Soffía wrote:Tristano wrote:Icelandic:
Pro: after Dutch and Icelandic learning German is a breeze.
Cons: well, it's useless
*waves little flag for Icelandic*
It is useless, there's no denying that, but it belongs to a lovely country, it has a charming sound (to me), and it unlocks a surprising amount of quality literature given the small size of Iceland's population. You can also read Old Norse once you've learned Icelandic, so it's a two-for-one deal.
If you ever have any questions about learning Icelandic, let me know!
Hi @Soffia!
I tried Icelandic with not so much effort two years ago. That was before I started to have a clue what I was doing.
I particularly suffered the very little amount of resources. If I want to study German I can use assimil, Duolingo, germanpod101, German for reading, just to mention some that can really help me to assimilate the language before to start to study grammar. Nothing of that exists for Icelandic. I want to be able to read and have some conversation before to study grammar. At least with this kind of languages. So that I thought that I can leave it for last in my Germanic collection (with my Dutch as second - or first if you don't count English) so that I will have a major vocabulary discount.