Common Phrases in Icelandic Language : Days of the Week in Icelandic Language

[honululuboy]

i travel to iceland this august, im from germany and can speak english, russian a bit and german of course and now i want to learn islandic, cool langua of the vikings:)

[VerixInfernoWolf]

hoho. it's kinda easy learning Icelandic when your Norwegian :D

[theplaymaster100]

I know how to speak icelandic hæ ég heiti jón

[kiddalingur]

@theplaymaster100

that is cuz you are icelandic

you siily goose

[1Sky1]

I still think english is the hardest language to learn. At least germanic languages are somewhat logical...with the exception of english of course. the few rules our language has, it breaks constantly! not to mention kids take english from kindergarten through 12th grade (required) and STILL don't even get the basics. then again, it's also because my peers don't care (ignore my lack of capitalization).

[TheJugglingjunk]

thursday is fimmtudagur, and fimm is five, so i guess that thursday is the fifth day in iceland

[hanspellegrims]

@TheJugglingjunk which is strange, because wednesday is midvikudagur --> "mid-week day". You'd think they only have 5 days in a week.

[giorgioxyzb]

@hanspellegrims Well, if you start from Sunday, then Wednesday is in the middle. German also uses Mittwoch (something like Midweek).

[1Sky1]

@giorgioxyzb

the days come from the germanic (iceland's native gods by different names) mythology. Monday is the moon, tuesday is tyr, wednesday was woden (Odin), thursday is thor, friday is freyja, saturday was 'bath day' but changed during the roman age, and sunday was...the sun :D I think the original name may have been Sølsdagr, but not sure...probably not.

[nisseman007]

I wish we still talked like that in Norway.

[kiddalingur]

@nisseman007

Still ?? uuuu icelandic did not sound like it did 6-700 years ago.

and back then it sounds diffrent then norways langage,

i remember checking out a book with old icelandic, i understood few words,

the rest was like chines to me

[guilhermesetti]

She looks a lil bit like Yngwie Malmsteen. But hot n swetiee!

[MEYVEGAN]

i had to icelandic exchange person in my house!!! thanks for the videos... are so amazing...!! thank you very much because she need to learn spanish.. and i can help her a little :D learning a little icelandic language :D TAKK FYRIR

From Costa Rica :D ♥

[sanctionedangel]

...I wanna learn icelandic but I can't roll my r's very well... will I still be understood if I attempt or will people just stare at me with a blank face?

[Fleetfox10]

Shes really fit..makes learning icelandic easier :)

[kerriesoepp]

Haha i've been in Iceland this summer, It so cool there! You really should go ones inyour live! It's awesome!

[ZaeroZ]

how do I turn of the subtitle thingy, It blocks the words

[lillakizz]

"Dagsetningin" is mostly removed by "mánaðardagur" (month-day)

[tinnigeimgengill]

já sæl ! allt í gangi :) good job ! You hress me up a lot

[42LightYears]

These video's are excellent! Takk fyrir :)

[historyblitz]

What a pretty language...

[hxasmirl]

well at least the weekdays are logical in their names.

[cookedbake]

its hard for you guys becouse this bitch doesnt speak clearly show tits u get more views

[MyLawdImSexy]

i dont understand! D:

[JamonKilleR]

Ertu íslensk eða kanntu bara íslensku?

[Ataryui]

Tu getur heyrid á enskan hreimi at hun er íslensk. (Sorry I'm not that good at Icelandic, but I'm learning)

When Icelandic people speak English it's really easy to tell that they are Icelandic. The same applies to many non-native English speaking people as well ^^,

[JamonKilleR]

Já, ég veit... samt ekki allir íslendingar eru með sama hreim... sumir ná alveg eðlilegum ensku hreim...;)

Yeah, I know... but still not every icelandic person has the same accent as most icelandic people... some people can speak english with a normal accent... ;)

Ps. Íslenskan hjá þér er ekkert svo slæm ;)

You're icelandic is not that bad ;)

[klakicool]

@Ataryui Maður heyrir það nú alveg að hún er ekki íslensk

You can really hear she's not icelandic

But she's super-close to it!

[fuckyee1]

ríða

?

[johenasia]

wow, i can relate to some of the weekdays, since icelandic sounds a lot like the scandinavian viking age tounge. I'm so gonna learn this beautiful language.

[IDNMT]

damn i miss Verslunarmannahelgi....

[bluedooke]

wow the pronounciations are soo different from english!

[MitDemLaengstenNamen]

There are al lots of special letters.

The teacher Natalia looks very beautiful. She could be a Miss Icelandic Candidate. Serious Impression (cause the glasses) with a big Sexappeal.

[afrikaan87]

I LOVE U NAT!!!and i love iceleandic!!!

