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| Reykjavik Triglot Newbie UkraineRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5589 days ago 15 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Ukrainian, Russian*, English Studies: Icelandic | Message 1 of 4 12 August 2009 at 2:21pm | IP Logged |
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(Note: I intended to post this entry 8th, so it relates to that time. I hope I will do a new, fresh entry later today.)
Hæ! Today is the fourth day of me studying Icelandic, and I've decided to start this log. I'm using Teach Yourself, though with a determination to add Linguaphone and Colloquial in a few weeks, and start doing immersion in a few weeks more. Also, I'm using Anki for flashcards — currently I have 67 cards in there, though a big part of it are various gender forms and formality forms of greetings/partings. Generally vocabulary is nice and logical — many words are very similar to English ones (buxur for pants (boxers), fingur for finger, drámur for dream, and so on, and so on); and the ones that are not are short, simple and easy to memorize (sími — telephone). Phonetics is wonderful — all the “weird” sounds of Icelandic that are not present in English (like i/y sound) are present in Russian, so there is much, much less problems here than with Mandarin. As for grammar, I'm only brushing it now, but I already suspect that it will bring a lot of problems :) It's Íslenska after all :) Typing brings me moderate troubles. Luckily, I'm on a Mac, so I have easy access to accents and umlauts, but English Mac layout lacks ð and þ, yet Icelandic layout which I use for them has punctuation in very strange places. I guess, I'll just learn the punctuation locations on Icelandic keyboard, and use it full-time. Wish me luck :) Bless! Edited by Reykjavik on 12 August 2009 at 2:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6438 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes  Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 4 12 August 2009 at 2:30pm | IP Logged |
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Finally.. you got your own learning log.. :) Congrats and good luck.
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| Reykjavik Triglot Newbie UkraineRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5589 days ago 15 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Ukrainian, Russian*, English Studies: Icelandic | Message 3 of 4 12 August 2009 at 2:48pm | IP Logged |
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Takk fyrir, Jívon :)
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| Reykjavik Triglot Newbie UkraineRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5589 days ago 15 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Ukrainian, Russian*, English Studies: Icelandic | Message 4 of 4 12 August 2009 at 3:43pm | IP Logged |
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Sæll.
Seventh day today, and I'm still in the middle of TY's first unit. Forms of the verb "að vera" (to be), verb heiti (to be called) and personal pronouns are killing me — I'm remembering them slowly, but my Anki deck still have more fails for them than anything else. Speaking of which, I have 280 cards already (140 facts, both front and reverse), but most of them are verbforms — I hardly have even 100 actual, honest words in there. Correct answer rates are 73.6% for young cards and 80.6% for first-seen ones — I would hope the relationship would be reversed. I changed my system language to Icelandic and enjoy that I actually make out a lot of stuff. Say, in Bing, which also switched to Icelandic with my locale, “show all” is rendered as “sýna allt”. I'm feeling proud that I actually - know- what it means, and not just making a guess. I guess that's it for now =) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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