I am glad to hear that ppl are trying to make more resources for learning Icelandic available, as it isn’t easy to find many videos and resources teaching Icelandic, compared to the number of videos and resources that are available for other languages such as Dutch and German etc! I would strongly suggest the creation of yts teaching Icelandic such as the Easy Languages ones! For example, there should also be an Easy Icelandic yt like that, so hopefully volunteers can be found that can make such videos, as those types of videos tend to be watched by many! I would also suggest the creation of more yt videos teaching Icelandic, including many vocab videos with advanced terms and idioms and phrases and slang etc as well as grammar videos on many different preposition / conjunction / verb uses etc and a series of many vocab + grammar videos that would cover all the Icelandic verbs and their different uses with examples of sentences, and lots of videos spoken entirely in Icelandic with hardcoded Icelandic subs and optional English subs! Icelandic is so gorgeous, being one of the prettiest languages ever, so there should be many videos teaching Icelandic, like there are for English and Dutch etc, as Icelandic is as pretty as English and Dutch, and Norse and Gothic and Norwegian also! I noticed that lots of learners tend to learn languages that have many videos teaching them, even thought there is always a way to learn the language, even with a limited number of videos and resources, but most learners don’t seem to know that, but Icelandic is that type of language that everyone would be learning if everyone knew about it and if there were many videos and many other resources available! For me, it isn’t that difficult to learn Icelandic and Norse, despite the fact that videos teaching them and resources are pretty limited, because there are still enough vocab videos and dictionaries on the Net to get me to a level where I can follow subs, especially for Icelandic, because Icelandic is one of the languages that subs can be translated to on yt, and I can technically follow subs at this point, being upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse! I would say that the most challenging for me is trying to learn the languages that haven’t been officially recognized as a language yet like Elfdalian and Limburgish and Sognamål and Ripuarian and Pretarolo and Gallo and Venetian and Walloon etc and the Old and Middle versions of Germanic languages and Celtic languages and even modern Celtic languages such as Manx and Breton and Cornish, as many of them don’t have any dictionaries on the Net and any videos teaching them, and Manx and Breton and Cornish aren’t even on G translate yet and very few videos are teaching words in these languages, and it’s also the same with Faroese and Luxembourgish and the Frisian languages, so it’s not easy to learn them, but I am still learning them little by little, so if I find songs with lyrics in any of those languages and videos comparing words in those languages, I usually start by learning those words!
Just want to say, as a new learner of Icelandic, it's very difficult to find recordings of natural conversation in the language with English subtitles like this, so in addition to the content, even the video per se is a great resource for those of us who aren't ready for Icelandic subtitles yet. More like this would be great. Takk fyrir!
I can follow the Icelandic subs and I know over 90% of the words in this video, so I guess I am pretty close to an advanced level, but I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse at the moment, after learning them for a few months - I started by memorizing Skáld lyrics and also memorizing the words from the vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic (Go Learn etc) and from the other yt videos that teach Icelandic words, so I highly recommend learning all those words, and, I also use G translate a lot, as well as dictionaries from the Net, plus I watch every video teaching Icelandic (usually multiple times) and I watch every video with subs in Icelandic, and now I started watching videos with really advanced words, such as those videos showing amazing things like glaciers and caves etc and travel videos and geography related videos, to learn many new advanced words in Icelandic!
Icelandic is so heavenly and it sounds so alpha, like Norse - I am super obsessed with Icelandic & Norse, and I highly recommend learning them, they are a must-know for every learner, and also Gothic and Dutch and Norwegian and Faroese and Danish and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska, these languages are so amazing, as gorgeous and refined and poetic as English, they are the prettiest languages ever and are way too pretty not to know!
