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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5959 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 17 of 33 14 February 2015 at 1:52am | IP Logged | ||
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I have been working through the Alaric Hall materials mentioned by dmaddock - it is an awesome set of audio learning materials patterned very deliberately from the original Michel Thomas materials. Alaric is an extremely cheery fellow, a language professor from the University of Leeds, and the materials, link below, are awesome to begin with pretty much from scratch.
Alaric Hall course materials and links Because I have found through long experience that I learn best when I can see a new word rather than just hear it, I have been supplementing the mp3 course with his cheat sheet of grammar notes cheat sheet and with the Memrise course that he prepared for the original version of the mp3 course (not the more recent Memrise course for use after finishing the mp3 course). memrise course Edited by Spanky on 14 February 2015 at 1:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5959 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 18 of 33 16 February 2015 at 6:18pm | IP Logged | ||
Up until this morning, it was chiefly the lateral stops (the "ll" nightmare) which drew the biggest concern from bus mates (sounds way too close to spitting for the comfort of many, and frankly, there is already enough spitting on the bus for my liking), but this morning the new source of concern is the slight snorting (velar nasal?) that appears to be involved in pronouncing the Icelandic for 'child". I may make it through Icelandic after all (the Alaric Hall materials make it way less intimidating than was the case for me a few months ago on my first try), but the likelihood is that if I do, I will surely be chased off the bus at some point... Edited by Spanky on 16 February 2015 at 8:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5959 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 19 of 33 11 April 2015 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am still working at Icelandic, and am surprised to have learned that the language is
not actually malevolently attempting to break my brain; instead, it is just a lot of work but rewarding as it is pretty cool. My principal learning text right now is the Hippocrene, Beginner's Icelandic (link below) and the Alaric Hall audio materials (previously referenced), as well as a number of Memrise courses. ie=UTF8&qid=1428767447&sr=8-1&keywords=hippocrene+icelandic" >Hippocrene, Beginner's Icelandic I highly recommend the Alaric Hall materials - makes getting through the highly- inflectional aspects of the language, including the maddening vowel shifts, as easy and enjoyable as possible, and gets you practising that material immediately instead of just throwing some declension tables at you. Edited by Spanky on 11 April 2015 at 7:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5959 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 20 of 33 11 April 2015 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some other learning materials I have either flirted with or marked for myself for the
future: Icelandic Online Material prepared through the University of Iceland. I have this marked for the future for myself – looks interesting with audiovisual material and interesting exercises, with material graded from absolute beginner, and CERF levels A1 through C1. Registration is required but free. Viltu læra íslensku? Awesome site based on short videos. Mímir Some short articles on different aspects of the language digital dialects Lots of learning games for learning elementary Icelandic. sentence pairs Bilingual sentence pairs from the Tatoeba Project – unhelpfully, the provided audio is only for the English sentence in each pair. Edited by Spanky on 11 April 2015 at 6:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5959 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 21 of 33 11 April 2015 at 6:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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A couple of more...
Bragi materials Looks like it may be super-useful, but only after I learn some more Icelandic. inflection wizard Interactive assistance with inflections. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5959 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 22 of 33 15 April 2015 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | ||
There are two memrise courses associated with this text/audio, but one of them (the one with the picture of the book included in the header of the course) only deals with six of the 14 chapters and does not have audio. The better course is the following (looks like it covers 13 of 14 chapters, and includes audio): Beginner's Icelandic (Hippocrene) Edited by Spanky on 15 April 2015 at 11:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5959 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 23 of 33 15 April 2015 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
The second of the Memrise courses created by Alaric Hall is better for the updated (2nd edition) mp3 course, though it still has a few bugs. No audio, but 16+ hours of audio in the mp3 course itself. updated Alaric Hall memrise course 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5959 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 24 of 33 17 April 2015 at 6:26am | IP Logged | ||
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English/Icelandic online dictionaries that may be of assistance:
University of Wisconsin site This includes a number of bilingual short texts: bilingual texts Also the dict.cc dictionary: dict.cc - eng/isl Edited by Spanky on 17 April 2015 at 6:29am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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