Learn the Icelandic alphabet A-Ö

Today we are training pronounciation by going over the Icelandic alphabet and words that start/include each letter.
Andvarp = Sigh
Áhugi = Interest
Baldur = A male name
Draumur = Dream
Arður = Yield
Eldur = Fire
Haglél = Hail
Furðulegt = Weird/Strange
Glott = Grin
Hurð = Door
Ilmur = Scent
Ísskápur = Fridge
Jólahlaðborð = Christmas "buffet" (Smorgasbord)
Köttur = Cat
Langur = Long
Myrkur = Darkness
Nánd = Intimacy
Orsök = Cause ( as in cause and effect)
Ómur = A distant or ambient sound
Penni = Pen
Ryksuga = Vaccum cleaner
Sykur = Sugar
Tálga = Whittle/Carve (wood)
Undrandi = Surpriced
Úlfur = Wolf
Vörður = Guard
Öxl = Shoulder
Ylur = Warmth
Ýmir = A male name
Þögult = Quiet
Æfing = Practice
Örmagna = Exhausted

[@a_random_guy_V]

Please, continue doing this videos, it's hard to find things in Icelandic, thank you very much. I'm from Brazil.

[@allsber]

Hello Vinícius, there has been a death in the family that is the reason we have not posted a new video, but we are looking forward to continue with the Icelandic lessons and we will be recording new material soon. Thank you for watching! ❤

[@a_random_guy_V]

@@allsber Oh, my condolences, it's really hard to lose someone that you love, specially from your family. This is such a good reason to stop making videos. God bless you and your family.

[@7vitor742]

Brazil! ;)

[@crescermeditando]

Também quero aprender…

[@tosuchino6465]

This is very helpful. Actually seeing a native speaker's mouth movement is a lot more helpful than just hearing recorded voices. Thank you!

[@stefs749]

Snilld - takk fyrir! For the icelandic beginners - these are the translations of the words used above (note: only "tálga" is a verb in this list, others - like "glott", grin, "ómur", sound - with identical words for verb and noun in english are the latter): áhugi - interest Baldur - male first name, name of a god in norse mythology draumur - dream arður - yield eldur - fire haglél - hailstorm furðulegt - amazing glott - grin hurð - door ilmur - smell/odour ísskápur - fridge jólahlaðsborð - christmas buffet köttur - cat langur - long myrkur - dark, darkness nánd - proximity orsök - reason/cause ómur - sound penni - pen ryksuga - vacuum cleaner sykur - sugar tálga - to carve undrandi - amazed/astonished úlfur - wolf, is also used as a male first name vörður - guard öxl - shoulder, armpit ylur - heat Ýmir - name of a giant in norse mythology þögult - silent, quiet æfing - exercise örmagna - exhausted

[@allsber]

Everything is correct exept for furðulegt, it means strange/weird :)

[@anikagautadottir4620]

Ég tala íslensku I speak icelandic

[@unboxinganythingchannel]

Nice! Thanks fpr translating it. will keep this in mind. and the correction she made.. ❤️❤️

[@user-my2kq5fg5e]

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[@FrozenMermaid666]

I remember when I first watched this video when I started learning Icelandic, I didn’t know any of the words used as examples in the video, but now I know them all, as I am advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and also close to advanced level in Norse etc, which feels so good - learning Icelandic and Gothic and Norse is real fun, and I love learning these heavenly languages, which are very obsessive!

[@Unfime]

it’s hard learning Icelandic when i’m Chinese but i’m completely dedicated, and this video helps quite a lot, thank you

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Icelandic is a very easy category 1 language, as every other Germanic language, whereas Chinese languages are category 10 languages with impossible characters and tonal pronunciation, and, even though every language is going to seem hard to a beginner, Icelandic is actually very easy to learn, Norse languages being some of the easiest languages to learn that are almost as easy as English and Dutch - I am now advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and close to advanced level in Norse etc, and I highly recommend learning all the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish together as they are way too pretty not to know, and for resources, I recommend learning Icelandic from the yt vocab videos with 1.450 Icelandic words and hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic and from the videos on grammar as well as song lyrics like Skáld songs and lyrics to Icelandic folk songs etc and also from G translate and Wkp and the Icelandic to English dictionary from the Net as well as the ws that has all the Icelandic declensions, plus there are some videos called Viltu Læra Íslensku? that are for upper intermediates, which are also very helpful with lots of new words!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I remember when I first watched this video when I started learning Icelandic, I didn’t know any of the words used as examples in the video, but now I know them all, which feels so good - learning Icelandic and Gothic and Norse is real fun, and I love learning these heavenly languages, which are very obsessive!

