For a kid who's been working on learning Icelandic for almost two years on their own (and has gotten virtually no where), this is very inspiring. Thank you
I just started learning Icelandic yesterday more seriously, and I already learned about 50 words and a lot of the patterns used for the different forms / declensions and verb endings - some of them are similar to Norwegian (for example, the neutral adjective uses T usually, or a similar letter, and in Norwegian it also end in T, so it’s easy to remember this, as I am intermediate level in Norwegian & Swedish, and am advanced level in Dutch, which also has a few similarities and words that come from the same word that are still quite similar) and, one should start by learning the prepositions and the most used verbs / nouns etc and try to memorize as many words as possible at the beginning, which is the only way to learn a new language fast (I learned Dutch in about 3 or 4 months using this method) and after learning at least a few thousand words, lots of videos should be watched with Icelandic subs to get used to the different endings, which are actually very logical, because every pronoun and every gender etc should have a different ending, especially in languages that haven’t been made as neutral-sounding as English by changing the word endings to very neutral letter combinations, which is why Modern English no longer has cases and genders etc, but most other Germanic languages haven’t been changed that way, so they have the cases and different grammatical genders, but I think it’s easier to just learn them one by one if one finds it difficult to memorize them all at the same time, so one can start by learning the ones used for the nominative case for the 3 gender, and start with the first grammatical gender, and then the next ones, and then the plurals etc, as it’s way easier that way!
If one is very new to languages learning, I highly recommend starting with the easiest languages to memorize, such as Dutch and Norwegian and Norse and Icelandic and Faroese and prioritizing Dutch and Norwegian a bit more for one or two months etc, but also learning new words in Icelandic and Norse and the pronunciation rules, and revising them regularly, then prioritizing Icelandic and Norse more - knowing at least 3.500 words in Norwegian / Swedish and over 8.000 base words in Dutch has definitely helped me memorize both Icelandic and German words way faster and to understand their patterns (and the different sentence structure when it comes to languages such as German) and to memorize the patterns / different endings faster, plus I also know Spanish and am native speaker level (over 10.000 base words) since childhood, so I am very used to verbs having different endings and to adjectives having different endings etc and am used to cases with many forms and other grammatical patterns, and the more words I learn in a language and the more I observe the way they are used in sentences by natives, the easier it gets, and also, I have edited this comment, because I changed my mind about what I said months ago, and I actually think one should start learning Icelandic and Norse etc as fast as possible, and starting learning them at the same time, because the words are actually quite easy to memorize, as all other Germanic words, and because they are so pretty, the words and sounds are so heavenly, so the faster one starts learning them, the better, and there are actually a lot more obvious cognates in Norse languages than I thought at first, there are tons of obvious cognates with both English and Dutch, and the other Germanic languages, actually, so one will recognize lots of them, even if one only knows English or English and German etc, though it does have more obvious cognates with Norwegian tho, so if one knows Norwegian or lots of Norwegian words, one will recognize even more cognates!
I'm in love with Icelandic language, culture, and lifestyle too + The aestethics in this video are just mesmerising, thank you for making this piece of art !
That's the most emotional video I've ever seen about languages. I'm Italian and I am studying German. It is the first "real language" I've ever studied... I mean, the first one that sounds completely different from my native one, the first one that I never never hear in my daily life. It's not Icelandic, but it's not even like studying French, or Spanish or even English. It's struggling. It feels like you learn nothing, like nothing of what you study comes out to be useful soon. The neutral genre, the declinations, they don't exist in my native language and It's hard to understand their role. The neutral genre sounds like it has no sense, I mean... why not just using Male and Female genres? What does it mean? German it's of course not comparable to Icelandic, but for me it is "challenging". This video touched me in the deep and sometimes I like to watch it again and again because it gives me courage; when I blame myself for my decision to learn German instead of something easier like Spanish or Portugese, it reminds me of the reason why I chose it: because I love it. With all my heart. Thank you very much to the girl who made this video.
I remember seeing this video a couple years ago when I wanted to study Icelandic and beeing very amazed by your video and skills. Now that I am my 3rd semester in actually studying Icelandic I am even more amazed! Svo gott!
I'm learning Icelandic for four years now (not in Iceland) and I'm happy to say that I understood most of what you said. However, I wouldn't have been able to form those sentences myself (at least not without a lot of time). It's impressive how far you've come in only three months!
I am upper intermediate level in both Icelandic and Norse after a few months of focusing mostly on them, and I am also upper intermediate in German as I’ve been learning German on the side, and I know over 5.000 words in Icelandic at this point, so I am very close to an advanced level, especially when it comes to vocab, and I can understand a lot, like, I can understand most words in most sentences, and I started watching every video and movie with subs in Icelandic, as I can easily follow sentences now! I am actually learning new words in many other target languages as well, and usually prioritizing five of my target languages the most, while also learning words in fifteen of them regularly, and new words in the other target languages more occasionally, and even though I started learning a lot of words in Icelandic like seven months ago, I didn’t learn much for about two or three months, as I was working a lot on my playlists, but about three or four months ago, I started learning and revising lots of words in Icelandic almost every day, so I managed to learn over three or four thousand new words quite fast! I can understand how the Norse languages work very well at this point, so grammar is very easy for me, because I know the patterns so well, plus I tend to read the declensions and conjunctions for each word at least twice or thrice over a period of time, and I analyze the declensions and conjugations of a few different verbs and nouns and adjectives every day or every few days, and I can easily remember the whole thing after seeing it twice or thrice! The verbs are super easy in Norse languages, as they only have two main tenses, present and normal past tense, which are used the most, and two other tenses that use auxiliary verbs like ég hef lært (I have learnt) and ég mun / skal læra (I will / shall learn) which are super easy, and if one wants to say one is learning in Icelandic one just uses to be + the infinitive, for example, hann er að læra, which literally means he is to learn, but it is used as he is learning, as in, he is learning right now, so the tenses are super easy in Icelandic and Norse, and the endings are the same for each verb from each category of verbs, and the subjunctive mode is also easy as it also has the same patterns for each category of verbs, and the plural forms are almost always the same as the indicative forms, and the normal past tense for most verbs is created by adding an extra t or d or ð, so if one knows the infinitive and the present tense forms, it’s super easy to guess and to remember the past tense forms for most verbs, especially if one knows the conjugated verb endings / patterns well, and most verbs in Icelandic that are also in Norse are conjugated the same way and most forms are the same! To see progress fast, I highly recommend learning as many thousands of words as possible from vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words, as opposed to only learning a few new words per day, because only learning a few new words per day is akin to passive learning and it can take over a decade, just like when one learns the first language, so one should load hundreds and thousands of new words into one’s hern regularly, and revise them many times on different days, over a longer period of time, so, revising each vocab video regularly, until each word can be instantly processed and automatically remembered, and also using G translate a lot to learn as many advanced words as possible, as vocab videos don’t cover most advanced terms, unfortunately, including advanced terms and idioms and phrases etc, as focusing on vocab is the most important part of actually learning the language! I also recommend learning a lot of lyrics in Icelandic and Norse, and learning every sound and letter and the pronunciation rules in the beginning, and learning the word endings well, by carefully observing and analyzing the patterns, because in Norse languages, most words follow the exact same patterns and have the same word endings that are associated with each group of nouns, and there are only a few exceptions, but in general the patterns and word endings are the same for each type of nouns, for example, masculine nouns when they are singular and definite in nominative always end in inn, and in accusative too, and the dative form usually has an i at the end if it’s indefinite, the plural definite word ending in genitive is always or almost always anna, the dative form for plural nouns that are indefinite is always um and for definite plurals it is always unum, and for definite masculine nouns it is always inum and num, and so on, and it is actually very easy to learn these patterns and to develop a sense for what sounds right in the languages, as Norse languages are super logical, though some forms need a few slight modifications to make them 100% perfect!
