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| Aras Groupie United States Joined 6758 days ago 76 posts - 83 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Ancient Greek | Message 25 of 53 30 March 2008 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I wrote them, although I personally prefer a more textbook-oriented approach.
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| anders_h Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 6113 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Icelandic | Message 26 of 53 31 March 2008 at 7:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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For Icelandic there is enough enough teaching material (in Swedish and English) to get started. And children's books and grammars and dictionaries and newspapers and even Donald Duck (Andres Önd). For hearing it and get a good laugh go to Youtube and search "Fóstbræður". Icelandic radio and TV is at ruv.is, then go to skoli.eu if you want to pay for an online course. I do. They're good.
One can do it without special language courses. A dictionary, a language course book with a minimal grammar, a pack of pop CD's with text books, a couple of movies on DVD and some children's books will do, at least if your mother tongue is indo-european :-/ Andy H 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 53 31 March 2008 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
This thread may not give os an Assimil course (which I probably wouldn't use even if it existed), but this Italian masterpiece about Icelandic will from now on be my preferred source for knowledge about the language (combined with my dictionaries, - I'm planning to order a Danish-Icelandic dictionary dictionary directly from Reykjavik because it would cost more to order it through a Danish bookstore) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hokusai77 Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 7152 days ago 212 posts - 217 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Italian*, FrenchB1, EnglishC1 Studies: GermanB1, Japanese | Message 28 of 53 03 April 2008 at 3:51am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, it is really a great book, I have downloaded it too. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6372 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 29 of 53 16 April 2008 at 7:54am | IP Logged | |||||
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I sent an Email, for what it's worth... I don't know if they will make one in the future but I strongly believe they will. In the next 10 to 20 years at least... But I'll probably have already started learning by then and already have a good understanding...
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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6678 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 30 of 53 16 April 2008 at 8:13am | IP Logged | |||||
I'm also on the hunt for a dictionary, but the Norwegian-Icelandic one (or the Swedish-Icelandic for that matter) is well... expensive beyond expensive ;) Wherefrom will you order yours? Danish-Icelandic is just fine for me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6372 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 31 of 53 13 June 2008 at 12:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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well that's great, if you speak fluent Italian ;)
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| awake Senior Member United States Joined 6636 days ago 406 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish | Message 32 of 53 13 June 2008 at 1:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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There apparently was a linguaphone icelandic course available until recently. The method is essentially the same as
used by assimil. You might be able to find it online or on ebay if you keep looking. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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