Tag Archives: Icelandic lessons
Exercise Post Posted by sequoia on May 26, 2012
Here are some things that you can use to study a few of the topics I’ve covered in previous posts. I haven’t taught you all of the grammar needed to understand the questions, or even everything needed to completely understand the posts I’m having you exercise, but that will have to come later or from…
Affixes and Compounds Posted by sequoia on May 19, 2012
This is a companion to the post about compound words that I made earlier. Sometimes Icelandic words are often made of more than one stem/root words at once, along with suffixes, infixes (like a suffix or prefix but in the middle of words), et cetera. This means they’re compound words but not necessarily compounds that…
Pronunciation of vowels. Posted by hulda on May 10, 2012
Or: how to avoid saying “penis” or something equally embarrassing by accident. While it’s ok to have an accent it’s still crucial to learn to pronounce as correctly as possible and the reason for this is that words easily change their meaning in Icelandic. Before we go on I feel like apologizing for the chosen topic…
Icelandic Immersion Day Posted by sequoia on May 8, 2012
Everyone says the best way to learn a language is through immersion. Whether or not this is true for your learning style it can at the least be a good test of your skills – but how can you be immersed when you’re nowhere near Iceland, Icelanders, or even other learners? Apart from using lots…
Compound Words and Genitive Case Posted by sequoia on May 5, 2012
Genitive is one of the most-used cases in Icelandic. Not only is it used to show possession, but it’s also used when making compound words. Compound words are really confusing when you don’t know enough vocabulary to tell where to break the word up in order to look up all the parts in the dictionary…
Hafa, eiga, vera með. Posted by hulda on May 4, 2012
Sequoia already went briefly over these three, but I decided to dig a little bit deeper into them and the other rules that are tied to these verbs. Besides, repetition is the mother of all learning! There are three ways of showing ownership in Icelandic, or better said three verbs for it: eiga, hafa and vera…
Noun Genders and A-mutation Posted by sequoia on Apr 17, 2012
I haven’t taught anything in a while, so today we have “genders of nouns”. Again this is taken partially from the textbook I’m writing. It’s very important to know the gender of nouns because how you change other parts of the sentence (like adjectives, which also have genders) depends on what gender the noun is…