In a world dominated by English-language products and technology, Iceland and its people are fighting to keep their Icelandic language learning relevant.
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Teach me Icelandic! I wanna keep the language alive. 😀
Thats because according to the most genius linquistic, icelandic language is the most difficult language to learn in the world. Language should be simple but able to convey complex stuff.
stupid ass "intelligentials" who think they're better than everyone else, trying to "conserve" the language. how pathetic. English never had problem importing words from Latin, French, Greek, Spanish
It's not just history, information and knowledge that is lost with a language, it's also a paradigm that promotes a vast multitude of perceptions that engenders culture, customs and traditions which belong to the inherent syntax that forms these invariable possibilities of consciousness that are exclusive to said language.
The domain of thought from an english speaker varies quite differently to an icelandic speaker. That is because our thoughts are bounded to the limitations of our languages and the rules it lays out; same deal with emotions.
So we're not just killing off a language here, we're killing off a part of our global reality.
🖐🏼Hi 5 to that kiddo watches friends on Netflix. Hopefully this beautiful language will never extinct, and hopefully in the near future there would be Icelandic subtitles for Friends!!!
I want to add arabic subtitle to this video. How can I add the subtitle while the CC button is off? Is there a platform (like amara.org) that Quartz use to add subtitles??
Another problem: Hollywood doesn’t like to make movies in foreign languages and subtitle them. Leaving to an anglophonic monopoly in the worlds biggest media producer.
Yanta is one of my favorite words. It's Spanish for tire. I just think it's the perfect sounds for it's definition. And funny if using in an insulting manner
My mother tongue is Chinese which is the most spoken language in the world by population. From my personal experience, even Chinese is deemed inferior to English by many people. Many Chinese speaker don’t care about learning Chinese at all. Therefore, it’s no surprise language like Icelandic would be in huge trouble.
We have the same problem here in Sweden, especially for those who speak old dialects. There is a lot of useful words from my home region that describes nature, places and situations waaaay better then Riksvenska do. But sadly I only know a handfull of people who still use them. Me and my brothers will trie to teach the younger coming generations as we get older but it feels like a loosing battle 🙁
We should be making an effort across the world for everyone to be fluent in English. A culture is not defined by it's language, it's only a small part of it. Living in such an interconnected world and being able to communicate with anyone would be a huge benefit to humanity.
I am from Hongkong and we use Cantonese over there, and there are no where our language is used in any digital stuff, cuz the writing system is not yet standardized. and people rather using Mandarin writing system instead of hoping to have our own language's one
i'm Icelandic, and i do agree that the younger generation is using less and less Icelandic, its most likely just me but i am sooooo lost in my native language that i cant really read a book without having to translate some words into English every 2 min
Teach me Icelandic! I wanna keep the language alive. 😀
4:10 Iceland isn't even on the map
Thats because according to the most genius linquistic, icelandic language is the most difficult language to learn in the world. Language should be simple but able to convey complex stuff.
Icelandic people needs to procreate more
stupid ass "intelligentials" who think they're better than everyone else, trying to "conserve" the language. how pathetic. English never had problem importing words from Latin, French, Greek, Spanish
I want to learn Icelandic but there is no enough sources to use 🙁
It's not just history, information and knowledge that is lost with a language, it's also a paradigm that promotes a vast multitude of perceptions that engenders culture, customs and traditions which belong to the inherent syntax that forms these invariable possibilities of consciousness that are exclusive to said language.
The domain of thought from an english speaker varies quite differently to an icelandic speaker. That is because our thoughts are bounded to the limitations of our languages and the rules it lays out; same deal with emotions.
So we're not just killing off a language here, we're killing off a part of our global reality.
Þú ert ekki dauður!
01:45 no, they were written in the 12-13th centuries. however, some of the events written about took place over a 1000 years ago
🖐🏼Hi 5 to that kiddo watches friends on Netflix. Hopefully this beautiful language will never extinct, and hopefully in the near future there would be Icelandic subtitles for Friends!!!
Wtf I live like 2 minutes away from the supermarket at 1:15
I want to add arabic subtitle to this video. How can I add the subtitle while the CC button is off? Is there a platform (like amara.org) that Quartz use to add subtitles??
Greeting!
Lets come up with new hip words for our fellow kids!
Another problem: Hollywood doesn’t like to make movies in foreign languages and subtitle them. Leaving to an anglophonic monopoly in the worlds biggest media producer.
Yanta is one of my favorite words. It's Spanish for tire. I just think it's the perfect sounds for it's definition. And funny if using in an insulting manner
That boy learns English from Minecraft Videos, dayumm.
Always support the protection of languages!
Where can one find out more about this database to be able to access it? thanks!
Iceland is not losing its launguage. Its just evolving very quickly.
Add it to Duolingo lmao it’s literally that simple
But what do they speak day to day to each other?
So they doing exactly what tried our national revivalists from 19th century, but after their death we turned back to germanisms or russianisms 😀
“obscure words” my black and indigenous ass. Words are culture. It’s not freakin obscure
"Make out" that it is a sheep as in "see it" or make out with a sheep ?
Making a video on the icelandic language
showing a map without Iceland 4:05
My mother tongue is Chinese which is the most spoken language in the world by population. From my personal experience, even Chinese is deemed inferior to English by many people. Many Chinese speaker don’t care about learning Chinese at all. Therefore, it’s no surprise language like Icelandic would be in huge trouble.
They need to get an Icelandic course onto Duolingo and expand their speaker base.
We have the same problem here in Sweden, especially for those who speak old dialects. There is a lot of useful words from my home region that describes nature, places and situations waaaay better then Riksvenska do. But sadly I only know a handfull of people who still use them. Me and my brothers will trie to teach the younger coming generations as we get older but it feels like a loosing battle 🙁
Maybe that's the point. Won't the world be easier once there is one communication language…
How about letting native Americans teach their languages at school?
Or you can just IGNORE US and help people OVER SEAS instead, yeah sounds about white
Icelandic is far from extinct. Why dont we let languages evole naturally?
We should be making an effort across the world for everyone to be fluent in English. A culture is not defined by it's language, it's only a small part of it. Living in such an interconnected world and being able to communicate with anyone would be a huge benefit to humanity.
I am from Hongkong and we use Cantonese over there, and there are no where our language is used in any digital stuff, cuz the writing system is not yet standardized. and people rather using Mandarin writing system instead of hoping to have our own language's one
The future language of the internet will be….wait for it, Chinese. Everyone watching this, buckle up.
i'm Icelandic, and i do agree that the younger generation is using less and less Icelandic, its most likely just me but i am sooooo lost in my native language that i cant really read a book without having to translate some words into English every 2 min
let it die it sucks
Just learn english like everyone else lol and NEVER unironically use the word mansplaining
well I'm learning Icelandic and it's not that difficult
in a world full of discussion of the diversity of gender, nutrition end else…
We are losing our most fundamental diversity, cultural.
Some languages are going to disappear, and others are going in a transformation to mainstream languages.
Nobody uses tjámerki for emoji
It wont work. All humans will speak the same language in 100 years