shiikii AI also due to their isolation they have the best and most accurate history of family liniage on public record. Their blood is old and mostly unaltered through time.
***** I live in Norway, I conversed with many swedes and it always ends up in English because it's too hard to grasp some of the Norwegian words and sentences. even tho I undersand 95% of the swedish and connect the rest to somehow to fit.
Srbskiiinat My guess is that you are not from Oslo right? Some parts of norway have some weird accents same in sweden, not sure if you could understans the accent they use down south here. Plus we are all different, i have no problem communicating with norwigians, do aright with danes and i understood most of what she said in the video
***** No i Live pretty close to Oslo, the dialect is almost the same with small abriviations non-drastic. sure there's difference still i did also understand most of it but it was the normal parts Like where she is from , her name, that it's cold there and so forth, but once she gets on the Casus it's harder to extrapalate the meaning and what she is getting to with her sentence.. which you probably will agree is the same issue with you.
like icelandic There also was a third Old Norse dialect/language called Old Gutnish (that was not Old East Norse or Old West Norse), spoken and used on the island of Gotland east of Sweden. Example: " Þissi Þiélvar hafði ann sun sum hít Hafðí. En Hafða kuna hít Hvítastierna. Þaun tu byggðu fyrsti á Gutlandi. Fyrstu nát sum þaun saman sváfu þa droymdi henni draumbr; So sum þrír ormar varin slungnír saman i barmi hennar, oc þýtti henni sum þair skriðin ýr barmi hennar. Þinna draum segði hán fyri Hafða bónda sínum. Hann ráð draum þinna so: Allt ir baugum bundit, bóland al þitta varða ok faum þriá syni aiga. Þaim gaf hann namn, allum ofýdum; Guti, al Gutland aiga; Graipr, al annar Haita; ok Gunfiaun þríði. Þair skiptu siðan Gutlandi i þriá þriðiunga, so at Graipr þann elzti laut norðasta þríðiung, ok Guti miðal þríþiung, en Gunfiaun þann yngsti laut sunnarsta.livedandletdie
yes this is very true. i am have been in sverige for awhile and am still learning and this is quite simular to swedish. it is a nice sounding language (:
Some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail... Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... Ég læri það í samhengi... Hvíslaðu að svaninum! En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá! Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (The words in these languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood!)
I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish 2gether, as they are way too pretty not to know, and also Welsh / Breton / Cornish etc which are also super gorgeous and elvish like the Norse languages, and one can also learn Swedish and German on the side, just like I do - I started learning languages on my own about one year ago, and I am learning 15+ languages at the same time, and I am upper intermediate level in Norse / Icelandic / German and advanced level in Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and intermediate level in Welsh and mid intermediate level in Swedish and in 3 other languages at the moment!
Pfff, so untrue, all wøm’n are the exact opposite of superiority terms such as girl / pretty / very / còmpłiments etc, and such terms cannot be misused by ppl in any way and must be edited out, and I am the only girl / feminine being - the language Icelandic is pretty and one of the prettiest languages ever, ppl are not!
Hej, You should do a regular segment on Iceland. You present perfectly and its a part of the world most don't know much about, especially here in the pacific, from downunder Oz.
@geniepixels Welsh and Icelandic share some interesting, uncommon phonological features like dental fricatives (voiced and unvoiced, both of which we spell as "th" in English) and a voiceless lateral fricative, which is like an "l" sound but very airy. IMHO, they're two of the most beautiful languages in the world :)
That’s true, Icelandic and Welsh are two of the prettiest languages ever, as pretty as Norse / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish, and Breton and Cornish and the other modern Celtic languages are also gorgeous - I highly recommend learning all these languages 2gether, as they are way too pretty not to know!
I speak English French and German. I have Russian friends and correct me if am wrong but at some points when she was talking, I found Icelandic similar to russian and German. But mostly russian similarities . And wow the girl was pretty :)
Now way, Icelandic It's a germanic language yes, but Russian has nothing to do with germanic languages. Icelandic is the language taht is more close to old Norse or what the vikings spoke if you will; so its veeery close to Norwegian for example, note the words I, which in Norwegian is Jag, and just listen to the beggining before her name. But don't get me wrong, the Icelandic is simillar to norwegian the same way that english is similar to german, just the roots, the sound its another story.