[@jillianweiss5413]

His facial expressions are priceless. 😄

[@GabrielGonzalez-dw2me]

Takk fyrir! ...I was looking online how to pronounce the Icelandic alphabet (because I 'm learning your language since a week) and then I discovered your channel. ... It's easier to understand how the Icelandic alphabet is pronounced with your video and I really liked the way you teach it. You have 1 more subscriber! ... Greetings from Mexico ... I hope more videos like these!

[@modernvision01]

Nice to see Edward Norton is learning Icelandic :D Thanks for these videos! Very helpful for our trip to Iceland!

[@yumsomeseema3210]

Tough language but this was so fun to watch! "I think" 😂😂

[@RoryRiggins]

it's great that there is another learner there and that she catches corrections! Found that really helpful

[@TaylerAleks]

You are watched not only kids! thanks for videos

[@justkiddinbye]

thats a masterpiece. thank you so much :)

[@amerar9490]

You guys are great please keep making videos..

[@ylchen77]

I love you two. You did great job for the beginner. Thank you.

[@evgeniyaviacheslavova1444]

"I think" will be my all favourite😂

[@ciderfan823]

You will "practice" a lot?

[@evgeniyaviacheslavova1444]

I try

[@ylchen77]

Beautiful people . Your interaction was so funny. Thank you for teaching Icelandic alphabet.

[@palvik2228]

You guys are GREAT! :))

[@jintineog3367]

Thank you so much guys! This is what I needed cause I'm learning Icelandic 😇

[@marinakalita2556]

Thanks a lot for taking time to make this video. It is incredibly helpful. You pronounce words very slowly and the articulation is very clear. Very good learning material.

[@holly4560]

thanks for this!!!🙌🏻 lately i've been really obsessed with ísland , and this video is very useful!💞💖

[@ltdaniel]

You both have a countagious smile. I've been learning all video smiling hahaha.

[@kogeisan]

Thank you 👍 This is one of the best video to understand the pronunciation of the íslenska alphabet 👏

[@thanosnfinity8109]

Hey that was my first time pronuncing the alphabet. And I'm really good at it ! I really LOVE this Language, and the Icelandic people and the Country of course!! Thank you so much for this video. Now since I know I'm good at it I'm gonna start learning it for sure ! I love languages. I am Greek and I could spot some similarities at the alphabet and the pronunciation while I wasn't expecting it. I'm very excited about it !! +1 subscriber

[@pava1324]

hello allsber, what a nice and funny video, like it so much, finally, after 15 visits through wonderful Iceland, decided to start learning the language. Your introduction is a fantastic opening ! Thank you .

[@markw4206]

Fun and informative.

[@frankie9373]

thanks so much for using words as examples aswell, I know "names" of letters can slightly differ from its pronunciation in an actuall word so this helps a lot

[@levkrinitskych1]

Very hard and complicated but thank you for deeper understanding of pronunciation

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Icelandic is a very easy category 1 language, as every other Germanic language, and, even though every language is going to seem hard to a beginner, Icelandic is actually very easy to learn, Norse languages being some of the easiest languages to learn that are almost as easy as English and Dutch, plus Icelandic and Gothic and Norse have some of the easiest pronunciations and accents that are the easiest to imitate that are as easy as English pronunciation and the the neutral American accent and Dutch pronunciation and the Dutch accent with soft Gs and soft Rs, so I sounded native in Icelandic even when I was beginner level - I am now advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and close to advanced level in Norse etc, and I highly recommend learning all the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish together as they are way too pretty not to know, and for resources, I recommend learning Icelandic from the yt vocab videos with 1.450 Icelandic words and hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic and from the videos on grammar as well as song lyrics like Skáld songs and lyrics to Icelandic folk songs etc and also from G translate and Wkp and the Icelandic to English dictionary from the Net as well as the ws that has all the Icelandic declensions, plus there are some videos called Viltu Læra Íslensku? that are for upper intermediates, which are also very helpful with lots of new words!

