UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses
Icelandic Level 2+
Prerequisite for entry
Basic knowledge of Icelandic (successful completion of Icelandic syllabus 2 at UCL Language
Centre or other comparable studies).
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The course aims to strengthen students’ basic knowledge of Icelandic to reach an
intermediate level and to communicate in and understand Icelandic on many practical
everyday matters related to various aspects of Icelandic culture. Work with noun declension
will be continued, and students will tackle the declension of adjectives.
Functions
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Buying in shops
Describing people (physical/moral descriptions)
Expressing opinions
Describing clothes that people are wearing/putting on/taking off
Describing objects in the environment, using declension of adjectives & nouns with
prepositions and verbs
Cinema
Icelandic food (þorramatur), television & radio
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Revision of basic rules of the pronunciation of f & g
Revision of pronunciation of 3 different consonants in a row
Softening of þ & ð. How to link them in pronouns
Tongue twisters
Grammar
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Declension of strong adjectives in singular and plural, all cases
Declension of nouns and adjectives together
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Revision of present tense verb declension with emphasis on which case the verbs
govern
The preposition með
Revision of prepositions í, á, frá, úr, um, til
Learning Resources
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Course book: Colloquial Icelandic, Daisy Newman;
Learning Icelandic, Mál & Menning
Teacher’s handouts
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Online material from Bragi - íslenska
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Dictionaries:
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Glossaries from Colloquial Icelandic & Learning Icelandic
Íslensk ensk orðabók - Iðunn
Ensk-íslensk skólaorðabók – Mál & Menning
Online dictionaries:
www.ordabok.is
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/IcelOnline/Search.TEId.html
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