Thank you so much for this video! I'm Brazilian and thanks to Icelandic music, I fell in LOVE with this beautiful and quite unique language. I wanna learn it so bad!
I had a friend when I was little whose dad was from Iceland. She used to talk icelandic with him and I just thought it was the coolest thing ever, I didn't understand much tough I just liked to listen to it. I'm actually going to Iceland this fall, it's going to be awesome! :)
I think what trekkiemonster3 means is that the language is very complicated in grammar, spelling, etc. Not only the pronouncing... It is a germanic language like English is, but way more complicated.
This language is so cool. And so far it doesn't seem too difficult as well, it's just those two strange letters 'ð and þ' who are a bit tricky. In some words they sound very similar. This lady is really cute btw, oh yeah and twenty sounds funny in Icelandic. Tuttugu!
That's because both are Germanic languages, meaning common terms are most likely to be derived from a common source (proto-Germanic or a later common ancestor). Most of our legal and scientific terms come from French, Latin, and Greek, but most of the base vocabulary is Germanic in origin.
@janna25 Of course it's similar! Icelandic is the ancient scandinavian (viking) language that was spoken nearly 1000 years ago in the whole Scandinavia. It's the base of the whole scandinavian languages. It sounds different from other northern languages because the island wasn't influenced by other cultures and invasions that's why it preserved its originality. ( All the islanders are ethnic norwegians)
Isländska är inte så svårt faktiskt, när man kommer från Sverige exempelvis, i mitt fall då. På många sätt påminner våra språk om varandra. Rätt coolt! ska försöka lära mig isländska någon dag, det låter väldigt häftigt :D
you would be surprised to see how complicated Icelandic really is, almost all words except nouns differ between sexes, actions, tense and name it, you can have up to 8 versions of the same word if I am not mistaken :)
Ok... So is there or is there not an SH sound in icelandic? 'Cause various sources differ in opinion on this particular subject. And if there is, is it a Voiceless retroflex fricative [ʂ] or a Voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ] ??
Lol. There is a cut after five. How many tries did it take to say 6 while keeping a straight face? And what are you reading between the numbers? Don't you know them by heart? Or is it to give a more authoritative impression, like teaching from the book? Anyway, these are excellent videos.
@devilred1971 Icelandic is basically Old (West) Norse, and English was influenced by Norse during the Viking Age. That's why they have those similarities.
yep, the Icelandic folk came originelly from Vestlandet, or the West of Norway, mostly from Hordaland but also some from Sogn og Fjordane, Rogaland and Møre og Romsdal. The Scandinavia languages originates from Northern Germanic, which in turn originates from ancient germanic, wheras all the peoples with germanic background originates. There are still many similarities, for example in english hand, german hand, norwegian hand and danish/norwegian hånd.
grisabonden777 They are also a mixture of Irish and Scottish too :) they are 60% Nordic and the rest is from Ireland and Scotland heritage from the times they took them as their slaves and married the women,
What does she say between "Hi, my name is Natalia" and "how to speak Icelandic"? I can kind of recognize a lot of the Icelandic parts thanks to my knowledge of Swedish and Norwegian, but not at all do I understand this English introduction. Thank you!
djb5255 Thank you! Oh, now I started wondering what "expertvillage" means (even though I know the words "expert" and "village"), but then I saw that the name of the channel or user is "expertvillage". Thank you! :-)
Limbsy, I am proud that Icelandic is my first language :) It's the oldest version of how the vikings spoke that is still used today. Think thats pretty cool
Not so far away from Swedish actually. Numbers are more like the German order when you come up to 11-19 for example. Much alike though... And i'm trying to find a Icelandic course here in Sweden but cant find any so i have to stick with this. Good videos though. Skàl !
ok, so you think accent is the only aspect of a language? i speak of the language as a whole, including pronouncation, grammar, dialects and so on. Danish grammar is quite simple (icelandic is way more advanced). i agree the accents might be hard to get, but all in all danish is an easy language compared to for instance slavic and finno-ugric languages...
All the Scandinavian languages (Finland is not in Scandinavia so im ofcourse excluding finnish, some people think they are Scandinavians but theyre not.) sounds allmost the same, it's allmost like one language but with verry far distant accents. Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish that is. Dont know to much about Faroese.
Jacob Fabian No worries, it's tricky at first. Practice rolling the r on it's own and focus on understanding the language, eventually you'll get it (this was my approach to learning Polish which also rolls the r)
Sjö / 7 J is like y in yay Ö is like U in Understand I think... S - Y -and then u in understand,, lol.. thats how it sounds to me but I'm not sure if I made it very clear or not :P
In several Scandinavian languages (including those which are not Scandinavian but originate from Germanic) sex means six, as in the number 6. I'm sure that I, and alot of other Europeans who speak languages such as this would appreciate if you don"t make fun of our languages.
