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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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 Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 8:55 am
Vyethi Eccentric Iconoclast Oddly enough, I can understand a whole lot of spoken Icelandic... I don't know how. I don't know why. I only know that I can. Why couldn't it have been a more useful language, like Spanish? I know it is. I intend to move to Iceland someday. A ridiculously high literacy rate, not prone to wars...what's not to love?
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:46 pm
Eccentric Iconoclast Vyethi Eccentric Iconoclast Oddly enough, I can understand a whole lot of spoken Icelandic... I don't know how. I don't know why. I only know that I can. Why couldn't it have been a more useful language, like Spanish? I know it is. I intend to move to Iceland someday. A ridiculously high literacy rate, not prone to wars...what's not to love?
Exactly...I was thinking about living there myself someday. Not to mention the longevity rates - second highest in the world, right next to Japan. I'm learning Icelandic and I will work for a literature company there. I will translate books from French, English, and German into Icelandic. The country probably doesn't have as much literature as we do, seeing as it does have only 300,000 (rounded up) people. But as for having the smartest, most literate, and low crime rates, it's a country that deserves good things.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:47 am
Vyethi Eccentric Iconoclast Vyethi Eccentric Iconoclast Oddly enough, I can understand a whole lot of spoken Icelandic... I don't know how. I don't know why. I only know that I can. Why couldn't it have been a more useful language, like Spanish? I know it is. I intend to move to Iceland someday. A ridiculously high literacy rate, not prone to wars...what's not to love?
Exactly...I was thinking about living there myself someday. Not to mention the longevity rates - second highest in the world, right next to Japan. I'm learning Icelandic and I will work for a literature company there. I will translate books from French, English, and German into Icelandic. The country probably doesn't have as much literature as we do, seeing as it does have only 300,000 (rounded up) people. But as for having the smartest, most literate, and low crime rates, it's a country that deserves good things.
Also, a good idea is to learn the history of Iceland. It can come in handy when dealing with... everything.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:19 pm
I wouldn't actually be stationed in Iceland...for the translation, anyway. Moving there is a dream of mine, but in reality, it probably wouldn't happen until retirement.
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:12 pm
Alas, the same is probably true for me as well.
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:39 pm
Vyethi Eccentric Iconoclast Oddly enough, I can understand a whole lot of spoken Icelandic... I don't know how. I don't know why. I only know that I can. Why couldn't it have been a more useful language, like Spanish?
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:16 pm
Felucca Vyethi Eccentric Iconoclast Oddly enough, I can understand a whole lot of spoken Icelandic... I don't know how. I don't know why. I only know that I can. Why couldn't it have been a more useful language, like Spanish? I was thinking the same! surprised I, when speaking Swedish, try not to use German words. But it's kinda hard to know what words to use and what words not to use. I don't know German. >.<
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:55 pm
HellsBitch Mivi Sounds like you had a great time up there! ^^ Yeah, the ð, æ, ö and þ. Swedish had ðese sounds too, but ðey took ðem away, dunno why. >.> Anyway, I hope I'll get to learn Ãslendsku sometime. 3nodding
I really wanna learn islandsk (Icelandic in danish) too, but I dont really have the time at the moment...er dansk og islandsk lignende? english: is Danish and icelandic similar?
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:04 am
Kokoroki HellsBitch Mivi Sounds like you had a great time up there! ^^ Yeah, the ð, æ, ö and þ. Swedish had ðese sounds too, but ðey took ðem away, dunno why. >.> Anyway, I hope I'll get to learn Ãslendsku sometime. 3nodding
I really wanna learn islandsk (Icelandic in danish) too, but I dont really have the time at the moment...er dansk og islandsk lignende? english: is Danish and icelandic similar?
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:03 am
What Felucca said...
But it is slightly easier to understand Icelandic if you know Danish/Swedish/Norwegian. I read a few childrens books before I left for Iceland. I understood them pretty well. Was fun.
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:03 pm
HellsBitch What Felucca said...
But it is slightly easier to understand Icelandic if you know Danish/Swedish/Norwegian. I read a few childrens books before I left for Iceland. I understood them pretty well. Was fun. cool I understand
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:32 am
Proudly_Jewish Othala I remember seeing this show, I believe it was called 'More Than Human' or 'Superhuman' and they got this guy who had some sort of disorder than ended up being a blessing for him and he learned Icelandic in 5 days then went on National TV in Iceland and did an interview in perfect Icelandic. Actually, I've heard of some guy that could appearantly learn a language in a day... eek
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:32 am
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:46 am
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:34 pm
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