Icelandic: Languages of the World: Introductory Overviews

Alexander Arguelles presents a series of videos to provide introductory overviews of the languages of the world. Working diachronically through various language families in turn, he demonstrates how to identify each language, translates a text sample to show how it works, and discusses its genetic affiliation and cultural context. For further information about the series, please refer to http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• polyglottery
• polyglots
• foreign
• language
• learning
• Icelandic
• islenska

[adiosa850]

þetta er nú meira bullið

[icestarrbeatz]

This is not correct pronounced.

[spitzndribble]

The biggest problem I had with this video was the pronunciation of "ei/ey" and "ý/y." Maybe my ear is untrained, but it sounds like you're pronouncing the y in a Finnish accent, almost with an "oo" sound. You went back and forth between the correct pronunciation of "ei/ei." It's always "ay" (as in the English "hey"), whereas you sometimes slipped and said it as "æ" (which is, in Icelandic, pronounced like the first letter of "Iceland"). From what I've heard, there are no exceptions to this rule.

[MyFunMakers]

@ChaosDynamics NO!!! Ð is only inside a word like:BAÐ/bath and Þ is in beginning of words like: ÞAÐ/it... you dont give a shit... do you?

[themadicelandicguy]

Þið verðið nú að gefa honum smá séns, hann er nú ekki einu sinni íslenskur.

translation: give the guy a chance, he isn't even Icelandic

[p1nkUn1c0rn]

to me, it all looks like fugeslfhiwl fhjewahfjewafhilfheul. But it's still a beautiful language!!!

[crazychiliquaker1959]

Ð and Þ are both used in the Faroe Islands, AND in some parts of Sweden, sir.

[Turpezor]

This guy is horrible at pronouncing the text correctly

[WestCanuckistan]

Ðð is used else where still, and that's Faroese. U Mad?

[siljahg]

@ChaosDynamics Yes, this is correct. But the guy in the video does not do it well. It sounds actually kinda weird. I appreciate him trying though. :)

[96Iceland]

@adiosa850 nákvæmlegaaaaa