Icelandic Update #3 - Speaking Icelandic after 1 year of casual, on-and-off study (SUBTITLED)
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2018
- Hey guys, here we go with a new ICELANDIC UPDATE!
Let's see what kind of progress, if any, I've managed to make in a year of very casual, only-for-fun study.
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Your pronunciation is super good. Some of the sounds are nuts, and your declensions are really good as well!!
Hitting the 'thumbs up' before I finish the video, haha. That's just how it goes. There's no doubt that I will enjoy it. einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr, Stefano!
Thank you so much, James, or should I rather say... დიდი მადლობა! ;D Ich wünsche dir auch alles Gute und Liebe für das neue Jahr! Wir hören hoffentlich bald voneinander ;)
Interesting... I'm a native Finnish speaker with basic Swedish and I understood most of this! Not every word, but enough to keep up with what's going on. But of course all the scandic languages are very similar to each other.
I recently asked few of my Icelandic friends that how similar Swedish and Icelandic are...? They said they have never even thought about it. I can understand basic stuff in Icelandic, but when I listened Swedish video on UA-cam few weeks ago, I started wondering about the similarities...
Þetta er frábært! I'm learning just a little Icelandic. I'm trying to get to a point where I feel can do an Italki conversation. It's taking me much longer than Danish or Italian did, though!
Any chance of a new update?
Takk! Bless, bless! 😊
Estou vendo seu video, e é realmente incrivel a quantidade de palavras que me lembram o sueco, como BARA, GOTT, IDAG, etc. Parabens Stephano.
Obrigado Luh!!! ;D Interessante, não é? Até podíamos dizer que as línguas escandinavas são uma simplificação do islandês, tiraram pra o lixo toda essa gramática que não serve a nada hahah :D Minha mulher também consegue entender muita coisa por causa do sueco, mas claro que usar a lingua ativamente já é outra questão xD
@@linguaEpassione Sim, isso åe super legal, nossa... PS: Stefano, meus dois colegas de classe estao tentando lhe encontrar no italki mas nao conseguem, quando eles colocam FINLANDES, ou SEU NOME, aparecem varios outros nomes, mas o seu nao, voce sabe o que esta acontecendo??
Now you must go see the Northern Lights!! Happy New Year Stefano!!
Heheh that's definitely on my bucket list! ;D Thank so much for stopping by again!!!
Congratulations, Stefano! Feliz Año Nuevo desde España.
Muchas gracias, Manu! 新年快乐！
Wow, ma sei bravissimo! Devo dire che l'Islandese è una lingua molto affascinante, mi pare di aver letto che ha molte più cose in comune con l'antico norreno di tutterle altre lingue nordiche e ciò è molto affascinante. Ad ogni modo, ti auguro di raggiungere un ottimo livello in islandese! (^^)
Sei bravissimo Stefano! I tuoi video mi sempre danno spinta per andare a studiare:)
Buon anno novo!
Maryna cara, sei troppobbuona! Grazie infinite per il commento, e che bello poter dire che quest'anno ci rivediamo di sicuro :) Tanti auguri anche a te, ci risentiamo presto!!!
@@linguaEpassione grazie mille! Certo quest'anno di sicuro:)
Flott myndband, alltaf gaman að sjá hvernig þér gengur að læra. Vel gert :) Ég er sjálfur byrjaður að hlusta mikið á spænsku og reyna að skilja, 2019 verður spennandi ár!
Takk kærlega fyrir skilaboð, Gummi! Vonandi getum við spjallað saman aftur í framtíðinni... eða bráðum! :) Gleðilegt nýtt ár!
@@linguaEpassione Gleðilegt nýtt ár sömuleiðis! Já, við skulum spjalla fljótlega, verum í bandi (let's keep in touch) :)
This is fantastic. You have a lot more dedication than I do... I just book heaps of lessons on iTalki and sit there and chat haha, and it costs me a fortune and in 1 year of Swedish, I didn't get nearly as far as you did in 1 year of Icelandic. (Oh and BTW, no, I'm not Icelandic... the name refers to something else.)
Great job!
Hahah such a nice comment, thanks so much, mate! So you have Reykjavik in your Channel name but your'e learning Swedish instead of Icelandic? Hmm intriguing :) Could you expand a little bit on that :D
@@linguaEpassione Yup. It's a bit of a long story though, which is why I didn't initially:
So, Swedish was my first foreign language, which I started almost three years ago, so I speak it pretty well now (but not that well for 3 years because I wasted a lot of time and was quite slothful for over a year of that time too), but I moved on to French about 10 months ago (so again, the Swedish "learning" took a back seat then too). So basically I'm into languages just as you and like minded people are, but I haven't been into them for long, so I only speak two so far (and English).
What I know comparatively much MORE about is fiction, especially thrillers and crime stories and how good ones should be. So when I started uploading regularly to my channel in January, that's what I talked about, but I stuck to making reviews ONLY of foreign language material because I figured it was more niche and, being really into languages myself, I am more qualified to talk about foreign series than a "normal" critic.
