Teaching Icelandic PART 1

[@Hrafna]

Hi babes! First of all, like I said in the video I am no pro! haha! This video is for those who have been asking me to teach Icelandic, so basically I'm just trying to help out as many people as I can since there is not that many Icelandic lessons online. I may seem very chill in this video it's because I was trying to focus haha! This is my first time trying to teach a language but I am so excited to teach you guys more x

[@PhinkerPie]

Hi, do you think it is right, if I translate my description to videos using just online Translate ? I have the notice that it is translated using online Translator.

[@lucieni]

Thankyou so much, I love your videos and it’s such a beautiful language to listen to but soooooo tongue twisty!! Keep on keeping on xx

[@PhinkerPie]

one of the most demanding languages

[@lucieni]

PhinkerPie it must be an absolute no brainer for an Icelander to learn English!

[@PhinkerPie]

but it is interesting because these are both anglosaxon (germanic) languages so they should be similar

[@meandmybobbygee1812]

Someone getting hurt: Ow! Me, an intellectual: *Á*

[@erlaasgeirs8323]

Or Ái

[@Yukke91]

Hell É

[@NatureandSpirit111]

Me in every language: 🖕🏽

[@Raaaaay]

Nah you're just a cat

[@kayb9489]

In my country we scream A (aah)

[@chanamoriel8696]

When I was growing up, many years ago, my best friend was from Iceland. Her name was Berglind Balonskinky. That is as close as I can get, spelling wise. When her family came to the US, her father changed her name to Linda and their family name to Carlson. We were inseparable all thru high school. She passed away 15 years ago and I still miss her very much.

[@joneysingh667]

Hi

[@serapugurlugil9214]

HER SURNAME SOUNDS LIKE RUSSIAN!!..RIP 😔😇

[@hellpaw7690]

Rip

[@yuulfuji]

Rest in peace 💗

[@Gamingwithnoone618]

Šķiņķa:]

[@iamreiver]

The only reason it's hard to learn is because there are no good learning resources to learn from

[@painxxxl]

Not exactly. Its known that icelandic language has lot of unique terms and words. That causes trouble when learning, you have practically nothing to rely on whe learning.

[@Ubarberet]

That's not the "only" reason. Icelandic has literally some of the hardest grammar rules out of all languages. I'm talking from experience.

[@suprecam9880]

Resources are pretty shite for Norwegian too. Know this from experience. At those levels, it's about the same resource wise, but yeah Icelandic is certainly tough. IMO Polish is still one of the most rekt languages to try to learn. Coming from someone who speaks intermediate Russian.. Polish is still just wtf to me.

[@thesecretlegends6092]

@@painxxxl look on that matter this can only be a problem for poorer languages..if let's say you take greek (1.000.000 words) to Icelandic (650.000 words) you can see that this isn't a problem at all for a greek speeker...yed they have many words for let's say the wind or the snow but as a greek learning Icelandic I have to agree that the resource pool and especially the books, oh my god the books, are shit....

[@michaelshort2388]

I'd say Icelandic is easier than Finnish, chinese, arabic, turkish, or hebrew. :)

[@toxicperson8936]

Icelandic is such an interesting language, because it’s like a time capsule. It had the same ancestor had Swedish, Norwegian, & Danish, which was Old Norse, however it hadn’t changed as much as those other languages have. Modern Icelandic people would actually be able to understand the majority of Old Norse.

[@stanislok.7106]

Yeah, because it's an island in the middle of ocean that didn't use to have a real ability to be influenced by other languages.

[@joern888]

Same with faroe islands

[@mimirsvision9929]

The closest to what real Vikings spoke

[@CarpetHater]

They would be able to understand writen old norse very well, but they would have almost as much trouble understanding spoken old norse as a norwegian person would (atleast using deconstructed old norse). The pronounciation between old norse and modern icelandic has changed quite a bit. But yeah, if you wanted to learn old norse you would probably be best of learning icelandic and then afterwards learn the old icelandic pronouncation.

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Most words are similar in Icelandic and Old Norse, but there are also many thousands of newer words in Icelandic that do not exist in Old Norse, plus there are also many words in Old Norse that aren’t used in Icelandic or that are used with a different meaning, plus the pronunciation is a bit different! I am actually learning both Old Norse and Icelandic and am close to intermediate level in both, and also, Norwegian (close to advanced level) and Dutch (advanced level) and Faroese and Danish and Gothic (beginner level in these three) and Swedish and German (Intermediate level) etc, and they are all super fun to learn, with gorgeous words that are easy to learn and remember, and I highly recommend learning all / some / any of these languages, as they are as gorgeous / refined / poetic as English, so they are too pretty not to know, and all other Germanic languages are also gorgeous! Hopefully more and more ppl start teaching Icelandic and Old Norse and Faroese etc on yt in the near future, and hopefully many ppl find out about these gorgeous languages and start learning them, and I highly suggest that ppl that make yt videos make a lot of videos teaching Icelandic etc and covering all verbs and prepositions / adverbs / conjunctions etc and rare words / poetic words and idioms etc, as there aren’t enough resources and videos on yt, and making lots of HD videos like this definitely helps reach more ppl, I actually couldn’t even believe that there aren’t many videos teaching Icelandic, considering how pretty this language is, there should definitely be a lot more videos, for example, other pretty languages such as Dutch and German that are a lot more known have many yts that make HD videos teaching them, so it’s very easy to learn Dutch and German super fast because there so many videos and so many vocab videos and many videos with Dutch and German subs etc, so it would be a lot easier to learn Icelandic if there were lots of HD videos teaching and covering all the words and all details on grammar etc, so I feel like jumping for joy every time I find a new video teaching Icelandic, knowing how hard they are to find!

