Gosh, you make Icelandic sound so much less complicated! I'm going in September and am so excited to be able to pronounce places correctly. I also really like that your names are like descriptive compound words... So interesting and such a pretty language. Takk 😊

@ivargu

3 ай бұрын

Very welcome, glad you enjoyed 😊

I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!! It's so hard to pronounce some of these words, but you really broke them down so that I can even almost kind of sort of pronounce Fjaðrárgljúfur! It's one of the most beautiful places that I have ever been. We just came back from our 1 week visit to Iceland, and we plan to go back soon.

@ivargu

Жыл бұрын

Really happy to hear it helps, and if you can pronounce "Fjaðrárgljúfur" you have already beaten quite a few native speakers ;)

A very niche channel, but damn you deserve more recognition Ivar

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's mainly a creative output for the things I feel like discussing at any given time :P But thanks! Let's start spreading the word ;)

Thank you. This was really helpful!

Thanks for the double L explanation, knowing it basically makes a K sound helps me pronounce many more Icelandic words correctly

Talk fyrir! I've been to Iceland several times and always try to learn more each time I go. Please add Múlaglúfur, Gljufrabui. I know I have more of like to ask.

This is fantastic! I have looked and looked at videos for pronunciations, but yours is head and shoulders above all the others! Love how you break it down by syllables and meanings compounding the words. You speak clearly enough for me to get it! Will be working "with you" until our trip in May! Thank You!

@ivargu

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Crystal, I am very glad to hear it was of help to you :)

Just spent some time in Iceland and your videos were such a huge help! Thank you!! Definitely planning to go back some day. While driving around, we were thinking we'd love to know some Icelandic words for things people go to Iceland to see. If you're planning another video, we'd love to hear what you'd say for the following: - Northern Lights - Glacier - Puffin - Volcano - Hot Springs - Iceberg Some bonus words - Whales - Gin - Mountain - Canyon - Beach (or black sand beach) - Church (those little churches that are in all the small towns) - River - Waterfall - Rainbow

Amazing! Such a beautiful language. I'm now officially binging this channel.

Thanks, Ivar. Very useful, well crafted video. Nice to have the names parsed and explained.

@ivargu

11 ай бұрын

Thank you John. I am glad you found it helpful :)

Great, in 15 min I can now read and pronounce icelandic properly

Thank you so much!! Just got back on Monday from my second visit and am already planning my trip back in the fall. Can you PLEASE do more pronunciation videos? Your breakdown of the words is very helpful. I plan on visiting regularly and want to know some basics.

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Very happy to hear it was useful to you! A second one like this is definitely on the planning board, so if you have suggestions for words you'd like me to tackle I'd appreciate that! Welcome back in the fall!

@Voltar10036

2 жыл бұрын

@@ivargu Awesome. Watching your channel as we speak. Maybe some more basic phrases (food, common conversational questions, transportation useful for tourists [bus stop]), etc.). More place names with pronunciation would be fun too!

Best explanations about Icelandic ever!

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sven. I appreciate that!

We went to Iceland last year and We loved it very much!! Thanks for your help!!

@ivargu

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped :)

Just starting to learn Icelandic, thanks for the examples, it's nice to hear someone from there

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear it helps!

I tried to learn icelandic, but I am to lazy, Ég átta að sjáu þetta í tékknesku. :)

wow you named almost every place I'll be stopping at on my tour of Iceland - thanks a ton! takk!

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Hope you'll give them a try :)

Cool video. Thank you very much. Icelandic is so freaking cool.

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, and glad you liked it!

Really funny - before my visit, I started by trying to read the map since I am terrified I will be too long to read a road sign when driving.

Interesting and thanks for breaking it down with the time stamps

This is fantastic. Takk!

Takk! Great video

I totally enjoy your videos! I was in Iceland in July and fell in love with your country! Can't wait to get to see/hear more from you. (Educational system would be interesting, too.)Thanks so much!

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear you liked and and had a good visit :) Education system is a good idea, I'll put that on my list of todos!

Takk fyrir Ivar. Always wondered about the pronunciation of Myvatn When I was in Iceland no one could understand my pronunciation of it

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

I'll put that on the list for the next one :)

Ivar - hello from the opposite side if the world, and another island - Tasmania. Can you do a video on the middle of Iceland? No one ever talks about the middle. Travellers take the ring road. Does anyone live in the middle? Is there anything interesting in the middle? Thanks for your videos!

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Will look into that. My next video will actually be from the highlands.

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

There will be a bit of a delay on that video, just to inform. It was shot during an expedition that needed special permits from the park authorities and the material needs to be vetted by them before publication. But it is shot and fully edited and will release as soon as I get the go ahead.

