perhaps I was a Viking in another life? what a beautiful language! I lived in Norway for a summer after studying Norwegian, and think it is a wonderful language, but when I hear Icelandic...it's like I'm at home!
This was very useful! I suggest you focus on everyday life situations, like you just did, for example asking how to get to a place, or ordering at a restaurant, or buying something in a shop, asking about price, etc. So it will be easier to remember the phrases in the context.
Nice to hear your pronunciation, I like it and it is helpful. Want to let you know that in English, "It was nice knowing you" is a final goodbye. So use, "It was good to meet you" or "Nice meeting you."
Really enjoyed this. You speak clearly and slowly enough for non-native speakers to appreciate some of the unusual sounds, and also pronounce most of the phrases another time more quickly so that it becomes clear what sounds a native speaker might omit when speaking quickly (I don’t hear the ð of að when most native speakers are speaking at a normal rate). Also nice to know what the individual words mean. Hope you can make more such videos in the future. Takk!
Takk fyrir!! This is such a big help!! I really want to learn Icelandic and I want to move to/live in Iceland one day! And these videos are helping a lot!
I'm learning the pronunciation because I'm reading Islendingabok. When you see the written text it might as well be Klingon, but once you can read it aloud it's very close to Old English.
I can say good morning until 6 pm? So noone will judge me when I get up in the afternoon and say good morning.. I like this country! :D Thank you for this nice video!
LOL. It's the same though, as in German, Guten Tag. Isn't Guten Tag "valid" till six o'clock, and after that Guten Abend? Dagur means day (Tag) though it also happens to be the name of the trainer of the German national handball team. =D
You're right. But it's only almost the same. "Guten Tag" is usually used beginning from 12 pm, midday. Until that it's really good morning (Guten Morgen).
Ég þakkur yðir fyrir þetta excellent video. Já, please make more videos. Thanks you for this great video. Very well received. Good job. P.S. Nice living room at the beginning.
thank you for this video Theodor! it's the most useful one I have found. I went to Reykyavik a few years ago and the biggest problem I had was that Icelanders' English was just so good they took pity and just spoke English to me so I didn't get to practice. Going back in a couple of weeks and am practicing with your video so maybe I will get a chance to show off my [meagre] Icelandic. Takk!
Takk fyrir! Ég er frá "Sverige", ég tala saensku og ensku. I don`t know how to write properly and correct in Icelandic. I see a lot of similarities and differences between Swedish and Icelandic which is amazing. I would love to learn more Icelandic and with some effort I will. I`ve just started an Icelandic course on the University of Växjö (Linnéuniversitetet) and my teacher is from Iceland. I will spend a lot of time on studying the language before I travel to Iceland. It would be fun to speak Icelandic in Iceland. A question, I`ve heard that many people in Iceland are good at Danish, is that true? Bless
Thanks for dropping by. Yes, many of us can speak Danish, but not fluently in most cases. I live in Skåne, so I speak Swedish, and Danish (got many Danish friends). Hej då, ha det så bra. ;)
This is going to be really useful! Thank you so much! Takk! I had already found vocabulary videos but I don't need vocabulary if I can't say “Hello!“ 200 crowns? How many euros is it?
Theodor N Ok thank you! I wondered if it was like the norwegian crowns (around 9 crowns for 1 euros at the time I went to Norway) but it seemed really expensive for one Snickers
Thank you, John, I'm thankful for that. I think many videos get dislikes for no reason. Videos I've liked very much (from others) have gotten some dislikes, and I don't understand why.
When one has a cold, it's better not to make a video. The sound of you coughing was so annoying that I just lost interest in continuing to watch your video. Just a feedback. Don't mind.
Thanks for your comment, sorry you lost interest. A lot of people haven't though, judging from the roughly 14,000 views it has gotten. By making these videos, I've learned more about editing them, and now I know I could have silenced the coughing in Audacity, and synced the new audio with the video. Or simply cut out the few seconds with the coughing and the explanations. I edited the audio in most of my later videos. You can't always know when you need to cough, besides, if I had waited until I had no cold, I'm not sure I would have had the time to make a video like this, which takes quite a lot of time and work.
Theodor N 14000 views means nothing. It's a just a number, not a trophy. Besides, there's always room for improvement and, if you can make it better, then you should. Be a little bit professional about things so you get more views. And more likes. Icelandic is a beautiful language; don't spoil the experience !
perhaps I was a Viking in another life? what a beautiful language! I lived in Norway for a summer after studying Norwegian, and think it is a wonderful language, but when I hear Icelandic...it's like I'm at home!
Me too!!
This is very helpful, thank you
This was very useful! I suggest you focus on everyday life situations, like you just did, for example asking how to get to a place, or ordering at a restaurant, or buying something in a shop, asking about price, etc. So it will be easier to remember the phrases in the context.
Nice to hear your pronunciation, I like it and it is helpful. Want to let you know that in English, "It was nice knowing you" is a final goodbye. So use, "It was good to meet you" or "Nice meeting you."
Really enjoyed this. You speak clearly and slowly enough for non-native speakers to appreciate some of the unusual sounds, and also pronounce most of the phrases another time more quickly so that it becomes clear what sounds a native speaker might omit when speaking quickly (I don’t hear the ð of að when most native speakers are speaking at a normal rate). Also nice to know what the individual words mean.
