Back in February I was watching quite a bit of television - working my way through Orange is the New Black and actively seeking out medical dramas to the point of voluntarily buying a box set of Grey's Anatomy. (I'm not proud ( Read more... )

So I've finally, finally got my summer holiday plans pinned down. Which is good because the accommodation market in Iceland is tight in the summer.

I applied, and was accepted, to the one-week Advanced Icelandic Vocabulary and Reading course in charming, cosmopolitan Suðureyri. This involved painstakingly writing out a 100-word personal statement ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon I was listening to Icelandic radio - actually for the music but they were doing a lot of talking. Then I took a nap. In my half-awake state I dreamt I was on an Icelandic course and trying to tell someone about Boston in bad Icelandic. That I had spent a fair amount of time around Boston, and it was a city with a lot of history ( Read more... )

Since there was so much (unexpected) interest in my post about how to learn Icelandic, I thought there might be some call for a companion post with Old Norse resources ( Read more... )

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I now own a copy of The Hobbit in Icelandic. I feel this is a major life achievement.

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Never have I read a book with more difficulty and concentrated focus than the Harlequin medical romance that I'm fighting my way through at the moment. A ten-page chapter takes me about forty minutes.

Because this is an Icelandic translation, Barn breytir öllu, AKA Having his baby by Karen Young. (The Icelandic translator actually went for "Baby ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I got back from my nineteen-day visit to Iceland, but I'm still dreaming that I'm there. (Literally as well as figuratively!). It was far and away my best trip to Iceland yet, and given that this was my sixth visit, this is saying something. Before going I'd worried that I should have gone somewhere different for a change ( Read more... )

Does anyone else find that language study causes them to swing back and forth regularly between joy and utter pessimism? Because this seems to happen to me regularly ( Read more... )

The excellent restaurant at the Settlement Centre in Borgarnes, Iceland has a bilingual menu. With informative details about where they source their food, and explaining the Icelandic specialities. Only the Icelandic -> English translation is... not always exact.

Icelandic: Er gjónagrautur enn á borðum í hádeginu á laugardögum á þínu heimili? ( Read more... )