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lusentoj ([personal profile] lusentoj) wrote in [community profile] 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.
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[personal profile] naraht 2018-02-03 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I'd forgotten about that! I think I was trying to subscribe to an audiobook site, or maybe buy ebooks from Eymundsson. The issue has sort of resolved itself, since there's so much audio online now and the Forlagið catalogue is available on Amazon US, but I really appreciate the offer. The Icelandic obsession with the kennitala seemed very odd to me when I first started encountering it...