Archive for October, 2017
A Polyglot’s Feast: Tips For Language Learners (Polyglot Conference 2017) Posted by Meg on Oct 31, 2017
This past weekend, I had the privilege of attending the 5th annual polyglot conference, which was hosted here in Harpa in Reykjavik, and organized by the absolutely spectacular Richard Simcott and Alex Rawlings. There are obvious reasons that I’d go to a Polyglot Conference- which is, Richard emphasizes, for all language lovers: I’m an intermediate…
Me Talk Pretty One Day: A Few Basics of Pronunciation Posted by Meg on Oct 18, 2017
Today, lets talk a little about Icelandic phonology and pronunciation. In order to do that, we have to start with one basic assumption: the letter does not equal the sound. Not always. Sometimes, for example, we write two letters, but those two letters comprise one sound. Hj, kj, gj, hn, hr, hl are all…