Wow, I'm so impressed by your Icelandic and ability to explain it so perfectly. I've lived in Sweden most of my life so although I'm from Iceland and fluent in Icelandic, it's not as good as my Swedish. I really enjoy your videos, I'm gonna watch them all to gain more confidence in my language ❤️
@jeremyverret9030
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Brian I found it funny and your breakdown of it very helpful…please keep it up
@PatDunn214
Жыл бұрын
Hilarious! For a while I was trying to help myself learn to hear Icelandic by watching and transcribing Fóstbræður episodes. I watched this one and heard and transcribed it as "drekinn" throughout .... which made it very mystifying to me (furðulegt!) So glad to finally have the punch line explained!
@icelandicforforeigners
Жыл бұрын
That would be furðulegt indeed! Rekinn is a great word to know, hope you never have to use it though.
@MeowyKissmas
Жыл бұрын
This was really great, thank you so much!!! I love how thoroughly you explain everything, would love more videos like this.
@icelandicforforeigners
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the feedback!
@Akki-dp6hq
Жыл бұрын
This video is very good to learn icelandic.Thank you very much!! I'm studying icelangic by smartphon application and I think this channel is much better than applications. "Takk firir".
@FrozenMermaid666
5 ай бұрын
What type of app? I am like advanced level in Icelandic as I am in Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and upper intermediate level in Norse and German and mid intermediate level in Welsh and Swedish and Portuguese and Italian and French, plus I am learning many other languages as well, including Faroese and Gothic and Danish and Breton and Forn Svenska and Cornish etc, and I could actually understand almost all the words used in those scenes when I saw the text, but just by hearing it I only understood the words er bara komið að þér núna, but when speakers are saying the words very clearly with each syllable properly enunciated and articulated and when they speak louder I can understand most of the spoken words as well, especially if they don’t speak extremely fast, but to be honest, Germanic languages in general are naturally harder to understand than languages such as Italian and Spanish which have very clear straightforward pronunciation with each sound well-articulated, so movies and TV series in Spanish, for example, are naturally very easy to understand or at least to hear the actual words, so I learned Spanish passively in childhood by just hearing spoken Spanish, but this doesn’t work with most other languages tho, however, Germanic languages have the coolest sound patterns and sounds and pronunciation rules, so even though they are not as easy to understand when spoken, they have the best sound! By the way, if one wants to understand the written language faster, one must learn a lot of vocab automatically, like, actively learning hundreds and thousands of new words every day or every few days, while constantly revising previously learnt words, and each word must be seen and heard and revised at least 30 times or more over a longer period of time, so that each word can become very automatic and permanent!
@ewakolodziejczyk3301
Жыл бұрын
This is a great video. I hope you will continue with this type of learning content, really useful and funny at the same time. Thank you.
@icelandicforforeigners
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the feedback!
@rraa2699
Жыл бұрын
Very good, let's go with next scenes !
@danowulf
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for these videos, it’s impossible to find any good Icelandic resources online aha
@alexedwards8404
Жыл бұрын
This was perfect for learning words and how Icelanders actually speak. Thank you!
@FrozenMermaid666
5 ай бұрын
Not every speaker of Icelandic speaks like this, actually - ppl that teach Icelandic tend to speak more clearly and some speakers have way better accents that sound really awesome with more breathiness and nicer intonations! I watched some videos like that made in Icelandic, and it seems like they tend to speak very quietly and kind of mumbled in videos and movies, same as in American movies, which makes them impossible to be understood without subs, even when one knows all the words or almost all the words! For example, I am advanced level in Icelandic and know over 6.500 base words, and I could actually understand almost all the words used in those scenes when I saw the text, except for one new word, but just by hearing it I only understood the words er bara komið að þér núna, which was said a bit louder, but when speakers are saying the words very clearly with each syllable properly enunciated and articulated and when they speak louder I can understand most of the spoken words as well, especially if they don’t speak extremely fast! To be honest, Germanic languages in general are naturally harder to understand than languages such as Italian and Spanish which have very clear straightforward pronunciation with each sound well-articulated, so movies and TV series in Spanish, for example, are naturally very easy to understand or at least to hear the actual words, so I learned Spanish passively in childhood by just hearing spoken Spanish, but this doesn’t work with most other languages tho, however, Germanic languages have the coolest sound patterns and sounds and pronunciation rules, so even though they are not as easy to understand when spoken, they have the best sound!