[@narasimhuluragiri5332]

Thank you so much sister, your teaching and explanation of pronunciation is good and mesmerising.

[@allsber]

Thank you for your kind words 🥰

[@ahmedhajji8752]

Tanke you for

[@ashrafkhalil5805]

Thanks for the helpful video :)

[@marytheairving8151]

THIS WAS AWESOME!!!!!! thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!

[@justinhapp9250]

Hello from the America! Your video is very helpful as I am learning Icelandic for my trip there in June 2019 to explore your beautiful country and to run the Midnight Sun Run half marathon in Reykjavík. Please do more or maybe a video about local places to see that tourists do not visit. Takk!

[@allsber]

Hello Justin! Glad to hear that you like our video :) we will be uploading more soon so stay tuned ;)

[@hunterice896]

Beautiful language 💖

[@nandinibiswas]

Very nice please make videos for more sentences 🌹🌹

[@monicaniederstraser542]

Oh, I‘m from Brasil too. But I live in Germany. Thank you for your video. I’m learning islandic for a travel and maybe for a job in Iceland.

[@anjafl826]

She is so beautiful 😊

[@skreppasoul9617]

Dude is seconds away from an anxiety attack.. or so I think 😂 jk thanks for doing this video. Learning Icelandic is gonna be complicated.

[@allsber]

Haha 😂

[@Deadinside0000]

Thank you for doing this, when my sons father (who’s Icelandic) hears me say something in Icelandic he’s going to wonder how I got so good!!! 😊

[@braidenno1010]

This helped me

[@aubreymeyer6852]

This was actually super helpful. I heard that Icelandic is a rlly hard language to learn, but I rlly want to learn it. And there’s like no free apps that I can get, and it’s not like there’s any classes either. So this video was a huge help. Thx

[@allsber]

You're welcome, I'm glad it helped you! 😊

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Icelandic is a very easy category 1 language, as every other Germanic language - I am now advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and close to advanced level in Norse etc, and I highly recommend learning all the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish together as they are way too pretty not to know, and for resources, I recommend learning Icelandic from the yt vocab videos with 1.450 Icelandic words and hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic and from the videos on grammar as well as song lyrics like Skáld songs and lyrics to Icelandic folk songs etc and also from G translate and Wkp and the Icelandic to English dictionary from the Net as well as the ws that has all the Icelandic declensions, plus there are some videos called Viltu Læra Íslensku? that are for upper intermediates, which are also very helpful with lots of new words!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Icelandic is a very easy category 1 language, as every other Germanic language, whereas Chinese languages are category 10 languages with impossible characters and tonal pronunciation, and, even though every language is going to seem hard to a beginner, Icelandic is actually very easy to learn, Norse languages being some of the easiest languages to learn that are almost as easy as English and Dutch - I am now advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and close to advanced level in Norse etc, and I highly recommend learning all the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish together as they are way too pretty not to know, and for resources, I recommend learning Icelandic from the yt vocab videos with 1.450 Icelandic words and hundreds and thousands of words in Icelandic and from the videos on grammar as well as song lyrics like Skáld songs and lyrics to Icelandic folk songs etc and also from G translate and Wkp and the Icelandic to English dictionary from the Net as well as the ws that has all the Icelandic declensions, plus there are some videos called Viltu Læra Íslensku? that are for upper intermediates, which are also very helpful with lots of new words!

[@lordovwitchcraft1665]

Takk

[@LisaMackey]

Takk fyrir!

[@flintflaunt7274]

Æfing this is is a good video

[@seoulmate1360]

please make more icelandic beginner content please

[@muftiabdulrahman3417]

Ég heiti abdi Ég er frá somalia Takk🖐🖐

[@victoriageorgopoulou4292]

takk fyrir !!

[@abelardotrivinoalvarez8569]

Excelente chicos. Muy guapa la rubia.

[@evamazer3409]

Great video, thank you. 🙂 Please do more. Where is your pupil from?

[@acleeg7524]

Takk fyrir

[@lalakelly3652]

💗💗💗

[@bhuvaneswariharibabu5656]

பளபளக்கும் பாவை

[@msjm1254]

Wow... amazing😍 #FaroesePinoyFamily

[@DerGremlin]

4:57 that "wafff" sound so cute

[@FrozenMermaid666]

It’s vaf with a v sound - there is no w sound in Icelandic and Norse!

