Comments on: No Icelandic Word for Please http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/ How do you like Iceland? - a blog about Icelandic nature, nightlife, parties, adventure, shopping, eating, drinking, recovering and much more. It's brought to you by the good people of Iceland Express, Iceland's low-fare airline, as a way of luring you to Reykjavík. Go on, read it. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:22:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: horn http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-112805 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:03:34 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-112805 takk fyrir! ég var á íslandi síðasta vika og reyndi að tala (ok, ég reyndi að SKILJA) íslensku. og ég skildi nærri engin... but these phrases are really funny and helpful... oh, and if you would like to say "please" you could then use "gertu svo vel" or "gerið svo vel" (if there's more than one you're talking to) kveðjur frá sviss? takk fyrir!
ég var á íslandi síðasta vika og reyndi að tala (ok, ég reyndi að SKILJA) íslensku. og ég skildi nærri engin…

but these phrases are really funny and helpful…

oh, and if you would like to say “please” you could then use “gertu svo vel” or “gerið svo vel” (if there’s more than one you’re talking to)

kveðjur frá sviss?

]]> by: astrid http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-109500 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:19:06 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-109500 Ég er læra islensku. well i don't know i can have chance to be in iceland, but i'm enjoying it !! ( i'm sad that i couldn't say that in icelandic ... YET !!!!! ) but it's really really make me puke when im learnig grammar part ...... and thank u for letting me know that 'vinsamlegast'sounds stupid . I WAS PRACTICING IT !!!!!! hahaha Ég er læra islensku.
well i don’t know i can have chance to be in iceland, but i’m enjoying it !! ( i’m sad that i couldn’t say that in icelandic … YET !!!!! )
but it’s really really make me puke when im learnig
grammar part ……

and thank u for letting me know that ‘vinsamlegast’sounds stupid .
I WAS PRACTICING IT !!!!!! hahaha

]]> by: Jaio http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-79701 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:47:54 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-79701 Funny, it's looking a little like hungarian language. You are sure that you are not teaching us some insane bad words?:-) Funny, it’s looking a little like hungarian language. You are sure that you are not teaching us some insane bad words?:-)

]]> by: Erik http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-67116 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:40:01 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-67116 Amanda, The REALLY crazy thing is that they all rhyme with "peanut". Strange language indeed... Amanda,
The REALLY crazy thing is that they all rhyme with “peanut”. Strange language indeed…

]]> by: Amanda http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-67112 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:19:19 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-67112 You've got me hooked now, I MUST know more about the 45 words for green. Excuse my ignorance, I'd kinda figured Iceland was just white ... kiddin'! You’ve got me hooked now, I MUST know more about the 45 words for green. Excuse my ignorance, I’d kinda figured Iceland was just white … kiddin’!

]]> by: Rhys Danino http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-62793 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:04:04 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-62793 If anyone is interested, then there is a good book called "Colloquial Icelandic" by Daisy L. Neijmann. It's really good, I found it well useful. No, I'm not Daisy. I'm Rhys. I email Daisy. What she didn't tell me was that there's an accompanying CD. I dan't have this yet. If anyone is interested, then there is a good book called “Colloquial Icelandic” by Daisy L. Neijmann. It’s really good, I found it well useful.

No, I’m not Daisy. I’m Rhys. I email Daisy.

What she didn’t tell me was that there’s an accompanying CD. I dan’t have this yet.

]]> by: hjalti hilmarsson http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-62603 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:28:49 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-62603 um, the Icelandic word for please is Vinsamlegast. but its stupid, and is never used unless we are picking a fight or are over 80 years old(and picking a fight with other old people) um, the Icelandic word for please is Vinsamlegast. but its stupid, and is never used unless we are picking a fight or are over 80 years old(and picking a fight with other old people)

]]> by: oria http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-62335 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:51:41 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-62335 Very useful, but when you say more than takk it's very likely that the other person starts to speak Icelandic. Then is the moment to say: Ég ekki talar islensku Very useful, but when you say more than takk it’s very likely that the other person starts to speak Icelandic. Then is the moment to say:

Ég ekki talar islensku

]]> by: VIOLHAINE http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-62289 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:57:33 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2007/11/12/no-icelandic-word-for-please/#comment-62289 Hahaha, thanks Annie for the one & only good laugh of this day!!! ;] Hahaha, thanks Annie for the one & only good laugh of this day!!!
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