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| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4460 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes  Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 17 of 44 08 July 2012 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
A little question for you and Richard: what is specific about Swedish that makes it a step towards Icelandic? I believed Norwegian and Icelandic could perhaps be the closest as their ancestor seemed to be Western Old Norse, while Swedish/Danish would come more from Eastern Old Norse? At least that's what Wikipedia says, but I've no idea if that makes any sense, and I'd indeed be interested in knowing why the two of you would choose Swedish to get Icelandic. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4489 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 18 of 44 08 July 2012 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Oh they are just both languages I want to learn. I believe it has something to do with
Swedish having particular resources to learn Icelandic, but I haven't really looked into it yet. Also, the differences between Norwegian/Swedish/Danish aren't very big and picking any of them would help. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5116 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 19 of 44 08 July 2012 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I believe Norwegian is closest to Icelandic, but as they are all really close, it doesn't really matter which one you chose. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 10 July 2012 at 6:56pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4626 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 20 of 44 08 July 2012 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Well, technically, Faroese would be the closest language to Icelandic, but of course nobody is going to study that (except for me, it seems)! Of the continental Scandinavian languages, Nynorsk is closest to Icelandic, then Bokmål, Swedish, and Danish. So, one might say Norwegian is closer than Swedish or Danish, but the difference between these three is really minimal -- except for Norwegian still having three genders, while Swedish and Danish only have two.
However, the insular Scandinavian languages are very different from their continental sisters, so don't be disappointed when after having gotten Swedish (or Norwegian) under your belt you still won't be able to understand a lot of Icelandic. It helps a bit with the vocabulary, but grammar... I'm not going into details now, but Icelandic (and Faroese) declension and conjugation are really a chapter of their own, and I haven't said anything about language purism yet. By the way: Great video, Cristina (and Richard)! I'm really looking forward to the next one! :) Edited by Josquin on 08 July 2012 at 10:59pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4489 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 21 of 44 08 July 2012 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I know that, I've been to Iceland. :) I really loved that visit, so that's why it's on
the list. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4460 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 22 of 44 08 July 2012 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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@Josquin: in fact, I've studied "some" Icelandic, around 50h which really didn't get me far at all, and at the moment I have other goals.
And indeed, I won't consider learning Faroese, at least not as a step towards Icelandic! Ok, I stop hijacking this thread. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 4991 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 23 of 44 09 July 2012 at 1:02am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I loved the informality - it was obvious you were both relaxed and enjoying yourselves. Thanks, Cristina and Torbyrne. Microsnout, thanks for pointing out those captions - they were such a hoot! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5510 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 24 of 44 09 July 2012 at 7:18am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I can't wait! I hope you won't keep us waiting too long. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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