great friend from Iceland for over 8 years until she moved to mainland Europe. I ended up learning enough of the language to be able to "speak" it with her 6 year old brother when I finally visited her (I have a great video of myself playing Guess Who with him). She taught me how to pronounce the "ll" sound which is absolutely foreign to English speakers. I still remember how to count to 20, even though it's been 9 years since I've been there. Ég elska íslensku. :)
I love Icelandic!😊 I really wanna learn the language.
Greets from Germany!❤️
Then learn it.
@@leysont stabile antwort digga
@@Space_ist danke bruder
It sounds less harsh than I expected. The closeness to Norwegian is noticeable.
Gives me major old English vibes. What a beautiful language!
Ha, ertu ekki innfæddur!? Ég áttaði mig ekki á að þú værir með hreim fyrr en þú sagðir frá því. Talar skýrari og betri íslensku en nokkur innfæddur :)
Nema kanski Guðni forseti
Sounds beautiful ❤️
Dat apical [s]..... Makes Icelandic sounds like pure Castilian Spanish & Greek
I can't unhear it now...
Finns also pronounce the /s/ sound in such way.
I thought it was a mixture between Danish and Greek😂
I hear a Finnish intonation and a "ll" like in the mongolian language ahha but now that u say it ....lol
My fav ❤️
I remember my first Icelandair flight to Reykjavik and I was soooo enamored when they spoke Icelandic during the announcements
Sounds like Norwegian without the bouncy sound to it
absolutely beautiful language!
Love from Sweden
He’s so cute! And Icelandic is beautiful
I really love that there is a language so similar to german in grammar. I adore it! :3
I look at the script, and it looks like something straight out of a literal magic world. Like, it looks like something you’d use for magic incantations.
Does Icelandic have a voiceless alveolar tapped fricative ([ɾ̞̊]) like in Turkish?
+2tz02 Yes, I think so. When the 'r' and the 'l' are after a voiceless consonant or at the end of the word they are devoice. The 'r' could be either tapped /ɾ̥/ o trilled /r̥/.
I am a multilingual Turkish linguist. I kinda hear the voiceless postalveolar fricative, which corresponds to a 'ş' - sh sound.
Hmm, a true Viking speaks...
Hace you heard Elfdalian? m.th-cam.com/video/msVZb0GZ6VA/w-d-xo.html
Holy God, is he an Icelander? His speech sounds so smooth and cute; I think I will never speak like him... Very good video, so you have a new subscriber... Ég elska Íslensku 💟👍👌
tak så myket för talan den sprok
Your so adorable
People sometimes ask what irish sounds like and Icelandic is the closest sounding language. It isn't related in terms of syntax or vocab but the sounds are the most similar.
Icelandic has gaelic influence in our language, with some words having gaelic background and being non existent in the scandinavian languages.
You make some really good points... and it's funny but I never thought about the different R's.
I thought Icelandic didn’t have voiced plosives (I got the impression that I heard)
Anyway this languages’ complexity is enough to make it absolutely fascinating
It sounds similarly to Celtic languages such as Gaelic to my ears. Does anyone one of any study that points that these two branches of languages have a close connection?
They are not really related besides being european. Celtic languages are genetically closer to romance languages but are unique in their own right. I would say however that the two language families can have very similar sounds and phonemes. Welsh is very airy and light like icelandic for example, and has similar vowel sounds. If you read the two languages however they are completely different
Icelandic has some gaelic influence with some words having a gaelic background and not existing in the scandinavian languages.
Lots of Vikings settled in Ireland and Western Scotland, hence the Norse-Gaels, who were a mix of Norse and Gaelic speakers but who eventually just became Gaels. You can definitely hear the Norse influence in people's accents from the Western Isles in Scotland; Ireland less so perhaps. I read somewhere that male DNA in Iceland is mostly from Norway and female DNA is from Ireland and Scotland - I don't know how DNA analysis works though but I think you can guess what was going on back when the Vikings settled in Iceland!
I have a hard time with my native English lol lol as far as speaking properly... but it would take me all my life to nail an Icelandic sentence I believe... I don't believe I would have much hope
So proud of this language,living history❤
Sounds like a Castillian Spanish/Greek hybrid! Wow!
I kind of get that, but how is it not screamingly obvious that it's a Scandinavian tongue?