[@RaisOrujov]

👍👍👍👍

[@Cookie-mv2hg]

Hey I really like your videos, can you put an English translation on each words too :? btw, does r in the last of the word sounds like "sh" in English? Thank you :)

[@allsber]

Hey! Thank you for watching our video :) Ofcourse, I can out the translations in the description box. I have heard that english speaking people hear "sh" when there is an "r" in the end of the word, but personally I don't hear it haha. You can make your own judgement by listening to the words in this video, for example "ísskápur" and "vörður".

[@j.mattlakes7792]

This is the A to Ö of Iceland, so try to sing along. This is the A to Ö of Iceland. What could possibly go wrong?

[@a_random_guy_V]

What's the reason why the name of your channel means "naked"?

[@allsber]

I made this KZbin account years ago when KZbin first started and the name was meant as a joke :)

[@orangebetsy]

@@allsber hahaha

[@slakjankserinepipo1yearago461]

HVAÐ HELDURÐU ALLSBER ER ÓGJÉÐ

[@allsber]

Ég held að þú þurfir að fylgjast betur með í íslensku tímunum, gangi þér vel 🙃

[@Marx1989]

I have been in Iceland year ago. I love this country. Sorry, Iceland is not like another country. It is a planet :) I felt great there and I miss so much. I need to go once again. Thanks for this video. Icelandic language is really hard but this video helps a lot. The pronunciation of some of the letters is really funny. For example the pronunciation of H as /hau/ is very funny to me as a Pole, because in Polish /hau/ is the sound of barking dog :) But the biggest puzzle for me is the pronunciation of the letter L, I don't understand this way :) but anyway :)

[@Ale3andhros]

OMG, He is handsome!

[@Youlube87]

Is that you in the video? 🤔

[@allsber]

@@Youlube87 No that is not him

[@Ale3andhros]

@@Youlube87 No! 🤪

[@Youlube87]

@@Ale3andhros Sorry! I thought it was you. You have the same eyes and hair color than her boyfriend.

[@Ale3andhros]

@@Youlube87 Its ok friend! He is handsome!!!! Lol Thanks!!

[@rodrigoaguirre553]

3: 58 jajaja

[@henry-joy]

Do you do the voices for Drops, Icelandic?

[@allsber]

No I do not :)

[@henry-joy]

@@allsber Ok. You sound exactly like it 😂😂

[@ecranfortessa]

Poor guy XD

[@croonch6538]

R kind of sounds like a mix between "sh" and "g" (the g sound like in mirage) Interesting video, I'm gonna try to learn Icelandic in a couple months :D

[@divxxx]

It's kind of an unvoiced rolling R. It's like R in Spanish but don't make vibrations in your throat.

[@FrozenMermaid666]

It is not a rolled R at all, it is called a soft normal R aka a tap, and it doesn’t sound like sh or dgi at all lol, it is a normal R sound that is soft, that is, just barely touched and said fast, and some English words also have this type of R, and some Brazilian Portuguese words have it too! Germanic languages and especially Norse languages only use soft Rs, not harsh rolled Rs like Spanish which sound as an engine sound or motor sound! Icelandic and Norse have a soft normal R aka a tap, like some of the Rs used in Brazilian Portuguese and some of the Rs used in English and Dutch, and it can depend on the speaker actually, so there are some speakers that use harsh R in every language, but most speakers of Icelandic use a soft R, and I highly recommend saying the R as softly and as fast as one can, as R is one of the problematic sounds that only sound good when pronounced very softly and fast, and trying to prolong it automatically turns it into a rolled R which has the funny motor sound!

[@DWood-vl5ek]

So where is the guy from? Dallas Texas?

[@allsber]

He is from Sweden

[@dev1543]

I can’t do it what the heck😂 I can’t roll my tongue haha

[@allsber]

Practice makes perfect! :)

[@johnbeagmartin5809]

I wouldn't be able to do the videos with her, without wanting to kiss the lips off her!

