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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…
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…
Getting and renewing a student permit Posted by sequoia on Oct 3, 2011
The official site for this is here, but it’s confusing and has out-of-date information. Remember that I’m posting what someone from outside of the EEA has to do. Note: You must be eighteen or older to get this permit, unfortunately. My friend found this out the hard way, and even though I never noticed anything…
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…
Signs in Apartment Complexes Posted by sequoia on Aug 26, 2011
I was going to write this yesterday, but after coming home from the post office I slept over twelve hours. Sorry! I’ve lived in two apartment complexes and am about to move into a third. The first was the student apartments from the University of Iceland, the second was a regular apartment near Laugavegur, and…