The Icelandic Volcano Tongue Twister (April 20th 2010)

[IHateTheTwilightSaga]

I could get it right on my second try.....?

[MissFan123]

@Choken1

[icelandicpokaball]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahah­ahahahahahaha

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icelandic: eyja-fjalla-jökull

english: island-mountain-glacier

[gunterdak]

I believe it is pronounced "Hiiinder diiinder diiiinder"

[annaaftur]

proud of being Icelandic !

[Choken1]

For me, I couldn't understand why nobody caught on that you really didn't need to say the "jokull" part of the name. As the locals explained many times (an example can be heard in this very video), jokull means glacier. That means that the name "Eyjafjallajökull" is actually the name of the glacier sitting on top of the volcano. The volcano itself is just "Eyjafjall".

[colo0822]

I could watch the leumonia guy over and over. And over.

[MsBabbi]

Americans can't prononce anything but american...

[Kinetical100]

Basic American = NOOS (news), CARN-STE-TOO-SHEN (constitution),

STOO-DANT (student)

Icelandic is wonderful, stop dissing it

[NGC3370JT]

Really? Eya-fjattla-jökutl. Or for you americans: Ey-yah-fyattla-jou-kuttl. ''E15'' is just pure lazyness and ignorance. We wont charge you for pronouncing it perfectly but..E15?.. Just.. STUPID.

vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærage­ymsluskúrslyklakippuhringastey­pumótateikning.

Va-th/dla-hei-th/dar-vegavi(h)­nnu-verkfära-geymsluko/urs-lik­laki(h)ppu-hringasteypu-m(oh)t­a-teikning. I am NOT doing that again!

[pk33617]

@NGC3370JT E15=military speak. Imagine that whole word attempting to be said over the radio nonstop with all our jacked up pronunciation...it was a pain-saving measure :) In English, J's and K's rarely fall in the middle of a word, and if they do they always take on the same pronunciation. add in that funny accent mark over the O, and we're done for! But it sure sounds amazing when you all say it!!

[mussimussi100]

the longest word we have in icelandic is Vaðlaheiðavegavinnuverkamannag­eymsluskúraútidyralyklakippuhr­ingur. Try that out :p

[Weston1968]

How can the Americans ever be expected to ever pronounce an Icelandic name when they have so many problems pronouncing words correctly in English?

[Lingies23]

I discovered today that I fuckin' adore Icelandic!:) It is beautiful...

[Sandice96]

Try Uxahryggjahalanegrablómkálssve­ppasúpa

[TheSkarri]

hahh, gotta love how the freaking name became a news story of its own.

[tommmiin]

@TheSkarri exacly its not just the volcano thats in the news but its name to XD

[lecrapauddejerri9]

Americans are so ignorant about the world around the, America is not the world. E-15? Are you kidding?

[pk33617]

@lecrapauddejerri9 most of us know we aren't the 'world.' But in a country as large as ours, most of us do well to even know a little about a lot of places within our own borders, let alone the rest of the globe.

[lecrapauddejerri9]

@pk33617 that's just sad

[gorillaz23456]

@lecrapauddejerri9 how the fuck are we suppose to understand icelandic some of the letters arent pronunce the same in english so stop

[lecrapauddejerri9]

@gorillaz23456 most of them are used in everyday English. 'Au', 'll' and 'j' are the only execptions but anyone with common sense would know instantly that 'j' is pronounced 'y' in every other germanic language except English. It's ignorance.

[gorillaz23456]

@lecrapauddejerri9 no its not that stupid to say

[lecrapauddejerri9]

@gorillaz23456 prove me wrong?

[gorillaz23456]

@lecrapauddejerri9 wow like every language on the planet has germanic origins would someone from asia or africa know how to say i dont think so.......

[lecrapauddejerri9]

@gorillaz23456 what are you on about man? it doesn;t matter which letter is used, we still use the same pronounciations in this case. and no, obviously, because English is germaic that;s why it fits

[TheKkkkkk14]

I can see Eyjafjallajökull from my house!

[Weston1968]

@TheKkkkkk14 Excellent! I can see a fence & the top of a house! :-(

[ottzii4]

vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærage­ymsluskúr try it out!

[TheBjarkiAwesome]

@ottzii4

vegavinnuverkamannaverkfæragey­msluskúrslyklakyppuhringur. Try that out!

[GenTortosine]

0:41

Mort from family guy.

[heyhonobodyhome]

:53 what is that bitch saying? it seems like she thinks she had it right but she said "i uh fly uh a yerk o vall"

[RonBurg92]

Thumbs up if you thought the "lady" at 3:05 looked like Eddie Van Halen before he checked into rehab five years ago

[alliestop]

@RonBurg92 Hahahahahaha!

[Abderiana]

Note how the reporters make no attempt to pronounce it themselves...

[theNonexistentKnight]

i don't understand how many people think there's an r-sound somewhere in the word

[Conway79]

I wish there were volcanoes in the Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwy­rndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

[GiefGoldPlx]

English speakers really need to see that J isn't always read as a J but as a Y.

[BaddaBigBoom]

LOL you can always rely on America to completely refuse to pronounce any non-English word properly. "Hundy" is another hilarious example (Hyundai).

(ps. scuse me for generalising, I'm sure there are plenty of seppoes that *would* make the effort) :-)

[GiveAways100]

thums up if you are form iceland

[tommmiin]

@GiveAways100 *gets 300 000 thumbs up XD (for those that dont know iceland is only 300.000 people XD)

[MrArekusa]

The woman has such an annoying voice...

