Icelandic - Sounding Like an Icelander
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Here I talk about my three tips to get started with Icelandic pronunciation so you can sound like a real icelander!
1. Emphasis on the first syllable
2. Long vowels
3. Double consonants
Stay posted for more videos on individual letters of the alphabet.
Super helpful video! When I learned Japanese in high school, I thought the way they taught double consonants was very helpful - like the way you've explained it in this lesson - using the English word "penknife" as one example: when spoken normally it's "pen-knife", not "pe-knife", however it's so inherent that you don't realize it's happening. Even though it's a largely "foreign" concept, many people already know how to pronounce things like double vowels or consonants, but it takes a good teacher to explain it in a simple way that's relatively easy to remember. Thank you!
Please, keep recording your videos! They are amazing! You are amazing teaching Icelandic!!!! Please keep it on
I wish all language guides were this good. So clear and understandable. Thanks!
I highly recommend learning Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Welsh which are seven of the prettiest languages ever, as they are as gorgeous / refined / poetic as English and way too pretty not to know - I am close to advanced level in Icelandic (upper intermediate level in both Icelandic and Norse) at the moment, after learning them for a few months, and I highly recommend learning all the words from all the videos teaching them and from all the vocab videos (Go Learn etc) and from G translate and also memorizing and analyzing many song lyrics and watching every video with Icelandic sub, as focusing on vocab is key to fast progress! Icelandic is so heavenly!
Thank you SO MUCH for your absolutely clear, sensible, and no-nonsense language instruction. Inspiring. I wish you were also teaching my other target languages. I aspire - while teaching English - to be as simple (not simplistic), comprehensive and comprehensible as you are.
I highly recommend learning Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Welsh which are seven of the prettiest languages ever, as they are as gorgeous / refined / poetic as English and way too pretty not to know - I am close to advanced level in Icelandic (upper intermediate level in both Icelandic and Norse) at the moment, after learning them for a few months, and I highly recommend learning all the words from all the videos teaching them and from all the vocab videos (Go Learn etc) and from G translate and also memorizing and analyzing many song lyrics and watching every video with Icelandic sub, as focusing on vocab is key to fast progress! Icelandic is so heavenly!
i think this is the only thing simple about the islandic language 🙈😆: stressing the first syllable.
Sometimes it sounds quite remarkable, like with
"Ítalía" :D
Icelandic is very easy to learn, it’s in the top five languages that are the easiest to learn and pronounce, after English / Dutch / Norwegian and Norse, English being the absolute easiest in every way, and Dutch being the easiest after English, though the word order is easier in Norse / Icelandic / Norwegian than in Dutch, as these three have very flexible word orders like English - I know that it can look very intimidating at first sight, but it’s naturally very easy to learn, being a Germanic language, as Germanic languages are the easiest languages ever, and because it is one of the prettiest languages ever created, and the prettiest languages are naturally the easiest to learn and memorize, and also the most fun to learn and speak and hear and see etc! I am close to advanced level in Icelandic (upper intermediate level in both Icelandic and Norse) at the moment, after learning them for a few months, and I highly recommend learning all the words from all the videos teaching them and from all the vocab videos (Go Learn etc) and from G translate and also memorizing and analyzing many song lyrics and watching every video with Icelandic sub, as focusing on vocab is key to fast progress! Icelandic is so heavenly! I highly recommend learning Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Welsh which are seven of the prettiest languages ever, as they are as gorgeous / refined / poetic as English and way too pretty not to know!
I'm so glad I'm Italian for that third tip. Thanks so much for these videos, they help a lot.
Your clear presentations and how you break it up into good sized videos is sooooo helpful. Takk!
What a great method of teaching! Such a talented teacher you are! Takk!
Thank you very much for the compliment!
Thank you for all the videos you make it for us I really need it I understood everything You good thicher Merci.
Thank you very much, I wish there was more videos like this available five years ago when I attempted to learn online, I hope to one day visit Iceland and be able to have some understanding this is a great study guide
Thanks for those tips. They'll be kept in mind.
