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Icelandic sample exams Posted by sequoia on Jan 25, 2012
This post is for the person who wanted to know about the exams for the Icelandic courses. Unfortunately this might be too late to help them, but hopefully it can help someone else. The first thing you need to know is that there are two different “Icelandic for foreigners” courses at the University of Iceland…
Websites in Icelandic Posted by sequoia on Nov 27, 2011
Hopefully this post is useful. If you don’t like posts where I just link things, tell me and I won’t make one like this again. Here’s a list of things that can be set to Icelandic, either through changing Firefox’s language settings in the preferences section or by your personal setting on the site itself…
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…
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…
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…