[TheIcelandery]

I think "Holtavörðuheiðarvegavinnumann­averkfæraskúr" is the longest icelandic word,

but its easy too say don't you think?

[helgi111]

@TheIcelandery Vaðlaheiðavegavinnuverkfærabíl­skúrshurðarlyklakippuhringur is a tad longer

[diggadu]

well if you guys wont say it right then we will turn the volcano (eyjafjallajökull) back on mwuhahahahahahahaha

[impcirca1988]

your newsreaders should be ashamed. two minutes practice, and I got it.

[ste1nunn]

eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull eyjafjallajökull NOT THAT HARD

maybe for americans or outher lands or sum like that but not for us

i'm havin trouble pronounce idiosyncratic conjucation or what ever =þ (icelandic later btw) =þ

[RinEditionB]

@ste1nunn ee-dee-oh-sin-kra-teek kuhn-joo-kay-shun. I just realized- does Icelandic have a J sound? I mean written, your J is a Y, but speaking, is there a j? Also the reason why the volcano is hard is because we have nothing like the "fjalla" or the "kull" part in our language. it's not really an L or a T, you guys kind of blended it..

[ste1nunn]

@RinEditionB

there is a J sound in icelandic like in Jón (John in english) and some outher words. And we have awesome tounges so were the only ones in the universe that can say it perfectly :P

[ummbro1119]

mér fynst þetta ekkert smá fyndið að sjá þetta fólk að reyna að segja þetta orð þegar þetta er svo auðvelt að segja það er bara "l" sem fólk fynst erfitt að segja

[danni111922]

you ar a fucking noob

[Twixgtx]

XD that's hilariuos "project E-15, E for E and 15 for the 15 letters after..." XD

[halldora34]

i cant pronounce a few words in american or British language - but eyjafjallajökull ain't that hard to pronounce.....it's but NOT unspeakable just practice XD

[TheIcelandery]

this is an easy word:

eyja-fjalla-jökull.

A hard word is hæstaréttarmálaflutningsmaður

[Armistice023]

@TheIcelandery hay-star et-tar-mol-ah flut-nings mauer ? Close? I'm going more off of Faroese, so I know some letters are said differently between Faroese and Icelandic

[RinEditionB]

@TheIcelandery Oh oh, lemme try! Hee-star-etar-mala-flutneengs-­mathur. Yeah. so what;s it mean? google translate came up with "Supreme Court issues mover"

[JoeLolikon]

@TheIcelandery "Supreme Court barrister"

[wheelman2003]

@TheIcelandery WOW, good gosh, that does look like a tough word you had said. WOW !!!! I'm impressed with how many folks can pronounce long names like that. Example: The TRUE name of Thailand which I didn't know Thailand was a shortened name from it's longer counterpart I am NOT even going to try to spell, hahaha !!!!

[gaygirl1993]

@TheIcelandery haha já sammála þér fokking erfitt orð

[ivan1313]

@TheIcelandery how do you pronunce that word (hæstaréttarmálaflutningsmaður­) by the way? Phonetically.. Thanks

[TheBjarkiAwesome]

@TheIcelandery

Vá, ég fór í hláturskast :D

[MissFan123]

@TheIcelandery Vaðlaheiðavegavinnuverkamannav­erkfærageymsluskúrslyklakyppuh­ringur

[Optimus272]

@MissFan123 longest word in iceland :P

[Optimus272]

@TheIcelandery meistari

[Pwnz0rz12222]

People aren't afraid of the ashes, they're afraid of the name! :D

[goorevich]

"lets call it bob"

[Shadowtel]

It's not HARD!! Just make a little effort. I'm not Icelandic but: eejafjatlajökutl. Eyjafjallajökull. See? Give it five or six tries. I'm amazed about all these unpronouncable, unspeakable glacier nmae vids.

[Party931southFl]

e 15!!!! LMAFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW and we have an intelligent military nice

[parusa619]

How about Hey yah FIAT la yo cool

[noctia]

It sounds so much like nahuatl :o

[linuskw96]

2:04 lol

[lalalala93lalalala]

icelandic is one of the most difficult languages to pronounce so you don't have to be embarrassed if you can't pronounce eyjafjallajökull - plus, you are just giving us here in iceland something to laugh about :)

[ijansk]

Really?

I think that depends on the language you speak...

[PaulaPF3]

"Hey-I-forgot-the-yoghurt" is my best shot! Sorry to all the Icelandic people but this is is really difficult to pronounce... :(

[bambapabbi]

snilld

[stefania996]

haha heimskir útlendingar, létt að segja Eyjafjallajökull / haha stupid fireigners, easy to say Eyjafjallajökull

[Beggionahorsehoes]

@stefania996 fyrir íslendinga já.. segðu buy.. hljómar fáranlega með íslenskum hreim

[henrylover89]

@Beggionahorsehoes hahah satt :'D

[mydaviid]

@stefania996 So, you can't pronounce some of our English words, we're not making fun of you.

[Wargumm1i]

@mydaviid No actually we can pronounce every word in both american and british language.

[kjutipae]

oh, wow I love when people try to speak Icelandic X)

I just want to keep saying it because I can pronounce it!

Eyjafjallajökull... eyjafjallajökull... eyjafjallajökull...

[bunni99]

oh my

[transgaur]

hahah lol

[Calsendon]

You can't even fucking spell it right, how do you expect to pronounce it correctly.

[xXEllixXthorxX]

hahaha vá stupid útleandingar/ hahaha woah stupid foreigners.