Wow, he could teach me Icelandic all night…
To what extent can an Icelandic speakers understand other Scandinavian languages (and vice versa) ?
we can all understand swedish, danish and norwegian to some degree. Especially if they speak slowly.
I'd guess the icelandic can understand all the others relatively well, but the others can't understand icelandic. A few words stand out and are understandable, but most isn't. Unless we read it, then it's a bit easier to understand.
Icelandic is so old and uses so many letters we aren't used to so it's very hard to understand even though our languages are related.
Also iceland don't take/borrow new words from other languages like everyone else, they create their own out of words they already have, if that makes sense.
Icelandic is very similar to gammel norsk and because of how little it has changed, by changing a bit of the way we speak and talking more formaly, we could go back to the year ~1000 and speak to the people there.
plz don't molest me plz Yep, so I've heard. It has been such an isolated place with little outside influence for such a long time that the language hasn't evolved that much compared to others, not the case anymore though, with the internet and airplanes and all.
Pretty damn cool if you ask me.
yes! It really is!
love it thanks for the transcription !!!
sound like a viking or like someone from lords of the ring
JRR Tolkien was very much inspired by ancient Icelandic sagas, which is why some of his words and names (such as most of the names of the dwarves in "The Hobbit") are in fact, Icelandic. It's not that he sounds like someone from Lord of the Rings but Lord of the Rings sounds Icelandic.
Idk what he said but if I had a guess its about raiding a monastery
The pronunciations sounds pretty familiar to me as a north german but I don't understand more then fragments.
So how does this connect to Scottish? The accent is certainly very similar.
LJÓNI!!!! YOU ARE A ROCKSTAR!!!!!!!
JEEEEEEEEEEEEE
takk. þú líka. elska þig en aldrei nefna þetta við neinn annars verð ég því miður að 'afgreiða' þig.
Beautiful language!
Amazingly rich language.
I am curious what is the closest language to Icelandic I think it's Faroese but after Faroese what is it?
+Adam Hovey Norwegian.
+Adam Hovey Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian are all descended from Old West Norse. Faroese is closer to Icelandic than Norwegian is, since Norwegian was quite influenced by Low Saxon and Danish (the latter being descended from Old East Norse) during the later middle ages and modern period.
+The505Guys Because of trade. Low Saxon was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League, so the continental scandinavian languges were influenced by it. As far as I know, the influence of Low Saxon was mainly on vocabulary, a lot of words were imported.
Elfdalian in northern Dalarna, Sweden
Adam Hovey it would be Danish, once Iceland had once been Denmark's possession.
Awesome, dude.
It's uncanny listening to this as a native speaker of Danish; Swedish and Norwegian is... alright (?) Listening to, but Icelandic is like listening to someone mumbling and randomly dropping words into the utterance that I know
Everyone should learn Icelandic.. much of the words best Poetry and writings are in Icelandic.
Blowing words
when i watch on youtube on safari browser no English subtitle but when I open up the actual youtube app, then it automatically has the Enlish translated subtitles. Probably something in my settings. Fascinating nonetheless!
Beautifully spoken
Can anyone translate what he is saying?
+theworldvideos1 ''Good morning, today i'm going to speak Icelandic and about Icelandic. Icelandic is difficult and complicated and there's a lot in it that confuses Icelanders and foreigners. Uhmm there are some difficult words like gills (in icelandic tálkn) that is very difficult to say. Gills, if you're not born in Iceland and raised. Oops. There is uhmm, there are words like inlet which decline (decline as in the verb for declension) a lot and are modified a lot. (0:32 to 0:43 are just a bunch of declensions and different sayings of the word fjord/inlet depending in wich context you're using the word) And then there are irregular words like mare and sheep, here is a mare, about a mare, from a mare, to a mare. Or something, who knows? Then there, there is the blessed extension manner in past tense. I came, i came, i would come. I won, i won, that i would win. I must, i had to, that i would become. (I'm sorry if none of this is making any sense, this is just how some Icelandic words decline and are changed :/) Uhh what else is there that is impossible to remember, increased. That will increase, it increased, we increased, it increased or increased. You could say both. (Again remember what i said above :/) Yeah Icelandic really is a cool language but very difficult, very demanding. The pronunciation is what it is. Difficult with a lot of sounds. Well, mountain. There are four r's. Uhhh Robbery, Carcass, Orri, Man, Ari. But, it's very nice to be able to speak Icelandic, it's very nice to be able to blabber in Icelandic. Icelanders are naturally very pleased to be able to create some words which don't mean anything or.. you can just say whatever you want. Nobody knows whatsoever any good Icelandic that well anymore. Nah, i'm just saying. Uhmm i'm a foreigner, i do have an accent i know that, i don't speak perfect Icelandic and i am not born and raised here. I am an Icelander but i am not an Icelander from birth. Uhh i was an Icelandic teacher for about four to five years. Taught other foreigners Icelandic. Did good but i felt sorry for them afterwards for having to learn this and having me as a teacher. But i love linguistics and i put a lot of effort so that people can understand and know what's happening. Why is this in dative form and why is this in genitive form. What controls this word and often at times the answer is i don't know it just is the way it is. But yeah i just wanted to do a little promotion video about Icelandic because there's missing, there's missing a video about Icelandic on wikitongues. And i don't know whether or not any real Icelander thus seen could do a better video with a less of an accent. Uhhmm so yeah! That's just what i wanted to say.. Thank you for listening''
Here you go!! I just translated the entire video ^_^
+Promethean Knight Thanks for the detail !!