[@caiquemarlon5579]

7:12: Me: hm it's not that hard after all Her: my name is harshjsshusgs Me: what

[@coreena241]

Caíque Marlon 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shadmansaqib9022]

😂😂😂

[@itsloveleen2654]

Caíque Marlon that’s not her name it’s shorter

[@caiquemarlon5579]

@@itsloveleen2654 i know, it was a joke

[@misslittlestrangedevil6984]

my name is Gulla nóa, if you wanna read problobly its gula noah if thats better, try it

[@naomimonaghan730]

Making time stamps because why not Letters not recognized in English 1:51 - 3:50 Her reading the whole Icelandic alphabet 3:59 - 5:54 Pronouncing each letter 6:01 - 6:22 Basic sentences in Icelandic 7:10 - 8:27 Btw Tysm for making this video 🤗

[@sarah-ex9hn]

Hey, I‘m Sarah,14 (Germany) and since 2 years my dream is to travel to Iceland 🇮🇸 ❤️ Now I started learning a little bit Icelandic and read books about Iceland. I‘m glad I found you 🤗!

[@AK-fk3ll]

Geh nach dem Abi hin :) Ich hab das letzte halbe Jahr dort auf einer Farm gelebt und es war die beste Zeit, also just go :)

[@hopetilia8637]

hey! Mir geht's genauso! Cool zu wissen das es noch andere Leute gibt, die Island so toll finden wie ich!

[@00celine00]

Buh dachte schon ich wär alleine mit meinem Tick auch wenn ich es irgendwie nicht gebacken bekomm die Sprache richtig zu lernen aber naja 😅

[@hopetilia8637]

Ah ja, ich kann aus eigener Erfahrung sagen, dass es echt schwierig ist eine Sprache zu lernen, wenn man keinen Lehrer hat, vor allem eine so seltene Sprache wie Isländisch. Ich empfehle dir "Reise Know-How"s Kauderwelsch Reihe, die haben auch einen Sprachenführer für Isländisch und ich komme sehr gut damit klar!

[@Mel-ij2bs]

Wenn ich erwachsen bin möchte ich nach Island ziehen😂

[@marcderiveau9307]

One reason Icelandic is hard to learn, is that icelandic people are so polite, they never correct you. You say “shit” instead of “cake”, they even don’t smile. They don’t mock you, they are such a sweet people. Love them. ❤️

[@insertname1857]

*me, an intellectual:* _begone, þ_

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

@@matthewlawton9241 english doesn't distinguish between thorn and eth. the closest I can find (in my accent at least) is that thorn is the "th" sound from "With," whereas eth is the "th" sound from "That."

[@flutterwind7686]

@@littlesnowflakepunk855 I can clearly tell the sounds apart, I'm from Canada

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

@@flutterwind7686 i mean yeah i can distinguish between them, but it's not something we have to pay attention to in english, so speaking it is sometimes a bit weird

[@Hiljaa_]

Þoþ

[@tn00bz]

"AE pronounced as it is written" me: oh, like ae "I" me:.....wat

[@ghenulo]

Yeah, more like "aj" than "ae".

[@reineh3477]

Yes æ is pronounced like the Swedish ä

[@johanfagerstromjarlenfors]

Reine H not really. The icelandic æ isn’t really like danish and norweegian æ that is like swedish ä...

[@BS-se4yg]

It's like Spanish "ai"

[@GnoweeGaming]

Æ

[@siebensunden]

Hrafna: We have a lot of comas Czech: Hold my pivo á, č, ď, é, ě, í, ň, ó, ř, š, ť, ú, ů, ý, ž

[@kebabjesuper6237]

uhmm Slovensko : á, ä, č, ď,dz, dž, é, í, Ĺ, Ľ, ň, ó, ô, ŕ, š, ť, ú, ý, ž

[@siebensunden]

@@kebabjesuper6237 Slovenčinou jsem si nebyl jistý, nechtěl jsem to dokonit. :) Co se slovenského dz týče, některé balkánské abecedy používají pro tento zvuk stejné písmeno, jako mají Islanďané pro th.