The series I really wanted to find the time to review is Trapped, which you may well know (Ófærð). The first season of that show should be, in my opinion, the crime series by which all others are measured. So when I got around to reviewing it, I named my channel after the studio that produced it (RVK studios), because it sounded good with the double alliteration (r-v-r-v) and I figured it was relevant enough to language learning content too, even though I am not currently learning Icelandic.
Eventually I might take my language learning vids over to a different channel because it seems that most of my viewers are interested in one or the other, but not both. But for now it's a double niche, and that's the saga of how named it (see what I did there ;-) ).
By the way, have you ever had lessons from Robert? Even though he's not a native speaker, he's incredible and he loves it. (Not to take anything away from Thora or the others.)
I also had a Swedish lesson with Mìmir when he first started on iTalki, he's cool too.
Hæ, hæ. I just started to learn Icelandic. How about your Icelandic, will there be a new update?
Hæ Edda, velkomín! I've been trying to keep my Icelandic afloat by starting to read short stories - there's going to be at least two videos related to Icelandic not later than this autumn. Hope you stick around for those! :)
Fantastic! I've just started to learn Icelandic- this language is absolutely fascinating! It is challenging but it's sooo satisfying to finally pronounce Eyjafjallajökull correctly ;) my native language is Polish, so at least I know what to expect when I think of grammar... trouble! :) Greetings from Poland!
It is, isn't it? :) Great hearing that you're on the same learning path and that you like your progress so far! Let's keep going!
Icelandic and Norse are one of the prettiest languages I’ve ever seen and heard, they are as pretty and refined and poetic as English / Dutch / Norwegian etc, and it’s pretty easy to learn, being a Germanic language and a category 2 language, and all Germanic languages are category 1 and category 2 languages, and they are the easiest languages ever, and I highly recommend learning Icelandic and Norse and the other Norse languages and Dutch and Norwegian and Gothic etc, these languages are the prettiest languages ever created, just like English, so they are just too pretty not to know, the words are a real work of art, so magical and unique, and all other Germanic languages are also super gorgeous, so all of them / some of them / any of them are a great option - I am very close to intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse (upper beginner at 2.000+ words learnt) and I could understand most of the words used in this video, and I’ve only been memorizing words for a few months now, but not every day or every week, so I had about 10 days maybe or 2 weeks or maybe 100 hours of watching and re-watching all those yt vocab videos with hundreds of words and 1.500 words in Icelandic and some other videos on grammar and stuff like that, multiple times, over a period of time, plus I’ve learnt most of the Skáld songs, which are mostly in Old Norse and Icelandic, and they are very closely related, so most Old Norse words are the same or almost the same in Icelandic, and I am actually doing 15+ languages at the same time! Germanic words are super easy to memorize and they have the most organized aspect, which makes them very easy to deal with and to get used to and to learn faster than most languages! To get the to a fluent level way faster, one must focus mostly on vocab videos, especially until one learns the first 6.000+ to 8.000+ words and gets to an advanced level, and the best way to get to a native speaker level once one reaches an advanced level is, by watching every video / movie etc with subs in the target language(s) and by constantly memorizing more and more lyrics and idioms / phrases / slang etc and new words etc, and each word must be revised / repeated several times over a period of time, until each word can be processed and remembered automatically, and using / typing a lot in the new language(s) also helps one get more and more words to become part of the automatic memory or automatic mode faster, as one is in the process of developing an automatic mode in the new language(s) when one is learning one new language or multiple new languages, and the more thousands of words one learns very well or automatically, the more things one can express automatically in the new language or languages, so it takes a lot of éxpòsure to the language and seeing / hearing each word many times over a period of time, so the more new words one learns and the more previously learnt words are revised, the closer one gets to developing a native speaker level, as native speakers know tens of thousands of words automatically that they’re been learning passively every day, since they started saying the first words in the first language that they were made to learn, so it takes many years for natives to reach fluency in the first language while learning passively, and most of the words are learnt at school, after one learns how to write etc, and usually most ppl reach fluency by the time they finish high school or college, and, at that point, one usually knows 15.000 to 25.000 words, depending on how much one reads or on how many movies or videos etc one watches, however, actively learning thousands of words and tens of thousands of words by going thru many vocab videos etc and learning as many words as possible as fast as possible, one can get to a native speaker level fluency in only a few years, because active learning can be super fast, compared to passive learning where one only learns a few new words every day!
