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I have the book "Icelandic in Easy Stages: With Notes in English" by Einar Pálsson. I have the 1988 impression/edition. I typed up grammar notes for it here.

University of Iceland's Podcasts (At least I think that's what this is - some are conducted in English)

 ATTENTION: Lærum Íslensku is on sale for only $4 US.
Brand-new from the publisher, original price is around $40. US shipping is $5, Canadian shipping is $8, anywhere else is $12. By the end of the book you should do fine in daily things like reading newspapers or having conversations. The book is about 670 pages and it doesn't have exercises in it ( Read more... )

I came across some sentences and am wondering if anyone can tell me when to use til, að, or both ( Read more... )

 Ég vil læra íslensku. Ég á bókina „Colloquial Icelandic" með geisladiskunum. Er hún góð bók?

Um mig:

Ég er frá Maine, nyrsta fylkið í Bandaríkjunum fyrir utan Alaska. Maine er líka austasta fylkið í landinu. Ég er 23 ára gamall.

Hvernig gerði ég?

Hæ,
I'm sure this has been posted before, but I browsed through briefly and didn't see one.  Sorry for repeating this-

I'm brand new to the language.  My knowledge of it comes from skimming wikipedia, searching for online resources, and about 20 different icelandic disney songs. I've looked into and I don't think tere are any nearby resources to ( Read more... )

 Sæl!

I'm brand new to the Icelandic language. I'm currently learning Swedish and a very very small amount of Finnish (my friend is learning the language). I've come to a halt in my Swedish where I can read a young adult book with minimal dictionary use, so I thought, while I perfect my Swedish skills, I'd start on my Icelandic.

Quick questions:
Are ( Read more... )

Case closed:  After the headache that I caused with my questions below, you all might not be interested.  But, I finally found a really good paper >here< that describes all kinds of situations similar to the one described below.  Even if you are not linguistically inclined, browsing through the example sentences might make sense of what I  ( Read more... )

Greetings, all.

I've just compiled a list of Icelandic two-letter words, which should be useful for anyone who, like me, plays Icelandic Scrabble to help learn the language. ( A previous post of mine here has some suggestions for obtaining the Icelandic-language edition.)

I am slowly learning the odd word of Icelandic, in part due to my sister sending me over 'My First 1000 Words' style book ( Read more... )