I highly recommend learning Icelandic and Norse 2gether with Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish (and English if one doesn’t know it yet) because they are the prettiest languages ever and they are too pretty not to know, while also learning German, and also, the six modern Celtic languages Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic, which are also gorgeous, as learning many languages at the same time saves a lot of years and makes the learning process super fun, so I highly recommend learning all the target languages at the same time and prioritizing the Norse languages and Dutch the most, while also learning and revising new words in the others regularly, and always learning only pretty and easy languages, including all the Germanic languages and the modern Celtic languages and a few others, as these languages are all category 1 and category 2 languages (only Irish and Scottish Gaelic are category 3 spelling-wise, though the words are easy to memorize, just like Germanic words) and that means that one can learn many of them at the same time, which is the most efficient way to learn languages, especially if one has many target languages, like I do, having over 50 target languages! It’s very important to revise each word regularly, by the way, because revising and repeating the words regularly is key to learning the words, like, truly learning them permanently and automatically, and I also recommend typing a lot in the new language or languages and saying the words many times, first slowly, and then trying to say them faster and faster, to also develop an automatic mode in the new language or languages, if one wants to be able to say everything fast and without having to think about it, as natives do! I highly recommend learning all the Skáld lyrics, which are a great way to start learning these Norse languages like Icelandic / Norse / Faroese, and there are even some songs in Norwegian / Danish / Swedish, and they all have awesome and pretty melodies, so they are very áddìctive, which makes it very easy for one to listen to them many times, until one learns the lyrics well! I am learning every single Germanic language, including the Norse languages and the Old / Middle versions of each Germanic language and the modern Celtic languages etc, and I focus mostly on vocab, and also watching all sorts of videos and movies with subs in the target languages, and learning lots of lyrics, and learning the grammar etc, and I can see very fast progress, so I highly recommend using these methods! Icelandic and Norse and the other Norse languages are so pretty, they are a must-learn for every learner, and Dutch / Gothic / Norwegian etc too, plus they are also the most alpha languages with the coolest and most modern sounds, they are as gorgeous / refined / poetic / magical / perfect as English, which is also mostly a Norse language as English comes mostly from Norse - these languages are real fun to speak / learn / see / hear etc!
Re sentence structure and word orders in Icelandic and Norse, they are actually the same as in English, which makes it very easy for one to express ideas in Norse languages, and they are even more flexible in Norse as I have seen all sorts of random word orders in Norse that I wouldn’t even normaIly use, but they are also super flexible in Icelandic, just like in English, so Icelandic doesn’t have any fixed word orders and different rules for verbs etc, like Dutch and German, for example, so it’s naturally very easy to form sentences in Icelandic if one knows the words - to get better at forming sentences, I highly recommend learning every single preposition / conjunction / adverb of time etc and the pronouns and the most used 300 verbs and the most used nouns and adjectives in the beginning, including the words that one uses the most, and to analyze and practice different sentences and different constructions regularly, for example, one can think about how would one express a certain idea in English and then translate it to Icelandic, and analyzing it in detail, and even learning whole sentences in the beginning, which can help a lot, when it comes to forming sentences, and typing / saying etc those sentences multiple times, regularly, and using them a lot, and learning hundreds and thousands of new words every day or every other day, while also regularly revising previously learnt words!
Some examples of sentences in Icelandic that I revise regularly and that I type a lot and that I have analyzed 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... 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?
I'm living in Germany, learning German and sometimes Germans speak louder but not slower when I don't understand. It has been very frustrating because I've studied French, Dutch and Japanese but German has a grammar (and the cases) that also feels like swimming against the current. When I surrendered to sounding silly, for not getting a declension correct or speaking in very simple terms, I freed myself from my own expectations and now I can see the beauty of this language and it's hidden secrets. Icelandic is definitely on my future list!
Sweet video. You're lovely :) Icelandic is beautiful. I'm studying Danish and can recognize some words in common. While Icelandic grammar is hard, its pronunciation doesn't seem a huge challenge. On the other hand, Danish grammar is really easy but reproducing its particular sounds and no-sounds and decipher what a speaker is saying will make you cry as well...
I subbed after watching this video. Been studying Icelandic on my own for a while now. I thought speaking 3 languages would help, but nope. Most challenging language I have ever attempted learning. Harder than Mandarin imo.
