Iceland-isafid
The challenges facing Iceland include boiling hot springs, cold waters and huge wilderness, and the sudden fog will make you very lonely.
The most difficult challenge for me is Tonggu maranskid --
Try to learn the course of this language. On the three-
During the course of the week, I found that the Icelandic people should get its nickname "Latin in the North" with six noun categories with a maximum of 16 different suffixes for each category;
Five families of verbs;
An old and isolated vocabulary and a hobby for snake lines.
Like Latin, it is only a little useful, only 0.
005% of the Earth.
My goal is not pragmatic.
During my previous trip, I was fascinated by the pristine landscape and tranquility of Iceland.
But the scenery is not enough for me. I wanted more.
The language course in Isafjordur, a small town of 2,700 people, attracted my romantic side.
Geographically and emotionally away from spiffy, the stylish Reykjavik, Isafjordur crouched on a dog leg spit protruding to the fjord, shorter than 2,000 --
The foot of the mountain with ripples
The front of the Iron House grew long rust.
Although small, it is the largest Westfjords, and more than the relatively small number of tourists seen in the sparsely populated areas of Mongolia, the number of tourists in Iceland has risen by 300 in ten years.
Before Bjork and Sigur Ros make Iceland a cool model, this is a great place to experience Iceland and a great place to learn.
With the exception of the only liquor store within 100 miles and the original nature that started from the edge of town, there was no interference.
The latter made me seriously experience the difficulties of Iceland for the first time.
When asked what we would do over the weekend, I wanted to tell the class that I planned to hike to the waterfall-filled valley.
In Iceland, "Waterfall" is fossarnir, but it is fossana if you are going, unless you are going far away, in which case it is foss
If the spray gets you wet, it's fossanna.
The trip seemed too much trouble in language.
But I went. They were beautiful.
Fallegir, fallegga, fallegum, etc).
Keep track of all the pages required for these complex charts.
"You don't need Sudoku if you're learning Icelandic," said Peter Weiss, a German who has learned well enough to be Haskolasetur vest
University Center at West Fjord)
Where is the course held-
Including several rooms in a frozen building. fish warehouse.
Some students are happy with the game, especially Jim, an American software designer.
Their systematic mind pursues grammar with enthusiasm, and for fun, writes deformation diagrams on the whiteboard.
But even they are overwhelmed.
One day before the exam, a painting
Looking at Brink sighed, "we found out last night that we needed to know 144 endings . . . . . . I think.
"Despite this, the Icelandic people still have some extremely simple cramps, which is equally confusing, as in the sentence" Bondinn.
This can be translated as "farmers by the river have a sheep", but to figure this out requires counter-factual thinking: in a sheep nearly 3-to-
1. it's hard to imagine a loser farmer with only one.
Grammar is difficult, but vocabulary can be a pleasure for its alternative poetry.
Icelandic people resist the invasion of foreign words and are more willing to use the words of the 9 th century settlers for modern development.
The phone is "simi" in the word thread, and the computer is "tolva" in number"
Witch, my personal favorite: the soda that Icelandic people drink is "gosdrykka"an eruption-beverage.
This course brings all of our nominal adults back to the status of teenagers, because we can actually say very little and feel smug about what we can do.
I was so proud when I was able to remember and smoothly pronounce for nurse hjukrunarfraedingur, I wanted to pretend to be hurt so I could go to the hospital to show off.
Most of the town's shopkeepers treated us like good children and were patient and happy with our eagerness for awkwardness.
While my accent does make me a little unintelligible, my accent has been tarnished by Ohio education and has lived in Russia and Sweden for 20 years.
I haven't been able to lose enough accent to achieve one of my goals: to convincingly say Iceland's "-
Ll, "during the eruption of 2010 Eyjafjallajokull volcano, the imitation of this phoneme by foreign journalists made about 320,000 native speakers laugh.
There is a ghostly "t", a voice as appealing as a soft pigeon coo, still elusive.
This is the reason to go back.
If you're an Icelandic: three of haslasset vestafada
The weekly course is on August; one-
Weekly crash course on 5 and January.
Get there: you can reach isafjordor by Icelandic Airlines from Reykjavik Domestic Airport (
One hour by road from kafravik International Airport)
While landing is painful: the plane flies on a narrow fjord and then pulls a tight 180 at a steep drop to avoid a mountain.
The bus runs several times a week. The school provides a chartered car for summer students and stops at the spectacular dandendi falls.
Stay there: there are three small hotels in isfayol, some guest houses and tourist apartments, a camp in the city center and another gorgeous camp surrounded by a waterfall 5 kilometers away.