Hope you can make more such videos in the future. Takk!
Most useful I have found on pronunciation and hearing the language
Thank you
Takk fyrir!! This is such a big help!! I really want to learn Icelandic and I want to move to/live in Iceland one day! And these videos are helping a lot!
Takk for making this video! I'm trying to learn a few phrases/words before my trip to Iceland in two weeks.
I'm learning the pronunciation because I'm reading Islendingabok. When you see the written text it might as well be Klingon, but once you can read it aloud it's very close to Old English.
I can say good morning until 6 pm? So noone will judge me when I get up in the afternoon and say good morning.. I like this country! :D Thank you for this nice video!
LOL. It's the same though, as in German, Guten Tag. Isn't Guten Tag "valid" till six o'clock, and after that Guten Abend? Dagur means day (Tag) though it also happens to be the name of the trainer of the German national handball team. =D
You're right. But it's only almost the same. "Guten Tag" is usually used beginning from 12 pm, midday. Until that it's really good morning (Guten Morgen).
This is gold. Very usefull! Thank you to share this 💛
Ég þakkur yðir fyrir þetta excellent video. Já, please make more videos. Thanks you for this great video. Very well received. Good job. P.S. Nice living room at the beginning.
thank you for this video Theodor! it's the most useful one I have found. I went to Reykyavik a few years ago and the biggest problem I had was that Icelanders' English was just so good they took pity and just spoke English to me so I didn't get to practice. Going back in a couple of weeks and am practicing with your video so maybe I will get a chance to show off my [meagre] Icelandic. Takk!
please i want you to do another video takk we love this so much
Takk fyrir! Ég er frá "Sverige", ég tala saensku og ensku.
I don`t know how to write properly and correct in Icelandic.
I see a lot of similarities and differences between Swedish and Icelandic which is amazing.
I would love to learn more Icelandic and with some effort I will. I`ve just started an Icelandic course on the University of Växjö (Linnéuniversitetet) and
my teacher is from Iceland. I will spend a lot of time on studying the language before I travel to Iceland. It would be fun to speak Icelandic in Iceland.
A question, I`ve heard that many people in Iceland are good at Danish, is that true?
Bless
Thanks for dropping by. Yes, many of us can speak Danish, but not fluently in most cases. I live in Skåne, so I speak Swedish, and Danish (got many Danish friends). Hej då, ha det så bra. ;)
takk bless
PERFECT!!!!!
Thank you so much!
Man, I really wish I could speak Icelandic fluently... :)
(One day, who knows?)
This is going to be really useful! Thank you so much! Takk! I had already found vocabulary videos but I don't need vocabulary if I can't say “Hello!“
200 crowns? How many euros is it?
It's about one and a half euros. One euro is around 134 Icelandic crowns, at the time this answer is being written.
Theodor N Ok thank you! I wondered if it was like the norwegian crowns (around 9 crowns for 1 euros at the time I went to Norway) but it seemed really expensive for one Snickers
So “saell” is “salutations”?
Seems a little harder to say the words than French, which I learned years ago, but haven't really used it.
Thanks for the great video! Very helpful! ^^
Mér finnst veltingur á r mínum svo erfitt! :(
Takk fyrir myndbandið og bless bless frá Québec!
Takk.
May I charge my phone here please? -- Má ég hlaða simann minn hér vinsamlegast?
Takk!
Hallgrimskirkjuturn is the same as hallgrimskirkja, correct?
+Albert Nessia Hallgrímskirkjuturn refers to the tower of the church. That's what "turn" means, a tower. "Kirkja" is the Icelandic word for church.
tower - english / turn - icelandic = tower ( english ) and turn ( icelandic ) = turn ( romanian ) = Tower ( english )
When you say saell is more "respectable" I think maybe you mean more "formal".
Tiara, kind of, but sæll is not that formal.
Is it like the difference between "hello" and "hi"?
why icelandic its so hard. i cannot pronounce. i love your contry and culture but your language is so so hard. takk!
0 dislikes! Wow!
Thank you, John, I'm thankful for that. I think many videos get dislikes for no reason. Videos I've liked very much (from others) have gotten some dislikes, and I don't understand why.
your Icelandic is great, don't speak so much in English please but more Icelandic!
A good point!
You don't talk much to women do you?
When one has a cold, it's better not to make a video. The sound of you coughing was so annoying that I just lost interest in continuing to watch your video. Just a feedback. Don't mind.
Thanks for your comment, sorry you lost interest. A lot of people haven't though, judging from the roughly 14,000 views it has gotten. By making these videos, I've learned more about editing them, and now I know I could have silenced the coughing in Audacity, and synced the new audio with the video. Or simply cut out the few seconds with the coughing and the explanations. I edited the audio in most of my later videos. You can't always know when you need to cough, besides, if I had waited until I had no cold, I'm not sure I would have had the time to make a video like this, which takes quite a lot of time and work.
Theodor N 14000 views means nothing. It's a just a number, not a trophy. Besides, there's always room for improvement and, if you can make it better, then you should. Be a little bit professional about things so you get more views. And more likes. Icelandic is a beautiful language; don't spoil the experience !