I'm Russian and most of foreigners I've met tell me my language is complicated and hard to learn. But when I hear (or try to learn) Welsh and Icelandic, I realize where the REAL challenge is:) won't stop trying anyway! Actually it is helpful in a way that Russian grammar (and the way it's changed through times) and spelling is rather complex, I'm not scared of many tenses or word forms, but the pronunciation is often harrrrrd to learn. My tongue just gets twisted))
ой, как приятно встретить здесь русского! я тоже сейчас пытаюсь учить исландский, если ты не против предложения попрактиковаться вместе в разговорности, то напиши, пожалуйста, свой инстаграм (?), или какой-либо другой контакт.
"Sometimes I started crying." 🤣We've all been there; what's so inspiring and beautiful about language learning is the perseverance and effort we put in until we reap a harvest at the end of the tunnel. Keep fighting~!
I know I am several years late, but is there any way I could obtain a full transcript of this video in Icelandic. This would be the world for me; it would be a daily reminder that maintain the constant effort and motivation to learn the language of the people I have most connected with. Their names being Rakel, Hallí, and Gugga.
Ég heiti Maëlle og er frá Frakklandi. Ég flutti til Íslands fyrir þremur mánuðum síðan og er í námi í íslensku sem annað mál í Háskóla Íslands. Ég byrjaði á því að læra sænsku í háskóla í París og ég hitti aðra nemendur sem voru í íslenskunámi. Ég vissi eiginlega ekki að Ísland væri til og hafði ekki hugmynd um að íslenska væri tungumál. Ég heyrði íslensku fyrst í tónlist. Ég man eftir að hlusta á Sigur Rós og Ásgeir. Fannst mér það vera það fallegasta sem ég hafði heyrt (perhaps better to start the sentence with Mér fannst). Svo ég skipti úr sænsku í íslensku. Ég vil ekki segja að hlutir séu erfiðir eða auðveldir, en þegar ég hugsa um íslensku þá kemur orðið "challenging" í hugann. Íslenskukennarinn sagði að það væri eins og að synda á móti öldunum (I've never heard anyone say "að synda á móti öldunum" we usually say "að synda á móti straumnum". Still, I think it's beautiful to phrase it the way she does). Þú þarft endalausa vinnu og motivation til að drukkna ekki og þér líður eins og þú sért ekki að hreyfast. Setningar eru púsl. Sérstaklega vegna the declensions (ísl. beyginganna). Þær geta verið mjög pirrandi. Í frönsku lærir þú orð og þú getur síðan notað það. Ef þú vilt læra orð á íslensku þarftu að læra sextán útgáfur af því eða milljón útgáfur (hjá) af sagnorðum og adjectives (ísl. lýsingarorðum). Það er hræðilegt að eyða nóttinni í að læra orð á bin.is. Stundum byrja ég að gráta. Hjúkrunarfræðingurinn. Fyrst þurfti ég að enda í miðjunni á orðinu til þess að segja það. Mér finnst núna eins og ég geti sagt hvað sem er. Samt rólega og með frönskum hreim líka. Það er mjög erfitt að heyra muninn á þessum staf "i" og þessum "e". Þetta hér "hn" er líka mjög dularfullt. Ég er samt að verða betri í að skilja fólk. Það talar samt mjög hratt og þegar ég spyr það um að endurtaka sig (should say "bið það um að") segir það sömu setninguna aftur alveg jafn hratt og ég er bara vandræðaleg og skil ekki neitt. Og það besta er þegar ég fatta að ég skildi eitthvað án þess að reyna að skilja það. Og skilaboð til Íslendinga: Ef einhver er að reyna að tala íslensku, ekki byrja strax að tala ensku. Ef maður skilur ekki, endurtakið þá hægar og kannski einfaldar.
@@r.bj.2427 Thank you so much for taking the time to transcribe this video and providing critiques to say what’s grammatically correct. It really means a lot and I definitely owe you a drink 😂
Omg genre on est pareil!! Je suis française(du Canada). En premier, je m’ai appris le suédois mais à ce moment-là, je ne connaissais pas l’Islande. Je ne savais même pas non plus que c’était un pays. J’ai connu ce pays quand j’ai eu fini d’apprendre le suédois. J’ai écouté des vidéos en Islandais et je comprenais certains mots car le suédois ressemble à l’islandais. Je suis tombée plus en amour avec L’islande et là, j’essaye d’apprendre l’islandais. J’ai 14 ans alors je ne peux pas me permettre un professeur mais bon, je pense aller à l’université là-bas:)
Since I was 14 years old I decided to learn another language and I started on American English,then German , after a break I started to learn Italian,then I got back to learn German again and a few years ago I started to learn Russian but unfortunately the Russian teacher needed a break and since then I am looking for another language and now I decided to learn icelandic
Aww, this video explains exactly what I think on learning Icelandic, except that you can speak at least, I'm still puzzled with everything I see. At least, Icelandic is slightly easy that you can more or less deduct what a compound word means by breaking it into the essential parts... Nice video indeed, makes me want to swim against the tide too.
Flott hjá þér Maelle! Vel sagt. Ég vildi bara segja að mér finnst að þú talar íslenskuna bara ágætlega. Ég er frá Bandaríkjunum, en átti heima á Íslandi 1991 - 1993, og það var rosa erfitt að læra íslensku einmitt vegna þess að flestir Íslendingar vilja bara tala ensku við mann sem er ennþá að læra að tala íslensku, eins og þú segir í video. Þú ert alveg með'etta!
Sæl og blessuð! Ég er italskur og ég er líka að læra íslensku af því að mér finnst tungumálið og landið mjög falleg! Þú talar ótrúlega góða íslensku, flott hjá þér. Ég er buín að læra mörg tungumál, en íslenska er stór, skemmtileg áskorun :)
Wow! I think actually managed to understand most of that " i am icelandic and i wanted to say that you speak good icelandic" at least thats what i understood. Might be wrong though😅
Komdu sæl! Mig langaði bara að segja þér að íslenskan þín er ótrúlega góð! Og já, við Íslendingar þyrftum að taka meira tillit til fólks eins og þín í samskiptum. Ekki bara blaðra og blaðra á ofurhraða eins og ekkert sé eðlilegra. English translation: Hello there! I just wanted to tell you that your Icelandeic is unbelievably good! And yes, we Icelanders need to be more considerate to people like yourself in communications. Not just blather and blather on superspeed as if nothing is more normal.