[@edu-m5u]

Portuguese: á, â, ã, à, é, ê, í, ó, ô, õ, ú, ç Compared with Czech and Slovensko it's nothing haha

[@kebabjesuper6237]

@@edu-m5u really? xdddd hahah no..

[@astridamillere8283]

Similar with Latvian: ā, č, ē, ģ, ī, ķ, ļ, ņ, š, ū, ž, dž

[@autumnleidi8074]

I wish you could be slower when it comes to pronouncing the sentences. It's really hard for me to catch up. 😅 But thank you so much for teaching us. 🙏😍

[@boldisordorin9010]

You can set the video speed lower in the settings of the video

[@Erik101]

I remember the lady in Wax museum in Reykjavik explained me these basics so nicely with patience ;) I remember her so well, if I would be in Iceland I would visit this place again to see her again 😊 This video reminded me this moment ❤

[@kenmasters5384]

Iceland is very Beautiful place. I am interested in this country. They are a small people, but they love and pride their culture, language, history. Respect! ❤❤❤ Hello from Kazakhstan!

[@vintagekory]

Thanks for this video!!!! My mom's side of the family is Icelandic, I only know a cuss word and a few other things. Everytime I see my aunt she asks me if I've learned any Icelandic. I'm going to watch and practice every video. Next time I see her, I'll be ready. Thanks so much from USA.

[@LandelRey]

3:28 the next letter is *T H O T*

[@hamzakhomsi]

Haha! Thank you, because I was struggling at listening to the pronunciation :D

[@Vanessa-if7jf]

Hamza Khomsi 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@hamzakhomsi]

@@Vanessa-if7jf What? 😑

[@Vanessa-if7jf]

Hamza Khomsi wym

[@incrsmathr]

Tbh, I decided to learn a bit of Icelandic to understand at least something in Hatari interviews😅 Thank you so much for the video!❤️

[@b-hope6500]

Brooo

[@RealGermanish]

that's why I'm here

[@awinel2367]

lol same

[@OfficialSilverMoon]

what's a hatari interview?

[@incrsmathr]

@@OfficialSilverMoon “Hatari” is an Icelandic techno-industrial band (sort of) They performed at Eurovision 2019, check them out, they’re incredible!

[@lauravampire1276]

I love how “L” is hard but “R” is easy for Spanish speakers. My mother tongue is Spanish and it’s just so fascinating how letters are written the same but pronounced so differently. Pretty cool.

[@davidavilag.6931]

Si verdad? No creo que haya alguna dificultad pronunciando la "L" cierto? Suena como un "Aëtl" no lo sé jajaja

[@alex-eucmad.7133]

@@davidavilag.6931ninguna dificultad con la L islandesa, tenemos palabras como atlas, chipotle o náhuatl con el mismo sonido

[@littlemix6207]

I used to live in Iceland, the language I miss so much.

[@jageenperson]

It's so strange because I understand everything you say (I'm Swedish) but it just sounds more complicated. Very interesting!

[@mehdielhsnaoui5628]

Hello

[@meowmeow17757]

@Coalescence what

[@meowmeow17757]

@Coalescence shut your mouth

[@KLICKTmichAN]

Dankeschön für dieses Tutorial bitte mehr davon! 🖐🏻 Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪

[@gpj6321]

Dankie vir die lesse ....... Groete uit Suid Afrika. Almost the same. I couldn't get " bitte mehr davon"

[@superanson7]

Defcon bitte mehr davon= more videos of this

[@gpj6321]

@@superanson7 Baie meer daarvan.

[@superanson7]

Defcon i mean in this context but dankie

[@Rozwarty]

@@gpj6321 a bit late to the party, but; Tusen takk for denne opplæringen. Vær så snill, flere videoer av dette. Hilsener fra Norge. It's amazing, how Afrikaans and German are different subgroups of the Germanic languages than Norwegian is, but their grammar is incredibly similar still. Then there's English, which barely has any Germanic features left.

[@inercia7107]

the spanish R is stronger than the icelandic one! but your L is definitely impossible for me to pronunce...

[@Manuelsanchez-gb1md]

jajaja a mi me ha salido 😂😂

[@inercia7107]

joder 😂 a mí no me sale!

[@Manuelsanchez-gb1md]

+Goug23 intenta hacer un t española pero a la vez sopla

[@raycuevas7577]

A mi me ha salido después de varios intentos, pero esta difícil

[@Manuelsanchez-gb1md]

+Randy Benjamin Cuevas Sánchez xdd

[@roguex9469]

I want to keep this beautiful language alive but unfortunately there aren't many ways to learn it. My best friend Aaralyn (also an Iceland native) was teaching me but she sadly passed away and now I'm on my own with learning Icelandic. Hopefully the Icelandic government manages to succeed in incorporating the language into the digital world so that computers, smartphones, artificial intelligence in devices, and text to speech can manage to keep the language for others to use as well. Hopefully the younger generations don't turn a deaf ear to their Viking roots. And thank you for teaching us viewers your native tongue, I love your content.

