UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses
Icelandic Level 3
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 help students become more confident speakers of Icelandic using good
basic knowledge of Icelandic to develop all four skills (speaking, listening, reading and
writing) to an intermediate level. Students should be starting to have a good command of
the language in many common situations. Cultural awareness will be developed. Students will
keep working on declension, with the aim of it becoming second nature.
Functions
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Travelling
Writing postcards and letters
Complaining
Taking messages, functioning on the telephone
Talking about the weather
The seasons
Extracting information from written or oral material
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Solidifying the basic pronunciation of all 14 vowels with interference from ng/nk & j
Solidifying the pronunciation of double plosives, ll, nn, f, g, s, þ & ð
Practice getting difficult pronunciation up to speed
Grammar
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The reflexive possessive pronoun for 3rd person, singular & plural
Adverbs and prepositional phrases
Word-order after adverbs and prepositional phrases
Indefinite pronouns in the nominative, singular & plural (e.g. hver, einhver,
annarhver, hvor, annarhvor, báðir, hvorugur)
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Revision of declension of nouns and adjectives
Declension of nouns and adjectives with fraction (e.g. gaffall, jökull, fyndinn)
Usage of prepositions of place with travel
Usage of prepostions of time
More impersonal expressions
Learning Resources
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Course book: Colloquial Icelandic, Daisy Newman;
Learning Icelandic, Mál & Menning
Teacher’s handouts
Online material from Bragi - íslenska
Dictionaries:
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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