I don't think so, Icelandic is a Germanic language, closer to Norwegian-Rijksmal or Faroese, Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language with its roots outside Europe. It's not even Indo-European.
Haha it's not just funny because of the word, it's also because of how it's pronounced. I can't really explain it.. but that makes it funnier. I think it's because its pronounced the EXACT same way in English..like, the vowel isnt even slightly different..
Don't say that icelandic is BASED on ancient norse. Icelandic IS ancient norse. Of course some words and phrases aren't used anymore but it basically hasn't changed for all those years. It is also quite fascinating to read the old sagas and see that some very old words from Icelandic are still being used in Germany and England such as the English word 'Run'. Icelandic: Renna , German: Rennen. It was Norwegian that started to differ from the ancient norse while they were under Danish rule.
Not true. Ingólfur Arnarson was the first man to discover Iceland. He was a Norwegian Chieftain and settled on the cove of 'Reykjanesskagi' (That's near from where I live) but Gardar Svavarsson "was a Swedish man who is considered by many to be the first Scandinavian to live in Iceland, although only for one winter." He was one of the first to permanently live there. I should know these things since we had to learn about it in school.
no, not all we sailed to other nations and kidnapped all their pretty girls and made them our slaves and impregnated them. these women come mostly from Ireland (for it was close by), which explains all the redheads and also, one woman came from America (native American) for more info, just google: "native american woman in Iceland"
What is your problem, exactly? Our ancestors were vikings and many people still uphold that religion or 'Asatrú' and many people call us vikings because of that.
Nej, självklart inte ;) men kan några meningar. Ifall man vill lära sig att prata är det ju bara att lyssna på när andra pratar på RUclips. Så kan man åtminstone lära sig olika meningar. En bra start i alla fall :)
![Icelandic Pronunciation - Vowels I (A, Á, E, É, I/Y, Í/Ý) [EP.01]](/img/1.gif)
Thank you so much for this video!
I'm Brazilian and thanks to Icelandic music, I fell in LOVE with this beautiful and quite unique language.
I wanna learn it so bad!
I had a friend when I was little whose dad was from Iceland. She used to talk icelandic with him and I just thought it was the coolest thing ever, I didn't understand much tough I just liked to listen to it. I'm actually going to Iceland this fall, it's going to be awesome! :)
Icelandic pronunciation makes much more sense that English pronunciation.
English pronunciation/spelling is a random thing. Still looking for some proper rules.
love how she keeps havin too look down to see what the next number is :)
1 einn
2 tveir
3 þrír
4 fjórir
5 fimm
6 sex
7 sjö
8 átta
9 níu
10 tíu
11 ellefu
12 tólf
13 þrettán
14 fjórtán
15 fimmtán
16 sextán
17 sautján
18 átján
19 nítján
20 tuttugu
30 þrjátíu
40 fjörtíu
50 fimtíu
60 sextíu
70 sjötíu
80 áttatíu
90 nítíu
100 hundrað
500 fimmhundrað
1000 eittþúsund
Thanks. U are a very good teacher!
Why does she still need to look down at the queue cards???
Wow that was easy for me. I'll have to learn some more Icelandic.
It is a beautiful language, difficult, but beautiful!, es un bello idioma, difícil, pero bello!
it's very interesting, culturally speaking. The English Channel is so narrow, but marks a far deeper cultural distance.
I think what trekkiemonster3 means is that the language is very complicated in grammar, spelling, etc. Not only the pronouncing...
It is a germanic language like English is, but way more complicated.
Thank you for this video! I love your language.
This language is so cool. And so far it doesn't seem too difficult as well, it's just those two strange letters 'ð and þ' who are a bit tricky. In some words they sound very similar.
This lady is really cute btw, oh yeah and twenty sounds funny in Icelandic. Tuttugu!
Sure, I´m proud to have clean air and water and food, but the weather is really ticking me off!!!!
You should come visit, it is beautiful here!
Thanks for video keep going 🤠 greeting from Morocco
Very nice, Natalia! Thanks for teaching us Icelandic! :)
That's because both are Germanic languages, meaning common terms are most likely to be derived from a common source (proto-Germanic or a later common ancestor). Most of our legal and scientific terms come from French, Latin, and Greek, but most of the base vocabulary is Germanic in origin.
@janna25 Of course it's similar! Icelandic is the ancient scandinavian (viking) language that was spoken nearly 1000 years ago in the whole Scandinavia. It's the base of the whole scandinavian languages. It sounds different from other northern languages because the island wasn't influenced by other cultures and invasions that's why it preserved its originality. ( All the islanders are ethnic norwegians)
Isländska är inte så svårt faktiskt, när man kommer från Sverige exempelvis, i mitt fall då. På många sätt påminner våra språk om varandra. Rätt coolt! ska försöka lära mig isländska någon dag, det låter väldigt häftigt :D
Its amazing how many simualities i found with icelandic and norwegian ;)
you would be surprised to see how complicated Icelandic really is, almost all words except nouns differ between sexes, actions, tense and name it, you can have up to 8 versions of the same word if I am not mistaken :)
Hvilken god ide!