deiniou thanks buddy, haha, id say german is far more difficult than english;) yes i think youre right but since i dont know norwegian or icelandic, i cant really compare but one thing id like to ask is how difficult is it to start learning for e.g icelandic or norwegian or swedish? and how much time does it take to be fluent in one of these nordic languages? thanks
Well if you are going for skandinavik i would go for norwegian, as its said norwegian is danish spoken in swedish. So icelandic may me more aificult because has some cases and the á leters for example they add dificukty but no more than english where i sounds like (ai), norwegian, swedish, danish, are fairly simple, but, the beauty of them is the pronunciation and accent, very importand in norsk and svenska. Be fluent depends on each and everyone!
i dont know spanish,greek or icelandic. But voices of these three languages look like same for me. Put spanish in your left hand and put greek to right hand. Now clap your hands. Now it's icelandic for me :P
I grew up in a village called Älvdalen in Sweden where the local dialect is much closer to Old Norse than the "normal" Swedish. So I kinda understand this although I have neither been to Iceland nor ever studied Icelandic.
No, she says that the best thing to know about Icelanders is that they are very sarcastic (það sem er best að vita um Íslendinga er að við erum mjög kaldhæðin). The adjective "kaldhæðinn" has the word cold in it, but doesn't actually mean cold.
Swedish speaker here. Didn't understand 70% of what she said. The only thing I sort of understood was that she introduced herself saying her name and that she's from reyjkavik iceland and that the worst with iceland is that it's a cold country, probably got that wrong too. This gotta be the most tounge twisting scandinavian language along with danish coming at a close second.
Yes u got it wrong, but atleast u admit to not understanding it unlike many others form the scandinavian countries who for some reason belive they do. So I admire ur honesty To what u got wrong she said “það sem er best að vita um íslendinga er að við erum mjög kaldhæðin” This means: “what ís best tó know about Icelanders ís that we are very sarcastic”. And not what u thought in that the worst about iceland ís the cold.
Websites don't help very much. I strongly recommend getting private lessons via Facetime, Skype, etc. or getting an app on your phone, or a disk for your computer (or app, some computers have apps these days). I use a EuroTalk app on my iPod, and disk for my laptop. It works very well. Good luck!
Go on amazon and look up some textbooks. There are many such as "Complete Icelandic", "Beginner's Icelandic", "Colloquial Icelandic", etc. You can get them cheaper off ebay.
I only speak english.. but I was wondering today what english must sound like to people who do not understand it. I try to listen to my speech without thinking about what i was saying to try and see what it sounds like to non english speakers. That is very difficult. I wonder if this language would sound different if I understood her. Does anyone know how easy this language is to learn? Is it harder than french?
There's a RUclips video you can look at titled "what languages sound like to foreigners" she gives you a huge understanding of how English sounds to non-English speakers.
Icelandic is way easier and way more fun to learn and pronounce than French, as it’s one of the prettiest languages ever created, and it has the easiest pronunciation ever, as easy as English / Dutch / Norse pronunciation, and the Icelandic accent is very easy to imitate - I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish 2gether, and also Welsh / Breton / Cornish, as they are way too pretty not to know!
I started learning languages on my own about one year ago, and am learning 15+ languages at the same time, and am upper intermediate level in Icelandic / Norse / German and advanced level in Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and intermediate level in Welsh and mid intermediate level in French / Portuguese / Italian / Swedish at the moment - I have learnt over five thousand Icelandic words and over four thousand Norse words so far, and I learned most of them over the past 4 months so I know that Icelandic words are very easy to learn, way easier to learn than French / German words, and it’s definitely in the top 5 most memorable / easiest / fun to learn and easiest to speak and most motivating languages (English / Dutch / Norse / Icelandic / Norwegian) with English words and Dutch words being the absolute easiest to learn, and, Icelandic & Dutch are the easiest to pronounce, after English and Norse which have the absolute easiest pronunciation ever!
Technically, English sounds the same to non-natives as it does to natives, the only difference is, that many non-natives cannot understand most of the words, unless they are fluent in English - but the sound patterns and sounds etc sound the same to all!
Some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail... Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... Ég læri það í samhengi... Hvíslaðu að svaninum! En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá! Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (The words in these languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood!)
Hi, I'm just a random stranger passing by, but I would appreciate it a lot if you helped me. You see, I'm quiet interested in languages and would like to ask you for advice on where to start. Any ideas? Thanks a lot, kind Sir.
Actually it has minor influences of Gaelic as many settlers of Iceland in the middle ages were Irish, Scottish. But Icelandic is essentially the same (with modern wording etc) as Old Norse. Even their names are except they've changed some things. Like my name Sigmundr is spelled in the Old Norse way, but modern Icelandic would be Sigmundur. I prefer the old way of just the "R" at the end. And if you already knew this than... whatever lol.