Hello! I am from Sweden and I am able to follow this entire conversation without even reading the subtitles. Icelandic has many similarities to my Swedish accent, which is the accent spoken on the island of Gotland. From the point I decided to really get into studying this beautiful language a little bit more serious I feel like I learnt half of the language in 3 days 😂👌🏻 Grammar is the hardest part when it comes to study any language, I had to struggle with all of the rules even in Swedish as a child in school ☺️ I find the content of this channel as a great resource for learning more, very useful for me; Thank you so much, and happy Spring to you both! 🙏🏻🌸🍃💫
I can follow the Icelandic subs and I know over 90% of the words in this video, so I guess I am pretty close to an advanced level, but I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse at the moment, after learning them for a few months - I started by memorizing Skáld lyrics and also memorizing the words from the vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic (Go Learn etc) and from the other yt videos that teach Icelandic words, so I highly recommend learning all those words, and, I also use G translate a lot, as well as dictionaries from the Net, plus I watch every video teaching Icelandic (usually multiple times) and I watch every video with subs in Icelandic, and now I started watching videos with really advanced words, such as those videos showing amazing things like glaciers and caves etc and travel videos and geography related videos, to learn many new advanced words in Icelandic! Icelandic is so heavenly and it sounds so alpha, like Norse! I am super obsessed with Icelandic & Norse, and I highly recommend learning them, they are a must-know for every learner, and also Gothic and Dutch and Norwegian and Faroese and Danish and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska, these languages are so amazing, as gorgeous and refined and poetic as English, they are the prettiest languages ever and are way too pretty not to know - I highly recommend learning over 35.000 base words automatically in each, as they are way too pretty not to know!
By the way, Icelandic grammar is actually very easy, as it’s very logical and is similar to Latin / Spanish / German etc grammar, plus the words follow the same patterns for each group of nouns / verbs / adjectives etc, with very few exceptions, so I don’t think one should worry about the grammar, as it gets easier to understand how the grammar words after learning many thousands of base words and seeing a lot of sentences and different grammatical constructions many times, one will naturally know how to conjugate and decline the words, just as one learnt that in the first language that one was made to learn, as this comes naturally after getting to a real fluent level, so I highly recommend focusing mostly on learning the actual words, especially the base words like 90% of the time, especially when one is beginner level or intermediate level!
Most Icelandic words such as the nouns only have like 16 forms and Icelandic verbs have only three main tenses, and one of them is with the auxiliary verb to have, and the future tense is also with an auxiliary verb + infinitive (ég mun læra = I will learn) which are super easy to learn, plus 2 subjunctive cases that have most forms that are the same as the normal present tense and past tense forms, and each group of nouns / verbs etc have the exact same word endings in Icelandic, so once one learns the patterns and the word endings associated with each group of nouns or verbs or adjectives, one can decline and conjugate almost any word naturally, as there aren’t many exceptions, like,, I can remember all the declensions and conjugations of a word after seeing them once or twice, as I know the base word and the typical endings associated with each group of words automatically, and when I come across nouns or verbs etc that do not follow the same patterns, I add them to a list and I revise those more... For example... - masculine nouns that end in ur (or r in Norse) always have inn at the end in nominative and accusative when they are definite and singular as inn means the for masculine nouns - the plural forms of nouns in dative are always um (indefinite) and unum (definite) for all nouns with no exceptions (at least, I haven’t seen any exceptions yet, and these two are also the same in Norse) - the definite singular forms for feminine nouns are always in (for nominative definite singular nouns that are feminine) and ina or ana or una (in accusative) and it is like that for all feminine singular nouns - the dative singular definite forms are usually inum (for masculine nouns and for neutral nouns that are definite and singular) and inni or unni or anni (for feminine nouns) and sometimes the dative singular ending is also num for masculine and possibly neutral nouns tho it is very rare, so masculine and neutral nouns usually have the definite form inum - the indefinite form is usually i for both masculine and neutral nouns that are singular and indefinite, so the definite form is basically the indefinite form + num - the plural forms in nominative are usually ur / ir (for feminine nouns that are plural and indefinite) and