Incredibly awesome and moving video. Loved it. I’m from Spain and right now living in Reykjavik and trying to learn Icelandic. I’d love to meet you , I really want to learn. Do you give classes?
I'm not English native speaker or even frensh but it seems to me that French is more easy than English , specially when it comes to pronunciation. But most of people still being disagree with me.
Yes, the pronunciation is easier, there are rules how to pronounce the words and letters, meanwhile in english any letter can have any sound depending on the word
im also thinking about studying at university of iceland but i don't know which programme i should take. can i know which course you were in? icelandic practical one or icelandic as a second language? also do they teach in icelandic or english? if they teach in icelandic how much icelandic should we know?
Ég lofa því :) Það gleður mig svo mikið að þú ákvaðst að ganga í geggn um alla þetta til að læra þetta mál þó fáir tali það. Ég er mjög hreikinn af þér!
I always understood English natives in English and French natives in French better than foreigners. In Icelandic it is the opposite way. Icelandic from a mouth of a foreigner is usually better comphrehensible for me than if I'm listening an Icelander speaking.
Ég hef vanið mig á það að tala alltaf íslensku og ég bið fólk um að segja mér þegar það skilur mig ekki. Fólk lærir ekki eins vel að tala íslenskuna ef það þarf aldrei að nota hana afþví við skiptum yfir í ensku um leið og maður heyrir að maður sé ekki að tala við íslending. Þolinmæði er númer 1 2 og 3 ;)
Sæl! Ég er kanadískur og ég er að læra íslensku. Móðurmálið mitt er frönsku eins og þú! Kannski gætum við talað saman svolítið og æft!Au plaisir :) Axel
Nice video! Folks, don't stress so much over grammar. Focus on language exposure: meaning (vocabulary (not declensions)), listening (mostly) and reading. You didn't learn how to speak your mother tongue thru grammar.
I've been learning Icelandic on my own for a couple of years and am considering studying it in University, but what exactly can you do with a degree in Icelandic? I get that this video is a couple of years old, but what are you doing or planning on doing? Takk!
What can you do with that? ... Well, you can live tk Iceland. I mean, learning this type of obscure language like Thai, Cantonese, even Korean, it doesn't need to have a BIG use, they're not English, or French or Mandarin. Learning them is more for fun, cause you like the culture it has behind, the country landscape, the sounds and that kind of stuff.
Já ég skil þig þó að ég sé frá Íslandi þá tekur það samt fyrir meðal manneskju að læra Íslensku ( sem að er frá Íslandi ) tólf ár ( frá því að það fæðist) að ná alveg íslenskunni og ég er í áttunda bekk og er en þá að gera heilan helling af staðsetningar villum en get samt alveg talað hana mjög vel það er bara skrýtið hvernig hún er skrifuð e.o.t.d. kyrkja og kirkja ég skrifað þetta alltaf vitlaust þangað til að ég sá í bókinni muninn (kyrkja meaning choking and kirkja meaning church) 😂😁
Do you understand the wordssss that are comin out of my moutthhh haha.. Fyrirgefðu, það er bara gaman að tala við útlendingur sem getur tala íslensku saman. þessi er frábært litla bíoið Maelle. Vel Gert! Ég gæti skilið þig auðveldlega. Vá.. 3 ár síðastur þú ert búið til þessi bío.. talaru allavega íslensku ennþá?
I studied Icelandic for over 3 years and I could barely speak a sentence, and you got to this level you're at in 3 months? How is that even fucking possible? Tip: Work on your pronunciation.
Please make more videos! I have been to Iceland two times and now I am trying to learn Icelandic online; unfortunately, I can't find any teacher or school here in Mexico to take courses (apparently we don't have any). I would like to know more about your experience as a foreigner living there.
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For a kid who's been working on learning Icelandic for almost two years on their own (and has gotten virtually no where), this is very inspiring. Thank you
five?
how have you been doing? switched languages ?
Maybe because there are no good lessons all these videos suck specially woth the girl talking about stupid icelandic shit instead of the language
I just started learning Icelandic yesterday more seriously, and I already learned about 50 words and a lot of the patterns used for the different forms / declensions and verb endings - some of them are similar to Norwegian (for example, the neutral adjective uses T usually, or a similar letter, and in Norwegian it also end in T, so it’s easy to remember this, as I am intermediate level in Norwegian & Swedish, and am advanced level in Dutch, which also has a few similarities and words that come from the same word that are still quite similar) and, one should start by learning the prepositions and the most used verbs / nouns etc and try to memorize as many words as possible at the beginning, which is the only way to learn a new language fast (I learned Dutch in about 3 or 4 months using this method) and after learning at least a few thousand words, lots of videos should be watched with Icelandic subs to get used to the different endings, which are actually very logical, because every pronoun and every gender etc should have a different ending, especially in languages that haven’t been made as neutral-sounding as English by changing the word endings to very neutral letter combinations, which is why Modern English no longer has cases and genders etc, but most other Germanic languages haven’t been changed that way, so they have the cases and different grammatical genders, but I think it’s easier to just learn them one by one if one finds it difficult to memorize them all at the same time, so one can start by learning the ones used for the nominative case for the 3 gender, and start with the first grammatical gender, and then the next ones, and then the plurals etc, as it’s way easier that way!
If one is very new to languages learning, I highly recommend starting with the easiest languages to memorize, such as Dutch and Norwegian and Norse and Icelandic and Faroese and prioritizing Dutch and Norwegian a bit more for one or two months etc, but also learning new words in Icelandic and Norse and the pronunciation rules, and revising them regularly, then prioritizing Icelandic and Norse more - knowing at least 3.500 words in Norwegian / Swedish and over 8.000 base words in Dutch has definitely helped me memorize both Icelandic and German words way faster and to understand their patterns (and the different sentence structure when it comes to languages such as German) and to memorize the patterns / different endings faster, plus I also know Spanish and am native speaker level (over 10.000 base words) since childhood, so I am very used to verbs having different endings and to adjectives having different endings etc and am used to cases with many forms and other grammatical patterns, and the more words I learn in a language and the more I observe the way they are used in sentences by natives, the easier it gets, and also, I have edited this comment, because I changed my mind about what I said months ago, and I actually think one should start learning Icelandic and Norse etc as fast as possible, and starting learning them at the same time, because the words are actually quite easy to memorize, as all other Germanic words, and because they are so pretty, the words and sounds are so heavenly, so the faster one starts learning them, the better, and there are actually a lot more obvious cognates in Norse languages than I thought at first, there are tons of obvious cognates with both English and Dutch, and the other Germanic languages, actually, so one will recognize lots of them, even if one only knows English or English and German etc, though it does have more obvious cognates with Norwegian tho, so if one knows Norwegian or lots of Norwegian words, one will recognize even more cognates!