[@roxannesigurdsson2218]

Thank you for making these videos. My dad was for Iceland and he moved to Canada at the age of 4. A side from good morning and good night, Amma and Afi we didn't t learn much Icelandic. 2 years ago both my Dad and Afi past away and now I feel it is even more important to learn Icelandic. My kids are loving it and your video makes it little more fun. Thank you. When I learn to write thank you in Icelandic I will add it.

[@tubekulose]

I'm fortunately from Austria. So I speak one of the most complex languages in the world (German). I also speak five more languages. Hence I had no troubles to memorize and pronounce the letters you presented. :-) And I really love your Icelandic accent, when you're talking English! By the way, the thing above te vowels is also called "accent" and not "comma". :-) Thanks for the lesson and best regards from Vienna!

[@KarmaKraftttt]

German is so difficult language that even German themselves don't understand 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@norberttischler8829]

it's funny how only the native German speakers are so convinced that their language is so complex

[@WowINeedAName]

This has to be the most modest comment I've come across on KZbin, lol..

[@manuelfavid9221]

Oh, yes this is perfect. I am obsessed with Scandinavian languages. I so love ( and I speak ) Norwegian and old Norwegian sound like Icelandic, right ? And yeah! Icelandic is absolutely amazing language what I so so so love

[@heddaaaaaa1804]

Manuel Favid yes, old Norwegian sounds like icelandic

[@manjensen1710]

Basically Icelandic and Faroese are closer to the way vikings talked, while Norwegian, Swedish and Danish have sort of "evolved".

[@GangeHrolfr]

I'm Norwegian. Scandinavia have all lost their original language to a modern mix of German. Very few traces of Norse language left. But there is a slight mix with Old East Norse, as they spoke in Sweden and Denmark. This is just a slight mix tho, so naturally Old East Norse is extinct. In Norway in the Middle Ages, we spoke Old West Norse, and it is our language that is perserved in Iceland and the Faroe Islands. It makes me glad to see that ppl are interested in learning modern Icelandic, which hasn't changed too much since Old West Norse language :) The vast majority of ppl who settled in Iceland were from Norway. Who would have thought, that our language would only be perserved there and not in Norway proper? History is funny sometimes.

[@heddaaaaaa1804]

GangeHrolfr jeg er også fra Norge jehuuuu

[@jacobmedk367]

@@GangeHrolfr Well some dialects in Norway have alot of words and sayings that are very similar, however not to Much. I can understand some icelandic(spoken that is) with the help of ny dialect

[@ΣταυροςΙωαννηςΜπλατσιωτης]

I am from Greece and here we have 40°C+ ... Come one day for your summer holidays .. Our islands are awesome and picturesque

[@pavlinatz]

We don't liar lol

[@ΑΝΤΡΟΠΗΔΙΆΦΟΡΑ]

I love the culture of Greece and I also want to travel Greece.

[@alig.20]

Well okay bu why do you mention it here?

[@buddyboycandy]

Σταυρος Ιωαννης Μπλατσιωτης I'm Greek and Iceland hellena

[@johnreed9050]

I've been to Crete Rhodes and Corfu

[@Aang_L._Jackson]

imagine learning this language from Scratch and being able to speak it fluently... it can't get more legendary than that

[@kaiwai-gunnarsson7812]

im worried now that i know being fluent from scratch would be legendary

[@Fionamae_1521]

"this is one of the most difficult languages to learn" me not being able to roll my Rs 👁️👄👁️

[@julianneheindorf5757]

Obviously, she haven’t tried Greenlandic...

[@vaniavieira6012]

@@julianneheindorf5757 it's one of the hardest not the hardest

[@juanmarcos1145]

Icelandic is in fact easy. Hard could be Hungarian or polish

[@vaniavieira6012]

@@juanmarcos1145 dude no one cares, Icelandic stills being one of the hardest this is not a competition. Russian, Arabic way harder than those languages that no one needs to learn but no one says that

[@juanmarcos1145]

@@vaniavieira6012 well, I commented because people in this comments section begun to talk recursively about the difficulty of Icelandic. Then it is not something that nobody cares. It is in fact the contrary : something everyone seems to be curious about. Being so, I just gave my objective opinion. It is easy. I never understood why people is obsessed with saying that their language is difficult, I guess it's a feeling that an easy language is for morons or something like that. But that is not the case!!!!! Language difficulty has nothing to do with their speakers intelligence, at all!!!

[@ev.anflynn]

My mother found me an Icelandic tutor in my town and I'm so excited to start studying Icelandic again!! (I had an online teacher 2 years ago but he stopped teaching for some reason) and I decided to watch this video to get the jist of the basics again, thank you for posting this

Ahh Germanic languages!!!! Love them. Rabenhilde would be your name in German I guess

[@albin998]

I'm swedish and i always thought icelandic had almost nothing in common with swedish, but hearing this i see lots of similarities! More so the sound than the spelling though

[@sarayasanchez839]

I’m so sad I’m half Icelandic and this year I got really interested in the language and culture and my grandma died last year😔😔 I just wanna ask her more Edit: oh no now I’m crying

[@veroniquecastel9582]

Keep learning! Find like minded people and learn together. Good luck :-)

[@haydenhayden8872]

Find people who knew her, and ask for lessons.

