I am a Venezuelan refugee in Akureyri trying to learn the Icelandic language, which I find very difficult. I always follow you on your channel. I like the way you explain Icelandic. You are magnificent. Greetings.
Til hamingju! We have plenty of names for winds in Italy: levante, ponente, grecale, scirocco, maestrale, libeccio, bora, phon... some of the names describe the direction they are coming from (levante and ponente) but although we have a (female) singer called Levante and if you've seen the film 'Il ciclone' there is a male character with that name, it's not common to name people after winds.
Always great to see another Icelandic lesson from you Ása, thank you for taking time out of your very busy schedule to make these. Congratulations on the grant too, didn't know you were an astrophysicist! I bet Brian May could learn a thing or two from you 😁. Great to see you back.
Thank you once again for another amazing lesson! As you're an astronomer, I can imagine you hate the clouds. 🙂 En ég elska rigninguna. Það er yndislegt hljóð og það vekur náttúruna lífi. Hér við London er þurrt og logn og um tíu stiga hiti. Dagarnir eru að verða mjög stuttir. Það er dimmt um fimmleytið. [But I love the rain. It's a lovely sound and it brings nature to life. Here in London it is dry and calm and around ten degrees. The days are getting very short. It's dark around five o'clock.]
Sæl Ása! I've been watching your videos for a few months now and never realized that you were an astrophysicist. I am a PhD student currently searching for new stellar streams using data from Gaia. It's such a coincidence that our work is so closely related! I'm learning Icelandic because my physics friends and I are planning a trip to go see the northern lights in Iceland next year. Congrats on getting your grant, and thanks for the great videos!
That is so amazing! My field is actually extremely close to what you are doing, even overlaps. Maybe we will meet at a conference some day! I hope you will get a wonderful weather and see magnificent Northern lights! Or Norðurljós like we call them 😃
@@letslearnicelandic405 Yes, maybe we will meet someday! I was also amazed when I looked up your article. I've read that the solar cycle will make it a good year for seeing norðurljósin, so I hope we get clear skies 😄
I returned from my 3rd trip to Iceland a week ago. During my last trip I've decided to learn Icelandic, got a bunch of books, and of course started to watch your videos. I'm so glad you returned and you're still making new videos. Please keep up the excellent work, folks like myself needs you to learn your beautiful yet very difficult language. PS: I find many similarities in my native language (Hungarian) and Icelandic. They both are damn difficult to learn. Quite frankly, I never had a hard time acquirinig English... But I won't give up! :-) I wanna return to your amazing country next year, hopefully in the same month of September by proudly being able to order food and have basic conversation of my background in Icelandic.
Three trips! That is amazing! I never would have expected similarities between Hungarian and Icelandic - except for them being difficult. Though, I think there are unexpected similarities between almost all languages. Good luck! / Gangi þér vel!
Technically, both Icelandic and Hungarian are category 2 languages, so they aren’t objectively difficult, and, in fact, they are among the easiest languages, as category 1 languages and category 2 languages are very easy to learn and pronounce etc, especially when compared to the truly hard languages that are category 6 to category 10 languages with impossible scripts that are hard to read and characters and tones etc and words that need a lot more repetitions to become part of the permanent memory, however, one naturally feels like any language is hard as a beginner because one doesn’t know how the new language works yet and doesn’t know the words automatically yet, but this is just a feeling one has as a beginner, so it is very subjective - I am intermediate level in Icelandic + Norse and beginner level in Hungarian, and I find them super easy to learn, and they aren’t that different from other languages that I know or that I am learning such as Norwegian and Dutch and English and Spanish and German etc, plus the words are so pretty, so they are very memorable, which means they are super easy to memorize, for example, I have only seen the Icelandic words in this video twice, and I have learnt most of them after my first watch, and, I remember when I learnt the numbers in Hungarian, I could remember almost every number after only seeing it twice, as they are so pretty and unique like hetven / tíz / nyolc, and one’s hern naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster, so these languages with super gorgeous words have a word memorability similar to that of English / Dutch / Norwegian words etc, which means they can be learnt way faster than most other languages that exist, and, even though they aren’t as easy to use / type etc as English (because English is the easiest language ever created, which was oversimplified on purpose, so that it could easily become an universal language fast) and Dutch and Norwegian, they are still quite easy, with very easy category 1 pronunciation and extremely memorable words that are easy to learn, and they have less base words than English / Dutch / Norwegian etc, so there isn’t that much of a difference between them when it comes to the number of words one needs to know to be fluent, as one will have to learn tens of thousands of words in each language, anyway, be those words mostly base words or mostly different forms of fewer base words, if one wants to get to a native speaker level in the new language or languages, so one can get to such level in about 2 or 3 years in these languages that are category 1 and category 2, regardless of whether one is only learning one of them or many of them, and, I am learning 15+ languages at the moment, and I got to an intermediate level in both Icelandic & Norse after only focusing more on them for about 4 months or so, so I learned well over 2.000 words in each in a very short time, while also learning many new words in Norwegian and Dutch and the other languages that I am trying to learn like Italian / French / German / Danish / Swedish etc, and, I highly recommend learning Icelandic 2gether with Norse and Dutch and Norwegian, as they are all super gorgeous and too pretty not to know, and are as pretty / refined / poetic as English, and also Welsh / Breton / Cornish which are also super gorgeous, as learning multiple languages at the same time saves a lot of years and it is a lot more fun, and most learners could handle learning 5 or 6 languages at the same time!
