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Icelandic (and Faroese) resources

Postby Soffía » Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:35 pm

My small holiday gift to the forum, which is such an amazing resource for all of us...

Online courses
Alaric Hall's MP3 course for beginners http://www.alarichall.org.uk/teaching/modern_icelandic.php
Icelandic Online http://icelandiconline.is/index.html
Viltu læra íslensku http://tungumalatorg.is/viltu_laera_islensku (Videos also on Vimeo, here's the first: https://vimeo.com/12457767)
Íslenska fyrir alla http://tungumalatorg.is/ifa/
Hitt og þetta https://www.mms.is/namsefni/hitt-og-thetta-pdf (Textbook and audio designed for children learning Icelandic as a foreign language)

Reference
Íslensk-ensk orðabók http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/IcelOnline/Search.TEId.html (Icelandic-English dictionary)
Orðabók http://www.ordabok.is (Icelandic-English and Icelandic-Danish dictionaries, paid but worth it)
Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls http://bin.arnastofnun.is (Dictionary of inflections)
Sagnavefur https://notendur.hi.is/gt/sagnavefur/sagnavefur.htm (Most common Icelandic verbs)
Litli Málfræðingurinn http://tungumalatorg.is/ifu/files/2011/08/Litli-málfræðingurinn-%C3%AD-heild1.pdf (A little handbook of Icelandic grammar)
Corso di Islandese Moderno http://www.islanda.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/corsoislandeseKENNSLUB.pdf (In Italian. Extremely thorough.)

Listening
Útvarp Saga http://utvarpsaga.is (Icelandic talk radio - to listen, click on "Í beinni")
HLAÐVARPIÐ Á RÚV http://www.ruv.is/hladvarp (All of the podcasts from the national broadcaster - you will not run out)
First chapters of audiobooks from Forlagið: https://soundcloud.com/forlagid

Watching
RÚV http://www.ruv.is/sarpurinn
N4 https://www.n4.is/is/n4-i-beinni

News sites
RÚV http://www.ruv.is
Vísir http://www.visir.is
DV http://www.dv.is

Things to read online
blog.is https://www.blog.is/forsida/ (An Icelandic blogging site)
Vísindavefurinn https://www.visindavefur.is (Questions and answers about science)
Netútgáfan https://www.snerpa.is/net/index.html (Collection of out-of-copyright literature, including the Bible and sagas)
Jónas Hallgrímsson: Selected Poetry and Prose http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Jonas/Jonas.html (With poems read aloud and in English translation)
Skemman https://skemman.is (Every thesis and dissertation published in Iceland)
Lifandi Vísindi http://www.visindi.is

Where to order books
Forlagið https://www.forlagid.is/how-to-shop-here/ (Biggest Icelandic publisher - you'll save money if you can order from them direct - and they also have most of their catalogue on Amazon US as ebooks)
Eymundsson https://www.penninn.is/is/baekur-og-timarit
Bóksala Stúdenta https://www.boksala.is/?la=en
(If you are in the UK, Foyle's has a small selection of Icelandic books in stock and will also order for you. But their supplier is Bóksala Stúdenta, or so I was told a year ago, so arguably you might as well cut out the middleman.)
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Re: Icelandic resources

Postby Soffía » Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:43 pm

And a little appendix for Faroese...

Faroese Online https://faroeseonline.com (Free course)
Kringvarp Føroya http://kvf.fo (National broadcaster)
Sprotin http://sprotin.fo (Faroese dictionary with English, Danish, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian)
Faroese: A Language Course for Beginners http://www.stidin.fo/FaroeseCourse/default.htm (audio from the course)
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Re: Icelandic (and Faroese) resources

Postby Neurotip » Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:15 pm

Takk fyrir! I'm still pre-A1 in Icelandic but working hard on it. You've covered most of the resources I've found and then some, but I have a couple more to offer...

Online courses
just to note that some helpful person has collated the (awesome) Viltu læra íslensku videos on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAv2jNSgBcE&list=PLq5-Y9TskeAsWFxI3EL6ef7e8lfbJb042 and there is a full transcript of all the videos at http://tungumalatorg.is/viltu_laera_islensku/en/files/2010/08/VLI-isl-texti-1-211.pdf

Reference
Syntax of Icelandic (Cambridge) http://web.mit.edu/foley/Iceland/Thrainsson2007_syntaxIcelandic.pdf

Things to read online
Parallel texts http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/IcelOnline/Browse.html
reddit Learn Icelandic https://www.reddit.com/r/learnIcelandic/
a couple of blogs in English about learning Icelandic: http://everydayicelandic.tumblr.com/, https://blogs.transparent.com/icelandic/
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Re: Icelandic (and Faroese) resources

Postby eido » Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:13 am

I was looking through threads on Reddit and a user (@thecanceristhechemo to be specific) linked the below site for math terms, for when you want to teach your kid algebra or teach a calculus class at an Icelandic university ;) Just plug in the English term, and it spits back out the Icelandic one.

http://xn--st-2ia.is/os
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Re: Icelandic (and Faroese) resources

Postby Neurotip » Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:21 pm

Icelandic Etymological Dictionary by Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon
Free download (albeit 2.6GB). I haven't explored it fully but it looks wonderful. On the other hand it is in Icelandic :o
http://askrsvarte.org/eu/blog/icelandic ... y_download
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Re: Icelandic (and Faroese) resources

Postby eido » Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:37 pm

I'm not sure what you're supposed to use these for but I found these: https://vefir.nams.is/kaera_dagbok/index.htm, https://vefir.nams.is/kaera_dagbok/index_2.htm, https://vefir.nams.is/kaera_dagbok/index_3.html

They appear to be books full of activities for children learning Icelandic. Not very comprehensive, but you might be able to have fun with them.
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Re: Icelandic (and Faroese) resources

Postby eido » Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:04 pm

http://www.faroepodcast.com/

To learn about the Faroes.
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Re: Icelandic (and Faroese) resources

Postby eido » Thu Nov 15, 2018 2:32 am

https://snar.fo/utgavur/

Faroese books. I'm eyeing up the ones for children. What do you all think of them?
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Re: Icelandic (and Faroese) resources

Postby humerusthings » Fri May 22, 2020 7:08 am

Thanks for the list of resources! Really useful!

Just wanted to ask if anyone has tried apprendre l'islandais and if so, how has it been?
Very tempted to try it out haha.

https://www.assimil.com/objectif-langues/1169-apprendre-l-islandais-9782700570885.html
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