urnar / irnar (for plural definite nouns that are feminine, so the definite forms are basically the indefinite forms + nar, nar being the typical feminine ending for nouns that are plural and definite) and ir (for masculine nouns that are plural and indefinite) and irnir (for masculine nouns that are plural and definite) and in (for neutral nouns that are definite and plural) and, there are a few other plural indefinite nominative forms, but these are the forms that most plural nouns have - the definite ending for neutral nouns that are singular is ið in Icelandic (and it in Norse) - the genitive endings are usually s / ar (for masculine singular indefinite nouns) and s (for neutral singular indefinite nouns) and ar (for feminine singular indefinite nouns) and s+ins / ar+ins (for masculine singular definite nouns) and s+ins (for masculine singular neutral nouns) and ar+innar (for feminine singular definite nouns) and a / na / ra (for plural indefinite nouns) and anna (for plural definite nouns) with almost no exceptions, so they follow these patterns almost always - feminine nouns that have an a in their nominative singular form are spellt with ö in their dative forms, and masculine nouns too, for example, a masculine noun like bani (nominative and singular and indefinite) becomes bönum (dative plural indefinite) and bönunum (dative plural definite) - the a to ö change is also used in verbs, for example, for the verb að hafa (to have) which has an a after the first letter, the singular form ég hef (I have) becomes við höfum (we have) and it’s usually the form that is used with we that is affected by this change in present tense and in past tense it affects both the form that’s used with we (við höfðum) and the form that’s used with they (þeir höfðu) and, it’s exactly the same in Norse, except for the ö which is usually spellt ǫ in present tense and ó or ǫ in past tense, so one just has to remember that whenever there is a change, it is usually a change from a to ö in Icelandic and from a to some type of o letter in Norse Icelandic also has three standalone definite articles for singular nouns, which are, hinn for masculine nouns, hin for feminine nouns, and hið for neutral nouns, and, in Norse they are hinn / hin / hitt (?) and inn / in / it or itt, and, they can also mean the other when the normal definite form is used after them, for example, hinn skógur means the forest in nominative, while hinn skógurinn means the other forest in nominative, which would be hinn skóg and hinn skóginn in accusative, as the accusative form for masculine nouns that end in ur (or r in Norse) is almost always the nominative form minus the ur!
videos like this with Icelandic subtitles are actually really useful. Are you gonna do more sometime? Even though I can't understand everything, I can still derive many words from context (that I didn't know before) and follow the general conversation.
I started languages Icelandic and other Norse languages last year, and I can follow the Icelandic subs and I know over 90% of the words in this video, so I guess I am pretty close to an advanced level, but I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse at the moment, after learning them for a few months - I started by memorizing Skáld lyrics and also memorizing the words from the vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic (Go Learn etc) and from the other yt videos that teach Icelandic words, so I highly recommend learning all those words, and, I also use G translate a lot, as well as dictionaries from the Net, plus I watch every video teaching Icelandic (usually multiple times) and I watch every video with subs in Icelandic, and now I started watching videos with really advanced words, such as those videos showing amazing things glaciers and caves etc and travel videos and geography related videos, to learn many new advanced words in Icelandic! Icelandic is so heavenly and it sounds so alpha, like Norse! I am super obsessed with Icelandic & Norse, and I highly recommend learning them, they are a must-know for every learner, and also Gothic and Dutch and Norwegian and Faroese and Danish and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska, these languages are so amazing, as gorgeous and refined and poetic as English, they are the prettiest languages ever and are way too pretty not to know - I highly recommend learning over 35.000 base words automatically in each, as they are way too pretty not to know!
Hi Brian, hi Siggi! Thanks for the video and for the Icelandic subtitles :) I look forward to reading Siggi's articles. As a complete beginner, I would like to learn phrases that I need even in everyday life. Since there are no sufficiently good automatic translators I am left to learn phrases from books, which are correct but of limited use to me. The choice of literature is also very limited but I found some good titles. Currently, I mostly learn vocabulary and don't dare to start with grammar. My plan is to learn 2500 words and a few hundred sentences and then see how it goes. I'm trying to develop a kind of roadmap for myself, i.e. what I should learn in which order to achieve optimal results. Thanks a lot for your content! For us beginners, any resource is a great help.
