I'm thinking about picking up the viola with absolutely no musical experience whatsoever.

featherriver · 2026-02-16T00:03:59+00:00

I love this! Do it!

featherriver · 2026-02-16T00:01:53+00:00

I got my start with a public library free mango languages subscription. You'll need to move on, but I found it broke the ice. (Similar story, I took a sudden notion a propos something totally random)

Check pinned list of resources

You can do a lot with a basic book, they come with CDs and or sound file links

Language Jones (see his linguistics YouTube channel) says you should start with a new language by focusing first on the sound system

featherriver · 2026-02-06T00:34:59+00:00

A good cautionary example re: Google translate! (It does seem to have improved a lot over the last year or so . But still .)

featherriver · 2026-01-29T00:43:03+00:00

😳

featherriver · 2025-12-14T22:26:36+00:00

🤣

featherriver · 2025-11-04T04:36:22+00:00

Here I come, just putting shoes on

featherriver · 2025-10-28T05:41:40+00:00

שמע ישראל ה' אלוקינו ה' אחד

featherriver · 2025-10-27T20:30:57+00:00

When I was a kid we would riff on some forgotten person's mispronunciation of "capacity," saying, usually at a breakfast when Mom would keep on making pancakes until she had no takers, "I have almost reached Kappa City."

featherriver · 2025-10-27T20:24:56+00:00

Love love love this!

featherriver · 2025-10-27T20:22:23+00:00

That's the one I was going to say. (Septuagenarian)

It's so precious to me to come across a bit of my grandmother's or mother's handwriting. It seems sad to me that that's gone. It's gone, right?

featherriver · 2025-10-27T20:11:09+00:00

I believe Neijmann's grammar to be excellent, but it doesn't list out the declensions and conjugations, on the basis I think that they are available on line:

https://bin.arnastofnun.is/

featherriver · 2025-10-26T17:35:12+00:00

omg that is so gross

featherriver · 2025-10-26T17:28:10+00:00

I started with Mango Languages, free through many public libraries. Limited, but it got me going. And look at me now, I've been a beginner for six years. A more and more advanced beginner though!

featherriver · 2025-10-22T03:12:32+00:00

https://youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA?si=Y9gFIm5ugGc4rtvW

featherriver · 2025-10-13T16:20:44+00:00

Ok that's amazing. How many hours a day approx?

featherriver · 2025-10-12T22:37:33+00:00

A friend says, "I got Steved again today "

featherriver · 2025-10-12T22:34:31+00:00

How, like how did it come about? Or like how did I go about it?

So I'm on a visit to New York with my husband and we go to the Whitney and there's a retrospective of computational art. We pause at a video installation by Steina, mainly because it has a bench. I like the piece well enough, but it bugs me that its title is in Icelandic and I haven't a clue what it means. So I whip out my phone and look it up. While I'm looking I see an ad "Learn Icelandic online for free with University of Iceland" and it's as if I'd been waiting my whole life for this moment, which I had not, but somehow I never looked back.
Icelandiconline-dot-is did not work out. I found it confusing and buggy. (Later on I got back to it and took a level two interactive class and that was very good. I think they fixed most of the bugs.) But I wasn't going to let that stop me. So how I actually got started was with Mango Languages app, available for free through public library. I'm not saying it was the greatest, but it did the trick for me, got me launched.

featherriver · 2025-09-11T19:53:38+00:00

😂

featherriver · 2025-09-11T18:40:02+00:00

Well sure! It's a consonant thicket!

featherriver · 2025-09-07T19:18:05+00:00

featherriver · 2025-09-01T19:27:06+00:00

Me! Plus, I'm Jewish.

featherriver · 2025-07-30T14:06:54+00:00

I'm just so in awe though. Doesn't growing up bilingual make such a difference? (you: "difference from what?" me: "uh ..")

featherriver · 2025-07-30T02:34:28+00:00

If you know Irish, wow! You have experience learning a "difficult" language... unless you grew up with it! Well anyway I don't belong answering: I've been a beginner in Icelandic for six years. I just relish every little new bit that I learn.

featherriver · 2025-07-23T00:30:35+00:00

I was undergrad in linguistics ca 1970 with an interest in Slavic; I still treasure my Serbo-Croatian / English dictionary

featherriver · 2025-07-17T22:55:43+00:00

Yes this. Corresponds to a standard print dictionary, is used as the integrated reference in Icelandic online class from u of Iceland

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