Icelandic/Faroese

[lusentoj]

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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[lusentoj]

Oh by the way, Amazon e-books can only be used in kindle or something like that right..? I use .epub on my 3DS so I can't use kindle files D : Maybe there's a way to convert them, or copy-paste all the text and create your own e-pub *strokes chin*

[naraht]

Yeah, they're .mobi files, which I think can only be read on Kindle or the Kindle app (I mostly read ebooks on my phone these days). My understanding is that you can use a Calibre plugin to convert ebook files to other formats but I've never actually tried it myself.

[lusentoj]

i use calibre already (you can do cool stuff like put furigana in, aka have your book and write translations that pop up in the margins) so if i get my hands on a kindle file i can test out converting it...