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| csjc Tetraglot Newbie IcelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5412 days ago 20 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Dutch Studies: Norwegian, French, Japanese | Message 9 of 12 01 March 2012 at 12:00am | IP Logged |
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Icelanders are usually taught by Danish-speaking Icelanders who for the most part never quite mastered Danish
phonology. A lot of Icelanders can read and write Danish relatively well, but when speaking they resort to a fairly un-Danish pronunciation. Perhaps it can sound Norwegian. Those most familiar with it can easily recognize it as "Icelandic Danish" -even Icelanders who have lived in Denmark for long periods of time still speak in such a way. Just now I came across a thesis (written in Icelandic) investigating the status of Danish education in Iceland. "Fjórir af sex viðmælendum okkar nefndu að það væri áberandi hve danskur framburður vefðist fyrir Íslendingunum, jafnvel þeim sem væru mjög vel færir um að skilja, lesa og skrifa málið. " "Four of our sex interviewees mentioned difficulties with Danish pronunciation to be rather apparent, even for those who otherwise were capable of understanding, reading, and writing the language at a high level." 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| KimG Diglot Groupie Norway Joined 4789 days ago 88 posts - 104 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Portuguese, Swahili | Message 10 of 12 03 March 2012 at 7:25pm | IP Logged |
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Well, the Icelanders I've met who studied norwegian, learned it in Norway, but I do not think Icelandic accent is anything close to Norwegian, and could not be mistaken for an regional accent even. Their advantage is if they go here, they got some advantages of not needing to learn any difficult sound, just needing to start speaking after an course, and main advantage is they learn speaking with Native speakers.
Badly learnt Norwegian by an Icelander is wery noticeable, but hard to place, at least for me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6721 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 12 04 March 2012 at 12:43am | IP Logged |
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One Icelander whose Norwegian could fool me any day is the singer Eiríkur Hauksson.
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| Kadabrium Triglot Newbie Norway Joined 4457 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, English, Norwegian Studies: Latin, Icelandic | Message 12 of 12 07 March 2012 at 4:37pm | IP Logged |
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Written differences between Danish and eastern Norwegian dialects are almost
just orthographical... And since Danish pronounciation is a little irregular by itself... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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