I'm in love with Icelandic language, culture, and lifestyle too + The aestethics in this video are just mesmerising, thank you for making this piece of art !
That's the most emotional video I've ever seen about languages. I'm Italian and I am studying German. It is the first "real language" I've ever studied... I mean, the first one that sounds completely different from my native one, the first one that I never never hear in my daily life. It's not Icelandic, but it's not even like studying French, or Spanish or even English. It's struggling. It feels like you learn nothing, like nothing of what you study comes out to be useful soon. The neutral genre, the declinations, they don't exist in my native language and It's hard to understand their role. The neutral genre sounds like it has no sense, I mean... why not just using Male and Female genres? What does it mean?
German it's of course not comparable to Icelandic, but for me it is "challenging". This video touched me in the deep and sometimes I like to watch it again and again because it gives me courage; when I blame myself for my decision to learn German instead of something easier like Spanish or Portugese, it reminds me of the reason why I chose it: because I love it. With all my heart. Thank you very much to the girl who made this video.
PoesiaAltrove Maybe you should take a look at Latin which has a similar grammar as German and then you can built a bridge between Italian and German.
Du kannst das schaffen! 😊 Good luck 😊
das Leben ist zu kurz, um Deutsch zu lernen >:D
*laughs in Finno-Ugric languages that have no gender at all*
@@anaemicroyalty0504 *hangs oneself in 15-20 grammatical cases*
I remember seeing this video a couple years ago when I wanted to study Icelandic and beeing very amazed by your video and skills. Now that I am my 3rd semester in actually studying Icelandic I am even more amazed! Svo gott!
WOAH
I'm learning Icelandic for four years now (not in Iceland) and I'm happy to say that I understood most of what you said. However, I wouldn't have been able to form those sentences myself (at least not without a lot of time). It's impressive how far you've come in only three months!
I am upper intermediate level in both Icelandic and Norse after a few months of focusing mostly on them, and I am also upper intermediate in German as I’ve been learning German on the side, and I know over 5.000 words in Icelandic at this point, so I am very close to an advanced level, especially when it comes to vocab, and I can understand a lot, like, I can understand most words in most sentences, and I started watching every video and movie with subs in Icelandic, as I can easily follow sentences now!
I am actually learning new words in many other target languages as well, and usually prioritizing five of my target languages the most, while also learning words in fifteen of them regularly, and new words in the other target languages more occasionally, and even though I started learning a lot of words in Icelandic like seven months ago, I didn’t learn much for about two or three months, as I was working a lot on my playlists, but about three or four months ago, I started learning and revising lots of words in Icelandic almost every day, so I managed to learn over three or four thousand new words quite fast!
I can understand how the Norse languages work very well at this point, so grammar is very easy for me, because I know the patterns so well, plus I tend to read the declensions and conjunctions for each word at least twice or thrice over a period of time, and I analyze the declensions and conjugations of a few different verbs and nouns and adjectives every day or every few days, and I can easily remember the whole thing after seeing it twice or thrice!
The verbs are super easy in Norse languages, as they only have two main tenses, present and normal past tense, which are used the most, and two other tenses that use auxiliary verbs like ég hef lært (I have learnt) and ég mun / skal læra (I will / shall learn) which are super easy, and if one wants to say one is learning in Icelandic one just uses to be + the infinitive, for example, hann er að læra, which literally means he is to learn, but it is used as he is learning, as in, he is learning right now, so the tenses are super easy in Icelandic and Norse, and the endings are the same for each verb from each category of verbs, and the subjunctive mode is also easy as it also has the same patterns for each category of verbs, and the plural forms are almost always the same as the indicative forms, and the normal past tense for most verbs is created by adding an extra t or d or ð, so if one knows the infinitive and the present tense forms, it’s super easy to guess and to remember the past tense forms for most verbs, especially if one knows the conjugated verb endings / patterns well, and most verbs in Icelandic that are also in Norse are conjugated the same way and most forms are the same!
To see progress fast, I highly recommend learning as many thousands of words as possible from vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words, as opposed to only learning a few new words per day, because only learning a few new words per day is akin to passive learning and it can take over a decade, just like when one learns the first language, so one should load hundreds and thousands of new words into one’s hern regularly, and revise them many times on different days, over a longer period of time, so, revising each vocab video regularly, until each word can be instantly processed and automatically remembered, and also using G translate a lot to learn as many advanced words as possible, as vocab videos don’t cover most advanced terms, unfortunately, including advanced terms and idioms and phrases etc, as focusing on vocab is the most important part of actually learning the language!
I also recommend learning a lot of lyrics in Icelandic and Norse, and learning every sound and letter and the pronunciation rules in the beginning, and learning the word endings well, by carefully observing and analyzing the patterns, because in Norse languages, most words follow the exact same patterns and have the same word endings that are associated with each group of nouns, and there are only a few exceptions, but in general the patterns and word endings are the same for each type of nouns, for example, masculine nouns when they are singular and definite in nominative always end in inn, and in accusative too, and the dative form usually has an i at the end if it’s indefinite, the plural definite word ending in genitive is always or almost always anna, the dative form for plural nouns that are indefinite is always um and for definite plurals it is always unum, and for definite masculine nouns it is always inum and num, and so on, and it is actually very easy to learn these patterns and to develop a sense for what sounds right in the languages, as Norse languages are super logical, though some forms need a few slight modifications to make them 100% perfect!