[@vikingpotet]

Im going to iceland this week and im so exited! I thought IT would be fun to learn some icelandic! Its not so hard for me tho...Im Norwegian. 🇳🇴💙🇮🇸

[@ashleyengland9661]

Very helpful! I found your channel while preparing for an upcoming trip to Iceland. I’m trying to learn at least how to pronounce some of the towns and sites I’m going to so I don’t completely mangle them if I get asked where I’ve been or need to ask for help during the trip. Maybe how to pronounce places around Iceland can be another video idea for this series!

[@eviebush7866]

I’m coming to Iceland with my school tomorrow, I’m really excited to see the amazing sights. From the uk🇬🇧💗

[@ngel001]

After Netflix Eurovision song contest: Story of Fire Saga, everybody wants to speak Icelandic.

[@luchoney5868]

Literally me. 😂🤣😂 Damn it, you figured me out.

[@sarahgabrielle4739]

exactly why i’m here right now

[@ollie8185]

So accurate lol

[@garubymomo]

Dang busted

[@ChescaVenice_18]

lol the movie made me curious about the language xD

[@jessicahakala3017]

Thank you for making these videos!! I'm visiting Iceland later this year and am SO EXCITED to visit the most beautiful country in the world!

[@djAstraim]

I love the amount of "s" Icelanders add when talking in english. Is sooooo sweet ❤️

[@yeehaw6229]

The letters with commas (á é í ó ú) sounds quite similar to how you pronounce them in Irish which is super helpful, and so far it seems easy to catch on to the alphabet 😊 i love learning new languages so this is on my list!

[@lau5342]

“R” is actually really easy for us Hispanic people😂💗

[@noricx6037]

Lauren Gelvez And Latins :))

[@mhrau444]

And slavic people :P

[@Leo-uu8du]

and austrians

[@victorhpelayo8693]

And reptilians!

[@Iloveotters24]

Lauren Gelvez It’s the best part about being Hispanic 🤠💘!

[@alinachelaru6235]

Icelandic is harder than I imagined but it sounds so fun X) btw youre a great Icelandic teacher

[@manjensen1710]

You should try with Hungarian and Finnish, those are very hard too.

[@MuffinologyTrainer]

Incoming bilete catre islanda.

[@sebisuteu8979]

@@manjensen1710 i live in Transylvania,i have some hungarians Friends and hungarian is not that dificult, icelandic is a way harder

[@elliotberg4572]

@Ivan funny how you said German, Norwegian, Swedish and "Dansk". Are you Danish?

[@elliotberg4572]

@Ivan you seem like you spell fine.

[@leighfoster7429]

Such a beautiful language!!!!! It’s one of my top most beautiful languages I have ever heard!!!!! You did a great job!!!!!

[@annahailliebrown7041]

Oh my goodness graciousness, I ADORE you! You’re so sweet and kind, and that’s not something I see much! I wanted to learn Icelandic because my favorite coach was from there, but recently I watched Eurovision (of all the stupid things) and fell back in love.

[@CelestialExility]

normal people: yeah! Me, an intellectual: é

[@octo_berries4342]

Icelandic with the "rrrr" sounds perfect for ASMR

[@konigsopfer]

Thanks, this is pretty useful. BTW we in spanish (i'm from Mexico) we have a very similar "r" sound as yours like in the spanish word "urna" its kind of a soft vibrating r. Also here in Mexico we have this language called "nahuatl" which was the language from the Aztec empire. In this language the letters "tl", which appear in a lot of nahuaTL words, are pronounced exactly as your L, like exhaling with your tongue on top of your mouth. So, your letter L for me is like "etl" (with the sound I explained above). Keep on goind with the videos :)

[@egd5588]

Jonathan Galván i was thinking the same thing regarding the TL sound. Xóchitl- it’s a common word in Mexico, and it has that very ending.

[@riccardolongo8479]

Jonathan Galván I think she was talking about the Castillian Spanish, the one form Spain cause they don’t have the Nahuatl dialect since it comes form native Mexicans

[@alex-eucmad.7133]

@@riccardolongo8479de todos modos muchas palabras del Nahuatl han pasado al español, y además tenemos otras con TL como atlas, atlántico, pentatlón, atlético, triatlón, atlante, etc

[@josephmay6454]

I don’t know enough about Icelandic to definitively say it is THE most beautiful language, but in terms of how its speakers sound when speaking English, absolutely nothing else compares. You have an absolutely gorgeous accent

[@rickpowell1402]

I'm in Iceland now, no clue on the language but everyone is super nice and they speak English. One of my favorite places so far. except for the fact that it never gets dark.

