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Animals Observed: A Look at Animals in Art
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Expanding Your Horizons: Collegiate Football's Greatest Team
Donald Steinberg
Manufacturer: Dorrance Pub. Co.
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Great Book!!.......2003-06-11
I love Ohio State Football and this book bleeds scarlet and grey! It gives you an indepth look in to one of the best teams ever in college football history! Very nicely written and an all around good book.
Book Description
Colloquial Icelandic is the ideal introduction to the modern language. Written by an experienced language teacher, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Icelandic. No previous knowledge of the language is required. Features include:
* pronunciation guide
* lively dialogues
* concise grammar explanations
* lots of exercises with full answer key
* English-Icelandic and Icelandic-English glossaries.
Learning Icelandic has never been so enjoyable! By the end of this rewarding course, you will be able to speak, read, and write Icelandic with confidence. Two 60-minute cassettes are also available, featuring the dialogues and exercises in the book. Recorded by native speakers, they will help perfect your pronunciation and listening skills.
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A Fine Introduction to Icelandic.......2007-03-17
This book does a pretty good job of introducing a rather difficult language---my wife and I moved to Iceland a year ago and we have been using this book as part of our learning process. No textbook can make one master a language, of course, but this is a reasonable overview of how teo introduce yourself, order food, and pick out some items from the newpaper. However, I must second the suggestion that the book needs a thorough explanation of elisions----the connection of sounds typical in everyday speech. English speakers do this also; terminal "t" often becomes a "d", as in "....what are we doing now?" Anyway, the peculiarities of daily Icelandic pronunciation deserve a at least a mention, and not least because the excellent native speakers on the CD make no bones about going slowly for the foreigners.
Secondly, some reviewers (and Daisy Neijmann herself) have mentioned that once you have mastered (!) Icelandic, you can "appreciate the sagas in their original form." That is rather hyperbolic; not many contemporary Icelanders can understand the original texts of the sagas. The ancient language in which, for example, Snorri Sturluson (author of Egils saga) spoke and wrote,was much harder and crisper, and since then many consonant sounds have softened; i.e. terminal "k" is now written and sounded as terminal "g"; the names "Haraldr" and "Eírikr" and now rendered both in speech and writing with and additional vowel----Haraldur and Eírikur. My point is that the suggestion that a non-native speaker upon completing his study of Colloquial Icelandic can strait proceed to the original saga texts is rather far-fetched. Icelanders today often read a modern translation of them, in the same way that it is quite difficult to understand the original Chaucer.
Those two points aside, this a fine book, and helpful for anyone who plans for a stay in Iceland. If you're just going to Reykjavík for a party, don't bother.
Best book on learning the language, but could have more.......2007-01-20
I just started and I really like how the book is laid out and easy to understand. Other books are fairly complicated and nonsensical to me. Since I have no intention of writing in Icelandic, this is a great book because it covers all the important conversational topics.
However, I wish there was more on the CDs. The tracks did not announce what lesson/page they were referring to so it made it confusing if you picked track 15 and needed to know what page it referred to. Also, it would be helpful if there were more tracks with more conversations. I agree with a couple other users who mentioned the lack coverage on declensions (cuz I had no idea what they were till now).
The best part is that the exercises in the book have the answers! Some of my language books have exercises but no answers. At least Daisy got this right.
If you want to speak Icelandic and read a bit, I definitely recommend this book.
Not Well Organized or Thought out.......2006-09-30
This book is OK as a VERY basic introduction to Icelandic. You learn the word for "coach" (ruta) before yes and no. Also, the exercises are short and insignificant. When you learn about declensions (probably the most important aspect of Icelandic grammar), all the book has is a long paragraph, a HUGE graph (with vauge footnotes "There is a subgroup of masculine nouns which has -ir instead of -ar in the nominitive plural and -i in the accusative plural". No hint of these words), and one, measly fill in the blank activity.
This is good if you want to become vaugely acquainted witht the language, or if you just want to learn a few phrases. For the serious Icelandic student, get the Teach Yourself book.
