Archive for September, 2011
Busses in Iceland Posted by sequoia on Sep 29, 2011
Right now I have a three-day job of counting who comes on and off the bus. There’s a few different types of busses – the yellow busses are city busses, their website is straeto.is and they have a “S” logo. (I’m going to start linking to the English section of a website if possible just…
Older Icelandic Posted by sequoia on Sep 26, 2011
They say Icelandic has changed so little that Icelanders can read sagas without difficulty. I’m not sure about that, but you as a learner can at least read things from a hundred years ago without any problem. The most memorable difference aside from vocabulary usage is the letter “z”. This used to be used, and…
Movies in Iceland Posted by sequoia on Sep 23, 2011
The film festival starts soon. They show movies from all over, mostly with English subtitles (Icelandic movies tend to have no subtitles at all, especially the short films from the film schools) and the venues are likewise all over. There’s movies held in the swimming pool, at the University movie theater, at the Nordic house…
Grammar taught in second semester Posted by sequoia on Sep 18, 2011
Here is a list of the grammar taught in second semester at the University of Iceland’s Icelandic for Foreigners Bachelor program. If you want me to teach something that’s on here or is on the first semester list, just let me know. Declining irregular nouns Sá – used as a back-reference in a sentence, also…
Childrens’ books and comics in Iceland Posted by sequoia on Sep 11, 2011
Here’s a list of comics and book series I’ve seen in Icelandic that have been translated, and at the end I have some examples of Icelandic children’s books. I’m missing a lot because I simply can’t remember all the ones that I hadn’t seen before (like the Scandinavian ones), so if you know of any…
Grammar learned in Icelandic first semester Posted by sequoia on Sep 8, 2011
This is a list of the grammar you learn in the Bachelor’s Degree Icelandic for Foreigners course at the University of Iceland, in the first semester. If you take the degree course you’re basically expected to know this stuff already or you’re expected to be able to learn it in two days to a week…
Graffiti in Iceland Posted by sequoia on Sep 5, 2011
I’m sorry this post is so late, I was having logging-in troubles and I still don’t know what exactly was wrong or how it got fixed. Sometimes what looks like graffiti was actually art commissioned by the business that owns the wall it was painted on. “Wow, what a cool showing is this” (or something…