icelandic

Tribulations of an outlander in Niceland, II

August 19, 2010

For anyone who missed the last post, this is a continuation of Tom’s trials and tribulations as he tries to practice his Icelandic with the natives. Not a simple task, as it turns out! ~~~ I began wondering what, besides my obvious accent in Icelandic, led people to label me as an outlander. I didn’t [...]

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The hardest thing about learning Icelandic

August 18, 2010

Our next guest post [and final one in this round as I'm heading back to Iceland in a couple of days] is from Tom Harper, a loyal reader of this blog who is a masochist fascinated by and intent on learning the Icelandic language. In fact, he spent the summer in Reykjavík learning about declensions [...]

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On Icelandic and the meaning of nuance

December 1, 2009

So, the dudes from WikiLeaks are in town to stake out the general area. They were interviewed on Silfur Egils this past weekend and, from what I could gather, they have something fairly dramatic up their sleeves – some juicy revelation involving SMS messages and the manager of one of Iceland’s failed banks. Stay tuned [...]

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