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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6682 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 25 of 38 03 June 2008 at 6:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Eduard: Mine is quite modern! It is very OK to work with, I just don't really like the whole lesson thing :) I prefer to use other things to learn.
-- Today I finished chapter 7 of TYI. I have tried to throw in some listening during all of the recent visits to the park (a result of the wonderful weather). We are going to Budapest tomorrow and return on Saturday, so I think next week will have to be the big revival of this TAC. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Eduard Decaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6029 days ago 166 posts - 170 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, NorwegianC1, Swedish, Danish, English, German, ItalianB1, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, French Studies: Portuguese | Message 26 of 38 03 June 2008 at 11:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Aha, well, I guess it was about time that TYIcelandic got revised :).
Btw, I don't know if you know, but you can watch Icelandic TV on www.ruv.is. I tried sometimes, just for the fun of it. It's fairly hard to understand to the untrained (foreign) Norwegian Bokmål ear. Faroese, which at first glance looks a lot like Icelandic, I found out to be a lot easier to understand and read. It's quite close to the dialects of West Norway (even in pronunciation at times). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6682 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 27 of 38 10 June 2008 at 7:36am | IP Logged | ||
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Back from Budapest (with some serious wanderlust for Hungarian going on :S) and back on track! (I think)
I've done half of TYI 8, focusing quite a lot on the words and on some verb conjugations. TYI isn't very extensive, I've soon done half of the book. I do look forward to finishing it though, and having some basics, in order to move on to working with just texts and grammar books, like I do for Russian. Hungarian is, by the way, the coolest sounding language out there. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6682 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 28 of 38 13 June 2008 at 6:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Finished chapter 8 and 9, but before moving on to chapter 10, I will have to listen to the recordings at least 5 times each for both chapters and shadow them, and organize the verb conjugation charts that have been presented so far. It seems like you have to remember in what group each verb is by yourself, so before it gets completely out of hand I am going to make some verb cards! I would like to read more though, to have some book in Icelandic that is not old and filled with weird spelling! I really liked Sjón's "Skugga-Baldur" and I'd love to have it in Icelandic, but where does one order books from Iceland? (In Norway I can get it in Swedish, Norwegian or Finnish, but not Icelandic.) Or is there some Icelander out there who would be willing to do a trade with me? ;)
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| Eduard Decaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6029 days ago 166 posts - 170 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, NorwegianC1, Swedish, Danish, English, German, ItalianB1, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, French Studies: Portuguese | Message 29 of 38 13 June 2008 at 7:28am | IP Logged | ||
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You could try the library (Deichmanske and the University library). I checked and found the book in Icelandic at both places, though they've gone missing. The University library is having a new copy on order. They probably have other books in Icelandic as well and you don't need to be a student to be able to loan books at the University library. It's for free too!
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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6682 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 30 of 38 17 June 2008 at 8:24am | IP Logged | ||
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I've done chapter 10 of TYI today, no listening yet though. I'm getting more of an overview over all the grammatical forms and hopefully I will soon be able to use an online dictionary that does not search conjugated words ;) I wanted to read an article about a polar bear yesterday at www.mbl.is, but it was very hard since all online Icelandic dictionaries (that are free) are completely worthless.
Also, need some more vocab. Vocab through TYI is SLOOOOW, just a couple of words per lesson (or so it seems). Perhaps I need to take a look at some Linguaphone lessons. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6707 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 31 of 38 17 June 2008 at 9:42am | IP Logged | ||
I have ordered several boks from Bóksala Studenta. It isn't as hich tech as Amazon, but you get your books fast and without much fuzz. Verbs in Icelandic should as far as possible be memorized with all the main forms (lera - lera - leraði - lerað, spyrja - spyr - spurði - spurt), just as you would do with for instance Latin verbs. If you use flash cards all these forms should be included with all verbs that have even slightest hint of an irregularity (and with all strong verbs because they as a general rule are unpredictable). Having another Scandinavian language as your native language should however make this task easier. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6682 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 32 of 38 17 June 2008 at 10:21am | IP Logged | ||
I never even thought about that! However, I am very bad at using libraries, cause I don't move around much and I always forget to return the books. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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