Thank you so much for your videos ❤️
You did such a good job laying these tips out in this video. Very useful. Thank you.
Vá!! Thanks so so much, your videos are making me grasp icelandic way faster :D they are so helpful and clear and useful!
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冰島語很好聽，胸廊，腮側，軟齶常參與發音，它似風般快而自然，漢語為母語者得格外留神吸收，重復摸仿，變成習慣。您的視頻指導我學冰島語。Mér finnst skemmtilegt og takk fyrir allt.
Absolutely fantastic! Very helpful! Takk!
So helpful, thank you!
Makes so much sense....thanx!
I love your channel! Thanks for the fantastic content!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much ❤️
I'm an American just starting to venture down the path to learning Icelandic. One of my goals is to be able to learn the language while curbing my accent, so this is an excellent first lesson in my opinion. The "rules" presented here are very simple, and they're already giving me more confidence in my pronunciation of words I'm seeing for the first time.
That’s great news! Best of luck in your studies
I highly recommend learning Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Welsh which are seven of the prettiest languages ever, as they are as gorgeous / refined / poetic as English and way too pretty not to know - I am close to advanced level in Icelandic (upper intermediate level in both Icelandic and Norse) at the moment, after learning them for a few months, and I highly recommend learning all the words from all the videos teaching them and from all the vocab videos (Go Learn etc) and from G translate and also memorizing and analyzing many song lyrics and watching every video with Icelandic sub, as focusing on vocab is key to fast progress! Icelandic is so heavenly!
I would suggest making more videos teaching Icelandic, including vocab videos with very advanced terms and advanced verbs and rare or poetic verbs and terms etc as well as some videos on Icelandic idioms and expressions and slang - I haven’t found videos teaching them yet, so they would be so helpful for advanced learners, myself being quite close to an advanced level!
English is my first language, and I can say that the Icelandic accent is the easiest to imitate, as easy as the English accent and the Norse accent and the Dutch accent, and, the long vowel vs short vowel rules are the same as in Dutch, so it is very easy for me, as I am already upper advanced level in Dutch, and I am very familiar with those rules - Icelandic is the breathiest language, so adding an extra breath aka a soft H sound to words that have double consonants like TT and SL and NT etc right before the second consonant will make the accent sound native!
thank you ❤️
My native language is Spanish, so my brain shutted down while trying to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull. 😲😂
One step at a time, you can do it!
@@icelandicforforeigners I did it! and I realized it wasn't difficult. I love icelandic, sounds epic and beautiful, I'll keep watching your videos, you're very helpful.
It is pronounced eya + fyatla + yokut - eyja = island / fjalla = of mountains / jökull = glacier!
I highly recommend learning Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Welsh which are seven of the prettiest languages ever, as they are as gorgeous / refined / poetic as English and way too pretty not to know! I am close to advanced level in Icelandic (upper intermediate level in both Icelandic and Norse) at the moment, after learning them for a few months, and I highly recommend learning all the words from all the videos teaching them and from all the vocab videos (Go Learn etc) and from G translate and also memorizing and analyzing many song lyrics and watching every video with Icelandic sub, as focusing on vocab is key to fast progress! Icelandic is so heavenly! English is my first language, and I am native speaker level in Spanish, and I can say that the Icelandic accent is the easiest to imitate, as easy as the English accent and the Norse accent and the Dutch accent, and, the long vowel vs short vowel rules are the same as in Dutch, so it is very easy for me, as I am already upper advanced level in Dutch, and I am very familiar with those rules - Icelandic is the breathiest language, so adding an extra breath aka a soft H sound to words that have double consonants like TT and SL and NT etc right before the second consonant will make the accent sound native!
Really nice video
Very good, it seems easy to me.
