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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4639 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 17 of 29 02 May 2012 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I would be interested in how you learnt Icelandic. I have been studying Icelandic for a year now and finished Daisy L. Neijmann's Colloquial Icelandic some time ago. I am now looking for new resources to improve my Icelandic. I have already watched Viltu læra íslensku?, which I found to be very entertaining and informative, and I sometimes try to read fréttir from Morgunblaðið, but they are mostly too complicated and difficult. I think my strong suit is grammar while I'm lacking vocabulary. My pronunciation has become better in the last time due to listening exercises. I've had a look at Einarsson's book, but I found it rather outdated and not a great help. Can you give me any advice how to practise my Icelandic, perhaps good Icelandic books to read? I have considered ordering Einar Már Guðmundsson's Englar alheimsins from Eymundsson, but I don't know if it might be too difficult. The same goes for Laxness's works: Good literature, but probably very difficult to read in Icelandic. It would be interesting to learn how you acquired your high level of overall proficiency in Icelandic. Which materials did you use? Which books did you read? Your information could be very helpful for me. Greetings from Germany! Edited by Josquin on 02 May 2012 at 4:51pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| yuanyilin Newbie China Joined 4384 days ago 3 posts - 1 votes | Message 18 of 29 02 May 2012 at 5:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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i also love icelandic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4639 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 19 of 29 02 May 2012 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I know social convention would normally expect me to say something like: "Welcome to the forum" etc. But all I can think of at the moment is: "What a useless and pointless post!" Would you please introduce yourself and your language learning history in the "Members" section of the forum and not in a specialized thread like this one! Moreover, I posted a detailed question just before your two posts for which I expected an adequate answer and not a bunch of useless photos which do not even show the bibliographical information of the dictionaries! I appreciate your enthusiasm for languages, but some useful information would be even more appreciated! Edited by Josquin on 02 May 2012 at 9:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4654 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 20 of 29 02 May 2012 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Not really the best and probably useless for you, but as the thread goes, maybe someone will find it useful:
http://www.islandzki.pl/slownik/ Yes, yes. An online version of POLISH-ICELANDIC dictionary. @csjc - Impressive! If you'd like to write more about your experience in some other thread I (and I guess not only I) would be delighted. Edited by prz_ on 02 May 2012 at 10:08pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| psychonaut Diglot Newbie Germany nothingisreal.com/ Joined 4386 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Icelandic | Message 21 of 29 20 May 2012 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I think you've just answered your own question. I have the same experience whenever I go to Iceland on holiday: no matter how actively you seek out opportunities to use your Icelandic, the natives immediately respond to you in English. I'd been learning the language for years before I first went, and was pretty confident in basic scripted dialogue (such as buying goods and services in shops), and could make decent basic social conversation. But no matter whom I talked to in Iceland, they always answered in English. The only exception was a seven-year-old girl I met at a campsite, who enthusiastically told me all about her rabbits and sheeps and dogs and cats and other animals at her farm back home, and didn't seem to notice or care that I wasn't a native speaker. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| psychonaut Diglot Newbie Germany nothingisreal.com/ Joined 4386 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Icelandic | Message 22 of 29 20 May 2012 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Does it have to be a single printed book? Because I don't think you are going to find such a thing, given that Icelandic is such a minority language. You said in a later post that you were concerned about the lack of modern technical terminology, but if that's the case, why not combine an existing generalist dictionary with a specialist one? The Icelandic Word Bank is a collaborative, online, multilingual resource which aims at covering modern terminology in specialized fields:
The Hugtakasafn Þýðingamiðstöðvar utanríkisráðuneytis has the same general goals, and is used by government translators for translating EEA regulations:
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| csjc Tetraglot Newbie IcelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5395 days ago 20 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Dutch Studies: Norwegian, French, Japanese | Message 23 of 29 20 May 2012 at 9:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Unfortunately the state of Icelandic bilingual dictionaries is not brilliant. The Icelandic-English one published by
Forlagið was recently revised and I do think it would be a useful high-level resource. Time and time again I nonetheless find myself having to resort to the monolingual Íslensk Orðabók (edited by Mörður Árnason), which is the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary available. As psychonaut pointed out, there are a number of specialist-oriented word banks available to fill in the gaps. ÍSLEX (not sure if I can post links, google it) is an online dictionary that goes both ways between Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian and Faroese. The project has been ongoing for a number of years now and the website was only launched a couple months ago. They've made a really commendable effort to include many example sentences, idioms, and newer words. Worth checking out. Edited by csjc on 20 May 2012 at 9:14pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6111 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 24 of 29 24 May 2012 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
If this is the version to which you are referring, it looks very handsome! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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