[@11lvr11]

Thank you so much,now i know at least a bit about the pronunciation^^ Tusen takk!

[@abagpiperyoumetinmexico211]

Hello! Im from México, and in the languagh the aztecs spoke (nàhuatl) there is a sound very simillar or id say identical to the ll. so if you know a couple words in nahuatl, youll not have problem saying Eyjafjallajökull or ell. for example, water is atl, snake is coatl and its pronouded like at the right of the tongue

[@servantofaeie1569]

Úlff MetalBagpiper99 yea it reminded me of Nahuatl too

[@alex-eucmad.7133]

And in Spanish there are words like atlas, pentatlón, atlántico, atlético... all of them with TL pronunciation

[@alexwassabifan4953]

Ísland-Iceland Phone-sími School-skóli My name is Hallur-ég heiti Hallur 👍👍

[@wnorforaneo9821]

Backing you up all time since you say you are not a professional language teacher, you are doing it pretty well, go on with these lessons, you are becoming one of Iceland´s most known persons.

[@hey-ty7yu]

Thank you for making this video! I'm Icelandic myself, and we have a lot of family in Iceland, so that really kind of motivated me to want to learn the language.

[@accuratebalance5097]

Languages: Let's ditch all these obscure phnemes and only leave one or two for the others to be confused about. English: Yeah I'll go for the th. I just love this hissing baby. Chinese: Then I take q and x, biting my own tongue is best. Spanish and so on: Get an aveolar trill me. Showing off I like! German and some others: I suppose, that you guys would, if take I the ch, complain, not, bitte? Icelandic: Ðe rest of ðese nice vowels and consonants take I, then.

[@alkfouq8762]

*ðen

[@WarriorofSunlight]

The trilled R is the way the R is pronounced in most languages. It’s the English R that’s extremely rare.

[@accuratebalance5097]

@@WarriorofSunlight Yeah, it kinda slipped my mind when I typed that.

[@tayk.t.523]

_ahhhh you're accent is so cute_

[@siggiarabi]

"you are accent"

[@kiobo2953]

@@siggiarabi burning man !

[@Lewisiaisoutofcontext]

Aaahh I'm so happy you made this! I'm Swedish and as a part of high school Swedish class, you get to practice reading and understanding Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic and well, I fell in love with the Icelandic and I've been learning it by myself (slowly but surely) ever since. It really helps to be Swedish because some words are very similar or identical to the Swedish ones so I can sort of understand like 35% of what is being said... but I've got to learn the remaining 65% haha. Takk fyrir myndskeiðið, Hrafnhildur!! Þú ert frábær! Ég hlakka til næsta.

[@ClaudiaYousef]

Hoppas du lär dig isländska utantill :) Lycka till!

[@Lewisiaisoutofcontext]

@@ClaudiaYousef Det hoppas jag med. Tack! ☺

[@Christina-fr9bu]

Lakhja vad kul! Min pappa är från island och han lärde aldrig mig så jag måste lära mig själv:( men det går hyfsat bra

[@heavyloadmachine]

A random comment, but it amuses me how freaking different Finnish is from all the other Nordic languages 😂 it’s like from an entirely different universe! Anyway, this video was the first time I heard Icelandic and I could definitely hear some distant similarities with Swedish. In Finland, it is compulsory for us to study Swedish as it is our other official language :)

[@elliotberg4572]

@@heavyloadmachine The baltic languages are on their own

[@Petercakes]

Girl...you're a natural for teaching languages. Excellent job.

[@micanoto7171]

I'm learning Danish since I'm moving to Denmark and I see a lot of similar words or roots of words. I love it!

[@ihorternopilskyi6895]

7:57 "I'm getting pretty good at this" 😂

[@Dakota5997]

I'm Russian, and Icelandic "R" sounds just like "Р" in Russian 😀 By the way, your name's so beautiful but you pronounce it so fast I can't even hear what you're actually saying and repeat 🤣 but it's beautiful!

[@lilsquidd1815]

"P" in russian is the same than "R" in all the romance lenguages

[@chrishoggett1375]

Same as in Dutch, we really role the R too. In German om this is much less the case. With Russian I struggled most pronouncing the ‘И’. I never stressed it enough. So I was told anyway :)

[@Dakota5997]

@@chrishoggett1375 I heard that if you want to pronounce Russian "И" , you need to make a sound like someone punched you in the stomach 🤣

[@tosauxy7207]

@@lilsquidd1815 Not French

[@boldisordorin9010]

@@chrishoggett1375 but "и" is just "i" from romanic languages

[@luciesukdolakova8598]

"R" in Icelandic is exactly the same as "R" in Czech :)

[@valv674]

Lucie Sukdoláková quite similar to the Italian one, too. You just have to rotate your R’s :)

[@annacantaim]

the same in polish

[@jakubsebek]

zajímavé

[@Fonzi79]

same in Macedonian

[@anastasiazenkina527]

Same in Russian

[@brianleben4893]

Than you immensely for putting this out. You are gorgeous and smart and obviously very proud and knowledgeable about your great history. Thank you!!