As someone interested in Gaelic (I can't speak it, unfortunately), I noticed some similar sounds, for example the aspiration of a double consonant. Icelandic is a beautiful language, and I hope to learn it some day in the future (I'm currently learning Mandarin)
Why would one try to learn such non-pretty and funny-sounding and impossible category 10 languages as Mandarin etc that one will never get fluent in, anyway, when there are such gorgeous and easy and heavenly languages as Icelandic / Norse / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish, and Welsh / Breton / Cornish, which are also gorgeous - I highly recommend learning all heavenly languages 2gether, as they are way too pretty not to know, and they are all easy category 1 and category 2 languages, so one can learn many of them at the same time, which is way more efficient and the key to being a successful polyglot, so one should always choose wisely, only the pretty / refined / easy languages, not overrated languages such as Asian languages etc, which aren’t pretty and sound harsh and funny and are unnecessarily over-complicated and not fun to learn or speak or see or hear!
Some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail... Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... Ég læri það í samhengi... Hvíslaðu að svaninum! En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá! Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (The words in these languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood!)
Hæ, ég heiti Ólöf Helga Gunnarsdóttir og ég er frá Reykjavík á Íslandi, uhhh það sem er best að vita um íslendinga er að við erum mjög kaldhæðin, lang... bara eiginlega oftast og allir þekkja kaldhæðni og uhhh menning er auðvitað mjög mikilvæg í heiminum í dag og uhhh íslendingar eru geðveikir ... couldn't resist the uhhh part
I understand it too. But especially on this video. I think it also has a lot to do with the dialect and the speed of the talking, and this video had some very basic things like name, location, basic verbs adjectives and nouns. And norwegians tend to understand most if not all germanic northern languages because of the education and television which has media of many scandinavian languages. And there are very many ways to speak norwegian. Because of this we learn other similar languages faster.
i know probably nobody is gonna reply me but I could understand she saying "Hello here is .....(her name ).... how are you?........." and then she says "Its very cold here" or "we have cold weather here" is it correct? something like that? i dont speak icelandic i am just guessing for my knowledge of english and german........
+Kelvin Akira I could also understand what you heard (I'm a native German speaker) English, German and Icelandic are all Germanic languages, so I wouldnt wonder if thats actually (at least kind of) what she was saying
+Kelvin Akira :D there are similarities to German and english, but "kaldhæðin" means sarcastic..so I believe she's referring to Icelanders being very sarcastic, which is kind of true ;)
+Kelvin Akira she says: hi my name is ólöf helga gunnardóttir. i am from reykjavik in iceland the best thing to know about icelanders arrrree that we are where sarcastic and basically every one there is sarcastic all the time and thats our colture today and icelanders are insane ;)..........so the cold theary you made was not far of becuse sarcastic is kaldhæðin and its made from two words KALD is the word for Cold so good guess but very wrong
yeah my point exactly Slavic and Germanic nor Old Norse Although Germanic Languages come from Old Norse. But that's why I asked because yes that looks like it. I was researching Old Norse and origins and I have seen its runic spellings as well its alphabet spellings. and it looks a lot like that. and Turkish looks similar but only because of the accents you can say this looks like Spanish too if you wanted because of accent placement.
Germanic languages come directly from Latin, and the modern Celtic languages come mostly from Latin and Norse, so they are quite similar in many ways - Icelandic is a Norse language, and English also comes mostly from Norse, and Dutch was also influenced by Norse and English!
Icelandic and Norse and Dutch are the true Romance languages, as they have the most romantic sound / sound patterns / sounds - I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish, and also Welsh / Breton / Cornish, as they are way too pretty not to know!
I did a video speaking Icelandic, too (hähä this one was funny) ... It's not easy but it sounds really good! I'd love to speak it well, ég elska íslenskú! :)
Funny, I'm an intermediate learner in Norwegian and I agree with ObLiViOnZThEkIllEr, sounds a lot like Norwegian! The vocab obviously is much different :)
Eg heiti Victoria og eg er Salfraedingur. Eg er fra Grikklandi. Well, that's about it in Icelandic...I do not have access to the icelandic symbols/ letters right now so forgive my writing like this. In real life I can write with correct spelling. I understood I am x I come from Reikjavic from Iceland. I also understood every "og" and towards the end I understood something that most likely was the adjectiv Icelandic or Icelander. It might help if someone can write the text in Icelandic. There are very few chances to listen to Icelandic. actually a youtube channel where people speak in Icelandic with subtitles would be a great idea!! Takk fyrir!