@FrozenMermaid666
5 ай бұрын
But hopefully it will be easier for me to understand even the fast spoken Icelandic that isn’t spoken clearly once I get to a native speaker level or writer level, and also the fast spoken Dutch, because Dutch is not easy to understand either, I mean, when spoken fast and not in a well-enunciated clear way! NormaIly it should be easy for one to understand almost everything or everything at a native speaker level and at a writer level, even when the speaker doesn’t pronounce each word clearly, because I suppose one whose first language is Icelandic that is very fluent in Icelandic and knows over fifteen thousand words can understand everything that another speaker of Icelandic says, so If one whose first language isn’t Icelandic knows the same amount of Icelandic words automatically or even more, I guess it would be the same thing, but I don’t know! Sometimes I wonder if natives truly understand everything other natives say in that language, or if they just think they do, but maybe they mishear things a lot, especially in Germanic languages because Germanic languages have these cool pronunciation rules and many words that are naturally easy to mishear!
@kentroper8601
Жыл бұрын
Takk fyrir að útskýra! I have watched this sketch several times in the past, and didn't catch that man #3 was fired as well.
@mrbridgesidiomasemusicas
Жыл бұрын
Awesome 👍😊
@demmidemmi
Жыл бұрын
Great video, just to add samdráttur means shrinkage/shringing and is very commonly used in when companies to describe companies making less money or having less work in general. Niðurskurður would be the Icelandic word for downsizing. Jón Gnarr and Sigurjón common play these characters that at the same time have the lazy slangy pronunciation of a teenager and the boring and dry tone of a older man, so a lot to learn from but not something to strife for.
@icelandicforforeigners
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment! They are certainly an entertaining duo, but as you said, perhaps not worth emulating.
@user-mrfrog
Жыл бұрын
Mér finnst þetta hugtak mjög gott! Kærar þakkir!
@icelandicforforeigners
Жыл бұрын
Takk vinur!
@user-yn9hs6mp4s
Жыл бұрын
Would you ever be willing to do a weekly podcast to help icelandic learners? Maybe something akin to befluent in russian’s if you’re familiar since I know you’re studying russian.
@icelandicforforeigners
Жыл бұрын
As a non-native speaker, the only kind of podcast I would feel comfortable doing would be one where I speak with a native Icelander about various topics and he/she corrects me when I say things wrong ;)
@user-yn9hs6mp4s
Жыл бұрын
@@icelandicforforeigners completely understandable, don’t know what your plans are but that’d be a wonderful idea!
@poondawg3244
Жыл бұрын
Já sæll, eigum við að ræða það eitthvað.
@danymalsound
Жыл бұрын
Is the redhead Jon Gnarr, by chance? lol
@icelandicforforeigners
Жыл бұрын
Sure is!
@robertofranciscomonsalvesp8080
Жыл бұрын
I think l was the dragon a year ago😂
@icelandicforforeigners
Жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear!
@ahnmichael1484
8 ай бұрын
Hi, I sent you an e-mail - hope you can respond soon! 😊
@benedictekaufman1640
6 ай бұрын
I thought it was funny😊
@danielsantos3798
Жыл бұрын
Hæ hæ, ég er bara að kommenta að segja að ég er ánægður að sjá að þú ert enn virkur. Þetta er í annað skíptið sem ég læri íslensku, ég lærði í mánuð í janúar og hætti en hér er ég aftur. Vinsalegast leiðrétt ÖLL mistök mín. Takk.
@icelandicforforeigners
Жыл бұрын
Takk! Þú skrifar mjög vel, mjög fáar villur. Ég myndi segja: ég er bara að kommenta til þess að segja... Smá stafsetningarvilla með vinsamlegast og leiðrétt ætti að vera leiðréttu. Takk fyrir að horfa!
@danielsantos3798
Жыл бұрын
@@icelandicforforeigners "Takk! Þú skrifar mjög vel, mjög fáar villur." Takk fyrir en ég nota Google Translate, stundum. Ég er rauninni algjör byrjandi. Ég þýði það sem ég vil segja þar til ég þekki orðin og gerðirnar svo ég get notað þau sjálfur. Ég ákvað að gera það til að læra orðaforða sem á við mig, því mér finnst flest byrjendaefnin leiðinleg. Leiðréttingar er vel þegnar, eins og alltaf.
@Oko-qz6ec
6 ай бұрын
@@danielsantos3798ég er frá Íslandi og ég fékk andjoks heilablóðfall á að lesa þetta 😹
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