Posts Tagged with ‘beginner’
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Headlines
05 Jun 2013Before jumping right into reading entire news stories on Icelandic sites like RÚV and Vísir, one thing I did when…
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Cause And Effect
03 Jun 2013Irregular verbs are always fun to deal with, especially the ones with forms so different from the infinitive that you…
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How Odd
27 May 2013Sometimes it just takes one word to send you off on a linguistic journey – in this case it led…
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That’s Awesome!
24 May 2013There are many different ways to express how awesome something is in Icelandic. Some of the more common ones are…
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The Saga Of Carl
18 May 2013Iceland will feature prominently in Sunday’s episode of The Simpsons entitled “The Saga Of Carl”… 🙂 When Homer and his…
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Music
15 May 2013Of Monsters and Men played the Paramount in Seattle last night, so a music-themed post seemed appropriate 🙂 I had…
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Carry And Fight
13 May 2013Two verbs, distinguished by a single letter, with very similar conjugations in the present tense. One strong, one weak…some i-shift,…
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Brrr
01 May 2013We learned that this March had been the sunniest in Reykjavík in over a decade, and apparently April was the…
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I Command You
29 Apr 2013Sometimes you just need to tell someone what to do, and in those cases knowing how to form the imperative…
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Sumardagurinn fyrsti
25 Apr 2013Sumardagurinn fyrsti is celebrated as the first day of summer in Iceland, a tradition dating back to the use of…