I've just made a start with Icelandic. I've got a few books on Icelandic but I recently noticed that I have the Linguaphone Icelandic course. In the past I've done the Norwegian Linguaphone course and it seemed pretty comprehensive so I think Linguaphone will also be good for Icelandic.
The 3 books I've already got lump a lot of the noun declensions together so seem pretty daunting. Linguaphone has lots of audio and every word introduced is done so in the context of a sentence so I think new vocab and grammar are easier to deal with. I suppose Assimil does a similar thing, the main difference though is that Assimil has much shorter dialogues and they (unfortunately) don't provide a vocab list for each new lesson. (Oh, I should point out that Assimil doesn't have an Icelandic course.)
Anyway, I've written up the first chapter, audio, text, new vocab and grammar. I've made a start learning the first ten items from the audio. So far so good. I'm sure that as I work through it I'll be able to understand each text. The question is, will I be able to produce my own sentences.
We'll see.
The 3 books I've already got lump a lot of the noun declensions together so seem pretty daunting. Linguaphone has lots of audio and every word introduced is done so in the context of a sentence so I think new vocab and grammar are easier to deal with. I suppose Assimil does a similar thing, the main difference though is that Assimil has much shorter dialogues and they (unfortunately) don't provide a vocab list for each new lesson. (Oh, I should point out that Assimil doesn't have an Icelandic course.)
Anyway, I've written up the first chapter, audio, text, new vocab and grammar. I've made a start learning the first ten items from the audio. So far so good. I'm sure that as I work through it I'll be able to understand each text. The question is, will I be able to produce my own sentences.
We'll see.
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