Icelandic Pronunciation: A Á B C

[@flors95]

I started learning Icelandic very recently and watching your videos has helped me a lot! Thank you for taking the time to put up such great work.

[@artemsmirnov9465]

The subtle positional differences in pronunciation of the same letters are super helpful!

[@user-mrfrog]

Ég hélt að c væri ekki opinber stafur í íslenska stafrófinu. Ég er að læra íslensku. Ég er frá Kanada. Bless bless og takk!

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[@icelandicforforeigners]

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[@zuzanadohnalova3914]

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[@jamburga321]

I really wish, they used C for the soft K sound (kind of like the c in "cube", phonetically a [c] sound with aspiration.)

[@petravancaneghem6049]

Great videos! I have just started learning íslensku nd this helps a lot with pronunciation. Takk fyrir!

[@icelandicforforeigners]

I'm glad it was helpful!

[@WillelmusAestus]

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[@lovisahafdisardottir2229]

Ang and ank does not always changes the A to Á this all depends on where in Iceland you live. In North Iceland they pronounce it as A and not á and i think that is the right way to pronounce it but many people might disagree and say it it all a matter of taste but i am raise in south Iceland so i pronounce as á and not a so i am not perfect but both ways are accepted. Most foreigner do not hear the different between A and Á, O and Ó and U and Ú even if you try to correct them but some do hear the different

[@icelandicforforeigners]

Alveg satt, Lóvisa! My pronunciation videos focus on the Reykjavík dialect :)

[@JWhisp]

Great video!

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[@tuanphamvan5843]

Great videos! Takk

[@kleindarco]

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[@Pronuss]

Where do you find the phonetics to all the Icelandic word? I think it absolutely helps with learning.

[@icelandicforforeigners]

Sometimes wiktionary has them, but otherwise they are hard to find. I based these presentations on a book about Icelandic phonology.

[@janpsenicka]

Your videos are the best ones! ... positively. Please, it is possible (somewhere) to download the slides from all of your videos? I repeat it with them... it would be very helpful, they are better than my textbooks...

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[@a234633]

So does the alphabet start like English abcde and so on

[@icelandicforforeigners]

The order is similar :) My video series takes the letters in order. You'll find some extra letters, like á, ð, é, í, ó, ú, þ, æ, and ö. You'll also find that some letters are missing, like Q and W.

[@a234633]

@@icelandicforforeigners takk fyrir

[@alittlebird3818]

Well, the b isn't an actual b. It's an unaspirated p, while the p is aspirated

[@icelandicforforeigners]

In this video I use the IPA symbol b̥ which represents an unaspirated bilabial stop. Some people use p, but they represent the same sound.

[@LennWeltmeister]

@@icelandicforforeigners Yes, but is slightly different from English

[@mihaly1027]

I’ve noticed the “au” in “þau” pronounced as you did but in a word like “sundlaug” I’ve heard the “au” pronounced like öu rather than öi /ˈsʏnt.løyːɣ/ rather than /ˈsʏnt.lœiːɣ/ as one would expect, is this a small dialectal thing or is “au” sometimes pronounced a bit differently

[@icelandicforforeigners]

My understanding is that the entire "au" sound is rounded, making it more like /øy/ rather than /œi/. I suppose the velar ending in sundlaug might change the quality a little but I'm not sure. A true Icelandic linguist could tell you what actually happens, I suppose. My philosophy is that IPA only gets you in the ballpark and listening and mimicking get you the rest of the way :D Sorry I can't be of more help!