I highly recommend learning Icelandic and Norse 2gether with Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish (and English if one doesn’t know it yet) because they are the prettiest languages ever and they are too pretty not to know, while also learning German, and also, the six modern Celtic languages Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic, which are also gorgeous, as learning many languages at the same time saves a lot of years and makes the learning process super fun, so I highly recommend learning all the target languages at the same time and prioritizing the Norse languages and Dutch the most, while also learning and revising new words in the others regularly, and always learning only pretty and easy languages, including all the Germanic languages and the modern Celtic languages and a few others, as these languages are all category 1 and category 2 languages (only Irish and Scottish Gaelic are category 3 spelling-wise, though the words are easy to memorize, just like Germanic words) and that means that one can learn many of them at the same time, which is the most efficient way to learn languages, especially if one has many target languages, like I do, having over 50 target languages!
It’s very important to revise each word regularly, by the way, because revising and repeating the words regularly is key to learning the words, like, truly learning them permanently and automatically, and I also recommend typing a lot in the new language or languages and saying the words many times, first slowly, and then trying to say them faster and faster, to also develop an automatic mode in the new language or languages, if one wants to be able to say everything fast and without having to think about it, as natives do!
I highly recommend learning all the Skáld lyrics, which are a great way to start learning these Norse languages like Icelandic / Norse / Faroese, and there are even some songs in Norwegian / Danish / Swedish, and they all have awesome and pretty melodies, so they are very áddìctive, which makes it very easy for one to listen to them many times, until one learns the lyrics well!
I am learning every single Germanic language, including the Norse languages and the Old / Middle versions of each Germanic language and the modern Celtic languages etc, and I focus mostly on vocab, and also watching all sorts of videos and movies with subs in the target languages, and learning lots of lyrics, and learning the grammar etc, and I can see very fast progress, so I highly recommend using these methods!
Icelandic and Norse and the other Norse languages are so pretty, they are a must-learn for every learner, and Dutch / Gothic / Norwegian etc too, plus they are also the most alpha languages with the coolest and most modern sounds, they are as gorgeous / refined / poetic / magical / perfect as English, which is also mostly a Norse language as English comes mostly from Norse - these languages are real fun to speak / learn / see / hear etc!
Re sentence structure and word orders in Icelandic and Norse, they are actually the same as in English, which makes it very easy for one to express ideas in Norse languages, and they are even more flexible in Norse as I have seen all sorts of random word orders in Norse that I wouldn’t even normaIly use, but they are also super flexible in Icelandic, just like in English, so Icelandic doesn’t have any fixed word orders and different rules for verbs etc, like Dutch and German, for example, so it’s naturally very easy to form sentences in Icelandic if one knows the words - to get better at forming sentences, I highly recommend learning every single preposition / conjunction / adverb of time etc and the pronouns and the most used 300 verbs and the most used nouns and adjectives in the beginning, including the words that one uses the most, and to analyze and practice different sentences and different constructions regularly, for example, one can think about how would one express a certain idea in English and then translate it to Icelandic, and analyzing it in detail, and even learning whole sentences in the beginning, which can help a lot, when it comes to forming sentences, and typing / saying etc those sentences multiple times, regularly, and using them a lot, and learning hundreds and thousands of new words every day or every other day, while also regularly revising previously learnt words!
Some examples of sentences in Icelandic that I revise regularly and that I type a lot and that I have analyzed 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...
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?
Such a beautiful video! I want to start learning Icelandic now even though it seems extremely difficult, haha! xxx
Oh, so atmospheric, so warm, so emotional. Thank you
This video was the Best thing I've ever heard. Loved it.
This is one of my favorite videos on the internet. Thank you.
I'm living in Germany, learning German and sometimes Germans speak louder but not slower when I don't understand. It has been very frustrating because I've studied French, Dutch and Japanese but German has a grammar (and the cases) that also feels like swimming against the current. When I surrendered to sounding silly, for not getting a declension correct or speaking in very simple terms, I freed myself from my own expectations and now I can see the beauty of this language and it's hidden secrets. Icelandic is definitely on my future list!
Sweet video. You're lovely :)
Icelandic is beautiful. I'm studying Danish and can recognize some words in common. While Icelandic grammar is hard, its pronunciation doesn't seem a huge challenge. On the other hand, Danish grammar is really easy but reproducing its particular sounds and no-sounds and decipher what a speaker is saying will make you cry as well...
Danish is a fairly easy language to read and write but their pronounciation of some things is ridiculous.
i'm from iceland. The Country is great. Blessaðan Daginn!
As a Norwegian, I can understand a lot of Icelandic if it's spoken slowly.
I subbed after watching this video. Been studying Icelandic on my own for a while now. I thought speaking 3 languages would help, but nope. Most challenging language I have ever attempted learning. Harder than Mandarin imo.
Zachary Norman The only difficult thing about Mandarin is the characters. Mandaric grammar is the easiest thing in the entire world.
Agreed. You still living in Iceland?
Zachary Norman i do not live in iceland, i am not icelandic.
😮😯😮
@@mariafoteini isn‘t the pronounciation suuuper hard
I'm Russian and most of foreigners I've met tell me my language is complicated and hard to learn. But when I hear (or try to learn) Welsh and Icelandic, I realize where the REAL challenge is:) won't stop trying anyway! Actually it is helpful in a way that Russian grammar (and the way it's changed through times) and spelling is rather complex, I'm not scared of many tenses or word forms, but the pronunciation is often harrrrrd to learn. My tongue just gets twisted))
ой, как приятно встретить здесь русского! я тоже сейчас пытаюсь учить исландский, если ты не против предложения попрактиковаться вместе в разговорности, то напиши, пожалуйста, свой инстаграм (?), или какой-либо другой контакт.
@@ВасилисаКнижкина Hæ! Íslenskan mín er veik en ef þú vilt getum við stundum talað íslensku, þá máttu skrifa mér.
"Sometimes I started crying." 🤣We've all been there; what's so inspiring and beautiful about language learning is the perseverance and effort we put in until we reap a harvest at the end of the tunnel. Keep fighting~!
I absolutely loved this video. Beautiful
I know I am several years late, but is there any way I could obtain a full transcript of this video in Icelandic. This would be the world for me; it would be a daily reminder that maintain the constant effort and motivation to learn the language of the people I have most connected with. Their names being Rakel, Hallí, and Gugga.