Then read my text fast and fluently: Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie w Szczebrzeszynie, W szczękach chrząszcza trzeszczy miąższ, Czcza szczypawka czka w Szczecinie, Chrząszcza szczudłem przechrzcił wąż, Strząsa skrzydła z dżdżu, A trzmiel w puszczy, tuż przy Pszczynie, Straszny wszczyna szum.
Icelandic, due to isolation, is the most similar to old Norse than any other Scandinavian language :D
Todd Rowe :3
Andy K i didnt know this, neat!
shiikii AI also due to their isolation they have the best and most accurate history of family liniage on public record. Their blood is old and mostly unaltered through time.
wow, thats actually really really cool. you know a lot about Iceland, eh? :)
shiikii AI I just retain a lot of knowledge. Ha-ha. Never even been there though I would love to!
I understood everything! Greetings from Sweden.
Ｉ ＣＡＮ＇Ｔ ＵＮＤＥＲＳＴＡＮＤ ＪＡＣＫ ＳＨＩＴ
Oh im swedish! Im also norwegian and Icelandic! greetings! 😃
@Just Your Average Icelander is it easy to move to Iceland?
@Just Your Average Icelander iceland has to be the prettiest place on the planet. I really want to move there.
@Just Your Average Icelander have you ever seen Eyjafallajökull?
And it is such a beautiful language, whether spoken or written
Icelandic is such an interesting language. I could pick out enough to understand her meaning from my Plattdeutsch and Norsk backgrounds
i'm swedish and i could understand most of this
No you couldn't -.- swedes have so freaking hard time understanding norwegian it's ridicilous and its a language alot closer in grammar -.-
Srbskiiinat and where are you from? Im swedish aswell and i understood most of it aswell
***** I live in Norway, I conversed with many swedes and it always ends up in English because it's too hard to grasp some of the Norwegian words and sentences.
even tho I undersand 95% of the swedish and connect the rest to somehow to fit.
Srbskiiinat My guess is that you are not from Oslo right? Some parts of norway have some weird accents same in sweden, not sure if you could understans the accent they use down south here. Plus we are all different, i have no problem communicating with norwigians, do aright with danes and i understood most of what she said in the video
***** No i Live pretty close to Oslo, the dialect is almost the same with small abriviations non-drastic.
sure there's difference still i did also understand most of it but it was the normal parts Like where she is from , her name, that it's cold there and so forth, but once she gets on the Casus it's harder to extrapalate the meaning and what she is getting to with her sentence..
which you probably will agree is the same issue with you.
how he said beautiful at the end reminded me of a porn audition
I'm norwegian and I understood EVERYTHING of what she was saying.
The only language on earth that touches my soul😢beautiful culture and language
So beautiful, okay, not only Ólöf, but also the language. Best greetings from Sweden.
like icelandic
There also was a third Old Norse dialect/language called Old Gutnish (that was not Old East Norse or Old West Norse), spoken and used on the island of Gotland east of Sweden. Example:
" Þissi Þiélvar hafði ann sun sum hít Hafðí. En Hafða kuna hít Hvítastierna. Þaun tu byggðu fyrsti á Gutlandi. Fyrstu nát sum þaun saman sváfu þa droymdi henni draumbr; So sum þrír ormar varin slungnír saman i barmi hennar, oc þýtti henni sum þair skriðin ýr barmi hennar. Þinna draum segði hán fyri Hafða bónda sínum. Hann ráð draum þinna so: Allt ir baugum bundit, bóland al þitta varða ok faum þriá syni aiga. Þaim gaf hann namn, allum ofýdum; Guti, al Gutland aiga; Graipr, al annar Haita; ok Gunfiaun þríði. Þair skiptu siðan Gutlandi i þriá þriðiunga, so at Graipr þann elzti laut norðasta þríðiung, ok Guti miðal þríþiung, en Gunfiaun þann yngsti laut sunnarsta.livedandletdie
i am from finland and i think that icelandic is very beatiful language. :)
It sounds a lot like my language (German). Wouldn't have thought that :o And very much like dutch. Sweet language :)
Love to hear it.
She is lovely 😊
Its like if spanish and german had a love child
hilarious yet soooo accurate.....haha what a funny idea!!
HOLY HELL, I'M A NATIVE GERMAN SPEAKER AND I UNDERSTOOD 1 THIRD OF THIS, THAT'S BEAUTIFUL-
yes this is very true. i am have been in sverige for awhile and am still learning and this is quite simular to swedish. it is a nice sounding language (:
Some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail...
Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára!
En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu!
Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim!
Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska!
Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin!
Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana...
Ég læri það í samhengi...
Hvíslaðu að svaninum!
En ertu frá hinum hlutanum?
Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá!
Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi?
Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana!
Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou?
(The words in these languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood!)
I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish 2gether, as they are way too pretty not to know, and also Welsh / Breton / Cornish etc which are also super gorgeous and elvish like the Norse languages, and one can also learn Swedish and German on the side, just like I do - I started learning languages on my own about one year ago, and I am learning 15+ languages at the same time, and I am upper intermediate level in Norse / Icelandic / German and advanced level in Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and intermediate level in Welsh and mid intermediate level in Swedish and in 3 other languages at the moment!
@Norica96 Understood most of it as well, but not that weird considering they are two closely related languages..
What a pleasant sounding language. A very pretty girl speaking it doesn't hurt.
Pfff, so untrue, all wøm’n are the exact opposite of superiority terms such as girl / pretty / very / còmpłiments etc, and such terms cannot be misused by ppl in any way and must be edited out, and I am the only girl / feminine being - the language Icelandic is pretty and one of the prettiest languages ever, ppl are not!
Hi all, just wanna say to anyone from Iceland on here. Well done in the Euro's you played amazing.
It does, her surname is Gunnarsdottir. (Dunno about spelling, I'm Swedish. I do understand most of what she says, though.)
@opsimathics You meant astrid?
Hej,
You should do a regular segment on Iceland. You present perfectly and its a part of the world most don't know much about, especially here in the pacific, from downunder Oz.
I came here after watching videos of Beowulf. It's supposed to sound closer to Icelandic than any language. This went by so fast that I can't tell!
wow she is pretty ;)
@geniepixels Welsh and Icelandic share some interesting, uncommon phonological features like dental fricatives (voiced and unvoiced, both of which we spell as "th" in English) and a voiceless lateral fricative, which is like an "l" sound but very airy. IMHO, they're two of the most beautiful languages in the world :)
Legend has it that some of the "pillagers" from Scandinavia didn't actually go home.... hmmm....
That’s true, Icelandic and Welsh are two of the prettiest languages ever, as pretty as Norse / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish, and Breton and Cornish and the other modern Celtic languages are also gorgeous - I highly recommend learning all these languages 2gether, as they are way too pretty not to know!
I speak English French and German. I have Russian friends and correct me if am wrong but at some points when she was talking, I found Icelandic similar to russian and German. But mostly russian similarities . And wow the girl was pretty :)
it doesn´t sound like russian at all. except for R-sound.
Now way, Icelandic It's a germanic language yes, but Russian has nothing to do with germanic languages. Icelandic is the language taht is more close to old Norse or what the vikings spoke if you will; so its veeery close to Norwegian for example, note the words I, which in Norwegian is Jag, and just listen to the beggining before her name. But don't get me wrong, the Icelandic is simillar to norwegian the same way that english is similar to german, just the roots, the sound its another story.
deiniou thanks buddy, haha, id say german is far more difficult than english;) yes i think youre right but since i dont know norwegian or icelandic, i cant really compare but one thing id like to ask is how difficult is it to start learning for e.g icelandic or norwegian or swedish? and how much time does it take to be fluent in one of these nordic languages?
thanks
Well if you are going for skandinavik i would go for norwegian, as its said norwegian is danish spoken in swedish. So icelandic may me more aificult because has some cases and the á leters for example they add dificukty but no more than english where i sounds like (ai), norwegian, swedish, danish, are fairly simple, but, the beauty of them is the pronunciation and accent, very importand in norsk and svenska. Be fluent depends on each and everyone!
deiniou wow thanks buddy. ive started some Norwegian very basic learning. great post
i dont know spanish,greek or icelandic. But voices of these three languages look like same for me. Put spanish in your left hand and put greek to right hand. Now clap your hands. Now it's icelandic for me :P
@PaulSLambeth Hvad er 'geðveikir'?
how people sneeze in icelandic: häéttðinmmh
She's so nice. I'd love to learn icelandic.
I grew up in a village called Älvdalen in Sweden where the local dialect is much closer to Old Norse than the "normal" Swedish. So I kinda understand this although I have neither been to Iceland nor ever studied Icelandic.
I have some knowledge of German and a few words of modern Swedish, but that only lets me go "hey I understood that word" every now and then.
No, she says that the best thing to know about Icelanders is that they are very sarcastic (það sem er best að vita um Íslendinga er að við erum mjög kaldhæðin). The adjective "kaldhæðinn" has the word cold in it, but doesn't actually mean cold.
