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Signs in Icelandic Posted by sequoia on Nov 13, 2011
Here’s a bunch of various signs I’ve taken photos of. This sign is near Kringlan (a mall). Every time I walk by, it’s collapsed like this. “Circus school today for all”, this and the following two photos were taken on Iceland’s independence day. ESB or ES stands for “Evrópusambandið”, the European Union. “(Dance school) good…
Grocery stores in Iceland Posted by sequoia on Nov 10, 2011
Sometimes you’ll see food trucks like these parked in random places around town: “The wafflewagon”. It basically drives around to wherever anything is happening and sells waffles that are made inside the wagon, with toppings like ice cream and chocolate. Sorry for the bad photo, it’s really hard to take a good one without flash…
Hospitals and clinics Posted by sequoia on Nov 1, 2011
If you need medicine or a doctor, I’ve been advised to go to a private doctor instead of someone at a community clinic. I went to a clinic the other day anyway (the cost was 1.000kr for the visit versus 6.000 to 8.000kr) and unfortunately had bad results. The doctor didn’t know as much English…
Grammar vocabulary Posted by sequoia on Oct 28, 2011
I’m starting to learn Swedish with the help of “Sænsk málfræði” (Swedish Grammar) by Sigrún Helgadóttir Hallbeck. I checked it out at the city library, and as I find grammar textbooks the easiest thing to read in Icelandic, I decided to put up a word list here. The example sentences are actual sentences taken out…
Street art Posted by sequoia on Oct 21, 2011
Here’s some more street art: (EDIT 15/04/2012: I’ve removed two of the images that were originally in this post) For a while there were big mounds of grass around the immediate downtown area, I have no idea why and I lost my other photos of them. Then white silhouettes appeared on some of…
Spelling Posted by sequoia on Oct 14, 2011
Again this is partially taken from the textbook I’m writing, so I’d really appreciate if something is wrong or not understandable. Here are the letters currently in the Icelandic alphabet. The chart is sorted by: letter, both capitalized and lowercase / How the letter is spelled in Icelandic / How to pronounce the letter name…
Numbers post two Posted by sequoia on Oct 10, 2011
Here are the remaining things I have for numbers. If you don’t understand anything, if I missed something, or if you didn’t learn dative case for example, just tell me and I’ll write another post. Accusative: Karlkyn Kvenkyn Hvorugkyn einn eina eitt tvo tvær tvö þrjá þrjár þrjú fjóra fjórar fjögur Dative: Karlkyn Kvenkyn Hvorugkyn…