[@socialreform5420]

Subscribed because I am hoping to visit Iceland in 2020 and I think it is VERY important to learn some words from the nation one is visiting! Thanks for making this video series - starting at part 1!

[@SullyEyevie]

love it

[@JAVIERMORALES-jw9bz]

In Mexico 🇲🇽 we have a dialect called “Nahuatl” and most of the cities and towns sound as the Icelandic letter “L” , so I think it’s not that hard after all. For example: Popocatépe”TL” Iztaccíhua”TL”

[@davidavilag.6931]

Si, tienes razón, no creo que la "L" tuviera alguna dificultad de pronunciación jajajaja y sí, cuando dijo como se pronunciaba se me vino a la mente el Náhuatl

[@alex-eucmad.7133]

De hecho tenemos muchas palabras en español con TL que suenan igual a la L islandesa. La mayoría vienen del Nahuatl

[@reginawilliams5706]

Björk sent me here 🤗 and also how big is an influence is Björk on Iceland.

[@anthonycoombs2159]

Me too. Haha

[@aaryanbali4726]

From the past five years I'm am wanting to visit this beautiful nation, Iceland. I love Iceland so much that i can't live a day without watching anything belonging to Iceland. I love this beautiful nation and one day would love to call Iceland my home❤️Love from India🇮🇸🇮🇳

[@esherm63]

Good job! I am half Icelandic, born on the Naval Station at Keflavik. Mumma Min er Islensk! I used to sell Visir on the streets of Reykjavik as a boy and spoke the language fluently until we moved to the States when I was 9 or so.

[@lucieni]

If anyone wants clarification on alphabet pronunciation there is a brilliant video on KZbin by Dr Jackson Crawford (Basic pronunciation of modern Icelandic) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pn2YmX-KesmYgNk that I have found invaluable! (From a native English speakers point of view) This is absolutely not to detract from your video Hrafnhildur, just to hopefully add a little something to help people understand where you’re coming from in that Icelandic is such a uniquely difficult to learn yet beautiful language. Love the fact the first part of your name in English is Raven.x

[@ΣταυροςΙωαννηςΜπλατσιωτης]

You are perfect .. Icelandic is a very difficult language ... BTW my Icelandic accent sucks

[@Manuelsanchez-gb1md]

in spain æ means "arriba españa" that is like a nacional stuff

[@clau4428]

It's more of a fascist slogan lmao

[@Manuelsanchez-gb1md]

+Clau yeah i wanted to say nacionalist lol

[@clau4428]

@Latam 'Nan Soy de Valencia crack, no hace falta ser de Cataluña para tener un poco de sentido común 😉

[@karenarvizu5337]

Jaja ¿Qué? 😂 pero no significa eso oficialmente, en español ni siquiera existe esa letra.

[@Manuelsanchez-gb1md]

+Clau jajajaja lo mismo digo

[@cjtuba1]

Just discovered your video. Incredibly interesting. Please keep posting, really informative. Thanks Hrafna!

[@adopan75]

I love it! Wife and I are going to start learning. I hope you continue teaching the language.

[@user-sx7fu5ir2f]

Can't help but think about bjork when you speak

[@tryggen7077]

Im so glad im from sweden and most of these sound similar to ours 😂 and even those that are not are pretty simple for me

[@hnorrstrom]

Yes, I'm swedish too and when she speaks really slowly I understand most of the words. But if she speaks at normal speed it's almost impossible.

[@tyseychasdaleko]

Who is here after Hatari?))

[@Mag-ju9hz]

Nobody

[@tyseychasdaleko]

@@Mag-ju9hz Yeah...thats why there are 70 likes on my comment?)

[@bilges9536]

HÖH!

[@tyseychasdaleko]

@Dav RoZ Hatari are an Icelandic techno, industrial and punk rock band from Reykjavik.Hatari represented Iceland in the Eurovision song contest 2019 with their song "Hatrið mun sigra", finishing 10th in the final.

[@alenkasotina3596]

Kapitalistar andskotans 🤣

[@camilahonorio8511]

Congrats! I'm from Brazil and I understood good you english language and your examples about Iceland language! Tks!

[@giftmoyo5892]

Hi Hrafna. I've just bumbed into your videos and just want to thank you for teaching icelandic on your chanel.

[@c4tlovr]

Afh er ég að horfa á þetta þegar ég er íslensk😂

[@margret6188]

Ég lika hahah

[@c4tlovr]

@María Lind Bjarnadóttir OML nú veit ég um 4 ARMY hérna á íslandi og segji það sama IDOL er besta lag í heimi

[@c4tlovr]

@María Lind Bjarnadóttir vá mig langar líka á tónleikana 😭😭😭

[@rebekka.2342]

Hahaha same lol

[@Pauline-on3wc]

Same...

