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]

For me it's about media, if say there seem to be a lot of good fanfics, movies or novels in a language then I want to learn it haha. Or it's for "necessity" (=I've somehow ended up living in a place or surrounded by people who speak it) or for enriching my brain (=if i learn this one all other ones after it will come 5x faster). If I happen to really love the look/sound of a language then that's another topic, but that's only ever happened with Icelandic and Japanese with me so far.

So ex. I like Vladimir Nabokov and that makes me want to learn Russian, but outside of that I don't have an interest in Russia. If I were to learn Russian I'm sure I'd find various interesting things but it'd just be a side-effect. Or, I think learning Greenlandic would really open up my brain a lot for the next languages I learn so I want to learn that (but can't really since I'm dirt poor).

If you ever do go to live in Iceland I extremely strongly suggest living anywhere that's not the capital, which is full of foreigner-hate (or just discrimination) and general bad attitude and stuff like that.

I've never liked any romance language(s so far), I know Esperanto but that's out of convenience (the "brain-expanding" thing) and it's only "romance" in the sense of the very basic words anyway.