Ég heiti Maëlle og er frá Frakklandi. Ég flutti til Íslands fyrir þremur mánuðum síðan og er í námi í íslensku sem annað mál í Háskóla Íslands. Ég byrjaði á því að læra sænsku í háskóla í París og ég hitti aðra nemendur sem voru í íslenskunámi. Ég vissi eiginlega ekki að Ísland væri til og hafði ekki hugmynd um að íslenska væri tungumál. Ég heyrði íslensku fyrst í tónlist. Ég man eftir að hlusta á Sigur Rós og Ásgeir. Fannst mér það vera það fallegasta sem ég hafði heyrt (perhaps better to start the sentence with Mér fannst). Svo ég skipti úr sænsku í íslensku.
Ég vil ekki segja að hlutir séu erfiðir eða auðveldir, en þegar ég hugsa um íslensku þá kemur orðið "challenging" í hugann. Íslenskukennarinn sagði að það væri eins og að synda á móti öldunum (I've never heard anyone say "að synda á móti öldunum" we usually say "að synda á móti straumnum". Still, I think it's beautiful to phrase it the way she does). Þú þarft endalausa vinnu og motivation til að drukkna ekki og þér líður eins og þú sért ekki að hreyfast. Setningar eru púsl. Sérstaklega vegna the declensions (ísl. beyginganna). Þær geta verið mjög pirrandi. Í frönsku lærir þú orð og þú getur síðan notað það. Ef þú vilt læra orð á íslensku þarftu að læra sextán útgáfur af því eða milljón útgáfur (hjá) af sagnorðum og adjectives (ísl. lýsingarorðum). Það er hræðilegt að eyða nóttinni í að læra orð á bin.is. Stundum byrja ég að gráta.
Hjúkrunarfræðingurinn. Fyrst þurfti ég að enda í miðjunni á orðinu til þess að segja það. Mér finnst núna eins og ég geti sagt hvað sem er. Samt rólega og með frönskum hreim líka. Það er mjög erfitt að heyra muninn á þessum staf "i" og þessum "e". Þetta hér "hn" er líka mjög dularfullt. Ég er samt að verða betri í að skilja fólk. Það talar samt mjög hratt og þegar ég spyr það um að endurtaka sig (should say "bið það um að") segir það sömu setninguna aftur alveg jafn hratt og ég er bara vandræðaleg og skil ekki neitt. Og það besta er þegar ég fatta að ég skildi eitthvað án þess að reyna að skilja það.
Og skilaboð til Íslendinga: Ef einhver er að reyna að tala íslensku, ekki byrja strax að tala ensku. Ef maður skilur ekki, endurtakið þá hægar og kannski einfaldar.
@@r.bj.2427 Thank you so much for taking the time to transcribe this video and providing critiques to say what’s grammatically correct. It really means a lot and I definitely owe you a drink 😂
@@watsolloko_7763 Sure thing.
I've learned already english ,Italian ,German and some Russian and Hebrew and as long as I decide to learn ir I will get it easier or harder
Vá hvað þú talar flotta íslensku. Vel gert, haltu þessu áfram 😘
Omg genre on est pareil!! Je suis française(du Canada). En premier, je m’ai appris le suédois mais à ce moment-là, je ne connaissais pas l’Islande. Je ne savais même pas non plus que c’était un pays. J’ai connu ce pays quand j’ai eu fini d’apprendre le suédois. J’ai écouté des vidéos en Islandais et je comprenais certains mots car le suédois ressemble à l’islandais. Je suis tombée plus en amour avec L’islande et là, j’essaye d’apprendre l’islandais. J’ai 14 ans alors je ne peux pas me permettre un professeur mais bon, je pense aller à l’université là-bas:)
Thanks for sharing.
Since I was 14 years old I decided to learn another language and I started on American English,then German , after a break I started to learn Italian,then I got back to learn German again and a few years ago I started to learn Russian but unfortunately the Russian teacher needed a break and since then I am looking for another language and now I decided to learn icelandic
Aww, this video explains exactly what I think on learning Icelandic, except that you can speak at least, I'm still puzzled with everything I see. At least, Icelandic is slightly easy that you can more or less deduct what a compound word means by breaking it into the essential parts... Nice video indeed, makes me want to swim against the tide too.
How is it going now? You should make another video :D
Flott hjá þér Maelle! Vel sagt. Ég vildi bara segja að mér finnst að þú talar íslenskuna bara ágætlega. Ég er frá Bandaríkjunum, en átti heima á Íslandi 1991 - 1993, og það var rosa erfitt að læra íslensku einmitt vegna þess að flestir Íslendingar vilja bara tala ensku við mann sem er ennþá að læra að tala íslensku, eins og þú segir í video. Þú ert alveg með'etta!
Video=myndband, með´etta=með þetta. Fyrirgefðu en þetta var svoldið að trufla mig.þótt að þú sagði þetta fyrir ári síðan.
Lena R. Takk allt í lagi
it'd be so interesting to hear how your progress is going!
Sæl og blessuð! Ég er italskur og ég er líka að læra íslensku af því að mér finnst tungumálið og landið mjög falleg! Þú talar ótrúlega góða íslensku, flott hjá þér. Ég er buín að læra mörg tungumál, en íslenska er stór, skemmtileg áskorun :)
@BlackCanvas AT Mér "finnst" = my opinion.
Quanto tempo ci hai messo per impararlo
Merci pour ton message ! J'espère que plus d'islandais vont comprendre ça aussi :)
Ég er Íslensk og ég vildi bara segja að þú talar mjög góða íslensku. :)
Ég er frá Noregi, og ég er að læra íslensku. Það er mjög erfitt, en ég læra meira og meira. Skil þú hvað ég skrifa?
@Lena R. Takk fyrir :D
æ e nord norsk forstår du ka æ sier?
Wow! I think actually managed to understand most of that " i am icelandic and i wanted to say that you speak good icelandic" at least thats what i understood. Might be wrong though😅
@@alexcubillo341 yes, that's correct. btw what languages do you speak?
Komdu sæl!
Mig langaði bara að segja þér að íslenskan þín er ótrúlega góð!
Og já, við Íslendingar þyrftum að taka meira tillit til fólks eins og þín í samskiptum. Ekki bara blaðra og blaðra á ofurhraða eins og ekkert sé eðlilegra.
English translation:
Hello there!
I just wanted to tell you that your Icelandeic is unbelievably good!