By the way, my current levels are... - intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / Welsh - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian - mid intermediate level in German / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian - 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 / East Norse / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Alemanic / Austrian German / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / 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 highly recommend learning all the prepositions / adverbs / conjunctions and all the verbs that are used a lot and all the sounds / the pronunciation rules as a beginner and intermediate, as it makes it easier for one to understand sentences and to form new sentences if one knows them, and also the pronouns and the numbers and the most used nouns - so I always try to learn these or most of them as a beginner, so I can usually understand a lot of sentences even as a beginner or intermediate, as most sentences have at least one pronoun and one verb and one noun, and can have one preposition or conjugation or even more of them, so knowing them will also make it easier for one to figure out the meaning of certain new nouns or adjectives etc when used in context, so it makes it easier for one to pick up new words and to understand more sentences and more new words!
I definitely wish there were more videos on yt teaching all the prepositions and conjunctions in Icelandic and different preposition uses, and more videos on idioms / phrases etc, and more videos on verbs, that would cover all the verbs, from the most used to the least used verbs, and all the idioms & phrases, and all the different preposition / conjunction uses etc, as verbs and prepositions and conjunctions and idioms and phrases etc are used a lot, and knowing these will definitely make it easier for learners to use the language and to understand more, and I know that some of them have different uses in different languages, so they aren’t always used the same way as in English, as different prepositions may be preferred in certain situations that aren’t the same as the ones that are preferred in English in those situations, and these are some of those things that one cannot learn from Google translate and from vocab videos!
I'm originally from Hungary, but I'm living in Italy. I was always intrested in Icelandic language and it is too difficult to try some tools on internet in this language. I'm so grateful for you Ása, thank you helping people who want learning that fantastic language! Ciao!
Ása so cool you are back!! I started learning icelandic 10 months ago and i tried a whole lot of diffrent ways, channels,apps , books and so on and i do my progress but for me you are the best teacher!!! Really thank you for your time to help us🙏!! You are fun and smart to make it interesting and understandable🙏! Bless bless Ása🥳
That's awesome! I think you are really approaching this in the best way - looking at many sources is very useful. Congrats for your progress, and for still sticking with it after 10months! Gangi þér vel!
Þakka þér😊! Ég er frá Þýskalandi. Ég er algjörlega ástfanginn af íslenskunni. Þetta er eins og uppgötvunarferð að sameiginlegum rótum. Mér líkar við orðahljóð og kommur á íslensku. Já, það er líka erfitt, en ég hef mjög gaman af því😅! og eftir tvö ár flyt ég til Íslands, allt er þegar planað. Hafðu það gott Ása og takk aftur fyrir frábær myndbönd🙏☀️
Hey Asa, it’s great to see you again) Have you ever thought of doing videos in “comprehensible input” form? I think it would be awesome to have comprehensible input videos in Icelandic and you as a great teacher would be definitely first in that niche)
I've watched all your videos recently and there is 1 topic that's confusing me and I wish if u can clarify it to us, How to read composed words and how they work grammatically, cuz I noticed sometimes the composed word uses a slightly different form of the words its made of. and thanks alot for the great videos!!!🌻🌻
So, this is a very good question, and I will give you the overview answer. To connect the words we need to use grammar. There are different ways to do this. Some of the most common way is to use the eignarfall/genitive. E.g. Jónsdóttir really means Jón's daughter Other ways are to use the root of the word, e.g. Ásgarður (Ás + garður), and in some cases specific letters can be used to connect the words, like s for example in the word Dynjandisfoss which is Dynjandi +s + foss So basically it is different grammatical rules we use to connect words. When to use which rule however.... is another question for another day.
