The phonetic guide (pictured above) on how to pronunce basic Icelandic words is pretty impressive. It was left behind by an unknown traveller and found by local girl Sandra Smára, who posted it to Twitter, thanking the unknown traveller for the laugh out loud moment of the day: Icelanders never cease to be amused by funny non-native attempts to pronounce Icelandic words.
Icelandic is notoriously hard to learn and even harder to pronounce. (Case in point: Remember that volcano which erupted in 2010?) The pronounciation guide is spot on, and if you want to pronounce Icelandic correctly you will certainly come closer to your goal than if you were to try to figure the pronounciation out from their spelling!
Although the list was originally posted in November of 2016 it has popped up on social media a few times since then, and we thought it was a good idea to share it with our readers again.
Vil þakka túristanum sem gleymdi þessu fyrir hláturskast dagsins pic.twitter.com/u4TltKK5L1
— Sandra Smára (@ovinkona) November 1, 2016
The phonetic guide (pictured above) on how to pronunce basic Icelandic words is pretty impressive. It was left behind by an unknown traveller and found by local girl Sandra Smára, who posted it to Twitter, thanking the unknown traveller for the laugh out loud moment of the day: Icelanders never cease to be amused by funny non-native attempts to pronounce Icelandic words.
Icelandic is notoriously hard to learn and even harder to pronounce. (Case in point: Remember that volcano which erupted in 2010?) The pronounciation guide is spot on, and if you want to pronounce Icelandic correctly you will certainly come closer to your goal than if you were to try to figure the pronounciation out from their spelling!
Although the list was originally posted in November of 2016 it has popped up on social media a few times since then, and we thought it was a good idea to share it with our readers again.
Vil þakka túristanum sem gleymdi þessu fyrir hláturskast dagsins pic.twitter.com/u4TltKK5L1
— Sandra Smára (@ovinkona) November 1, 2016
