I just wanted you for all the time an effort you put into the 60 mini stories course and your new course Einfaldir, íslenskir textar með Rökkva. I look forward to reading and listening to more content from you.
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Thank you and I hope you enjoy them. There are 2 more lessons I´ve made, I think in the other course I made about the Icelandic language, but they need some re-recording. (Login - LingQ)
I have also translated the Eating out and Greetings and goodbyes, which are standard LingQ courses, but they still need recording and editing.
After that I will not be making more material for a long time I think. I have done way too much language learning and work for Icelandic on LingQ in the last two years and a half and I really need a change. More exercise, getting back into comedy, catching up with friends and so on. If I´d end up doing it, it would be podcast type conversations, with transcriptions, that would be advanced level material, since making the ultra-simple material can get really boring. I´d have to be paid a real salary to even consider doing more of that for a while.
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I completely understand. Thank you again for all you’ve done for the community.
I do not know where you live, and I have posted this elsewhere, but Bókabúð Forlagið has been a great resource for me to find content. Pretty much anything with an audiobook (hljóðbók) has an ebook (rafbók).
You may need to remove DRM, I honestly do not remember. If this site didn´t exist it would be impossible for me to find compelling content at scale!
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I’m in the US. Funny that you mention Forlagið. When I originally found the site (about two years ago) it pointed me to buy eBooks from Amazon (still no audiobooks) because I lived in the US and they required a kennitala. I was seriously bummed because every place I found audiobooks in Icelandic required one.
Thanks to you, I decided to search for a way around the kennitala requirement and then stumbled upon a not-so-easy-to-find page that says outlanders just need to enter their data of birth in its stead. Low and behold, I just purchased by first audiobook from Forlagið and can’t wait to start listening. I just wish that their audiobook selection would match their eBook availability.
Talking about at scale: the biggest challenge I have in Icelandic is finding adult-oriented content (as I am not interested in children’s or adolescent-based literature) in the intermediate range. There just isn’t nearly enough accessible content in Icelandic from B1 through near-native level.
Thanks again for the nudge.
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Kennitala was my largest issue as well (also US). I would search around every few months for a way around it, and a few months ago found Forlagið let me purchase.
Their selection is pretty good for audiobooks considering and they release new things pretty regularly, though it will never be a 1-1 match with ebooks.
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Not only the effort to translate and record them, but also the painstaking degree of proofreading and double-checking gives me great confidence in these resources for when I eventually begin the study of this wonderful language. Thanks, Rokkvi, you’ve set the standard!
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Hey hey ya’ll! Can anyone tell me when an Icelandic grammar guide will be available, or what is required to get it to LingQ?
I did write a grammar guide for LingQ. I don´t know why it´s not up yet.
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Great. Thanks. I’ll look out for it.