PORCO DIO CHE BELLA.
Swedish speaker here. Didn't understand 70% of what she said. The only thing I sort of understood was that she introduced herself saying her name and that she's from reyjkavik iceland and that the worst with iceland is that it's a cold country, probably got that wrong too. This gotta be the most tounge twisting scandinavian language along with danish coming at a close second.
interesting
Yes u got it wrong, but atleast u admit to not understanding it unlike many others form the scandinavian countries who for some reason belive they do. So I admire ur honesty To what u got wrong she said “það sem er best að vita um íslendinga er að við erum mjög kaldhæðin”
This means: “what ís best tó know about Icelanders ís that we are very sarcastic”.
And not what u thought in that the worst about iceland ís the cold.
so how would you now what Icelandic or Old Norse looks Like???
Is there a site on the internet where I can start learning Icelandic? Please tell me. I'm in love with this language. :3 Sorry for my English.
Just a Google search for 'basic Icelandic grammar' and 'basic Icelandic phrases' should get you to a good start.
Takk! :)
það var ekkert
Websites don't help very much. I strongly recommend getting private lessons via Facetime, Skype, etc. or getting an app on your phone, or a disk for your computer (or app, some computers have apps these days). I use a EuroTalk app on my iPod, and disk for my laptop. It works very well. Good luck!
Go on amazon and look up some textbooks. There are many such as "Complete Icelandic", "Beginner's Icelandic", "Colloquial Icelandic", etc. You can get them cheaper off ebay.
What a mysterious sounding lauguage... I wonder if ppl who don't speak english, hear it and think that its a beautiful language too? Hmmm.
I only speak english.. but I was wondering today what english must sound like to people who do not understand it. I try to listen to my speech without thinking about what i was saying to try and see what it sounds like to non english speakers. That is very difficult. I wonder if this language would sound different if I understood her. Does anyone know how easy this language is to learn? Is it harder than french?
There's a RUclips video you can look at titled "what languages sound like to foreigners" she gives you a huge understanding of how English sounds to non-English speakers.
Icelandic is way easier and way more fun to learn and pronounce than French, as it’s one of the prettiest languages ever created, and it has the easiest pronunciation ever, as easy as English / Dutch / Norse pronunciation, and the Icelandic accent is very easy to imitate - I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish 2gether, and also Welsh / Breton / Cornish, as they are way too pretty not to know!
I started learning languages on my own about one year ago, and am learning 15+ languages at the same time, and am upper intermediate level in Icelandic / Norse / German and advanced level in Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and intermediate level in Welsh and mid intermediate level in French / Portuguese / Italian / Swedish at the moment - I have learnt over five thousand Icelandic words and over four thousand Norse words so far, and I learned most of them over the past 4 months so I know that Icelandic words are very easy to learn, way easier to learn than French / German words, and it’s definitely in the top 5 most memorable / easiest / fun to learn and easiest to speak and most motivating languages (English / Dutch / Norse / Icelandic / Norwegian) with English words and Dutch words being the absolute easiest to learn, and, Icelandic & Dutch are the easiest to pronounce, after English and Norse which have the absolute easiest pronunciation ever!
Technically, English sounds the same to non-natives as it does to natives, the only difference is, that many non-natives cannot understand most of the words, unless they are fluent in English - but the sound patterns and sounds etc sound the same to all!
Some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail...
Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára!
En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu!
Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim!
Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska!
Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin!
Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana...
Ég læri það í samhengi...
Hvíslaðu að svaninum!
En ertu frá hinum hlutanum?
Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá!
Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi?
Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana!
Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou?
(The words in these languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood!)
Bieautiful
How do you say "I'd tap that" in Icelandic?
Var síðasta orð "geðveikir" xD? Rétt hjá henni.
i love this language
Hi, I'm just a random stranger passing by, but I would appreciate it a lot if you helped me.
You see, I'm quiet interested in languages and would like to ask you for advice on where to start.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot, kind Sir.
have a look online
@PaulSLambeth AWESOME! :D
Actually it has minor influences of Gaelic as many settlers of Iceland in the middle ages were Irish, Scottish. But Icelandic is essentially the same (with modern wording etc) as Old Norse. Even their names are except they've changed some things. Like my name Sigmundr is spelled in the Old Norse way, but modern Icelandic would be Sigmundur. I prefer the old way of just the "R" at the end. And if you already knew this than... whatever lol.
ég líka... þú meinar að þú býrð á Íslandi ekki satt?
