Archive for the ‘Icelandic’ Category

  • Headlines

    05 Jun 2013

    Before 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 2013

    Irregular verbs are always fun to deal with, especially the ones with forms so different from the infinitive that you…

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  • Don’t Feed The Ducks!

    29 May 2013

    The City of Reykjavik is asking people not to feed the ducks at The Pond (Tjörnin) during the summer months,…

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  • How Odd

    27 May 2013

    Sometimes 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 2013

    There are many different ways to express how awesome something is in Icelandic. Some of the more common ones are…

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  • Hay There

    20 May 2013

    The snow in Northern Iceland is taking longer than normal to go away this year, which is having an adverse…

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  • The Saga Of Carl

    18 May 2013

    Iceland 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 2013

    Of 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 2013

    Two 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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  • Who’s In Charge Here?

    10 May 2013

    With the recent elections in Iceland and upcoming changes in leadership, I thought it would be good to review vocabulary…

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