What a splendid idea!
Beautiful language. Beautiful woman
Ok... So is there or is there not an SH sound in icelandic? 'Cause various sources differ in opinion on this particular subject.
And if there is, is it a Voiceless retroflex fricative [ʂ] or a Voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ] ??
@d1daa theyre from the same root language, essentially... you gotta go back centuries tho
Lol. There is a cut after five. How many tries did it take to say 6 while keeping a straight face?
And what are you reading between the numbers? Don't you know them by heart? Or is it to give a more authoritative impression, like teaching from the book?
Anyway, these are excellent videos.
@devilred1971 Icelandic is basically Old (West) Norse, and English was influenced by Norse during the Viking Age. That's why they have those similarities.
yep, the Icelandic folk came originelly from Vestlandet, or the West of Norway, mostly from Hordaland but also some from Sogn og Fjordane, Rogaland and Møre og Romsdal. The Scandinavia languages originates from Northern Germanic, which in turn originates from ancient germanic, wheras all the peoples with germanic background originates. There are still many similarities, for example in english hand, german hand, norwegian hand and danish/norwegian hånd.
grisabonden777 They are also a mixture of Irish and Scottish too :) they are 60% Nordic and the rest is from Ireland and Scotland heritage from the times they took them as their slaves and married the women,
@peronkop icelandic is relatet to swedish, norwegian, finnish, danish and forean.
I love this language! I'm intruiged!
What does she say between "Hi, my name is Natalia" and "how to speak Icelandic"?
I can kind of recognize a lot of the Icelandic parts thanks to my knowledge of Swedish and Norwegian, but not at all do I understand this English introduction. Thank you!
"On behalf of expertvillage..."
djb5255
Thank you! Oh, now I started wondering what "expertvillage" means (even though I know the words "expert" and "village"), but then I saw that the name of the channel or user is "expertvillage". Thank you! :-)
Arwen Ginevra
You're quite welcome. Happy to help. Best wishes learning our fossil of a language.
djb5255
Thank you!
Limbsy, I am proud that Icelandic is my first language :) It's the oldest version of how the vikings spoke that is still used today. Think thats pretty cool
Wow the sound made when there's "tt" and "lt" is interesting....
16 sounds like Sextown
LMFAO I am never getting that out of my head
really easy if you learn the vowels and consonants
How do I take the subs off? They're in the way of me seeing how the words are spelled :(
because we often have short memmories when it comes to a list of words.
Not so far away from Swedish actually.
Numbers are more like the German order when you come up to 11-19 for example.
Much alike though...
And i'm trying to find a Icelandic course here in Sweden but cant find any so i have to stick with this.
Good videos though.
Skàl !
Haha that is exactly what I thought! It was effective though because now I easily remember the Icelandic word for "teen" :D
beautiful language! Just I don't know why "ll" is spoken as "dl" or "dly"
Thank you for your vidio
Hæ Natalie! Ég hef lagt á minnið einhverja íslenska 101?
Amazing how close it is to english.
well, alot of foreign people I know have a hard time pronouncing the Icelandic "R" . and other letters like Þ and Ð
actually she did say it right.. X in icelandic is pronounced like "KS" together :)
I love how this sounds haha. It's so cool
@iSilversaku what are you talking about? o_o danish is gorgeous.
ok, so you think accent is the only aspect of a language? i speak of the language as a whole, including pronouncation, grammar, dialects and so on. Danish grammar is quite simple (icelandic is way more advanced). i agree the accents might be hard to get, but all in all danish is an easy language compared to for instance slavic and finno-ugric languages...
We're probably most related to the Norwegians since norwegian vikings were the first ones to live here and were the ones who discovered Iceland.
All the Scandinavian languages (Finland is not in Scandinavia so im ofcourse excluding finnish, some people think they are Scandinavians but theyre not.) sounds allmost the same, it's allmost like one language but with verry far distant accents. Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish that is. Dont know to much about Faroese.
Er 40 ekki skrifað fjörutíu, eða er ég bara að rugla?
Hvað hefurðu lært íslensku lengi?
Lol, it sounds a lot like Dutch too. I love it when germanic languages really are looking a lot like each other :p
i struggle to get the pronunciation on number 3
In Danish it is: ti, elleve/elve, tolv, tretten, fjorten, femten, seksten, sytten, atten, nitten.
im learning this for Ragnhildur Gunnarsdóttir......