Thanks for the comment! Books are a great way to learn correct phrases and vocabulary, as are online study courses like Icelandic Online. Hopefully once you get into the grammar my videos will be helpful! Best of luck with your studies.
@@alanguages It's up to you. Try to collect correct and useful sentences and learn it using Anki app and mnémotechniques. That's all you have to do. And first of all - have fun!
I highly recommend learning over 35.000 base words automatically in heavenly languages like Icelandic and Norse, as they are way too pretty not to know! I can follow the Icelandic subs and I know over 90% of the words in this video, so I guess I am pretty close to an advanced level, but I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse at the moment, after learning them for a few months - I started by memorizing Skáld lyrics and also memorizing the words from the vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic (Go Learn etc) and from the other yt videos that teach Icelandic words, so I highly recommend learning all those words, and, I also use G translate a lot, as well as dictionaries from the Net, plus I watch every video teaching Icelandic (usually multiple times) and I watch every video with subs in Icelandic, and now I started watching videos with really advanced words, such as those videos showing amazing things like glaciers and caves etc and travel videos and geography related videos, to learn many new advanced words in Icelandic! Icelandic is so heavenly and it sounds so alpha, like Norse - I am super obsessed with Icelandic & Norse, and I highly recommend learning them, they are a must-know for every learner, and also Gothic and Dutch and Norwegian and Faroese and Danish and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska, these languages are so amazing, as gorgeous and refined and poetic as English, they are the prettiest languages ever and are way too pretty not to know!
Thanks so much for having me on, Brian! I had a blast =)
Mín var ánægjan!
I am glad to hear that ppl are trying to make more resources for learning Icelandic available, as it isn’t easy to find many videos and resources teaching Icelandic, compared to the number of videos and resources that are available for other languages such as Dutch and German etc! I would strongly suggest the creation of yts teaching Icelandic such as the Easy Languages ones! For example, there should also be an Easy Icelandic yt like that, so hopefully volunteers can be found that can make such videos, as those types of videos tend to be watched by many!
I would also suggest the creation of more yt videos teaching Icelandic, including many vocab videos with advanced terms and idioms and phrases and slang etc as well as grammar videos on many different preposition / conjunction / verb uses etc and a series of many vocab + grammar videos that would cover all the Icelandic verbs and their different uses with examples of sentences, and lots of videos spoken entirely in Icelandic with hardcoded Icelandic subs and optional English subs!
Icelandic is so gorgeous, being one of the prettiest languages ever, so there should be many videos teaching Icelandic, like there are for English and Dutch etc, as Icelandic is as pretty as English and Dutch, and Norse and Gothic and Norwegian also!
I noticed that lots of learners tend to learn languages that have many videos teaching them, even thought there is always a way to learn the language, even with a limited number of videos and resources, but most learners don’t seem to know that, but Icelandic is that type of language that everyone would be learning if everyone knew about it and if there were many videos and many other resources available!
For me, it isn’t that difficult to learn Icelandic and Norse, despite the fact that videos teaching them and resources are pretty limited, because there are still enough vocab videos and dictionaries on the Net to get me to a level where I can follow subs, especially for Icelandic, because Icelandic is one of the languages that subs can be translated to on yt, and I can technically follow subs at this point, being upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse!
I would say that the most challenging for me is trying to learn the languages that haven’t been officially recognized as a language yet like Elfdalian and Limburgish and Sognamål and Ripuarian and Pretarolo and Gallo and Venetian and Walloon etc and the Old and Middle versions of Germanic languages and Celtic languages and even modern Celtic languages such as Manx and Breton and Cornish, as many of them don’t have any dictionaries on the Net and any videos teaching them, and Manx and Breton and Cornish aren’t even on G translate yet and very few videos are teaching words in these languages, and it’s also the same with Faroese and Luxembourgish and the Frisian languages, so it’s not easy to learn them, but I am still learning them little by little, so if I find songs with lyrics in any of those languages and videos comparing words in those languages, I usually start by learning those words!
