📄️ Unit Overview
Welcome to the second unit! This unit is designed to teach you to introduce yourself to people as well as introduce you to the concepts, phrases, and words necessary to understanding inflection.
📄️ Introduction to Declension
Now that you have a basic understanding of conjugation, it is time to learn some basics of declension. Declension is the inflection of nominals, such as nouns. For native English speakers, understanding how declension works is often cited as the hardest aspect of Icelandic grammar to master since there is not a great modern English example or phenomenon to compare it to. As a result, English speakers often quickly feel overwhelmed and have difficulty distinguishing when they should use one form of a word in Icelandic versus when they should be using another.
📄️ Introduction to Case Steering
By now, you should be fairly comfortable with the idea of subjects and objects. Whether a noun is a subject or an object and what verb it is effected by is a large part of deciding what case a noun needs to be.
📄️ Hello and Goodbye
Perhaps the most important thing to learn in any language is how to say hello and goodbye.
📄️ My name is, and I am from
After meeting somebody and saying hello for the first time, it is very common to ask them their name and where they are from.
📄️ How are you?
There are two main ways to ask how are you in Icelandic. Both methods are extremely common and at least one of them are used in nearly every Icelandic conversation following the initial greeting.
📄️ Short Fixed Phrases
This lesson will serve two purposes: (1) to provide a good bank of useful pre-constructed phrases, and (2) to provide background vocabulary necessary for the next two units.