As someone interested in Gaelic (I can't speak it, unfortunately), I noticed some similar sounds, for example the aspiration of a double consonant. Icelandic is a beautiful language, and I hope to learn it some day in the future (I'm currently learning Mandarin)
Why would one try to learn such non-pretty and funny-sounding and impossible category 10 languages as Mandarin etc that one will never get fluent in, anyway, when there are such gorgeous and easy and heavenly languages as Icelandic / Norse / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish, and Welsh / Breton / Cornish, which are also gorgeous - I highly recommend learning all heavenly languages 2gether, as they are way too pretty not to know, and they are all easy category 1 and category 2 languages, so one can learn many of them at the same time, which is way more efficient and the key to being a successful polyglot, so one should always choose wisely, only the pretty / refined / easy languages, not overrated languages such as Asian languages etc, which aren’t pretty and sound harsh and funny and are unnecessarily over-complicated and not fun to learn or speak or see or hear!
Some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail...
Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára!
En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu!
Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim!
Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska!
Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin!
Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana...
Ég læri það í samhengi...
Hvíslaðu að svaninum!
En ertu frá hinum hlutanum?
Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá!
Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi?
Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana!
Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou?
(The words in these languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood!)
really? i've always wondered this, how much do you guys understand of it? all or just a little bit?
wow
Someone please type here what did she say? On icelandic
I'm trying to learn language and I need to se the text)
Takk
Hæ, ég heiti Ólöf Helga Gunnarsdóttir og ég er frá Reykjavík á Íslandi, uhhh það sem er best að vita um íslendinga er að við erum mjög kaldhæðin, lang... bara eiginlega oftast og allir þekkja kaldhæðni og uhhh menning er auðvitað mjög mikilvæg í heiminum í dag og uhhh íslendingar eru geðveikir ... couldn't resist the uhhh part
The uhhh is the best part with it.
надо тебе сайт где можно исландский учить?
давай)
Ilya Kurochkin icelandiconline.is Но там не всегда все понятно, лучше конечно совмещать с книгами и пособиями
Hispanic/Basque prosody, intriguing...
I understand it too. But especially on this video. I think it also has a lot to do with the dialect and the speed of the talking, and this video had some very basic things like name, location, basic verbs adjectives and nouns. And norwegians tend to understand most if not all germanic northern languages because of the education and television which has media of many scandinavian languages. And there are very many ways to speak norwegian. Because of this we learn other similar languages faster.
@Kurtortonta
Same, Norwegian here tho.
hún kallaði mig geðveikan ég er ekki geðveikur. she called me insane im not insane
i know probably nobody is gonna reply me but
I could understand she saying "Hello here is .....(her name ).... how are you?........." and then she says "Its very cold here" or "we have cold weather here" is it correct? something like that? i dont speak icelandic i am just guessing for my knowledge of english and german........
+Kelvin Akira
I could also understand what you heard (I'm a native German speaker)
English, German and Icelandic are all Germanic languages, so I wouldnt wonder if thats actually (at least kind of) what she was saying
+Sylt Yes heheheh
My mother tongue is Portuguese but I love germanic languages
they all have some similarities
+Kelvin Akira :D there are similarities to German and english, but "kaldhæðin" means sarcastic..so I believe she's referring to Icelanders being very sarcastic, which is kind of true ;)
+swanheart89 lol
so i didnt understand anything at all
+Kelvin Akira she says: hi my name is ólöf helga gunnardóttir. i am from reykjavik in iceland the best thing to know about icelanders arrrree that we are where sarcastic and basically every one there is sarcastic all the time and thats our colture today and icelanders are insane ;)..........so the cold theary you made was not far of becuse sarcastic is kaldhæðin and its made from two words KALD is the word for Cold so good guess but very wrong
Last three words please "Íslendingar eru ??????"
how about old Norse which Icelandic is derived from.
yeah my point exactly Slavic and Germanic nor Old Norse Although Germanic Languages come from Old Norse. But that's why I asked because yes that looks like it. I was researching Old Norse and origins and I have seen its runic spellings as well its alphabet spellings. and it looks a lot like that. and Turkish looks similar but only because of the accents you can say this looks like Spanish too if you wanted because of accent placement.
shouldn't it be Ólöf talaR íslensku (present simple third person)? Sorry, I'm trying to lear it :)
Yep, that fits. :3 (an Icelander here)
you missed the dóttir/son at the end lol
yes it is i live there it is true :)
Já vi erum geðveik ! ;D
hmm idk then, hey are you from Iceland if so. I would love to learn the language, possibly via Skype or face book???
