//arikast.com/categories/language/ Recent content in Language on Ari Kast Hugo en Thu, 08 May 2025 11:26:33 -0400 //arikast.com/post/learn-foreign-language-free/ Thu, 08 May 2025 11:26:33 -0400 //arikast.com/post/learn-foreign-language-free/ <p>Obviously, the best is to live in the target country. But assuming you don&rsquo;t live there but still want to learn the language, or perhaps you do live there but want to learn faster, then I believe the techniques described herein are more effective than any paid product (Pimsleur, Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, etc). And what&rsquo;s more, these techniques are free. I think they deliver superior results because they&rsquo;re more natural, more closely matching the way we all acquire our first language. Here is the road map:</p> //arikast.com/post/icelandic-english-similarities/ Sat, 14 May 2022 09:09:13 -0400 //arikast.com/post/icelandic-english-similarities/ <style> table#ice-eng-chart tbody>tr>:nth-child(even){ font-size: smaller; color: #393d49} </style> <h3 id="the-hard-part">The hard part</h3> <p>Icelandic is reputed to be a difficult language to learn, and grammatically it is indeed a beast. Every noun can be one of 3 genders, but nouns also change depending how they&rsquo;re used in the sentence, with 4 main usages (subject, direct object, indirect object, possessive). But that&rsquo;s not all, nouns can also be singular or plural, so you end up with 3x4x2 = 24 potential ways to say each and every noun (there can be some overlaps, but you still need to know when and for which words they apply).</p>