Sahara Newbie United States Joined 5711 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes
| Message 1 of 18 29 September 2008 at 5:43pm | IP Logged |
I am an american girl/young woman who would like to learn how to read, write, and speak icelandic. I am under the age of 18 if this helps.
I am clueless on how to start out, i don't have the money to buy programs and my school doesn't offer icelandic as a language to learn. I am interested in e-pals [emailing native speakers near my age]
If anyone can help with programs, techniques[sp?], and/or any other ways to help learn this language i would be very greatfull.
Thank you for reading.
-Sahara
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awake Senior Member United States Joined 6447 days ago 406 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish
| Message 2 of 18 30 September 2008 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
Here is a website that has a free online icelandic course. It might be a good
place to start. There's also Teach Yourself Icelandic, which is a course that is relatively inexpensive. You may also
want to check your library, they may have some icelandic books/tapes available (or be able to get them through
interlibrary loan).
Good Luck :)
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ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6770 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2
| Message 3 of 18 30 September 2008 at 7:01am | IP Logged |
Does anyone know if there is a language school in Reykjavik? Icelandic is on my list of must learn one day and I would love to do an immersion there. I have done some google searches but so far haven't found anything.
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Samual Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5755 days ago 37 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 4 of 18 30 September 2008 at 11:50am | IP Logged |
i think livemocha.com has a small icelandic course
its a pretty good website! its free, and a good place to start
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Sahara Newbie United States Joined 5711 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes
| Message 6 of 18 30 September 2008 at 4:19pm | IP Logged |
thank you so much!
i will try livemocha because i've tried icelandic online and i don't understand anything on there....
but thanks for all the help =]
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norsklære Newbie United States myspace.com/shootfor Joined 5719 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Studies: German, Norwegian
| Message 7 of 18 01 October 2008 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
Check out this link:
http://odin.bio.miami.edu/norse/icetrans.html
Its full of useful phrases and common words, to help you in your learning of Icelandic :)
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bela_lugosi Hexaglot Senior Member Finland Joined 6265 days ago 272 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English, Finnish*, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish Studies: Russian, Estonian, Sámi, Latin
| Message 8 of 18 15 October 2008 at 6:11pm | IP Logged |
You could also try listening to songs sung in Icelandic, for example Bjork has recorded a whole jazz album in that language (and in my opinion it's her best album). :) Then buy a good dictionary, learn some grammar and start increasing your vocabulary translating the song lyrics! How about that?
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