Hi Ása, ég vona að þér líður vel!😊 Ég hef alltaf tíma að læra íslensku í desember og ég var með hugmynd fyrir myndband sem þú gætir gert. Mér finnst ‘phrasal verbs, á íslensku mjög erfið. T.D. ég lærði nýtt orð ‘að taka eftir’. Í orðabókinni las ég að maður á að nota þetta orð með 3.case. Svo segi ég: Ég tek eftir einhverju. En vandamálið mitt er að ég veit ekki hvernig maður notar þessi orð rétt. How for example is the word order? When I say I didnt notice it: Is it Ég tók eftir því ekki. Or do I have to break the word similar in German. Like Ég tók ekki eftir því.? Then the are words where I dont know which case to use like að taka til I think thats to tidy up. Do I say Taktu til herbergis. Or Taktu herbergi(s) til. I would appreciate a video about that. Its just an idea. Gleðileg jól.
I'm of Nordic descent but only speak English and German. Learning Icelandic now :) Lots of similarities - so I hope by the time I have saved up enough $$$ for my Iceland adventure, I will be able to speak/understand at least some Icelandic. So far, I find it not too hard, if I "ignore" the confusing spelling and silent letters in the words.
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.
Hæ! If you're studying physics you must have an IQ north of 125. Cool! My IQ is 80, so I wont be doing any heavy intellectual lifting in this life lol 😅
😆 Don't worry, having a high IQ is not the most important thing in life and I am sure yours is fine - you are trying and succeeding in learning Icelandic after all ❤
I recently reached an advanced level in Icelandic, and I am over the moon, it really feels surreal, and it feels amazing to be able to understand Icelandic and to know the words and to understand how they work - re the question, I am not sure about stiga, but hiti means heat and is the nominative form, but there are actually 2 similar words which are stig (level) and stigi (ladder) and for the first one that means level stiga is the genitive plural form that is indefinite, and I think it’s because one says that it is heat of levels or levels’ heat in Icelandic as stiga means levels’ or of levels, so even though in English one would probably say degrees of heat or heat degrees, in Icelandic one says levels’ heat / stiga hiti which flows more naturally in Icelandic, so the ways that some ideas are expressed in different languages can be different from how they are expressed in English, and this also includes ideas such as ‘I can do’ which is ‘I get done’ in Icelandic (ég get gert) and ‘he is doing something right now’ which is ‘he is to do something right now’ in Icelandic (hann er að gera eitthvað núna) and some other similar phrases!
Hey! Hiti is a male word in the nominative. Stiga is the neutral word stig, so stiga is in the genetive plural, so 20 stiga hiti, means something like heat of 20 points. I hope this helps!
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I am a Venezuelan refugee in Akureyri trying to learn the Icelandic language, which I find very difficult. I always follow you on your channel. I like the way you explain Icelandic. You are magnificent. Greetings.
Ah thank you so much for your incredibly kind words. I will do my best to make your Icelandic learning experience better
And welcome to Iceland!
💙🤍❤🤍💙
As a native Icelandic Person, I can't say I need a lessson like this.
I do however need to support my sister in the algorith, so here is a comment.
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Til hamingju! We have plenty of names for winds in Italy: levante, ponente, grecale, scirocco, maestrale, libeccio, bora, phon... some of the names describe the direction they are coming from (levante and ponente) but although we have a (female) singer called Levante and if you've seen the film 'Il ciclone' there is a male character with that name, it's not common to name people after winds.
Always great to see another Icelandic lesson from you Ása, thank you for taking time out of your very busy schedule to make these.
Congratulations on the grant too, didn't know you were an astrophysicist! I bet Brian May could learn a thing or two from you 😁.
Great to see you back.
Thank you so much 💙
Thank you once again for another amazing lesson! As you're an astronomer, I can imagine you hate the clouds. 🙂
En ég elska rigninguna. Það er yndislegt hljóð og það vekur náttúruna lífi. Hér við London er þurrt og logn og um tíu stiga hiti. Dagarnir eru að verða mjög stuttir. Það er dimmt um fimmleytið.
[But I love the rain. It's a lovely sound and it brings nature to life. Here in London it is dry and calm and around ten degrees. The days are getting very short. It's dark around five o'clock.]
