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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 1 of 3 02 April 2015 at 10:57pm | IP Logged |
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“This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..” Francis Bacon (writing as Shakespeare), Henry V I am planning on upping my game as far as studying Icelandic goes, and am canvassing for interest among those hardy individuals either actively studying or contemplating studying Icelandic to join a study group of hard-core Icelandic learners I am forming on Memrise. Unfortunately, all that apparently means is that we would be able to compete against each other in chasing memrise points, but sometimes a little friendly competition can be helpful. If you are not familiar with memrise, it can be fun, I find it effective in terms of learning vocabulary and sometimes pronunciation, and it is attractively priced at $free. Also, I am not sure about this, but I gather memrise points can be exchanged for actual dollars on a 1:1 basis, so at 300,000 memrise points and counting, I should be flush with $$ in due course. Let me know if any of you may be interested in being added – on memrise, ég er kallaður “lavengro” Edited by Spanky on 02 April 2015 at 11:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| IarllTroseddwr Newbie United States Joined 3657 days ago 23 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 3 08 April 2015 at 7:55am | IP Logged |
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Hæ! I made an account on Memrise a long time ago, but never really used it much. I´ve recently begun dabbling in Icelandic and have been looking for a way/reason to get a bit more motivated with it. I would definitely be interested. Would we go off of our own "course" or share one? Like I said, not too familiar with Memrise. What materials have you been using for your Icelandic studies?
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 3 of 3 11 April 2015 at 7:38am | IP Logged |
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Hæ back at ya, IarllTroseddwr,
In looking further at what is possible currently with the new "Groups" feature on Memrise, I don't think it offers anything of interest for me. It would be useful if setting up a group allowed communication between learners in the study group, but it does not, so I am not going to bother setting one up. Interaction between users on memrise is quite limited. Feel free to add me as a mempal if you decide to pursue Icelandic on memrise, just hit "follow" at the following: lavengro But all that does is let mempals see what courses each other are studying, and monitor how many memrise points they are gathering. Easier by far just to exchange information on htlal. In terms of your post questions, reasons to get motivated to study Icelandic - as opposed to dozens of other languages that are better support in terms of learning materials, more widely spoken in the world or of greater utility (especially since Icelandic is apparently not much needed even for travel in Iceland given the high level of English language proficiency there) - are hard to come up with. Possible motivations may be one or more of the following: - masochism - forced to do so because one has lost a bet - not a fan of modern literature and instead wish to stick with the sagas - keen eagerness to figure out how properly to pronounce Björk's name - because it is just so dern awesome (this is my main motivation, plus a trip there planned for July) I am studying a number of Icelandic memrise courses now (some with sound, some unfortunately without sound), in conjunction with other learning materials. Feel free to drop by my language log, which I will update when I have a chance within the next few days, as that will shortly contain a better list of learning resources. But for now, I would strongly recommend an all-audio course created by Alaric Hall, a professor at the University of Leeds and kindly posted for free by Mr. Hall. His site shows as still a little crashed, but the link he has provided works fine for the audio links. He makes traversing through the tricky inflectional bits actually doable, with tons of practice opportunities. Link to his crash notice, which contains the drive.google link Alaric Hall's awesome audio course I am also working through the following text and accompanying audio (audio is absolutely necessary in my view for beginners, for both the phonetics - there are some odd sounds (hello, freaky double "l") - and for prosody or the sentence flow. ie=UTF8&qid=1428729843&sr=8-1&keywords=hippocrene+icelandic" >Hippocrene, Beginner's Icelandic I like the Hippocrene text, but honestly without also working at the same time through the Alaric Hall materials, I would have given up on Icelandic as being mostly impossible. If you go to my user profile on memrise, above, you will see the courses I am taking. http://www.memrise.com/course/134020/beginners-icelandic/ http://www.memrise.com/course/20899/icelandic-for-beginners- mp3-vocab/ http://www.memrise.com/course/556537/icelandic-for-beginners -2nd-edn-practice-phrases/ http://www.memrise.com/course/536/icelandic-flash-cards/ There are a bunch of other Icelandic courses, see link below, and there may be better courses, but the ones that I am following are associated with and reinforce the Alaric Hall audio course and with the Hippocrene course (the first three above), and I am also working slowly through the Iceland Flash Card 3000 word course (the fourth course above) - this one has audio from native speakers lifted from forvo for approximately half the words. catalogue of memrise Icelandic courses There are some more internet resources, I will post on my log in next few days, but the above is where I would recommend one start if starting as I did from scratch (which is still pretty close to where I am, though I am half-way through the 16 hour Alaric Hall material). Good luck, study hard (whether Icelandic or some other less cool language)! Edited by Spanky on 15 April 2015 at 11:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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