Just want to say, as a new learner of Icelandic, it's very difficult to find recordings of natural conversation in the language with English subtitles like this, so in addition to the content, even the video per se is a great resource for those of us who aren't ready for Icelandic subtitles yet. More like this would be great. Takk fyrir!
Thank you, that was my hope!
I can follow the Icelandic subs and I know over 90% of the words in this video, so I guess I am pretty close to an advanced level, but I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse at the moment, after learning them for a few months - I started by memorizing Skáld lyrics and also memorizing the words from the vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic (Go Learn etc) and from the other yt videos that teach Icelandic words, so I highly recommend learning all those words, and, I also use G translate a lot, as well as dictionaries from the Net, plus I watch every video teaching Icelandic (usually multiple times) and I watch every video with subs in Icelandic, and now I started watching videos with really advanced words, such as those videos showing amazing things like glaciers and caves etc and travel videos and geography related videos, to learn many new advanced words in Icelandic!
Icelandic is so heavenly and it sounds so alpha, like Norse - I am super obsessed with Icelandic & Norse, and I highly recommend learning them, they are a must-know for every learner, and also Gothic and Dutch and Norwegian and Faroese and Danish and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska, these languages are so amazing, as gorgeous and refined and poetic as English, they are the prettiest languages ever and are way too pretty not to know!
Good stuff this week, Brian! Useful resources!
Thank you, that's good!
Thank you for this video ☺️
Great work. Thanks a lot.
You linguists give us learners much hope. I wish I could give this more than 1 thumbs up.
Takk fyrir. Þú hjálpar mér svo mikið
Frábært myndskeið hjá ykkur, vinsamlegast gerðu þetta oftar, takk kærlega fyrir.
Hello! I am from Sweden and I am able to follow this entire conversation without even reading the subtitles. Icelandic has many similarities to my Swedish accent, which is the accent spoken on the island of Gotland. From the point I decided to really get into studying this beautiful language a little bit more serious I feel like I learnt half of the language in 3 days 😂👌🏻 Grammar is the hardest part when it comes to study any language, I had to struggle with all of the rules even in Swedish as a child in school ☺️ I find the content of this channel as a great resource for learning more, very useful for me; Thank you so much, and happy Spring to you both! 🙏🏻🌸🍃💫
I can follow the Icelandic subs and I know over 90% of the words in this video, so I guess I am pretty close to an advanced level, but I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse at the moment, after learning them for a few months - I started by memorizing Skáld lyrics and also memorizing the words from the vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic (Go Learn etc) and from the other yt videos that teach Icelandic words, so I highly recommend learning all those words, and, I also use G translate a lot, as well as dictionaries from the Net, plus I watch every video teaching Icelandic (usually multiple times) and I watch every video with subs in Icelandic, and now I started watching videos with really advanced words, such as those videos showing amazing things like glaciers and caves etc and travel videos and geography related videos, to learn many new advanced words in Icelandic! Icelandic is so heavenly and it sounds so alpha, like Norse! I am super obsessed with Icelandic & Norse, and I highly recommend learning them, they are a must-know for every learner, and also Gothic and Dutch and Norwegian and Faroese and Danish and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska, these languages are so amazing, as gorgeous and refined and poetic as English, they are the prettiest languages ever and are way too pretty not to know - I highly recommend learning over 35.000 base words automatically in each, as they are way too pretty not to know!
By the way, Icelandic grammar is actually very easy, as it’s very logical and is similar to Latin / Spanish / German etc grammar, plus the words follow the same patterns for each group of nouns / verbs / adjectives etc, with very few exceptions, so I don’t think one should worry about the grammar, as it gets easier to understand how the grammar words after learning many thousands of base words and seeing a lot of sentences and different grammatical constructions many times, one will naturally know how to conjugate and decline the words, just as one learnt that in the first language that one was made to learn, as this comes naturally after getting to a real fluent level, so I highly recommend focusing mostly on learning the actual words, especially the base words like 90% of the time, especially when one is beginner level or intermediate level!
