{"id":14655,"date":"2017-10-18T17:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14655"},"modified":"2017-10-18T17:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:59:17","slug":"radstefna-fjoltyngdra-einstaklinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14655","title":{"rendered":"R\u00e1\u00f0stefna fj\u00f6ltyngdra einstaklinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/pcicelandic.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Polyglot Conference logo in Icelandic\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memrise.com\/course\/1638446\/icelandic\/\">Icelandic courses<\/a> I&#8217;m doing on Memrise was made especially for people going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/polyglotconference.com\/\">Polyglot Conference<\/a> in Reykjavik at the end of October. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s lesson included the phrase &#8220;Hefur \u00fe\u00fa teki\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed R\u00e1\u00f0stefnu fj\u00f6ltyngdra einstaklinga?&#8221;, which means &#8220;Have you been to a Polyglot Conference?&#8221;, or literally &#8220;Have you taken part in a conference of multilingual individuals?&#8221;. Quite a mouthful!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>R\u00e1\u00f0stefna<\/strong> means conference, from <em>r\u00e1\u00f0<\/em> (advice, counsel, plan, council) &#038; <em>stefna<\/em> (direction, course, strategy, policy, movement, convention, conference).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fj\u00f6ltyngdra<\/strong> is from <strong>fj\u00f6ltyngdur<\/strong> (multilingual, polyglot), from <em>fj\u00f6l-<\/em> (many, multi, poly) &#038; <em>tyngdur<\/em> (tongued, lingual), from <em>tunga<\/em> (tongue).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Einstaklinga<\/strong> is from <strong>einstaklingur<\/strong> (individual, person)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other Icelandic phrases I&#8217;ve learnt from this course, and other courses, are slightly easier to remember and say. For example, &#8220;<em>Hva\u00f0a tungum\u00e1l talar \u00fe\u00fa?<\/em>&#8221; (Which languages do you speak?&#8221;). <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one that&#8217;s easy to ask, but more difficult to answer. The way I answer it depends on the context. At a polyglot event, I&#8217;ll go into details about the languages I speak and how well I speak them. Elsewhere I just say something like, &#8220;I speak 5 languages fluently, more or less&#8221;, or &#8220;I speak 11 languages well or fairly well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In Icelandic I think I could say &#8220;<em>\u00c9g tala fimm tungum\u00e1l, meira e\u00f0a minna<\/em>&#8221; (I speak five languages, more or less&#8221;) &#8211; not sure how to add fluently (<em>flj\u00f3tt<\/em>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Icelandic courses I&#8217;m doing on Memrise was made especially for people going to the Polyglot Conference in Reykjavik at the end of October. Today&#8217;s lesson included the phrase &#8220;Hefur \u00fe\u00fa teki\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed R\u00e1\u00f0stefnu fj\u00f6ltyngdra einstaklinga?&#8221;, which means &#8220;Have you been to a Polyglot Conference?&#8221;, or literally &#8220;Have you taken part in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,124,10,13,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-icelandic","category-language","category-language-learning","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}