@pbaehr

2 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to it when it comes!

Hæ Ívar, mig langar að heyra hver er munurinn á framburði bókstafa: i, í , y, ý. Takk!

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Íslenskt 'i' hljómar svipað og enskt 'i' í orðum einsog "information", eða "indigo". Íslenskt 'í' hinsvegar hljómar einsog enskt 'e' í byrjuninni á 'evening'. Á íslensku er enginn framburðarmunur á i og y, þannig að y = i, og ý = í

þú bara rétt minntis á Vestmannaeyjar, svosem ekki of flókið að seigja það en það eru margir sem koma hér og þá sérstaklega með skemtiferðaskipum

Beautifully poetic place names in Iceland! I’ve been attempting to learn Icelandic for about a year now, and boy is it hard….Is there much difference in dialect between north and south Iceland? Takk!

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

The main difference is in that hard vs soft emphasis. Then there are some local terms that differ.

@suziec6483

2 жыл бұрын

@@ivargu Awesome, thanks!

Does Hallgrímskirkja follow the double L rule and make a click sound? Or is it an exception? It seems very difficult to pronounce it with the click and immediately follow with a gr! Love your videos btw! 6 days into my first visit, and while locals all speak more than enough English (and default to it with us foreigners) it still feels nice learning a bit of the language and feeling like I'm saying locations correctly!

@ivargu

Жыл бұрын

It does indeed use the clicking double L, although it is made slightly softer/faster with the following "gr". Well done wanting to try a bit of the language, and hope you are enjoying your stay! :)

@HoepRemains

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the quick reply! I think the double L throws me off because it seems to get a lot more or less emphasis depends on the word. We are enjoying our stay very much, thank you! I will definitely be visiting again in the future 😊

Interesting! As a Norwegian I can understand the meaning of all the names, but the pronunciation is quite different and difficult! Although in some Western Norwegian dialects there are some similarities with Icelandic pronunciation, like ll becoming dl. It is also interesting that all the names are descriptive and easy to tie to features of the landscape! I recognized my own surname in one of the names :)

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Norwegian is of course the closest language relative of Icelandic (along with maybe faroese), but I was surprised and intrigued that you actually can understand the meaning!

I appreciated this. I didn't know there was a Bifrost anywhere but in the legends! Are there prominent regional accents in Iceland? Do Icelanders appreciate the tourists trying to learn the language or does it make them cringe to hear the mispronunciations? :-)

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

If we allow ourselves to claim the southern way as the "default" then the most prominent other one is the harsher northern one. There are also slight ones in areas of the west-, and east fjords. All of these are mainly variants on pronounciations with some localized words peppered in.

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

If we allow ourselves to claim the southern way as the "default" then the most prominent other one is the harsher northern one. There are also slight ones in areas of the west-, and east fjords. All of these are mainly variants on pronounciations with some localized words peppered in.

Ég er með spurningu fyrir þig, Er það satt að Íslendingar vilja ekki tala íslensku við útlendingar í íslensku sem læra íslensku? Til dæmis, ef fer ég til Íslands, verða Íslendingar tala íslensku við mig ef ég reyni að tala íslensku við þeim?

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Það er vandamál að íslendingar eru fljótir að skipta í enskuna þegar þeir heyra að þeir tala við útlending. En ef menn biðja um íslensku þá ætti það að ganga.

@MissionaryZacharyKyriazis

2 жыл бұрын

​@@ivargu það er mjög ruglingslegt af því að maður mynda hugsa að infæddar íslendingar myndu vilja að hvetja nemendur íslenskunna.

Gott hjá þér - bættu endilega við þessum stöðum: Dettifoss, Ásbyrgi, Mývatn, Goðafoss, Látrabjarg, Hvítserkur, Borgarnes.

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Takk fyrir það Hrönn! Topphugmyndir, set þær á listann.

When you are pronouncing jökull, can you spell in english how the two ll's are spoken. I can't quite catch the sound. Thank you.

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

I cant remember seeing that sound in any english word (perhaps someone can help us out there) but my best attempt would be to describe it as a "tl", or "dl".

@jonkirk2118

11 ай бұрын

@@ivargu Yes, it's like in the words: atlas, cutlass, antler

PLEASE !!! dont put music in the background > it make impossible to hear correctly what you try to convey us!!! § Not everybody have an HIFI chain that can separate sounds!!! For instance: impossible to get what sound "LL" should get :-(

@ivargu

2 жыл бұрын

Fair point. Will take care of that on any follow up

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