Yup I started to learn Icelandic.With a language pack I found from internet I have 6 courses of which 2 have a second level. So 8 in total. Enough for well over 200 lessons.
I am crazy so I made a schedule to use them all at the same time. Well every day another. And it works because they have rather equal subjects, so the different words and subjects come to me repeated and in different ways explained. The one course is more for integration, the other more for grammar and another mixes both. I am happy. But some are very very outdated.
Also I have to take the conclusion that Icelandic is a very tough language to study. Even if Finnish was completely new, since the only familiar words are those that are imported like tomaati, appelsinni etc. Icelandic really breaks my nerves with all the declensions. But I am sure I will manage one day.
Earlier this week I sent out a postcard to Portugal (I like to do postcrossing) and I amazed myself how much I could still write in Portuguese. Mentioning I only had a few lessons, and mainly learned it all by myself, by reading magazines, cartoons, childrens books and a homestudy. I pet my shoulder, I am still capable to read magazines, while I didnt speak or read it for so many years. It gives me clear confidence that Icelandic will be fine. But it is harder to get by native speakers. So I solely pay attention to reading and writing for now. And a bit of listening. Speaking I will only do by repeating the audio files. Just to be sure to pronounce the right way.
I hope I will be able to practice a bit while I am in Iceland again in April. But I doubt I will manage... We will see. I just try, and at least will go buy some Icelandic childrens books. I saw many nice ones about elves, fairies and trolls. :-)
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