And yes, we Icelanders need to be more considerate to people like yourself in communications. Not just blather and blather on superspeed as if nothing is more normal.
Incredibly awesome and moving video. Loved it. I’m from Spain and right now living in Reykjavik and trying to learn Icelandic. I’d love to meet you , I really want to learn. Do you give classes?
Sumir af þessum stupit innflytjendum sem hafa verið þarna í fleiri ár , tala ekki svona góða Islenksu eins og þú !! Gangi þér vel !!
Very interesting trying to learn a language through the Music ,I'd rather try to learn a language on a traditional way
Félicitations...
Aún hay esperanza 🥺 Ég mun að tala íslensku.💪🔥❤️
I am watching this video again to blame myself for not learning the Icelandic enough to say 'my Icelandic is bad'...
Ég elska þetta myndbandi 😢💜👍
Elle est superbe cette vidéo 🙂
Challenge est effectivement le mot qui convient ! Es tu infirmière en Islande ?
beautiful
Great video. Keep going!
Takk, þú gefur öllum okkar sem eru að læra íslensku von. :)
I'm not English native speaker or even frensh but it seems to me that French is more easy than English , specially when it comes to pronunciation. But most of people still being disagree with me.
Yes, the pronunciation is easier, there are rules how to pronounce the words and letters, meanwhile in english any letter can have any sound depending on the word
im starting icelandic now, i've got an app for vocabulary, do u guys have any websites or tips for me?
Sæl Maelle, mér finnst þú tala íslensku vel, það var virkilega gaman að sjá þetta myndband. Gangi þér vel!
Awesome!
Sigur Ros makes songs in icelandic?
im also thinking about studying at university of iceland but i don't know which programme i should take. can i know which course you were in? icelandic practical one or icelandic as a second language? also do they teach in icelandic or english? if they teach in icelandic how much icelandic should we know?
Wow, beautiful video 👏😢
I'm learning Icelandic now
Ég lofa því :) Það gleður mig svo mikið að þú ákvaðst að ganga í geggn um alla þetta til að læra þetta mál þó fáir tali það. Ég er mjög hreikinn af þér!
Are you speaking with mouth full of ice? oh that's icelandic??
je veux bien apprendre la langue , as tu des ressources pour debuttants + jai bien aime la video , un nouvel abonne :)
Icelandiconline.is
Mjög Fraubert! Je vous aime!
I always understood English natives in English and French natives in French better than foreigners. In Icelandic it is the opposite way. Icelandic from a mouth of a foreigner is usually better comphrehensible for me than if I'm listening an Icelander speaking.
Ég hef vanið mig á það að tala alltaf íslensku og ég bið fólk um að segja mér þegar það skilur mig ekki. Fólk lærir ekki eins vel að tala íslenskuna ef það þarf aldrei að nota hana afþví við skiptum yfir í ensku um leið og maður heyrir að maður sé ekki að tala við íslending. Þolinmæði er númer 1 2 og 3 ;)
Vel gert! ertu ennþá að læra íslensku ?
Takk fyrir!!!
terima kasih untuk videomu. saya telah di iceland, dan ku suka bahasa islenska....sangat rumit, tapi cantik sekali
Lovely! Wish I could have this opportunity too
Instagram?
I came here for the same reason. This girl seems like she's so interesting
Sæl! Ég er kanadískur og ég er að læra íslensku. Móðurmálið mitt er frönsku eins og þú! Kannski gætum við talað saman svolítið og æft!Au plaisir :)
Axel
Nice video!
Folks, don't stress so much over grammar. Focus on language exposure: meaning (vocabulary (not declensions)), listening (mostly) and reading. You didn't learn how to speak your mother tongue thru grammar.
Facts!! Songs and stories are very useful tools.
Jeg hopper du skal lage en annen video om islandsk😉 hilsener fra oslo!
what a video!!!!
Didn’t those subtitles come in bold ?
I've been learning Icelandic on my own for a couple of years and am considering studying it in University, but what exactly can you do with a degree in Icelandic? I get that this video is a couple of years old, but what are you doing or planning on doing? Takk!
What can you do with that?
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Well, you can live tk Iceland. I mean, learning this type of obscure language like Thai, Cantonese, even Korean, it doesn't need to have a BIG use, they're not English, or French or Mandarin.
Learning them is more for fun, cause you like the culture it has behind, the country landscape, the sounds and that kind of stuff.
Hope you're doing good 😊 Greetings from México
"In French, you learn a word and you can use it".
Lol have you ever heard of verbs, my child? ^^
Já ég skil þig þó að ég sé frá Íslandi þá tekur það samt fyrir meðal manneskju að læra Íslensku ( sem að er frá Íslandi ) tólf ár ( frá því að það fæðist) að ná alveg íslenskunni og ég er í áttunda bekk og er en þá að gera heilan helling af staðsetningar villum en get samt alveg talað hana mjög vel það er bara skrýtið hvernig hún er skrifuð e.o.t.d. kyrkja og kirkja ég skrifað þetta alltaf vitlaust þangað til að ég sá í bókinni muninn (kyrkja meaning choking and kirkja meaning church) 😂😁
Meanwhile, Norwegian is just weirdly spelled English words
eg tror at språket har veldi mye influense fra engelsk grammar.
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Or they just share common ancestry, both Germanic
Pretty girl you are! Falleg og áhugaverð stelpa þú ert.
Og þú talar íslensku. Þetta er mjög áhugavert tungumál
Do you understand the wordssss that are comin out of my moutthhh haha.. Fyrirgefðu, það er bara gaman að tala við útlendingur sem getur tala íslensku saman. þessi er frábært litla bíoið Maelle. Vel Gert! Ég gæti skilið þig auðveldlega. Vá.. 3 ár síðastur þú ert búið til þessi bío.. talaru allavega íslensku ennþá?
VÁ!
you are so cute and sweet :)
I studied Icelandic for over 3 years and I could barely speak a sentence, and you got to this level you're at in 3 months? How is that even fucking possible? Tip: Work on your pronunciation.
Please make more videos! I have been to Iceland two times and now I am trying to learn Icelandic online; unfortunately, I can't find any teacher or school here in Mexico to take courses (apparently we don't have any). I would like to know more about your experience as a foreigner living there.