[@dissident_media]

How hard must it be to have a lisp in Iceland

[@FrozenMermaid666]

It is easy, and Spanish uses lisped Ds as well in words like nada, and English too in words like then and the and that, and Spanish from Spain has the lisped thorn sound as well - the eth sound ð is basically just a less obvious D sound which is slightly lisped as in Spanish and English, like when trying to say the D faster and in a less obvious way, whereas the thorn sound is þ is a less obvious T sound which is also slightly lisped as in the English words thinking and things and thought etc!

[@ylchen77]

I still can't read L and LL . Would you please explain it to me ? Thank you.

[@allsber]

L is a soft sound, while LL is more of a hard TL sound

[@MichaelSpengler]

@@allsber so not an "l" like in most other european languages?

[@allsber]

@@MichaelSpengler The double L is usually a 'hard" TL sound (but not all the time!) But the single L is a soft sound like in many languages (for exempel in 'like')

[@FrozenMermaid666]

L is a normal L like in most other languages, whereas LL is usually pronounced TL, so an extra T sound is included before the L sound, though in some words like héllo and in some names it is pronounced normally like a normal L without the T sound - the extra T sound is also included between the R and the N in words like skógarnir which is pronounced skougartnir, because it makes the words sound cooler, and when there is NN right after the ei / ey diphthongs, and possibly after the æ too, so, einn is pronounced eitn with a slightly nasal tn, so tn (also the tn in words like vatn) is always kinda nasalized in Icelandic and Norse and Faroese, but it’s the good type of nasal sound which sounds good as it is a closed nasal sound, not an open type of nasal sound like in French which sounds funny!

[@mamaoma408]

Hihihiihih😂😂

[@g-smith4466]

This is what I came for @05:44

[@borischerni]

Hello!. I have a question. What’s the difference between i and í?

[@allsber]

Hey! So, "i" is like the "i" in internet, and "í" is like the "e" in ebay. If that makes any sense 😊

[@borischerni]

allsber so í sounds like Swedish i when girls pronounce it

[@borischerni]

allsber í is more stressed

[@allsber]

Yes exacly!

[@borischerni]

@@allsber for everybody here I have an example of í. In this link a girl say = vi gå på vägen. VÍ. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGquZaV5hqqFmpo

[@shadowpastathetf2kidwithau706]

Me: oh god kill me

[@heythere6398]

Turn on subtitles in English you welcome

[@allsber]

The translation for the Icelandic words are in the description box :)

[@Aha60]

É é = Haglél ?

[@allsber]

I don't understand your question. We say a letter and then a word containing that letter. In the description box you will find the translation for the words. Hope that helps 😊

[@elinandrea2]

He is from sweeden?

[@allsber]

Yes :)

[@allsber]

Yes he is my boyfriend, we are living in Sweden

[@galaxyhurricane1594]

Ħ

[@damianow.6114]

Is he Dutch?

[@allsber]

He is Swedish :)

[@hunterice896]

These guys are sitting on the bed 😂

[@user-hp4vg3ek2y]

my american brain cannot comprehend how to pronounce L. :(

[@FrozenMermaid666]

L is a normal L like in most other languages, whereas LL is usually pronounced TL, so an extra T sound is included before the L sound, so the word fjalla is pronounced fyatla and the word falla is pronounced fatla etc, though in some words like héllo and in some names it is pronounced normally like a normal L without the T sound - the extra T sound is also included between the R and the N in words like skógarnir which is pronounced skougartnir, because it makes the words sound cooler, and when there is NN right after the ei / ey diphthongs, and possibly after the æ too, so, einn is pronounced eitn with a slightly nasal tn, so tn (also the tn in words like vatn) is always kinda nasalized in Icelandic and Norse and Faroese, but it’s the good type of nasal sound which sounds good as it is a closed nasal sound, not an open type of nasal sound like in French which sounds funny!

[@samulaq]

no "C"?

[@allsber]

No we don't have "C"

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Maybe some English loanwords may have it, but normally Norse languages use K instead of C and Q for the C sound, so cat is spellt katt / köttur / kat etc in Norse languages and in most other Germanic languages!

[@slakjankserinepipo1yearago461]

Eewww Allsber means naket like this is how you say it ojj allsber þýðir að maður er nakin

[@allsber]

Gaman að þú sért að læra ný orð, haltu áfram og gangi þér vel! 🙃

[@milenayusunguaira]

Buen y excelente que bonito que sumerced cómo islandeses esten haciendo este tipo de vídeo deseo aprender su idioma e irme a conocer tu pais