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| uliuliuli Triglot Newbie Finland Joined 6304 days ago 22 posts - 22 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Norwegian, Finnish | Message 9 of 13 21 August 2007 at 6:59pm | IP Logged |
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You see, guys - a native speaker of a language usually doesn't have much of a clue about all that grammar stuff (see above posting). Apart from that, all those suffixes for the cases and so on are totally different from the German ones. Oh well. I guess I'll have to learn Finnish to be able to show off with my language achievements...
@Iversen: So far I'm doing good at the grammar exercises. If there's a word I haven't already "saved" in my head then I usually know a similar word that most likely works the same way. @Schaumgebremst (?!?): Takk fyrir! En kærastinn minn er líka íslenskur :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| uliuliuli Triglot Newbie Finland Joined 6304 days ago 22 posts - 22 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Norwegian, Finnish | Message 11 of 13 21 August 2007 at 9:44pm | IP Logged |
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Oh, really? I haven't heard anything like that before. I always thought Icelanders were very proud of and concerned about their language.
Well, it is normal for a language to develop and to get simplified over time. So maybe Icelandic will finally get rid of some of its complicated grammar, too... I don't think it's in any danger of extinction, though. (That being said, I hate most of those changes going on in my own mother tongue...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| uliuliuli Triglot Newbie Finland Joined 6304 days ago 22 posts - 22 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Norwegian, Finnish | Message 13 of 13 05 July 2008 at 8:54pm | IP Logged |
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Just a little update: By having to use Icelandic in my job and, in particular, by having a stubborn colleague who'd just always speak Icelandic to me and only repeat in English if I still made a stupid face after several attempts... I can follow most conversations now, sometimes even understand every single word, and I can speak some when urged to. I really didn't study the grammar any more, I just use what sounds familiar to me and usually that's right. I'm still struggling with the pronunciation, though. It actually works very well in theory or maybe with my boyfriend, but when I try to use it somewhere it often sounds terrible.
Anyway, as I predicted, I'm having a much easier time with Finnish. I started learning it about ten months ago and it will soon be about the same level as my Icelandic (which I started learning about three years ago, incl. courses at university and living there for most of the time). I have a good basic vocabulary by now, I understand (AND LIKE!!!) how the grammar works and I can use at least some of it correctly, the pronunciation is easy anyway... I found an online friend from Finland, who I mostly write with in a mixture of Finnish and German (his German is not very good at all), and we're planning to start skype calls soon. ...And no one can say that it's oh so easy for me because of my native language and blahblah, harhar, whatcha say NOW?! ;P 1 person has voted this message useful |
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