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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5161 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 9 of 11 20 March 2010 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
Ah yes, I forgot about that. I have that also but I'm going to hold off using it until I have a basic understanding of the grammar in all tenses. The text passages and exercises look great to work through. The glossary is quite extensive. I don't think it being dated is necessarily a bad thing with a grammar book in Icelandic, but it's worth pointing out still. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6156 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 11 20 March 2010 at 11:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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The older TY Icelandic course is much better than the newer one. Unfortunately it has no audio.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6491 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 11 of 11 21 March 2010 at 2:39am | IP Logged | ||
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The best Icelandic English dictionary is in my opinion the Concise Icelandic-English dictionary from Iðunn, Reykjavík (4. ed. 2007). I ordered my copy from Háskolans boksala (which I found on the internet).
It is newer and better than Águst Sigurðsson: Íslenzk-Dönsk Orðabók (which only is relevant if you know Danish) From 'something' to Icelandic I have found several dictionaries, which all are reasonably comprehensive, but not as informative about morphology as the Iðunn thing: The best is probably Pons: Kompaktwörterbuch Deutsch-Isländisch, followed by Nordstedts Svensk-Isländska Ordbog and Mál og Menning's Dönsk-Íslansk Orðabók, - though in the last one I have a lingering feeling of missing out on some of the most common expressions because the book is written for Icelanders. As you can see it is practical to know Danish (or another Scandinavian languages, if you want to learn Icelandic). I did look for a suitable English-Icelandic dictionary during my visit there in 2009, but I didn't really like the alternatives. As for grammars: if you can read Italian (!) there is a splendid Icelandic grammar online somewhere on the internet, unfortunately with a somewhat cryptic title. I have written the link somewhere in this forum, but I haven't found the place yet. EDIT - I found it: "The best Icelandic grammar I have seen until now is online and bears the proud name KENNSLUB. There is only one catch - it is in Italian, sorry. I don't own a good Icelandic grammar on paper right now. One of the better paperbased textbooks I have seen is the one by Daisy L Neijmann: Colloquial Icelandic (Routledge). But I quite generally don't like textbooks. " Edited by Iversen on 21 March 2010 at 2:43am 7 persons have voted this message useful |
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