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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6498 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 9 of 16 29 July 2009 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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primarily for Scandinavians: there is a good and not too expensive Swedish-Icelandic dictionary from Norstedts Akademiska Förlag. I bought it in June in Reykjavik (in the bookstore Mál og Menning on Laugarveginn), so I have no idea what the price is in Sweden - where it is printed - or in other countries. The Dönsk-Íslenzk Orðabók from the publishing house Mál and Menning is big and contains a lot of expressions, but it is lopsided to suit the needs of Icelanders, not Danish learners of their language. I checked through several other fairly big dictionaries 'Something'->Icelandic during my visit in Reykjavik, but all the books I checked out had the same problem: they were written for Icelanders, and therefore they contained a lot of information about language X, but nothing much about the Icelandic words.
From Icelandic to Danish there are several old dictionaries, including one from Isafoldarprentsmiðjan (written by Águst Sigurðsson), but the one I will recommend is the Icelandic-English dictionary from Iðunnar - it is simply one of the best dictionaries I have got for any language combination. I have forgotten what I paid, but it doesn't matter - it has been worth every krónur. I ordered mine from Bóksala in Reykjavík by e-mail. 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 29 July 2009 at 10:32pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| densou Senior Member Italy foto.webalice.it/denRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5927 days ago 120 posts - 121 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 10 of 16 30 July 2009 at 1:51am | IP Logged | ||
Its English translation might be the EIGHTH World Wonder. Damn, my hopeless humorism has struck again *sorrrry* Am I wrong or I was the guy who spread that huge course among threads here as the first ? *blushing* Source :p 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6498 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 16 30 July 2009 at 9:47am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know who mentioned it first, but I discovered it by myself through Google, and I actually like it - it is not just a joke!
Btw the link above didn't work, but this one does (see 18/3 2008) Edited by Iversen on 30 July 2009 at 9:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gamauyun Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5443 days ago 26 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Romanian, German | Message 12 of 16 13 August 2009 at 5:54pm | IP Logged | ||
How much of what you learn in Icelandic can be immediately transferred into Old Norse? I mean, does the ability to read a modern Icelandic novel immediately allow you to read the Sagas in Old Norse, or does it require a lot of additional study to understand the more archaic language? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6704 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 16 13 August 2009 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh, I didn't even consider that the Edda was written quite a while ago, but it's my assumption that Icelandic speakers can read Old Norse without too much difficulty.
Text samples at Wikipedia 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| densou Senior Member Italy foto.webalice.it/denRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5927 days ago 120 posts - 121 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 14 of 16 14 August 2009 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | ||
Not true, I asked an acquaintance (native Icelander) to re-arrange Edda's introduction for using it as MSN signature :P He took a little amount of time....then he told me it's not so easier as it seems. (well, but still less harder than performing a traslation to Italian from Latin :P ) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| andersh Diglot Newbie Joined 5365 days ago 7 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Icelandic | Message 15 of 16 25 August 2009 at 10:09am | IP Logged | ||
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For Swedes there is one necessary and sufficient book: Lärobok i nutida isländska Ingegerd Fries Häftad. Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, 1979-01 That one and a dictionary is all you need to get started. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Piotr1981 Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 5028 days ago 26 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2 Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 16 of 16 03 August 2010 at 11:13am | IP Logged | ||
I subscribed to icelandic.hi.is some time ago but I didn't get far. The exercises may be good, but I would welcome an option of slowing the recordings down a bit at leaner's will. I suppose they wanted the studentss to get accustomed to a faster pace of speaking from the first lesson, instead of offering them the usual unrealistically slow soundbites but I've never learned any Scandinavian language so it's rather difficult for me. Plus, I really need some downloadable/printable metarials. Do they offer any? Edited by Piotr1981 on 03 August 2010 at 11:22am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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