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Learning Icelandic as easy as 1-2-3
With this book, Icelandic is attainable for any beginning student. You can use Teach Yourself Icelandic Complete Course at your own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. This complete course is based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.
Prepared by experts in the language, Teach Yourself Icelandic begins with the basics and gradually promotes you to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:
Package includes two 60-minute CDs and a book.
Hildur Jonsdottir has taught beginners' courses in Icelandic for two years at the University of Cambridge.
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pronunciation guide | 4 | |
| 01 | Hi, what's your name? | 8 |
| Greeting people and saying 'goodbye' | ||
| Asking someone's name and saying your name | ||
| Asking where someone is from and saying where you are from | ||
| Saying 'yes' and 'no' | ||
| Thanking somebody | ||
| 02 | Which language(s) do you speak? | 19 |
| Saying 'excuse me' | ||
| Saying which languages you speak / don't speak | ||
| Asking someone which language(s) they speak | ||
| Saying what your mother tongue is | ||
| 03 | Bjorn's mother is Icelandic | 26 |
| Saying which nationality you are | ||
| Referring to members of your family | ||
| Referring to your male and female friends, your boyfriend / girlfriend, your husband / wife | ||
| 04 | Christof is dark-haired | 35 |
| Describing the way somebody looks | ||
| Describing somebody's personality | ||
| Asking someone's full name | ||
| Asking an Icelander what his last name is | ||
| 05 | Christof is reading | 46 |
| Learning about Iceland | ||
| Discovering more about Iceland's capital city Reykjavik | ||
| Making suggestions on what to do and where to go | ||
| 06 | He leaves at two o'clock | 54 |
| Asking somebody what their telephone number is and saying what your telephone number is | ||
| Saying what time it is (whole hours) and asking the time | ||
| Saying what year it is | ||
| Learning about the Icelandic currency | ||
| Saying where you live | ||
| 07 | See you tonight at half past eight | 68 |
| Learning the days of the week | ||
| Talking about parts of the day | ||
| Saying what the time is | ||
| 08 | Spoke to Erla | 78 |
| Asking somebody what he / she does for a living | ||
| Learning about occupations | ||
| 09 | I'll see you at the weekend | 88 |
| Talking about plans for the weekend | ||
| Talking about what you did at the weekend | ||
| 10 | Didn't you have a nice time? | 96 |
| Writing letters | ||
| Talking about your holiday | ||
| 11 | Can you go to the shop for me? | 105 |
| Going shopping | ||
| Asking for items of food and drink | ||
| 12 | Bjorn and Guorun buy fishcakes | 113 |
| More about going shopping in the supermarket | ||
| Buying groceries | ||
| 13 | What's for dinner? | 125 |
| Asking what's for dinner | ||
| Laying the table | ||
| 14 | Thanks for the meal | 136 |
| Learning about mealtime etiquette | ||
| 15 | Do you want to go to the cinema? | 149 |
| Making plans | ||
| Going to the cinema | ||
| 16 | It's Guorun's birthday | 158 |
| Saying how old you are | ||
| Wishing someone a happy birthday | ||
| Months, seasons, high days and holidays | ||
| Saying what the date is | ||
| Taking it further | 174 | |
| Key to the exercises | 177 | |
| Appendix | More on pronunciation | 183 |
| Icelandic-English vocabulary | 189 | |
| English-Icelandic vocabulary | 202 | |
| Index | 215 |
OscarHalifax
Posted June 29, 2009
This is a good place to start with Icelandic.
A must learn for all people interested in the Icelandic Sagas.
Anonymous
Posted January 7, 2005
Completely different from the older edition by Glendening -- this book by Jónsdóttir is jut the perfect introduction to contemporary Icelandic. You should try also Colloquial Icelandic, by Daisy L. Neijmann.
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Posted September 12, 2002
I am a native Icelander and I wanted to brush up on my Icelandic since I have been out of Iceland for 20 years, I found this book to be very helpful in grammar and in vocabulary. The vocabulary is not outdated, it is the word used by all age levels in which you can use with all different age groups. I recommend this book to everyone.
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Posted December 1, 2001
While this book may be reasonable for linguists or people with extensive experience with Skandinavian languages, it is virtually intractable for newcomers to the field. Grammatical concepts are merely sketched with little or no explanation. The pronunciation guide is extrememly cumbersome, listing phonetic symbols without clearly telling students which Icelandic letters represent which sounds. Translation exercises require grammatical concepts before they have been introduced in the text and the glossary is woefully incomplete. Definitely NOT a text for beginners!
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Posted February 25, 2000
As I said, this is an OK book, but it is outdated in many ways. For example, they say 'ég hefi' for 'I have', 'þökk fyrir', they still use a 'z', and etc. This book is a bit difficult for beginners who don't have a good understanding of Icelandic. This book just throws a bunch of information at you at once and expects you to remember it.
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Overview
Learning Icelandic as easy as 1-2-3
With this book, Icelandic is attainable for any beginning student. You can use Teach Yourself Icelandic Complete Course at your own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. This complete course is based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.
Prepared by experts in the language, Teach Yourself ...