Pronounce 10 Popular Icelandic Places like an Icelander!

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  • Опубліковано 2 січ 2025

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  • @Psyche-ud2mn
    @Psyche-ud2mn 4 роки тому +7

    Very good video. You have my gratitude.

    • @AllThingsIceland
      @AllThingsIceland  4 роки тому

      Glad you enjoyed it!

    • @sterlingayden4863
      @sterlingayden4863 3 роки тому

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      @bobbychristopher2637 3 роки тому

      @Sterling Ayden Instablaster :)

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      @sterlingayden4863 3 роки тому

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    • @sterlingayden4863
      @sterlingayden4863 3 роки тому

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  • @m.showers1242
    @m.showers1242 23 дні тому

    Great information! Love your vibrant spirit and uplifting energy!

  • @migmeana
    @migmeana 4 роки тому +12

    I'm not even planning on going to Iceland anytime soon but just from the way you talk about it with such excitement and genuine passion it makes me wanna visit, what a beautiful country! Much love from another island, a warmer one though! (Majorca)

    • @AllThingsIceland
      @AllThingsIceland  4 роки тому

      That is awesome to hear. Much love back to you. 🙂

    • @kristindaniel7065
      @kristindaniel7065 4 роки тому

      Hello. Do you do tours of Iceland? If so I would love info on this! My email is kristindaniel7@gmail.com. Interest comes from my mom was Icelandic-- she is deceased now.

  • @patri.olafsdottir
    @patri.olafsdottir Рік тому

    Thank you Jewells. Always love your videos. ❤️

  • @rochellemckinney3220
    @rochellemckinney3220 4 роки тому +7

    This is awesome. I enjoy learning other languages 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

  • @nic4ever296
    @nic4ever296 22 дні тому

    Husavik my home town.
    Just kidding, I'm Trinidadian. But I really like that song from Eurovision Song Contest Fire Saga movie. Hope to see all these Icelandic places soon though.

  • @tariqkhader6196
    @tariqkhader6196 5 місяців тому

    This is a great vlog. How long have you lived in Iceland? Are you an Icelandic citizen now?

  • @AllThingsIceland
    @AllThingsIceland  4 роки тому +6

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  • @lynntalmon
    @lynntalmon Рік тому

    You are amazing and so inviting to come to Iceland thank you!!

  • @karenfriebel7680
    @karenfriebel7680 4 роки тому +1

    LOVE this video! Your explanations of the pronunciations will help me in my continued pursuit to learn Icelandic. I have a feeling your husband says your pronunciations are spot on! Thanks! Time to start binge watching the videos I’ve missed of yours! 🙂

  • @reginaldwright4527
    @reginaldwright4527 4 роки тому +2

    You are SOOO Positive and a breath of fresh air!!! Wow........wow.......How can I seek your advice or perspective on other issues?

  • @SionTJobbins
    @SionTJobbins 2 роки тому

    this is great. The Icelandic 'll' sounds a little like the 'll' we have in Welsh - that's interesting. We also have the ð which we write as 'dd' in Welsh - although, some people write it by hand in the Icelandic/Old English way. We use 'dd' in Welsh for the th sound in 'this', 'together', 'weather', 'with' etc. Great to see you take such interest and delight in the Icelandic language. Top stuff.

  • @deannachace9318
    @deannachace9318 4 роки тому

    Thank you! I love this language...it sounds so cool! More lessons, please!

  • @LifeBetweenTheDash
    @LifeBetweenTheDash 4 роки тому

    Oh I'm excited to learn

  • @rarabee3397
    @rarabee3397 4 роки тому

    Great video. Been working on learning how to pronounce words of places in Iceland (particularly Ring Road stops). Please try and create more videos on this topic. :)