Frábærlega fallega skrifað - þú færð stjörnu ☆
Skýin eru vissulega stundum pirrandi, en uppáhalds veðrið mitt er logn og snjór ♡
Sæl Ása! I've been watching your videos for a few months now and never realized that you were an astrophysicist. I am a PhD student currently searching for new stellar streams using data from Gaia. It's such a coincidence that our work is so closely related! I'm learning Icelandic because my physics friends and I are planning a trip to go see the northern lights in Iceland next year. Congrats on getting your grant, and thanks for the great videos!
That is so amazing! My field is actually extremely close to what you are doing, even overlaps. Maybe we will meet at a conference some day!
I hope you will get a wonderful weather and see magnificent Northern lights! Or Norðurljós like we call them 😃
@@letslearnicelandic405 Yes, maybe we will meet someday! I was also amazed when I looked up your article.
I've read that the solar cycle will make it a good year for seeing norðurljósin, so I hope we get clear skies 😄
yaaaaay, new video!😍
Let's take the Icelandic over the world!
So nice to see you again.. and thank you so much for the wonderful video 😊
You are a great teacher. So glad to have discovered your channel
Thank you 🧡
So good you came back. I thought you had stopped producing these awesome videos forever.
No, no... life just got in the way for a bit, I will continue as I can. I'm not giving up on you guys!
Thank you for doing all these videos, my passion always has been learning new languages and you are making this possible. 😊
What a lovely passion! I am so glad I can help a bit 😊
New Ása video! 🎉
I returned from my 3rd trip to Iceland a week ago. During my last trip I've decided to learn Icelandic, got a bunch of books, and of course started to watch your videos. I'm so glad you returned and you're still making new videos. Please keep up the excellent work, folks like myself needs you to learn your beautiful yet very difficult language. PS: I find many similarities in my native language (Hungarian) and Icelandic. They both are damn difficult to learn. Quite frankly, I never had a hard time acquirinig English... But I won't give up! :-) I wanna return to your amazing country next year, hopefully in the same month of September by proudly being able to order food and have basic conversation of my background in Icelandic.
Three trips! That is amazing!
I never would have expected similarities between Hungarian and Icelandic - except for them being difficult.
Though, I think there are unexpected similarities between almost all languages.
Good luck! / Gangi þér vel!
Technically, both Icelandic and Hungarian are category 2 languages, so they aren’t objectively difficult, and, in fact, they are among the easiest languages, as category 1 languages and category 2 languages are very easy to learn and pronounce etc, especially when compared to the truly hard languages that are category 6 to category 10 languages with impossible scripts that are hard to read and characters and tones etc and words that need a lot more repetitions to become part of the permanent memory, however, one naturally feels like any language is hard as a beginner because one doesn’t know how the new language works yet and doesn’t know the words automatically yet, but this is just a feeling one has as a beginner, so it is very subjective - I am intermediate level in Icelandic + Norse and beginner level in Hungarian, and I find them super easy to learn, and they aren’t that different from other languages that I know or that I am learning such as Norwegian and Dutch and English and Spanish and German etc, plus the words are so pretty, so they are very memorable, which means they are super easy to memorize, for example, I have only seen the Icelandic words in this video twice, and I have learnt most of them after my first watch, and, I remember when I learnt the numbers in Hungarian, I could remember almost every number after only seeing it twice, as they are so pretty and unique like hetven / tíz / nyolc, and one’s hern naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster, so these languages with super gorgeous words have a word memorability similar to that of English / Dutch / Norwegian words etc, which means they can be learnt way faster than most other languages that exist, and, even though they aren’t as easy to use / type etc as English (because English is the easiest language ever created, which was oversimplified on purpose, so that it could easily become an universal language fast) and Dutch and Norwegian, they are still quite easy, with very easy category 1 pronunciation and extremely memorable words that are easy to learn, and they have less base words than English / Dutch / Norwegian etc, so there isn’t that much of a difference between them when it comes to the number of words one needs to know to be fluent, as one will have to learn tens of thousands of words in each language, anyway, be those words mostly base words or mostly different forms of fewer base words, if one wants to get to a native speaker level in the new language or languages, so one can get to such level in about 2 or 3 years in these languages that are category 1 and category 2, regardless of whether one is only learning one of them or many of them, and, I am learning 15+ languages at the moment, and I got to an intermediate level in both Icelandic & Norse after only focusing more on them for about 4 months or so, so I learned well over 2.000 words in each in a very short time, while also learning many new words in Norwegian and Dutch and the other languages that I am trying to learn like Italian / French / German / Danish / Swedish etc, and, I highly recommend learning Icelandic 2gether with Norse and Dutch and Norwegian, as they are all super gorgeous and too pretty not to know, and are as pretty / refined / poetic as English, and also Welsh / Breton / Cornish which are also super gorgeous, as learning multiple languages at the same time saves a lot of years and it is a lot more fun, and most learners could handle learning 5 or 6 languages at the same time!
