Lifetime Access: Icelandic Language Courses for Endless Learning
Pimsleur Premium Lifetime Purchase
Own Pimsleur forever. Works on both mobile and web-based apps. All premium features included.
Own Pimsleur forever. Works on both mobile and web-based apps. All premium features included.
Pimsleur Premium Makes Learning Icelandic Easy
Pimsleur Premium Makes Learning Icelandic Easy
- 30-minute core lessons you can take anywhere with the Pimsleur app, now available with Carplay and Android Auto, or use in the comfort of home with Amazon® Alexa® or on your computer or tablet.
- Progress syncs automatically across all your devices.
- Individual progress tracking for one main account holder and up to 3 additional household members.
- Hands-free mode makes it easy to learn anywhere.
- Voice Coach gives you real-time feedback to perfect your pronunciation, and lets you earn a Pimsleur Certificate.
- Great review options including Skills categories, digital flash cards, Quick Match Quiz, and Speed Round.
- Speak Easy conversation practice lets you role-play while reviewing written transcripts of the conversations.
Pimsleur Icelandic Premium contains approximately 15 hours of audio language instruction in 30 daily lessons featuring the proven Pimsleur Method, plus
- Reading Lessons to introduce you to reading,
- 300 digital flash cards allow you to practice, brush up, or review,
- And with the Quick Match interactive phrase game, you get 300 questions to challenge you.
- 30 Speak Easy conversations allow you to fine-tune conversational skills and perfect your accent,
- 30 spectacular high resolution travel photographs to inspire and enhance your cultural education,
- 30 light bulb moments to connect culture and history to your language learning.
- Six Bonus Packs to expand your vocabulary and help you sound like a native.
Over 60 years ago, Dr. Paul Pimsleur developed a method that transformed language learning. Since then, millions have used this system to begin to speak and understand a new language quickly. You can too.
The Icelandic Language
Icelandic, the official language of Iceland, is spoken by the island nation's entire population of just over 330,000. In addition, approximately 8,000 speakers live in Denmark and 6,500 in North America. Descended from Old Norse, Icelandic is one of the Nordic languages belonging to a subgroup of Northern Germanic languages which also includes Norwegian and Faroese (spoken in the remote Faroe Islands off the coast of Denmark). The insular Icelandic language has not changed significantly since the Middle Ages and is considered a part of the country’s national identity. The government's Icelandic Language Committee, charged with maintaining linguistic purism, keeps foreign words from influencing the language by coining new terms (usually constructed by combining old words) to describe modern concepts. For example, the word “computer” did not exist in Icelandic, so a new word, tölva, was created. Tölva is a combination of two existing words, tala (number) and völva (a prophetess or magical seer) or, literally, "number prophet."
