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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4040 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 1 of 17 25 May 2014 at 1:28pm | IP Logged |
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Hi all. I planned a trip in Iceland in the month of July.
At the current moment I know more or less 40 words in Icelandic and my comprehension of the written language is non-existent. My goal is to be able to read and understand signs and texts written in Icelandic and buy some books to take with me and be able to read them. Of course, In order to do it it is necessary to be able to understand what the books are talking about. To do that I will rely heavily on Memrise and Anki. Starting from Monday June 9th I will start to do extensive reading. About the other languages I'm studying, I will have a full immersion in French in view for my B1.1 forthcoming exam and I will "water" the vocabulary studied so far in Memrise for Dutch, German and Norwegian. Links Reading Project Gutenberg Icelandic Old Icelandic sagas (thanks @Sarnek!) Anki Anki Icelandic course Memrise Beginner Icelandic 100 Most common Icelandic verbs Icelandic flashcards Edited by tristano on 27 May 2014 at 7:53am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4700 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2 of 17 25 May 2014 at 2:09pm | IP Logged |
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Are you going to the Alliance Française in the Hague? Who's your teacher? :D
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4040 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 3 of 17 25 May 2014 at 2:24pm | IP Logged |
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Hi! Yes! My teacher is Clara, do you know her?
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4700 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 4 of 17 25 May 2014 at 6:34pm | IP Logged |
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I have seen her around, but I only spent a
year there. I had Nadia. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4040 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 5 of 17 26 May 2014 at 12:28am | IP Logged |
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So let's start! :)
I decided that in order to understand more of the texts I need to put a little grammar on it just to see how cases mess up the language. The base of the base. - Endings rule! (at this stage, who cares about exceptions!) Nominative case. The words in the vocabulary are written in the nominative case. Three genders: - masculine (-ur) -> maður (man) - feminine (-a) -> kona (woman) - neuter (the rest) -> dýr (animal) Indefinite article: doesn't exist. kona -> a woman Definite article: it is postfixed on the name - masculine (-inn, -nn): dagur: a day; dagurinn: the day - feminine (-in, -n): fjölskylda: a family; fjölskyldan: the family - child (-ið, -ð): barn: a child; barnið: the child Verbs the infinitive form has ðd in front of the basic form of the verb, like with "to" in english - að tala: to speak - að breyta: to change Cool language. I can see that it has much more points of contact with English than how it looks like; I can also figure out the meaning of several words because of their similarities with other Germanic languages: - hundur: hound (en) - að pakka: to pack (en) - að tala: talen (nl) -> to speak - barn: barn (no) -> child - að óska: ønsker(no) -> to wish - kaka: cake (en) - mjólk: melk (nl, no), Milch (de), milk (en) - að hjálpa: hjelpe (no), helpen (nl), to help (en) etc etc :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4040 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 6 of 17 26 May 2014 at 1:10am | IP Logged |
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Things you discover with taking a two minutes look to some Icelandic
text(no vocabulary lookup nor I remember anything of the really little I did last year): - "and" is "og", like in Norwegian - "Hún" should be "she", like "hun" in Norwegian - "ekki" should be "not", it reminds me "ikke" that is "not" in Norwegian - "alein" could be "alone", probably in the feminine form - "segir" should be "asks" or "asked". (or "says/said") - "hann" should be "him" - "spegill" is definitely "mirror". ("speil" in norwegian!) It's a really strange feeling, I see the text, I understand almost nothing but still I have an outstanding amount of deja vues, like I'm looking at a puzzle which I can recognize the pieces but I have to put them together to see the image. It's quite a unique feeling that I never had before with the other languages: either they are straightforward without having them studied (like Spanish or portuguese) or are completely non sense for me (like indonesian). Edited by tristano on 26 May 2014 at 1:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sarnek Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4208 days ago 308 posts - 414 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Swedish | Message 7 of 17 26 May 2014 at 2:18pm | IP Logged |
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Heill ok sæll.
I've studied (well, still studying) Old Norse for a while. Modern Icelandic hasn't changed much grammatically-wise from ON, so you might even be able to read a saga in the original language! Check this out ;) Buona proseguimento! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4040 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 8 of 17 27 May 2014 at 12:29am | IP Logged |
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Grazie mille @Sarnek!
Blessaður :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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