By the way, my current levels are...
- intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / Welsh
- writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish
- upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian
- mid intermediate level in German / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian
- 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 / East Norse / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Alemanic / Austrian German / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / 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 highly recommend learning all the prepositions / adverbs / conjunctions and all the verbs that are used a lot and all the sounds / the pronunciation rules as a beginner and intermediate, as it makes it easier for one to understand sentences and to form new sentences if one knows them, and also the pronouns and the numbers and the most used nouns - so I always try to learn these or most of them as a beginner, so I can usually understand a lot of sentences even as a beginner or intermediate, as most sentences have at least one pronoun and one verb and one noun, and can have one preposition or conjugation or even more of them, so knowing them will also make it easier for one to figure out the meaning of certain new nouns or adjectives etc when used in context, so it makes it easier for one to pick up new words and to understand more sentences and more new words!
I definitely wish there were more videos on yt teaching all the prepositions and conjunctions in Icelandic and different preposition uses, and more videos on idioms / phrases etc, and more videos on verbs, that would cover all the verbs, from the most used to the least used verbs, and all the idioms & phrases, and all the different preposition / conjunction uses etc, as verbs and prepositions and conjunctions and idioms and phrases etc are used a lot, and knowing these will definitely make it easier for learners to use the language and to understand more, and I know that some of them have different uses in different languages, so they aren’t always used the same way as in English, as different prepositions may be preferred in certain situations that aren’t the same as the ones that are preferred in English in those situations, and these are some of those things that one cannot learn from Google translate and from vocab videos!
Hæ, gott að sjá þig aftur!! 😊
Takk sömuleiðis 🙂
I just love you came back after 7 months!!! Icelandic is wonderful!! Thank you for teaching us!!!Greetings from Greece!! ❤
Thank you so much!
I'm originally from Hungary, but I'm living in Italy.
I was always intrested in Icelandic language and it is too difficult to try some tools on internet in this language.
I'm so grateful for you Ása, thank you helping people who want learning that fantastic language!
Ciao!
Thank you so much, fellow foreigner in Italy!
I wish you all your luck on your journey to learn Icelandic ♥
Gangi þér vel!
Ása so cool you are back!! I started learning icelandic 10 months ago and i tried a whole lot of diffrent ways, channels,apps , books and so on and i do my progress but for me you are the best teacher!!! Really thank you for your time to help us🙏!! You are fun and smart to make it interesting and understandable🙏! Bless bless Ása🥳
That's awesome! I think you are really approaching this in the best way - looking at many sources is very useful. Congrats for your progress, and for still sticking with it after 10months!
Gangi þér vel!
Þakka þér😊! Ég er frá Þýskalandi. Ég er algjörlega ástfanginn af íslenskunni. Þetta er eins og uppgötvunarferð að sameiginlegum rótum. Mér líkar við orðahljóð og kommur á íslensku. Já, það er líka erfitt, en ég hef mjög gaman af því😅! og eftir tvö ár flyt ég til Íslands, allt er þegar planað. Hafðu það gott Ása og takk aftur fyrir frábær myndbönd🙏☀️
Thanks for getting back!
Ása is back!!!!
Wow it's been so loong! Takk fyrir!
Hey Asa, it’s great to see you again) Have you ever thought of doing videos in “comprehensible input” form? I think it would be awesome to have comprehensible input videos in Icelandic and you as a great teacher would be definitely first in that niche)
I don't know what that is, but I will google.
Thank you so much
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Uppáhalds veðrið mitt er yfir 20 stiga hiti, heiðskírt og hlý gola.
Það var sólskin, mildur blær og um 7 gráður úti á Íslandi í dag.
Frábært, þú færð ☆
@@letslearnicelandic405 , já, það var ég, en núna er ég flutt til Íslands fyrir mánuði síðan! 🤩🥰
I've watched all your videos recently and there is 1 topic that's confusing me and I wish if u can clarify it to us,
How to read composed words and how they work grammatically, cuz I noticed sometimes the composed word uses a slightly different form of the words its made of.
and thanks alot for the great videos!!!🌻🌻
So, this is a very good question, and I will give you the overview answer.
