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linguaphiles2018-01-31 10:11 pm
lusentoj) wrote in linguaphiles2018-01-31 10:11 pm
Icelandic/Faroese
Hey, is anyone learning (or can already speak) Icelandic or Faroese? I studied Icelandic some years ago and can read some amount of it; Faroese I understand about 95% of any given topic when I read. But I haven't had any friends to talk to who speak either language so I haven't ever written or spoken them and I can't really understand the spoken languages in general. Recently I've been thinking I want to improve my skills, so I'd like a friend who'll use them with me no matter how bad I am, I guess is what I'm saying...
If you'd like to learn either one I can help you "understand" things, like texts or bits of grammar, but I can't teach you something like correct writing since I can't write myself! If you're more advanced we could have a kind of book/media club where we read/watch the same pieces as each other each week and discuss if we had trouble with them.
I also speak Swedish, Esperanto and Japanese so if you're better at one of those than English, we can do things that way.
If you'd like to learn either one I can help you "understand" things, like texts or bits of grammar, but I can't teach you something like correct writing since I can't write myself! If you're more advanced we could have a kind of book/media club where we read/watch the same pieces as each other each week and discuss if we had trouble with them.
I also speak Swedish, Esperanto and Japanese so if you're better at one of those than English, we can do things that way.
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Because of that, I wouldn't want to ask you to go to any trouble with OCR. I mean, if you end up doing them for your own use I'd love to take a peek (Little House on the Prairie was one of my favorites as a child), but don't do lots of work on my account. I'm sure there's plenty of online content that we could discuss.
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Yeah, it's fine, I SHOULD just OCR the books and toss them - I can't really justify letting like 7 Icelandic books just sit around on my shelf completely unused for like 10 years. But I can't seem to find a free OCR site that lets you OCR double-column images (as I'd be taking photos of 2 pages at once) : / I have other books I want to OCR too; my eyes are bad so I have a hard time reading physical books and that's why I've kinda stopped trying in the last few years.
Yeah in the Nordics they use the SSNs for everything "for security" - can't log into my bank or library or anything like that without my number. But in Iceland's case it's also "for keeping foreigners out" lol (well actually I think it's because they assume no foreigner CAN understand Icelandic/would want to buy something like an Icelandic book, an opinion I met many times when I lived there...)
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What I was meaning to say is that Icelandic ebooks from Amazon are dirt cheap compared to the physical copies. I mean, the newly released ones are $30 but all the ones that are more than a year or two old are $9.50 - which by Icelandic standards is almost miraculous! Though still not as cheap as some US ebooks, obvs.
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