Fabulous! Learn to speak Icelandic like a native!.......2005-06-02
I was getting ready to give a speech in Iceland and had no idea what the language sounded like. I tried several CD-based language courses, but none of them taught you more than just colors and common names. This CD course was EXCELLENT! I tested my Icelandic on the phone before I left and my hosts in Iceland were astounded at my pronounciation and knowledge of the language.
The lessons seemed strange at first because there is no direct translation of what you are saying. If you stick with it long enough to get past chapter 6, you'll be saying things like a native AND you will be understood!
Great .......2004-12-11
I like the colloquial series... the right way of using useable language and still some of the grammar you need... workable CD's and excersizes... I am happy here
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Good Dictionary.......2007-03-14
This dictionary is better than what most of the other reviewers have said. It is not a big dictionary, it has 177 pages, and it only has one column of print, but it has many words in it. Someone said it still uses the letter z, which Icelandic no longer uses. But I did not see the letter z in the Icelandic section.
This is not a great dictionary, but it will go along just fine with other books' glossaries.
What are they talking about.......2005-05-07
The demand for Icelandic dictionaries is pretty small. Because of this, you will have to pay 60 dollars or more for a great or out-of-print edition. The hippocrene version is not a great dictionary by any stretch of the imagination, however, it retails for around 10 dollars. If you are serious about learning Icelandic, you will need a dictionary. Pick this one up and use the glossaries from you other books (such as Teach Yourself Icelandic, Colloquial Icelandic, Icleandic, etc...) to supplement what this edition leaves out. The other reviewers seem to have alot of money, which explains their disdain for this cheap edition and absurdly expensive recommendations. Which one would you choose: a brand new $10 dictionary or a $60+ out-of-print dictionary. Just be sure to check Half Price Books and other used bookstores to see if they happen to have any large college or complete Icelandic dictionaries in stock.
Don't buy it: useless.......2003-09-20
Most people who study Icelandic, buy this little book, but it's absolutely useless, because:
*1. It contains too few words.
Only 5,000 one way (a good dictionairy should contain at least 50,000).
*2. There are no inflection indications.
The most essential thing of the whole Icelandic language lacks (only gender is stated, and the strength of verbs, which is absoutely useless without other information).
*3. No word combinations, no proverbs whatsoever.
Needed for a good use of the language.
*4. Old-fashioned.
No modern words.
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The problem is, THERE ARE NO OTHER ICELANDIC DICTIONAIRIES AVAILABLE ON AMAZON. ...I hope I have helped you.
Of no use to translators, or anyone else.......2003-04-26
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This is a very small dictionary with just one column of large type on each page. There are 177 pages in the Icelandic-English section, so you can guess that there are in truth, not many words.
When you're doing a simple translation from English to Icelandic, this isn't too much of a problem, because if you're a native English speaker, you can always find a substitute word if you can't find the one you really wanted in this little dictionary.
But when it's the other way around, it's a big, big problem. To test it, I downloaded the daily free newspaper in Icelandic from the Morgunblaðið website, and attempted to translate some simple articles using this dictionary. Barely one in ten of the words used in the newspaper were in the dictionary.
So for that, it was useless.
You may find it more useful if you're good at recognising the irregular declensions, or at splitting compound words into their components, but even then, I think you will find that this dictionary simply doesn't have the vocabulary. In fact, it barely meets the definition of a dictionary.
Think of it as an expanded phrase book and you'll be nearer the mark but then, it doesn't contain any phrases.
Unfortunately, there isn't much else on the market unless you can get something from Iceland itself which would be expensive. If you really need to translate even the simplest of texts, this book won't do.
Save your money for something better........2000-08-04
This book was small, which fooled me into thinking it would be an indispensable pocket resource, packed with small type and tens of thousands of definitions. It's not.
Each page contains one column of text with rather large type, so the book simply doesn't contain much information. Many common words used in normal conversation were just missing.
Irregular forms of words weren't included on a large scale, requiring the reader to have pretty extensive knowledge of roots and how they may change irregularly depending on the case. Something like "this the plural dative form of word X" would be extremely useful with a language like Icelandic, but was almost completely absent from this book.