[Goms0203]

Some words are related to english but it is a difficult language.

[ElvenDane]

What does the "Föstu" in "Föstudagur" mean ?

[elpcon]

How i can say i wanna fuck in Islandic

[leifur44]

ég vil ríða :)

[ElvenDane]

Makes sense *LOL*

Guess we could say that - well almost :-)

( jeg vil ride)

[hiroto6011]

i find icleandic hard, even though i am from iceland. believe me, the grammar is the hardest!

[ElvenDane]

In Danish: Søndag Mandag Tirsdag Onsdag Torsdag Fredag Lørdag (at least you have that one too ) Very odd that you don't have "Odinsdagur", "Thorsdagur" and "Frejadagur" or similar, as one would have expected, but "Miðvikudagur" ( mid-week-day or mid-uge-dag) etc.

[JimmyReptile1]

The christians proberly change it. Seems they went harder at the weekday names up there.

[ElvenDane]

I see - just that weird that it didn't happen here in Scadinavia as well then, nor in England - as you can see 6 of the weekdays in English are very similar to our Scandinavian versions.

The odd one out - "lørdag" (Saturday) - is thought to mean "washing day" - a bit remote from the rest of them :-)

[plinioman]

y la chupetiá de mocos en 1:00?

[towerlover]

Viking language ftw!

[freyjainiceland9]

haha flott en ekki flottur hreimur

[lawnmowerpower]

Tsss, norwegian is best :P

Always been wondering how norwegian have been sounding if i couldn't speek it myself :P

Pardon my english xD

[FrostByte38]

Very, very difficult language for a native English speaker. The pronunciation is especially difficult. But if you're interested in Icelandic, go for it. Learning another Scandinavian language when your heart is set on Icelandic is asinine. I've recently started teaching myself Norwegian because I love Norway. It was recommended that I learn German first but did that stop me? Nah. Good luck to all linguists and polyglots.

[ElvenDane]

Just go into a trance and convince yourself it's AD1000 or so *), when we could all still talk to each others around the North Sea without too much trouble.

It should be easy for you to learn Danish and Swedish, once you know Norwegian

( 80-90 % the same more or less - just slightly different spelling ).

German is far too difficult for non-Germans btw., so drop it for your own sake !

*) We probably still could, if it hadn't been for that French bastard (William the Q) in 1066

[fredande]

just love the sound of Icelandic =/

[LLanidloesywddar]

I'd love to speak iclandic, this woman is very pretty

[klarkolofsson]

Icelandic is such a poetic and beautiful language.

[bolla123123]

ég er frá Íslandi og þú ert með ljót hár XD

[ElvenDane]

Jeg forstår det meste, men hvad er

"ljot" ? :-)

[hiroto6011]

ugly

[ElvenDane]

Aha ? LOL

Great - thank you :-)

[ElvenDane]

And "Föstu" in "Föstudagur", please ?

[hiroto6011]

what? i don´t understand the question

[Bergvallar]

my teacher is icelandic:D

[bcbird]

woah that is tough

[AnimeDreamer919]

this language is extremely hard,ffs they are pronounced so differently from spelling,i thought japanese was hard

[kauemoura]

From Icelandic spelling or English spelling?

[AnimeDreamer919]

they all vernacular languages that evolved around latin,letters are pronounced in a specific way that applies to all the vernacular languages but Icelandic...this is one retarded language

[zippycakes1729]

close minded idiot

[AnimeDreamer919]

go eat your cakes..zippycakes to be more precise...you call me close minded?how ironic...you dont even know me

[wondersigur]

dude, i think you dont even know yourself

[raunchycaldera]

holy shit! this is such a cool language.. I've heard this is the hardest language to learn..

[Amarksyhk]

@raunchycaldera think this is hard? try welsh lol

[auddi24]

@raunchycaldera im a cool person you know cuz i live in iceland and speak icelandic and ye is tough to lern

[NGC3370JT]

@raunchycaldera Oh, I must point out to you that what you've heard isnt correct. Yes sure, icelandic is a complicated language to learn, but swedish has the most complicated grammar of todays spoken languages. And since grammar is kinda contributing i guess.. But i'm sure theres languages who has more complicated alphabet etc, but if we're lookin grammar, swedish has it. :)

[LOrguedeJulianne]

@raunchycaldera just the pronounciation is hard ! :)

i learn finnish, this is hard shit!

[kennyinportland]

jaeja! eg get ad lyra meira islenska!

[lalarcon23]

I LOVE IT !!

[frdrcksncn]

dang...and i thought chinese was hard...

[hakuga05]

wow, no kidding.

[oceangust]

very difficult language

[IBeTheBadman]

Tell me about it...

[oceangust]

it sure is pretty though!