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anyone speak or trying to learn Icelandic?
why do people call Icelandic the hardest language?

>>1
why do people call Icelandic the hardest language?
I can imagine two possible reasons:
1. they're retarded and know shit about how to learn languages
2. there's close to no Icelandic literature and cinema

>>2
2. there's close to no Icelandic literature and cinema

I beg your pardon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature_of_Iceland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Literary_Prize

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Iceland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda_Award_for_Best_Film

Just because they have only about 300,000 people doesn't mean that they lack their own literary and cinematic culture.

>>3
I didn't mean to say that it is that way, merely said that there's a possibility that's the case.

so basically people that think it's the hardest language are retarded? Okay, works for me.

Icelandic is Indo-European and moreover Germanic, so learning it for English speakers is way simpler than learning, say, Finnish.

>>1 It is impossible to pronounce, that's why!

>>1 It is impossible to pronounce, that's why!

It also preserves a lot of the old case structure of German, in addition to having the suffixed articles of the other Scandinavian languages, which add up to a lot of noun endings in addition to verb conjugation (which Icelandic actually has unlike a lot of Germanic languages these days).  There's also the fact that Icelanders are even more paranoid about preserving the language than the French are, which means there are very few loanwords from English.

So Icelandic is probably not the hardest language per se, but it is a hard language.  Also, it's probably not something you'll get much of a chance to learn unless you go to Iceland or have an Icelandic neighbor or something.  Although I've yet to browse the selection of Icelandic media that one can undoubtedly get on the Internet for free...

Here want we with God's grace to say with a few words of that saint God's martyr Saint Eric, who earlier was king in Sweden. Both of his his lineage/heritage his nobility/origin he was so fast of kingly lineage as of other Sweden's kings/leaders. Back then the country was without a leader, and he was beloved to all the land's nobility and all of the common people, so wanted they him to king with all of the common people's goodwill, and they sat him in glory in the king's stool at Uppsala.

since the realm was without a leader

chose, not wanted