Common Phrases in Icelandic Language : Getting to Know Someone in Icelandic Language

Learn Icelandic phrases for getting to know someone with expert language tips in this free travel language lesson video from our native of Iceland.

Expert: Eva Natalja Robertsdattir
Bio: Eva Natalja Robertsdattir is a native Icelandic speaker and has given language and singing lessons for more than 5 years.
Filmmaker: Melissa Schenk

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• iceland
• icelandic
• scandinavia
• norse
• viking
• scandinavian

[LimePatch]

woooow, I could understand all of them without her translating them and I am swedish!

[murleymirtle]

lol, the german equivalent for gift is poison.Nice association.

[SpaceCthulhuofDoom]

@LimePatch Till och med USA?

[CubeBikez]

@Perititia Isn't "ertu" just "are", and "ert pú" "are you"?

[birgittaXD]

@CubeBikez lol, I'm Icelandic and I think the Icelandic word for The United States, Bandaríkin, so pretty and cool and so think many others. haha, don't know why I'm saying this, but yeah.....

But all Icelanders have to learn Danish and most of us suck in it, lol.

[sicklegs123]

does 'hv' for example hvernig, start with a k sound? I LOVE Icelandic

[ObLiViOnZThEkIllEr]

@LimePatch Same, I'm norwegian :p Remember, we used to speak this language, except we didnt pronounce it like this back then.

[CubeBikez]

@LimePatch I am danish, and the only one I couldn't without translation, was the United States. Seriously, Bandaríkjunum? The one who seemed most like danish, was Ertu gift? Danish: Er du gift?

[Chachy1337]

@murleymirtle well actually in Norway it means both :P gift = poison in Norwegian AND marriage like , Are you married ? = Er du gift?

[eelexa]

@LimePatch lol, the first thing I thought when I heard her speak Icelandic was that it sounds really similar to Swedish. My roommate is Swedish and taught me a couple words.

[hannahxlovinda]

@Haklangr Can you point me in the direction of your sources? I would really like to read more about this as I'm studying languages, and this would be a good dissertation topic :) Also because I've found different sources saying different things, one said Tamil and Sanskrit are the two oldest languages in the world. It's really interesting stuff :)

[Haklangr]

@hannahxlovinda You're correct in that Ancient Egyptian is the oldest known language, along with Sumerian (~4,000 B.C.).