This was tremendous
Hallo! Takk fyrir for these interesants videos. I have discovered your channel today and of course I suscribed to your channel and I activated the bell. Your work help much to people like me that we start to "dive" in the amazing Islensku for free, without physical teachers. I have been couple of times in Iceland and I promised myself and to Iceland too that third time I will greet in icelandic so...here I am! I'm Spanish but as I have lived in Finland I can speak Finnish with almost B2 level so, I hope Finnish grammar and these rules, in some form similar to Finnish language, help me to learn Icelandic, in spite of the almost 100% new vocabulary of course. I would like say that for me, after watch your video, one of the forms to practice well the 3a rule, double consonants, is spelling the word separating the silabes, of this manner every sylabe have her own consonant, in spite to be pronunced almost together to the other. This help I think too, to pronunciate long "wonderful" words that you have, as the name of the famous volcano, pronunciate it sylabe by sylabe. Nothing more, thanks one more time for your time and work and let's meet in Iceland! To my language virtual mates, courage! We'll get it, don't give up! ;O) Juan
Thank you for your kind comment! B2 level in Finnish is very impressive and you should be proud. I'm sure you will be successful in your Icelandic studies if you put in the same effort :)
For those of us who have previously learned German all three points of this video should be crystal clear due to the silimarities between the two languages. Although it's a little bit trickier with the double consonants in Icelandic. Thank you for the upload!
I'm glad your German has helped. Thanks for watching!
"silimarities between the two languages" ? Artem, what have you been smoking lately?
I can confirm this ☝🏼. German is surprisingly parallel to Icelandic especially when it comes to rules. It seems that these are the 2 Germanic languages with most preservation of their grammar rules throughout history. Both languages love having rules and leave few things at random. 🇩🇪🇮🇸👏🏼
German also doubles consonants to shorten vowel sounds, except for K, which turns to CK and Z that turns to TZ. What's apparently harder in German is that the stress syllable could be anywhere 😢. Icelandic got a point of advantage here 💪🏼👏🏼🇮🇸🥇
I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse and German and upper advanced level in Dutch and advanced level in Norwegian and writer level in English, and I know for a fact that most words are cognates in all Germanic languages, and German / Dutch / English have about 40 to 50 percent or more of the words that are cognates with Icelandic and Norse and Swedish and Faroese and Danish and Norwegian words, but many of them are used with different meanings - for example, einfach / einfalt and dürfen / að þurfa and graben / að grafa and habben / að hafa and apfel / epli and leben / að lifa / líf etc!
These are absolutely wonderful videos. I appreciate the International phonetic alphabet for pronunciation. I love the guides on how to sound more Icelandic! You have created digestible content without overloading my brain. Clear, concise, and even relay when you're going to put a new content video out for more detail. Keep up the good work! Now, I do have one question. Are we meant to double roll our tongue for the double "R"? Rejkavic gets one roll of the tongue whereas Verra would get 2? Just curious. Thanks again.
Thank you for your nice compliment! Yes, generally the RR gets two rolls, and a single R gets one roll, though as I explain in my R video, sometimes the single R is tapped instead of rolled :)
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Excellent help for anyone interested in Icelandic. you sound like a person from north America, are you from there? Or are you an Icelander who has lived there? Just curious 🤔.
I am from the U.S. and learned Icelandic as a second language :)
Gott videó. Ég þjónaði á íslandi fyrir 18 ár. Lærði mikið og mun eftir mikið. Mér þykir vænt um myndanna fyrir aftan þig.
Who says gasoLINE ? [gasoLEEN] I my experience with American English, mid-Atlantic states, it’s GASoline [GASoleen].
There are tens of millions of us out west!
Where can I find all consonants in icelandic?
Check out my videos on pronunciation of Icelandic letters on my channel! I hope they help.
@@icelandicforforeigners thank you a lot!
Icelandic ll is like dl, like hill would be hidl.
The "LL" and "L" confuse me.
Check out my video on the letter L, maybe it will be helpful!
The C is not in the Icelandic alphabet
Alveg rétt hjá þér Sólbjörg, ég hefði kannski átt að benda á það. Ég ákvað að ræða það í seinna myndbandinu mínu því C-ið finnst stundum í fjölskyldunöfnum. Og þannig geta enskumælendur líka stafað eigin nöfn á íslensku :)
Thnk you so much do u use snapchat i need ur hlp
I don't have snapchat but you can email me at icelandicforforeigners@gmail.com