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Any TAs from Iceland? I am thinking about visiting and maybe moving for a few months.

It looks like a nice place.

watch out for the volcano

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I hear china is lovely.

I'm from The Faroe Islands. It's pretty similar to Iceland only smaller. Our language is almost identical.

Iceland: water, rocks, more rocks, even more rocks, Kimi, is there more?

Yes, our money, well more like the money which is gone (not mine though)

Nice for this too:



and this, national sport is Hillclimbing by car:

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Originally posted by Kylle

Wow, this looks great. Thanks a lot for sharing. I will have to try to make it out that way some day.

i would have sex with all this white girls

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Originally posted by Kylle Our language is almost identical.

What, like English and American?

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Originally posted by Spacey Orange i would have sex with all this white girls

Girl on the right is my cousine

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Originally posted by aquila What, like English and American?

Perhaps not that identical. Maybe more like Danish and Norwegian, or Swedish

This is part two of the same program

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Originally posted by Kylle Perhaps not that identical. Maybe more like Danish and Norwegian, or Swedish

Hello guys,

Icelandic, Faroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are all North Germanic Languages, a sub-branch of closely related Germanic languages. The problem with English is that, unlike the rest, it incorporated a huge amount of French loanwords, so that it stands out a bit more than usual, so it's hard to compare it with the others.

Here's a sample sentence in all North Germanic Languages plus English, and you can see speakers of Icelandic and Faroese would have little trouble understanding one another (and, for that matter, their brethren from the continent if these numbers are to be trusted), because the different word endings and diverging grammar notwithstanding, you have many familiar roots to help you figure out what's being said - specially if you speak an insular language, as opposed to the ones in the continent, which are apparently more conservative.

As for the varieties of English, they're all too recent, and the language has not diverged as much, reason why they're way way way closer than all these languages combined.

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Originally posted by Lira

I tried to read some Icelandic texts when I was learning Norwegian, but I had a hard time understanding any of it. Seems like a fun language.

Hi. I'm from Iceland.

If you're into hiking, the Laugavegur trek in Landamannalaugar is reason enough to come to Iceland imo.


There are ofc other amazing things to see in our varied landscape. Just within the radius of the capital you can visit Geysir (the most famous one), Gullfoss (a beautiful waterfall), �ingvellir (a national park where our parliament was established in 930) and more.

July/August is the best time to visit. By then most of the snow on the mountains has melted and the weather is as good as can be.

ps. I don't understand other Scandinavian languages when spoken, but can usually get the gist of things when written. Faroese to me is like a blend of 50% danish and 50% icelandic.

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Originally posted by Lira Hello guys, Icelandic, Faroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are all North Germanic Languages, a sub-branch of closely related Germanic languages.

All the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Sweden and Norway) understand each other. However, non of them understand Icelandic and Faroese.

Icelandic people don't understand Scandinavian, but they do understand Faroese.

Faroese people understand Scandinavian because we are taught Danish in school from childhood.

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Originally posted by tactik Faroese to me is like a blend of 50% danish and 50% icelandic.

It may seem like that to you, but the Faroese language is as different from Danish as Icelandic is

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