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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 3829 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 9 of 33 10 February 2015 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Good luck man!
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5738 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 10 of 33 10 February 2015 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks daegga, what a neat resource, but I am far too soft a creature of the 21st century to embrace the hardier times of the 12th. Plus I need audio, desperately, at this stage of my learning. More importantly, I am busy writing my own saga (the Saga of Spanky the Anonymous) through the mere fact of living through the day-to-day incidents of my own heroic life, and I want to avoid interference from (and possible adverse comparison to) the older and more established Icelandic saga material. P.S. - if I had really wanted to save myself some agony as referenced in your post, I would have stayed the heck away from Icelandic. I was running through Italian like a hot spoon through spumoni until our pending summer travel plans diverted from Italy to Iceland. Edited by Spanky on 10 February 2015 at 10:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5738 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 11 of 33 10 February 2015 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks redflag! It seems really cool to this very early point in my poking around at it. I had come across reference to the Glossika material but had put it aside for further consideration, and until after I can access some sample audio first. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5738 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 12 of 33 10 February 2015 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks dmaddock! I recall coming across an article talking about Icelander's good-natured amusement at foreigner's inability to get the place names down correctly, and also a few fun pieces on Western media's wild stabs at pronouncing volcano names - I'll post when I come across them again. Definitely hitting some of the swimming pools and other natural water opportunities (I have a picture of the blue lagoon up as my screen saver for motivation!), with or without flag pins (probably without - pinning opportunities in a pool being a challenging endeavour at best!). Thanks very much for the reference to the Alaric Hall "Michel Thomas" style material. It is awesome, and I am busy working through the first few short units now. Edited by Spanky on 11 February 2015 at 6:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5738 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 13 of 33 10 February 2015 at 10:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks tristano! I have a feeling I am going to need all the luck I can get...!! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5738 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 14 of 33 12 February 2015 at 3:57am | IP Logged | |||||
The real danger with Eyjafjallajökull, the Icelandic volcano that was active in 2010, was apparently linguistic in nature. Eyjafjallajökull - blog article youtube clip of mishmash pronunciation Edited by Spanky on 12 February 2015 at 3:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5738 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 15 of 33 12 February 2015 at 7:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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Pronunciation remains a challenge for me, so I started by trying to focus on materials
which have both audio and matching written components. I worked through a number of Youtube videos - especially helpful was the expert village series of 30 or so thematically-organized clips in which phrases are repeated twice, the second time more slowly and clearly, with captioning of the target phrase in Icelandic. youtube - expert village series 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5738 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 16 of 33 14 February 2015 at 1:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've started up with mumbling elementary Icelandic to myself on the walk and bus ride to/from work, to either the amusement or the concern of other humans who also live in this part of the planet. Icelandic seems to draw more startled looks than French, Spanish, German or Italian ever did.
Bus chat with myself this morning: Spanky1: Sæll, hvað heitir þú? Spanky2: Ég heiti Spanky. Spanky1: Spanky, er hægt að læra íslensku? Spanky2: Nei, Spanky, það er ekki hægt. Which might possibly roughly mean: Spanky1: Hello, what is your name? Spanky2: My name is Spanky. Spanky1: Spanky, is (it) possible to learn Icelandic? Spanky2: No, Spanky, it is not possible. (I would have gone on to add: "well, it may be possible, but you will need to study quite a bit harder than you have been if you are going to pull it off, mate" but I did not have all the words handy for that.) Edited by Spanky on 14 February 2015 at 1:57am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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