I am a British swede so I understand icelandic even though I am swedish. I mean I don't speak Icelandic but I understand it.
Well It's actually a Celtic Language and when you read it in Text It's really hard...
But Actually when you hear it, It's like a Romance Language...
Icelandic is a very German language. It’s a direct descendant to the root of Old Norse that all German languages derive from
Germanic languages come directly from Latin, and the modern Celtic languages come mostly from Latin and Norse, so they are quite similar in many ways - Icelandic is a Norse language, and English also comes mostly from Norse, and Dutch was also influenced by Norse and English!
Icelandic and Norse and Dutch are the true Romance languages, as they have the most romantic sound / sound patterns / sounds - I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish, and also Welsh / Breton / Cornish, as they are way too pretty not to know!
No idea what she said..And they said Danish was the hardest language to learn.
polish is harder
+Hoxha Edits Yep
Russian
@kevincpg og* not óg
Fajnie brzmi
this language is so crazy because of it's fucking hard use of the TONGUE jesus christ!!! atlltlaa thruurtghhh égg lllkkhhhhh
HINGA DINGA DURGEN!
I T ‘ S L E I F E R I K S S O N D A Y !
Ingur Pengur sounds like an imitation of "without money"
Love the prof pic by the way xD
I did a video speaking Icelandic, too (hähä this one was funny) ... It's not easy but it sounds really good! I'd love to speak it well, ég elska íslenskú! :)
@leifur1012
thanks!
Pure Viking, nice
I can't watch this because she's way too gorgeous and i can't have her.
yeh this and Afrikaans are tough langauges to fully understand and comprehend
Er det ikke sånn at Islandsk er så nær du kommer det de snakket i viking tida?
Jeg har hørt det er sånn. :3
Unskyld, min Danske er ikke sa godt... -w-''
GothAmaterasu Er det ikke Norsk? Eller har jeg helt fel?
Knugen
Norsk ligner meget Islandsk, så den kan vel være. :3
GothAmaterasu Jag tänkte mer på att du sa att han snackade Danska? Det ser ut som Norska för mig.
Knugen Jeg snakker hverken Dansk eller Norska, jeg forstår både, men jeg kan ikke se en forskel...^^'
Íslendingar eru bestir 😚
omg it's Ingrid from "How to Train your Dragon"
@ILuvBritLouTayTay And that its very cold over there
who?
Funny, I'm an intermediate learner in Norwegian and I agree with ObLiViOnZThEkIllEr, sounds a lot like Norwegian! The vocab obviously is much different :)
Are u saying that the best thing about iceland is the cold!?! Im swedish and that is what it sounds to me.
the youtube subtitle algorithm thinks that Icelandic is a mix of Spanish and Portuguese....
NICE. I fucking understood it!
Can someone translate into english??
Eg heiti Victoria og eg er Salfraedingur. Eg er fra Grikklandi. Well, that's about it in Icelandic...I do not have access to the icelandic symbols/ letters right now so forgive my writing like this. In real life I can write with correct spelling. I understood I am x I come from Reikjavic from Iceland. I also understood every "og" and towards the end I understood something that most likely was the adjectiv Icelandic or Icelander. It might help if someone can write the text in Icelandic. There are very few chances to listen to Icelandic. actually a youtube channel where people speak in Icelandic with subtitles would be a great idea!! Takk fyrir!
I get about 70% of it as a Swede! :))
Alexis Fonjallaz what she said
its pretty sad to live in a dark for 6 months...
OMG, I though polish is difficult but she beat it;)
Then read my text fast and fluently:
Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie w Szczebrzeszynie, W szczękach chrząszcza trzeszczy miąższ, Czcza szczypawka czka w Szczecinie, Chrząszcza szczudłem przechrzcił wąż, Strząsa skrzydła z dżdżu, A trzmiel w puszczy, tuż przy Pszczynie, Straszny wszczyna szum.
+HesseJamez
Did they find these things in a pyramid in Egypt???
haha thats so cute
@kamilfrancoolczak They dont live in dark for 6 months!! hahah are u kidding? haha
Luwlz you, it says it in two languages even, it's Icelandic...
du har et veldig pent navn :-)
despite of im hungarian :D
No this is not my whole name and yes my name ends with dóttir but i don't want to write my whole name here :)
hardest language to learn
not if she isn't of Icelandic origin?
Actually to me it looks more or less like Mongolian.
" What is "Eyjafjallajökull"? "
"Eyjafjallajökull".
"What?"
"Eyjafjallajökull?!"