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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6684 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 1 of 38 30 April 2008 at 8:11am | IP Logged | ||
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I've wanted to learn Icelandic for 3 years now, and finally I got the "chance" ;)
Anyone who has any links or tips or ideas about Icelandic, feel free to post them! My main source will be "Teach yourself Icelandic". I originally wanted "Colloquial Icelandic" but it seems to be out of print everywhere. I am also going to work with a grammar book and a book of fiction (dual reading). Those are not yet in my possession though. My main goal is to actually stick to a method. I will have to see how much I will do every day when I start working with the book (= tomorrow). I have no idea where I think I will end up by January 1st though, so I won't speculate too much on that. I will by no means decrease the amount of Russian I do, that is the most important point here. Now, I must go find some Icelandic people :> 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| egg_uk Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6424 days ago 203 posts - 204 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 38 30 April 2008 at 8:44am | IP Logged | ||
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good luck, with your knowledge of 3 languages you should do well with this language by january. you may find colloquial icelandic on ebay or the used and new on amazon.
edit. just checked amazon.co.uk and they have several Edited by egg_uk on 30 April 2008 at 8:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6154 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 3 of 38 30 April 2008 at 11:14am | IP Logged | ||
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If you don't mind p2p, I've found a torrent of an audiobook of Egils saga on the pirate bay dot org.
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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6684 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 4 of 38 30 April 2008 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | ||
I was looking at ebay, but the seller didn't even respond to my question on shipping... I discovered the one on amazon.co.uk now! ;) However... together with my other books, it got a bit expensive, so I'll try with "Teach Yourself Icelandic" and see how that works out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6684 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 5 of 38 30 April 2008 at 1:49pm | IP Logged | ||
Thaaanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6684 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 6 of 38 02 May 2008 at 2:33am | IP Logged | ||
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During my first day of Icelandic learning I did the first unit of "Teach your self Icelandic". Not a very very exciting lesson ;) It takes a lot of time for very little information and 85% of the vocabulary was 100% obvious to me. Surely, a Swedish book would be better, it would leave out all those obvious things. Also, I think the pronunciation guide would be better, often I think the explanations given in this one are false (luckily I've got the audio).
All the names of the countries all at one in the first chapter, what is that about, seriously? ;) With exercises "Can you recognize these?", of course I can, they're practically the same as in Swedish :P I have a Swedish course book from the 60's in Sweden, and I once started with that one (in 2004), but it is not very pedagogic and very boring, but now I feel that it might not be *that* bad. Today, I'm going to learn some false friends between Icelandic and Swedish, and that's probably all I will have time for with French and Russian shouting for my attention. **** If anyone has found Egils Saga in either Norwegian, Swedish or Danish, pleeease pass me the link! I have started making a dual text, but it would be so much more convenient if I could drop the English translation. **** 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6684 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 7 of 38 04 May 2008 at 3:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I got my hands on Linguaphone Icelandic, and oh my, is it a bit more serious than TYI! ;) I'm trying to follow the methodology they propose, and it sure takes some time. It involves listening to the text over and over and over again, but I do think it is a good method. I have only done half the first lesson, with working with the text and word list (in 13 steps!) and I am currently adding the word list to a small moleskin book that I plan to take with me everywhere. I've just read Iversen's word list post here and I'm going to give that a go for Icelandic at least. It was with a similar method to that that I learned words for French and English, since it was the method my mom used when she learned languages.
I've also read half the first chapter of Egils Saga, and I really like it. I thought I wouldn't since I always found these things a bit boring to read in school, but reading it in Icelandic (with that miserable excuse for a translation) makes it much more fun. Often, the Icelandic makes perfect sense to me while the English is just what? This does not mean I can read the Icelandic without translation. Today I plan on finishing that Linguaphone lesson. I haven't got it printed yet though, which makes it a bit difficult since I will probably be going out due to summer's early arrival... Edited by tricoteuse on 04 May 2008 at 3:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6684 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 8 of 38 05 May 2008 at 7:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Some major progress: got the Linguaphone book printed!
Did chapter two of TYI yesterday. I think a combination of the two is great, since TYI is more modern. Linguaphone has very formal language, and some slightly dated vocab, but it is still very good. With French linguistics/grammar and medieval literature/phonetics exams coming up, Icelandic will probably be a bit toned down until after week 20 (this being week 19). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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