Nouns were listed with gender, but the book didn't say whether the nouns were weak or strong.
Another frustrating feature of this book was the inconsistent alphabetical ordering of words when non-roman characters like aelig, thorn, and eth were involved.
Other features missing from this book but present in some other dictionaries: Common phrases, basic grammar, conversational snippets.
Overall, this book is just too frustrating to be useful.
Customer Reviews:
Indispensable!.......2006-11-13
Zoëga's dictionary has been a classic in the field since it first appeared almost a century ago. Both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien knew the dictionary and had their own well-thumbed copies. Lewis mentions in his letters his great enjoyment in perusing "his Zoëga" at leisure, and Tolkien alludes to it as the "standard" in the preface to his Middle English Glossary. Also, the preeminent Old Norse scholar, William Craigie (also a mentor to Tolkien), assisted Zoëga with the manuscript and the proof-revisions. This is a terrific volume even for idle browsing -- you'll almost always discover some interesting word, compound, or cognate -- and it's absolutely indispensable to have at your side if you want to take a shot at reading the Old Norse literature in the original language. It even has a short grammatical outline at the end of the book.
Essential reference for students of Old Norse/Old Icelandic.......2006-03-27
This dictionary packs a lot of information into a relatively small space. Zoega is a condensation of the massive 1869-1874 Old Icelandic dictionary by Cleasby and Vigfusson. Since most students of Old Icelandic didn't have access to this work, for many years Zoega was pretty much the only game in town for English speakers. Now both it and Cleasby-Vigfusson are available online, but it's still nice to have a hard copy of Zoega in you hands while trying to figure out just what that weird idiomatic construction is supposed to mean. There is no formal grammar included here, but there are some vital charts at the back of the book that provide basic information about endings for nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc. Zoega was originally published by Oxford University Press, and it's nice to see that Dover has decided to reprint it. Believe it or not, this dictionary is nearly one hundred years old! It's got a lot of staying power.
A Needed Missing Piece.......2004-10-07
The write stuff:
Practically the only fault I can find is the lack of an English-
Norse section, which would simplify things for novelists who
want their Viking characters to sound authentic. Still, you can
find a wealth of material in sample sentences. The more difficult
of these are given English translations. Since it's a scholarly
work, don't look for slang or very much colloquial speech.
On the technical front:
Standard format is followed, where vowel fusions, umlauts, etc.
are presented at the end of their respective letter sections.
Words beginning with such characters begin after the V section.
Most useful is the separation of nominative from genitive forms.
This makes wading through medieval readers much easier (the
stated goal of the author). When you come upon an unfamiliar
word--nowhere to be found in the reader's glossary--you can
find it in the dictionary, whereupon you're directed to the
root word for a full definition.
For students:
It's informative to compare modern Icelandic with Old Norse.
For example, you'll find that "athugi" becomes the modern
form "athygli".
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If Scandinavia is your next destination, the Berlitz Scandinavian Phrase Book will help you communicate with confidence and travel with ease throughout Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Perfect for both business travelers and vacationers, this easy-to-use, color-coded book contains essential expressions, a simplified pronunciation guide, and a dictionary. The Berlitz phrase book is the unparalleled market leader in its category.
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Good phrase book to get by........2005-03-29
This is a handy pocket sized phrase book that is very handy to communicate the very basics. If you want to get in depth with the language this is not for you. If you want to learn a few basic phrases then this is for you. Many people spoke my native language in Scandinavia which made it easier to get by with the many interactions I dealt with but it was fun to make attempts at learning some of the languages. Have a go at it. Fun Stuff!
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English-Icelandic Mathematical Dictionary
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An English-Icelandic mathematical lexicon, together with an Icelandic-English topical index. This volume, the result of over 20 years work by the Icelandic Mathematical Society, includes more than 8000 English mathematical terms and expressions with not only their Icelandic translations, but also cross-references to related concepts and synonyms in English.
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Pocket-sized dictionary. From preface: "This dictionary is based on the spoken rather than the written word, and its aim is to give as much information as possible in the restricted space available."
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A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue
Rasmus K. Rask , and
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