I must say tho, that there aren’t as many resources and videos on yt teaching Icelandic and Norse as there are teaching other pretty Germanic languages that are more known such as English / Dutch / German / Norwegian / Swedish / Danish etc, however, there are multiple vocab videos with many words and multiple videos teaching them by multiple yts, so it’s a really good start, and that’s also one of the reasons why I always feel this joy inside every time I find a new video in Icelandic or about Icelandic, because I know how hard it is to find videos on it, because it’s a very unknown language with very few native speakers, so most ppl have never heard about it, and it isn’t usually included in language related videos and on language recommendation lists, even to it’s one of the most gorgeous languages ever created and one of the most artistic / poetic languages I’ve ever seen, so it should definitely be known and learnt by all, but hopefully in the near future more and more ppl start teaching it on yt, and also the other unknown Germanic languages that are even more unknown than Icelandic, such as Faroese and Gothic and Norse / East Norse / Greenlandic Norse etc - like, every time I see the Icelandic 🇮🇸 flag, I automatically click on the video, it’s a really wonderful and magical language, and it has one of the prettiest and one of the cutest and one of the softest pronunciations I’ve ever heard, with all them soft H sounds included in words that have a double consonant, being the breathiest language ever, so it also reminds of Dutch and Welsh a lot, which also have lots of soft H sounds and H-like sounds in many words!
Ciao! Complimenti per i progressi!!! Ho provato ad ascoltarti senza leggere i sottotitoli e ho capito il senso generale grazie allo svedese...Che figata! Probabilmente se avessi ascoltato un madrelingua non avrei capito nulla, ciò nonostante hai innescato in me molta curiosità per questa lingua... Chissà... :-)
PS tra le parole che ho colto c'è "äro" (si scrive così?), forma plurale del verbo essere... Molto interessante, si dice come in svedese antico (oggi invece si dice "är" a tutte le persone)! Bella lingua... Peccato che mi sia fossilizzato sul vietnamita che occupa tutti i miei neuroni linguistici :-) Bravo, bravo e ancora bravo! Ora ti potresti buttare sul faroese :-)
Ora invece sto ascoltando la tua tua conversazione e appari ancora più sicuro che nel monologo!!!! Di nuovo bravo! Ora smetto di commentare :-) Hyvää yöta ystäväni :-)
Grandissimo Dani!!!!! Ma grazieee! Sì, posso affermare tranquillamente che nelle conversazioni mi sento molto più a mio agio che nei monologhi, non fanno proprio per me xD Passando alla tua domanda sul verbo essere, si scrive "eru", ma la pronuncia è più simile a "ärü", per capirci :)) Di nuovo grazie per l'ascolto e l'incoraggiamento! Ci risentiamo presto di sicuro ;)
Keep it up man , ég er að læra íslensku einnig , ég oska góðs gengis í gegnum rannsóknir þinar.
Interesting channel :) I like listening sounds of foreign language, especially finnish. I'm totally in love with this language :) but I think dannish is also very interesting, maybe hungarian. What do you think about? :) greetings from Poland :)
Hello! Thank you for your kind words, I'm glad you like what I do on my channel! I love listening to the sound of languages, too, and I remember that I used to love the way Finnish sounded before I could speak it. Now it's different, obviously, you cannot go back to not knowing a language, which sometimes is a pity, in a way :) I'm not a big fan of the way Danish sounds, but I do like Hungarian a lot! And Polish! ;D
italki is excellent. So wonderful to get to speak your target language. Your Icelandic sounds amazing me to. You sound so fluent and having no problems to express yourself. Wonderful. Your Icelandic teacher is so lovely.
Thank you so much for watching and for the lovely comments!
Komiði sæl og blessuð! Ég eingöngu tala reiprennandi ensku, en að vissu marki, ég get líka talað sænsku, dönsku, norsku, smá litháísku, pólsku, íslensku, og mjög smá þýsku og rússnesku.
Vel gert!
Kem frekar seint til að sjá þetta myndband enn helvítið er þetta flott hjá þér. Alltaf jafn gaman að sjá aðra vera að læra okkar tungumál, sérstaklega þegar það er að ganga svona vel. Mögulega er íslenskan þín orðin enn betri nú enn hún áður var.
-Kveðja frá Íslandi, Akureyri.
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I have to learn Icelandic for an exam at university. Can you suggest some resources for learning it? Takk fyrir hjálpina
Sure, for what level? There's a whole course called íslenska fyrir alla that is completely free, available online. There's also an older series called viltu læra íslensku? on UA-cam. Check them out if you haven't :)
@@linguaEpassione ok grazie! Usi anche libri?
What resources did you use to learn Icelandic?
Hi there! I used the two books that I mentioned at the beginning of the video (in Icelandic), as well as some tutoring sessions (not many actually, about once a month or so just to practise what I'd learnt and to clear up doubts). Are you learning or planning to learn it as well?
Frábært maður. Ég var að hlakka eftir þriðji islensku update. Hvaða nýtt túngomál ætlarðu að læra i ár?
Eg skynar nesten alt
Íslenskan þín er algjörlega frábær, ég hefði aldrei haldið að útlendingur næði þessu á einu ári! Vel gert
amazing language damn :O XD.
This has nothing with this video to do, but you should learn swedish