@@Promethean_Knight Thank u so much 🥰
Maybe I will never learn Icelandic, but I love to hear it. (I really tried, but there are too many irregularities which confuse me a lot. Ever Finnish is easier, at least for me.)
En frábært!
Interesting how similar it sounds to Mongolian. It is mostly the th/l sounds
Weird, beautiful language
Þú ert með kruttlegan hreim!
I can catch the commonality with Old English. Some people say that some of the Frisian dialects are the closest of the modern spoken languages (and it, of course, depends on which of the Old English dialects), but hearing this I'm convinced Icelandic is closer. A bit like Old English under a Swedish influence, I'd say, and not even that strong of a Swedish influence.
Has a Welsh twang to it! Beautiful language
I think he is talking about all those unguarded churches and the riches that lie inside them
I swear icelandic sounds like swedish or Norwegian with a slightly Irish accent
YOU HAVE AN ACCENT? UHHH NEI!"? Unglingar í dag eru með þykkari hreim heldur en þú vinur. haha
Ikke noe problem
No começo não entendi foi nada, mas quando o vídeo foi chegando ao fim, parecia que estava no começo!
And here it is, the purest language in the world🙂👻
And “oops” really is universal!
Yes, indeed, very difficult language!
I could make out some words with my knowledge of Norwegian while following along with the English.
It sounds a little like Finnish (my dad's family is from Finland) Or old English.
Every time I play this l feel l learn more.
The only thing I got was Icelandic and Wikitongues at the end...
Ég er frá Íslandi, þú ert svo sætur☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
Sound like Greek or Spanish from Spain
True
This sounds nothing like Spanish
@@michaelgarrido8810 Listen both, u will realize.
@@michaelgarrido8810 While this was my exact reaction, I understand how someone who knows neither Icelandic nor Spanish could mistake the sound of the video's speaker for a Spaniard speaking Spanish.
@@khaotik.weirdo I know Greek, Spanish and Icelandic (on pronunciation level) and I would say they do sound somewhat similar, especially since all 3 languages have dental fricatives, the velar fricative (though in Icelandic it's only pronounced when g is at the end of syllables) and they all have a trilled r.
Ég heyrði engan hreim !
I heard no accent!
just marry me youre beautiful
This guy has created his own language
"Siwa" should make a vid in that
I'm making my own language. It's quite annoying, that doesn't mean it's not fun.
Demi Urgos how do you know
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I frequent conlangs on reddit and know his alias/name/voice
That's a great way to communicate with yourself.
lol
this video should be redone
😌✨✨
Þetta var nú bara frábært hjá þér Ljóni! Það var ekki augljóst að þú værir ekki innfæddur, þvert á móti! Á Íslensku má alltaf finna svar...
it sounds like a mix of norwegian and irish? its cute tho
Gabriel Taylor that’s coz Iceland was first settled by Norwegians who took Irish slaves with them. Icelandic is, as far as I am tell, old Norwegian with a few Celtic words thrown in, and Icelandic hasn’t really evolved much since. Essentially it’s ancient Norse.
Im norwegian and i can pick apart the short sentences pretty easily