What if I can't roll my Rs
Jacob Fabian No worries, it's tricky at first. Practice rolling the r on it's own and focus on understanding the language, eventually you'll get it (this was my approach to learning Polish which also rolls the r)
Sjö / 7
J is like y in yay
Ö is like U in Understand I think...
S - Y -and then u in understand,, lol.. thats how it sounds to me but I'm not sure if I made it very clear or not :P
wow i can say six in Icelandic now!
Can someone to tell me why she says 17 = Sjötíu while in another video I watched, they said it is "sautjàn"?
Sautján is 17
+Pierre-Andre Roy ''sjötíu'' is 70 ''sautján'' is 17
Idunn Gardarsdottir Thank you :)
no problem.Pierre-Andre Roy
Thank you ^^
@stevqtalent ll is pronounced tl
the only thing I would've liked better was how to you say other numbers like 21 and so on. does it stay the rule stay the same.
In several Scandinavian languages (including those which are not Scandinavian but originate from Germanic) sex means six, as in the number 6. I'm sure that I, and alot of other Europeans who speak languages such as this would appreciate if you don"t make fun of our languages.
Wow the 2 sounds exactly like dutch!!
I'm norwegian myself, and I find icelandic an rather easy language to pronounce.
Specially voiceless nasal consonants
Er þetta sjónvarp Sólheimar?
Takk, ég var búinn að gleyma þessu alveg.
nice language
Just quit guys. You wont move to iceland after watching 2 videos on youtube. You'll stay in your beloved city.
Indeed
I have heard that Finnish and Icelandic people for some reason get along well, any truth to that?
I don't think so, Icelandic is a Germanic language, closer to Norwegian-Rijksmal or Faroese, Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language with its roots outside Europe. It's not even Indo-European.
we like drinking....
Haha it's not just funny because of the word, it's also because of how it's pronounced. I can't really explain it.. but that makes it funnier. I think it's because its pronounced the EXACT same way in English..like, the vowel isnt even slightly different..
hermoza mujer si me casoooooooo
Exactly.
You are a great teacher. You can call Me The Lord Evan Israel. 💖
Don't say that icelandic is BASED on ancient norse. Icelandic IS ancient norse. Of course some words and phrases aren't used anymore but it basically hasn't changed for all those years. It is also quite fascinating to read the old sagas and see that some very old words from Icelandic are still being used in Germany and England such as the English word 'Run'. Icelandic: Renna , German: Rennen. It was Norwegian that started to differ from the ancient norse while they were under Danish rule.
Ok why does she have to look down on the notes before each number? That puzzles me
It sounds nearly exactly like Swedish but in different accents.
How is “au” pronounced?
Au is pronounced like the French word "œil" meaning eye! This phoneme does not exist in English.
holalaa it's really difficult, in fact, it's nearly impossible for people who speak French, like me :-)
I only learned up to 10, I'm having trouble pronouncing 7 though.
Not true. Ingólfur Arnarson was the first man to discover Iceland. He was a Norwegian Chieftain and settled on the cove of 'Reykjanesskagi' (That's near from where I live) but Gardar Svavarsson "was a Swedish man who is considered by many to be the first Scandinavian to live in Iceland, although only for one winter." He was one of the first to permanently live there. I should know these things since we had to learn about it in school.
i guess now i know why "sweet 16" is so sweet
i never would have thought it was pronounced like "shyu".
i thought it was more like "syeu" or "sjú"...
i like you . i want to learn icelandic
Curious how much closer Modern English is to Icelandic than to French.
thanks :}
Haha, I'm swedish and sometimes i thougt it sounded like a weird accent in swedish :P
I can speak Icelandic fluently :)
It´s our language, and i assume she´s mature enough to avoid giggling when ever she hears or says a dirty word.
i'm wondering what is she reading all the time? :D
why does she have to be so incredibly cute! i cant concentrate on learning the numbers!
You are fucking awesome!!! Thank you sooo much for these videos!!
no, not all
we sailed to other nations and kidnapped all their pretty girls and made them our slaves and impregnated them.
these women come mostly from Ireland (for it was close by), which explains all the redheads
and also, one woman came from America (native American)
for more info, just google: "native american woman in Iceland"
What is your problem, exactly? Our ancestors were vikings and many people still uphold that religion or 'Asatrú' and many people call us vikings because of that.
Nej, självklart inte ;) men kan några meningar. Ifall man vill lära sig att prata är det ju bara att lyssna på när andra pratar på RUclips. Så kan man åtminstone lära sig olika meningar. En bra start i alla fall :)
ertu frá islandi?
@lpsrocks2007
it sure is.
whats wrong with eleven? theres definitly no d or t written, doesnt really make it easier to learn
stevqtalent "ll" is pronunced as "tl"
well its normal for us to just say sex all the time :hey whats the clock :its half past sex