Teach Yourself Icelandic Complete Course Audiopack | 
 enlarge | Author: Hildur Jonsdottir
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 38569
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 2
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Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.6 x 1.7
ISBN: 0071418962
Dewey Decimal Number: 439
UPC: 639785416074
EAN: 9780071418966
ASIN: 0071418962
Publication Date: September 15, 2003
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Product Description
Learning Icelandic as easy as 1-2-3 With this book, Icelandic is attainable for any beginning student. You can use Teach Yourself Icelandic Complete Course at your own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. This complete course is based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly. Prepared by experts in the language, Teach Yourself Icelandic begins with the basics and gradually promotes you to a level of smooth and confident communication, including: - Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
- Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
- Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
- Practical vocabulary
- Regular and irregular verb tables
- Plenty of practice exercises and answers
- Bilingual glossary
Package includes two 60-minute CDs and a book.
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 Practical Icelandic July 8, 2008
I'm quite pleased with this approach to learning a language, after earlier experiences with traditional textbooks. It's clear and the order is very practical--what's your name, where are you from, what are you doing, where are you going, what time is it, it's time for a review, etc. I visited the official website of Iceland recently, and was somewhat dismayed to learn that 99% of the population speaks English, but there are still the sagas.
Teach Yourself Icelandic April 10, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have not completed this course yet, but I have looked ahead. This is an excellent resource to start learning Icelandic. It starts out with pronounciation and works you through simple questions like What is your name? to more complex sentences and words. Cases and gender are introduced right at the beginning.This is a great resource and I recommend it for those who want to start learning Icelandic.
 Teach Yourself Icelandic March 8, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a good course for the more technically minded student. It starts simply and gives more in depth information with each chapter.
It focuses a lot on the grammar, cases and declension of Icelandic and is perhaps more suited to someone who has already studied a language besides english (I am a German speaker).
It gives a good understanding of how Icelandic works as a language and the CDs help a lot with pronounciation and understanding the spoken language.
Learning Icelandic January 10, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
While I have not completed the course, I have reviewed it and appears to be a solid teaching method. Icelandic especially requires having the CD for audio as it is a very subtle language for pronunciation.
One warning for Amazon UK orders: I ordered mine from the US and a friend ordered at the same time from the UK. She only got the audio CDs while I got the nice book and CDs. This is not the first time this has happened to her for Amazon UK.
EXCELLENT October 22, 2006
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've had a fascination with Icelandic for a while now, and I've tried many books. The Colloquial books suck. period, the end. Don't buy the Colloquial Icelandic book. They just MENTION case very late in the book, and just throw a giant chart at you and have only ONE exercise.
This book is jsut the opposite. It gently introduces the topic of case at the beginning, and it is discussed throughout the entire book. The CDs are excellent. Icelandic is a hard langauge, and not learnable in one book, but this book gets you pretty darn close.
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