Most Icelandic words such as the nouns only have like 16 forms and Icelandic verbs have only three main tenses, and one of them is with the auxiliary verb to have, and the future tense is also with an auxiliary verb + infinitive (ég mun læra = I will learn) which are super easy to learn, plus 2 subjunctive cases that have most forms that are the same as the normal present tense and past tense forms, and each group of nouns / verbs etc have the exact same word endings in Icelandic, so once one learns the patterns and the word endings associated with each group of nouns or verbs or adjectives, one can decline and conjugate almost any word naturally, as there aren’t many exceptions, like,, I can remember all the declensions and conjugations of a word after seeing them once or twice, as I know the base word and the typical endings associated with each group of words automatically, and when I come across nouns or verbs etc that do not follow the same patterns, I add them to a list and I revise those more...
For example...
- masculine nouns that end in ur (or r in Norse) always have inn at the end in nominative and accusative when they are definite and singular as inn means the for masculine nouns
- the plural forms of nouns in dative are always um (indefinite) and unum (definite) for all nouns with no exceptions (at least, I haven’t seen any exceptions yet, and these two are also the same in Norse)
- the definite singular forms for feminine nouns are always in (for nominative definite singular nouns that are feminine) and ina or ana or una (in accusative) and it is like that for all feminine singular nouns
- the dative singular definite forms are usually inum (for masculine nouns and for neutral nouns that are definite and singular) and inni or unni or anni (for feminine nouns) and sometimes the dative singular ending is also num for masculine and possibly neutral nouns tho it is very rare, so masculine and neutral nouns usually have the definite form inum
- the indefinite form is usually i for both masculine and neutral nouns that are singular and indefinite, so the definite form is basically the indefinite form + num
- the plural forms in nominative are usually ur / ir (for feminine nouns that are plural and indefinite) and urnar / irnar (for plural definite nouns that are feminine, so the definite forms are basically the indefinite forms + nar, nar being the typical feminine ending for nouns that are plural and definite) and ir (for masculine nouns that are plural and indefinite) and irnir (for masculine nouns that are plural and definite) and in (for neutral nouns that are definite and plural) and, there are a few other plural indefinite nominative forms, but these are the forms that most plural nouns have
- the definite ending for neutral nouns that are singular is ið in Icelandic (and it in Norse)
- the genitive endings are usually s / ar (for masculine singular indefinite nouns) and s (for neutral singular indefinite nouns) and ar (for feminine singular indefinite nouns) and s+ins / ar+ins (for masculine singular definite nouns) and s+ins (for masculine singular neutral nouns) and ar+innar (for feminine singular definite nouns) and a / na / ra (for plural indefinite nouns) and anna (for plural definite nouns) with almost no exceptions, so they follow these patterns almost always
- feminine nouns that have an a in their nominative singular form are spellt with ö in their dative forms, and masculine nouns too, for example, a masculine noun like bani (nominative and singular and indefinite) becomes bönum (dative plural indefinite) and bönunum (dative plural definite)
- the a to ö change is also used in verbs, for example, for the verb að hafa (to have) which has an a after the first letter, the singular form ég hef (I have) becomes við höfum (we have) and it’s usually the form that is used with we that is affected by this change in present tense and in past tense it affects both the form that’s used with we (við höfðum) and the form that’s used with they (þeir höfðu) and, it’s exactly the same in Norse, except for the ö which is usually spellt ǫ in present tense and ó or ǫ in past tense, so one just has to remember that whenever there is a change, it is usually a change from a to ö in Icelandic and from a to some type of o letter in Norse
Icelandic also has three standalone definite articles for singular nouns, which are, hinn for masculine nouns, hin for feminine nouns, and hið for neutral nouns, and, in Norse they are hinn / hin / hitt (?) and inn / in / it or itt, and, they can also mean the other when the normal definite form is used after them, for example, hinn skógur means the forest in nominative, while hinn skógurinn means the other forest in nominative, which would be hinn skóg and hinn skóginn in accusative, as the accusative form for masculine nouns that end in ur (or r in Norse) is almost always the nominative form minus the ur!
videos like this with Icelandic subtitles are actually really useful. Are you gonna do more sometime? Even though I can't understand everything, I can still derive many words from context (that I didn't know before) and follow the general conversation.