To connect the words we need to use grammar. There are different ways to do this. Some of the most common way is to use the eignarfall/genitive.
E.g. Jónsdóttir really means Jón's daughter
Other ways are to use the root of the word, e.g. Ásgarður (Ás + garður), and in some cases specific letters can be used to connect the words, like s for example in the word Dynjandisfoss which is Dynjandi +s + foss
So basically it is different grammatical rules we use to connect words. When to use which rule however.... is another question for another day.
Yay, glad to see you back. Finally diving in myself and committing to learning, your channel has helped so thank you!
I found you two days ago and I've been binge watching your videos! Thank you so much you're an absolutely amazing teacher!
Wow, thank you! You are so welcome
Eg sakna íslenska tíma með þér 🎉!
Hi Ása, ég vona að þér líður vel!😊
Ég hef alltaf tíma að læra íslensku í desember og ég var með hugmynd fyrir myndband sem þú gætir gert.
Mér finnst ‘phrasal verbs, á íslensku mjög erfið. T.D. ég lærði nýtt orð ‘að taka eftir’. Í orðabókinni las ég að maður á að nota þetta orð með 3.case.
Svo segi ég: Ég tek eftir einhverju.
En vandamálið mitt er að ég veit ekki hvernig maður notar þessi orð rétt.
How for example is the word order? When I say I didnt notice it: Is it Ég tók eftir því ekki. Or do I have to break the word similar in German. Like Ég tók ekki eftir því.?
Then the are words where I dont know which case to use like að taka til I think thats to tidy up.
Do I say Taktu til herbergis. Or Taktu herbergi(s) til.
I would appreciate a video about that. Its just an idea.
Gleðileg jól.
I'm of Nordic descent but only speak English and German. Learning Icelandic now :) Lots of similarities - so I hope by the time I have saved up enough $$$ for my Iceland adventure, I will be able to speak/understand at least some Icelandic. So far, I find it not too hard, if I "ignore" the confusing spelling and silent letters in the words.
Yes, English and German will help a lot!
Good luck with everything! / Gangi þér vel!
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.
Hy from háskóli Ísland
Hæ hæ!
When you say its 20 degress of heat, what cases are stiga and hiti? Thank you.
20 stiga hiti - hiti is in the nefnifall (nominative), and stiga is in the eignarfall (genetive).
I hope this helps!
Why does "sky" in English mean "sky" ?😀 Scandinavian languages (including Icelandic) still keep its original meaning "cloud".
Somebody told me that in England sky and clouds are synonyms, hence the confusion 😅
(since the sky is always cloudy)
can you make video how to pronounce "ll" duble L
I already did, it is in EP. 06!
@@letslearnicelandic405 thanks
halló.
ég fletti up á / í google translate og það gefur mér "dude" sem þýðingu fyrir "Kári".
?? 😊
That is not true 🤣 Except of course in the meaning "a dude named Kári"
where do you live
In central Italy!
Hæ! If you're studying physics you must have an IQ north of 125. Cool! My IQ is 80, so I wont be doing any heavy intellectual lifting in this life lol 😅
😆 Don't worry, having a high IQ is not the most important thing in life and I am sure yours is fine - you are trying and succeeding in learning Icelandic after all ❤
When you say its 20 degress of heat, what cases are stiga and hiti? Thank you.
I recently reached an advanced level in Icelandic, and I am over the moon, it really feels surreal, and it feels amazing to be able to understand Icelandic and to know the words and to understand how they work - re the question, I am not sure about stiga, but hiti means heat and is the nominative form, but there are actually 2 similar words which are stig (level) and stigi (ladder) and for the first one that means level stiga is the genitive plural form that is indefinite, and I think it’s because one says that it is heat of levels or levels’ heat in Icelandic as stiga means levels’ or of levels, so even though in English one would probably say degrees of heat or heat degrees, in Icelandic one says levels’ heat / stiga hiti which flows more naturally in Icelandic, so the ways that some ideas are expressed in different languages can be different from how they are expressed in English, and this also includes ideas such as ‘I can do’ which is ‘I get done’ in Icelandic (ég get gert) and ‘he is doing something right now’ which is ‘he is to do something right now’ in Icelandic (hann er að gera eitthvað núna) and some other similar phrases!
Hey! Hiti is a male word in the nominative. Stiga is the neutral word stig, so stiga is in the genetive plural, so 20 stiga hiti, means something like heat of 20 points. I hope this helps!