[@mikaelaulin4992]

Thank you. You are good at this and you´re very sweet.

[@jasonlee3247]

And that concludes the voting from the Icelandic jury #eurovision

[@dennismartin7318]

I love listening to you speak Icelandic. It sounds like such a robust language.

[@LizardsLore]

So because of your videos I have been learning Icelandic. I’m still only in the stage of learning food words but I wanted to say THANK YOU. I’m learning from you and from Drops. They should sponsor you!!

[@sofiiare]

In italy the R have the same sound like your

[@zoeeee2952]

Your name is beautiful and probably the hardest thing for me (Australian) to pronounce in this whole video

[@forestvalkyria1155]

Still sound like most nordic languages. I think it is much easyer for us nordic people to learn Icelandic, me (swedish). It looks like "fornnordiska" like we say in Sweden.

[@Mathiu_Truhile]

I always remember the face-off with Jesse in D2, The Mighty Ducks. Pretty cool to watch this upload, always love learning a new language. Ahee'hee.

[@Biren-n4d]

Iceland 🇮🇸 My dream country I don't know y im so love this country especially the nature

[@jaymay7957]

I had to come here for 2 reasons. 1 - to hear what your accent sounds like in English 2 - to hear Icelandic I'm curious what vikings somewhat kinda barely may have sounded like and also what they may have sounded like speaking English Been watching the vikings show and the accents are killing me

[@Thirstyhenrik]

How are you sounds like “what are you saying” in Swedish 😂 ”vad säger du?”

[@gpj6321]

In Afrikaans. Wat sè jy?

[@theFameWolf]

Your name is raven battle? Awesome

[@WarriorofSunlight]

Scandinavians have the coolest names of any people in the world by far.

[@crazyvikingphotography7464]

Oh my gosh, takk so much for doing this video! Helping us to pronounce the letters is super helpful. I can't wait to watch the rest of your videos :)

[@Nebuhalanezar]

I‘m from Switzerland and I surely have no problem with weird pronunciation lol Love your videos ❤️

[@c.schweizer8813]

Nebuhalanezar Also from Switzerland! Agree with you 😂

[@evelinaenauskayte4467]

R sounds like Russian (Р, Россия Rossia) it pronounce the same.

[@elliotberg4572]

It's a very common R in Europe!

[@gabrielavieitas1806]

I almost forgot the "o" turns into an "ah" when it's not stressed in the word. "Rassia", right? "Я" sounds like "ya", just in case, isn't it?

[@bramhoeflaak8755]

Same in dutch

[@promestars]

Общие слова папа , мама и месяца года ... это многое значит!!!!

[@julia.terekhova]

Gabriela Vieitas absolutely right.

[@HansMartinHammer]

I´m from the Faroe Islands (Færeyjar) and Norway, and I lived in Iceland for five years. Considering my native languages are the closest relatives to Icelandic, Faroese being extremely similar (mostly in written form though), I still struggled with Icelandic. My Icelandic didn´t "flourish" until my fourth year in Iceland. I still have trouble with the language, but I can understand just about everything in Icelandic. I did notice in the video you didn´t mention the diphthong "au", even though it´s basically not a single letter, it should be counted as one. In the Faroese alphabet the diphthongs "ei", "ey", and "oy" are not only counted as diphthongs, but also as their own letters.

[@Easineva]

Hans Martin Hammer heh I’m also from the Faroe Islands and am half Faroese and Icelandic:)) It’s not often I see Faroese people here:D

[@HansMartinHammer]

Well, there are only about 70.000 of us in the world.

[@sammumoo8186]

Faroese ! I have a friend from there. I absolutely love your country, language and culture. Will visit you sometime.

[@scrotube]

I spent a week in the Faroes, 3 years ago. It was a fantastic vacation. Taking the helicopter to Suduroy was fun and I found everyone to be very welcoming. I got to see the first Faroese flag and had some pilot whale. I hope to return to your country some day and visit all of the islands.

[@daniellemarie8760]

If you speak English but you're Icelandic, do you think in Icelandic or english?or both...?

[@diochu2163]

For me it's both

[@dreamingoflouis330]

I'm Icelandic, and think in Icelandic, but if I'm in an english speaking country for quite some time, I'll occasionally think in english... mostly Icelandic though considering it's my first language.

[@daniellemarie8760]

DreamingOfLouis ah okay.thats kind of cool imo

[@vigdiszoega3593]

I'm icelandic and i think mostly in english tbh, unless I'm talking to someone in icelandic

[@helgamaria6327]

Wait are you an Army cause i never expected Armys from other lands to check on an Icelandic video!! I hope that means they will start to notice us Armys in Iceland and come here!!!!!!

[@789quicky]

Love Iceland and your accent. I hope I can revisit again soon! Great lesson on the language !

[@SuperParatech]

Thank you for the video. Icelandic is very similar to old English in letters. Interesting to to me and appreciate to hear the modern language