{"id":14693,"date":"2017-10-25T13:18:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T12:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:18:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T12:18:37","slug":"eg-fer-til-reykjavikur-a-morgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14693","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9g fer til Reykjav\u00edkur \u00e1 morgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Reykjavik tomorrow for the <a href=\"http:\/\/polyglotconference.com\/\">Polyglot Conference<\/a>. This will be my first time in Iceland, and I&#8217;m looking forward to it very much.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been studying Icelandic with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0415207061\/omniglot-20\"><em>Colloquial Icelandic<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memrise.com\/\">Memrise<\/a> for about a month now. I won&#8217;t be having complex conversations just yet, but do at least know some basics. I&#8217;ve found quite a few Icelandic words that are similar to English, Swedish and\/or German, which helps, and the word order is also similar to English.<\/p>\n<p>One of the speakers at the conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danieltammet.net\/\">Daniel Tammet<\/a>, will be telling us how he learnt Icelandic in a week &#8211; rather better than I&#8217;ve managed. It should be a very interesting talk.<\/p>\n<p>The title of this post means &#8220;I am going to Reykjavik tomorrow&#8221;, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Reykjavik tomorrow for the Polyglot Conference. This will be my first time in Iceland, and I&#8217;m looking forward to it very much. I&#8217;ve been studying Icelandic with Colloquial Icelandic and Memrise for about a month now. I won&#8217;t be having complex conversations just yet, but do at least know some basics. I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,124,10,13,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-icelandic","category-language","category-language-learning","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693","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=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}