I'm glad it has been helpful!
I started languages Icelandic and other Norse languages last year, and I can follow the Icelandic subs and I know over 90% of the words in this video, so I guess I am pretty close to an advanced level, but I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse at the moment, after learning them for a few months - I started by memorizing Skáld lyrics and also memorizing the words from the vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic (Go Learn etc) and from the other yt videos that teach Icelandic words, so I highly recommend learning all those words, and, I also use G translate a lot, as well as dictionaries from the Net, plus I watch every video teaching Icelandic (usually multiple times) and I watch every video with subs in Icelandic, and now I started watching videos with really advanced words, such as those videos showing amazing things glaciers and caves etc and travel videos and geography related videos, to learn many new advanced words in Icelandic! Icelandic is so heavenly and it sounds so alpha, like Norse! I am super obsessed with Icelandic & Norse, and I highly recommend learning them, they are a must-know for every learner, and also Gothic and Dutch and Norwegian and Faroese and Danish and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska, these languages are so amazing, as gorgeous and refined and poetic as English, they are the prettiest languages ever and are way too pretty not to know - I highly recommend learning over 35.000 base words automatically in each, as they are way too pretty not to know!
Hi Brian, hi Siggi! Thanks for the video and for the Icelandic subtitles :) I look forward to reading Siggi's articles. As a complete beginner, I would like to learn phrases that I need even in everyday life. Since there are no sufficiently good automatic translators I am left to learn phrases from books, which are correct but of limited use to me. The choice of literature is also very limited but I found some good titles. Currently, I mostly learn vocabulary and don't dare to start with grammar. My plan is to learn 2500 words and a few hundred sentences and then see how it goes. I'm trying to develop a kind of roadmap for myself, i.e. what I should learn in which order to achieve optimal results. Thanks a lot for your content! For us beginners, any resource is a great help.
Thanks for the comment! Books are a great way to learn correct phrases and vocabulary, as are online study courses like Icelandic Online. Hopefully once you get into the grammar my videos will be helpful! Best of luck with your studies.
@icelandicjourney,
What particular resources are you using to learn Icelandic currently?
Examples: Commercial programs like books and audio.
@@alanguages It's up to you. Try to collect correct and useful sentences and learn it using Anki app and mnémotechniques. That's all you have to do. And first of all - have fun!
@@icelandicjourney Takk!
I highly recommend learning over 35.000 base words automatically in heavenly languages like Icelandic and Norse, as they are way too pretty not to know! I can follow the Icelandic subs and I know over 90% of the words in this video, so I guess I am pretty close to an advanced level, but I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse at the moment, after learning them for a few months - I started by memorizing Skáld lyrics and also memorizing the words from the vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic (Go Learn etc) and from the other yt videos that teach Icelandic words, so I highly recommend learning all those words, and, I also use G translate a lot, as well as dictionaries from the Net, plus I watch every video teaching Icelandic (usually multiple times) and I watch every video with subs in Icelandic, and now I started watching videos with really advanced words, such as those videos showing amazing things like glaciers and caves etc and travel videos and geography related videos, to learn many new advanced words in Icelandic! Icelandic is so heavenly and it sounds so alpha, like Norse - I am super obsessed with Icelandic & Norse, and I highly recommend learning them, they are a must-know for every learner, and also Gothic and Dutch and Norwegian and Faroese and Danish and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska, these languages are so amazing, as gorgeous and refined and poetic as English, they are the prettiest languages ever and are way too pretty not to know!
Frábær umræða!👍
Frábært!
Are you American or Icelandic
I am American 🙂
@@icelandicforforeigners nice