  • @KatSchlitz
    @KatSchlitz 4 роки тому +2

    Finally watched this, wish I had been able to watch this before we went to Iceland in 2017!
    LOL I ask a local about Höfn but I pronounced it like it looks "Hoo(r)ff-nnn" ....
    and he looks at me quizzically, and then finally says "OOOhhhh!!!! You mean "Hup"! (or "hehp" or whatever he said LOL).... wow, so many letter combinations make sounds completely different than so many languages! I knew the "j" sound from Swedish. And I'm used to silent letters like in French, and strange symbols like in some African languages, and know the runes thus Thurisaz etc...but with Icelandic I just assumed near the same sound sets being the ancient related roots to English. I was sooooo wrong haha! What a world where "FN" sounds nothing like "F+N" or even "F" or "N" alone !!
    Anyone going to Iceland at least needs to hear all the common place names, pronounced.
    Or you won't understand a local *at all* and you won't easily be able to ask about a place.
    (But everyone is so nice in helping, even if they don't want tourists which I understand. I adore Iceland so much! Mainly it is a land of unusual energy.....and surreal landscapes

    • @rarabee3397
      @rarabee3397 4 роки тому

      Yes, more on pronunciations of places. !!!!!!

  • @musictravellife392
    @musictravellife392 4 роки тому +1

    You have a very positive aura if i see you when im in reikiavik i will say hi! We may become friends ☺️

  • @edemadzaho.
    @edemadzaho. 4 роки тому

    A super useful video Jewells. Thanks for sharing.

  • @Westfjordian
    @Westfjordian 4 роки тому +4

    Þ used to exist in English through Middle English, only falling out of use whith printing as most/all early printing were done by Germans and they didn't have an equivalent letter. So at first they used the letter Y since that looked closest to English cursive þ
    Edit: Ok being guilty of super nitpicking, Húsa is in plural genitive (eignarfall fleirtölu) so technically "Bay of Houses"

  • @007speedcuber
    @007speedcuber 4 роки тому +2

    Something that might help your pronunciation is that on the double L sound like in 'þingvellir', the air flows out of rather than into your mouth as you describe it

  • @bronwynecg
    @bronwynecg 4 роки тому

    Out of curiosity, how heavy (or light) is your American/English speaker accent is when speaking Icelandic? Accents in foreign languages intrigue me :)

  • @gubjorggisladottir3525
    @gubjorggisladottir3525 4 роки тому +2

    How many have "corrected" your translation of the name Vatnajökull?
    Vatn = Water
    Vötn - Waters now to the grammar part: here are Vötn, about Vötn, from Vötnum, to Vatna
    the correct translation of the word "Vatna" is Lakes.
    jökull is the Icelandic word for glacier
    so... The name of the largest glacier in Europe translated into English: Lakesglacier.
    As for Akureyri it is "Akur eyri" not "Aku reyri" as she says Akur is field and eyri is more difficult as I can not find it i.e. google translate does only translate the aurar meaning. Eyri is were sands have accumulate
    d around where rivers run into the sea (sandbanks like she said). So the towns name "Sands that are fields" or something like that... She does speak Icelandic correctly, all but Akureyri.

  • @gumundurpallmarseliusarson5622
    @gumundurpallmarseliusarson5622 6 місяців тому

    Vik actually translates as Cove, not Bay, which is Flói. There´s a distinction, common for Icelanders not knowing that for they dont search deep enough in to the actual meaning of words. They just take the first word that the dictionary suggests. Common simple peaple I guess.

  • @DS-nk7vd
    @DS-nk7vd 4 роки тому +1

    Hi Jewels. Did you happen to document the BLM solidarity protest in Reykjavik? I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts of living abroad as a black American away from your NYC community in such an upsetting but strangely empowering time. Keep up the good vibes!

    • @AllThingsIceland
      @AllThingsIceland  4 роки тому +1

      Yes, I went to the gathering here. I do plan on doing a video about that experienced mixed with what it has been like for me to live here for 4 years. That will happen later this month. :-)

    • @DS-nk7vd
      @DS-nk7vd 4 роки тому

      @@AllThingsIcelandAwesome, can't wait!

  • @dharinis3869
    @dharinis3869 Рік тому

    Opp

  • @92aaa76
    @92aaa76 4 роки тому +2

    Hæ ég er hálfur fiskur og hálfur íslenskur og miér þinnst þin vidios goðir ég er núna að subscribe.

  • @rogermoore27
    @rogermoore27 4 роки тому

    Ahhh....'sinus' explained = vaTN