Tú dugir væl við Føroyskt. Ljóðar gott. Eg lært Føroyskt tá eg búði Streymoynni. Tað er ómøguligt tungumál. Tað er sera vakurt at møta fólk sum mátin at tosa orð.
Am trying to learn the Faroe language ,these video help me learn some basic in the language thank you ,Am from Nigeria but i lived here in the Faroe island ,the language is beautiful but difficult to learn please make more videos thank you 😊
Im Icelandic and I understood everything but especially when it was slow because Icelandic and Faroese is basically the same but it was harder understanding it fast
I'm from Germany and I learn my 6. foreign language: Swedish. Swedish and Faroese seem to be similar! I'd like to learn Faroese and was contacting someone. Maybe there is a position learning a small language online. Small languages are pretty interesting. Also Gaelic, Icelandic Letzeburgisch etc. Ich liebe Sprachen 💙 und Reisen 🧡🌍
I visited the Faroe Islands in 1972. Took a ferry from Esbjerg to Thorshavn. Stayed in a cabin about a mile and a half from a small town with the rest of the class.
i'm coming from an old faroese songs' comments and there is a comment who says "you can learn Faroese just type Faroese language lesson it will teach you the basics" 13 years ago
When you speak slowly I can make out the meaning of most sentences (as a Dutch speaker with very limited knowledge of Norwegian and Danish), but when you speak fast (or at normal speed I guess), it goes straight over my head. Also, the spelling is an extra hurdle
'Ae' is pronounced as the 'a' in english 'cat'. In Norwegian, Danish, we use the 'ae' when saying Faroe Island; Faeroeyene, or Færø(y)ene with our nordic letters æ(ae) and ø(oe). Ø(oe) is pronounced like the 'ea' in earth. The Faroese people name their country 'Foeroyar' (Føroyar) and they are speaking in 'føroyskt' (faroese) Hope this wasn't too confusing) (I'm Norwegian, not the expert in Faroese, but should be close;)
@@Rimrock300 Close enough here. In Faroese Æ is exactly as it looks. a plus e. not e, not a, Mixture of both. Sometimes dependant on the word it can just be an A if it's at the beginning becuase of the way consonants lower the stress, Like the word Spæla to play just sounds like Spala, but there is a hint of Spaela. Other words like reyðdæmdur get more of the reyðdaemdur sound than the reyðdamdur sound. Also Føroyar is named because The danes named it Færøerne which means sheep islands. Not very nice of them to treat Faroese people like that and just think of them as the people who live with the sheep, so the Faroese made it their own by just calling it Føroyar which has no meaning. oyggj is an island and oy can be part of that but Før means nothing in faroese, Seyður is sheep. Førur is an adjective that means qualified though. And after-all all Vikings are leaders.
Being an Icelandic speaker, this sounds like a danish person trying to learn Icelandic to me. The danish influence is very strong in Faroe language I think.
It’s actually Norwegian influence on the pronunciation. If you listen to Western Norwegian dialects you’ll definitely hear similarities. Like the one in Myre. Faroese is usually described as a mix between Norwegian and Icelandic.
Interesting little video, but why so quiet??? Even on maximum, the words are almost inaudible, at least not clearly. I wonder about all the comments! You can only hear everything much too quietly, or was there perhaps an older version of the video that was louder?
@@fred-283What about taking a paid language course, instead of complaining about some random free material on youtube?;) I just let the rest I would say, be hidden for the puplic. Good luck out there. Peace.
@@Rimrock300 It is you own view that this was "complaining", it was a useful comment, no more, no less. Of course, you are free to make your videos the way you want, but if you permit comments, you have to live with criticism, and if it is constructive criticism, the better! And if you can't stand the heat, you better do not publish material or deactivate comments. - But some people, obviously in contrast to you, take criticism as an incentive to improve... So much for that. And you are not even from the islands!? So people do not get your stuff from a native speaker... Tststs... By the way, not everybody (and I do not even talk about myself) has normal hearing. I am absolutely convinced, I am not the only one who barely heard something. Instead of complaining about someone else "complaining", be smarter and learn by it. Haha, I just looked a bit through the comments! And yes, I was right, there are more people expressing how quiet this video is and how hard it is to hear anything. Don't live in denial. ;-) Okay, some correction: From one comment below I read that the speaker himself is a native. Alright.
I see this post is from rather long ago. So I don‘t know if my post will interest you. But anyway, thank you for the upload. First observations. Faroese is clearly related to Afrikaans. You could use some of these sentences exactly like that in South Africa. Second observations, Faroese is clearly not a phonetic language. So it might help be starting to explain the pronunciation of the Faroese alphabet. And then explain why some letters are silent? Thank you again and „Goeie naand van Suid Afrika“.
Think i have been listening to too much Eivör because this came up on my recommended xD Thinking of what the language sounds like it's like norwegian but the icelandic put their letters in ^^ pretty easy to understand in text voice might be a bit harder depending on how fast a person speak tho. To add.. I Swedish so might help a little.
After 12 years? I am beginner level in Faroese at the moment, but I can understand almost every word because I am advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and upper intermediate level in Norse etc... By the way, I highly recommend learning all Norse languages and Norse-influenced languages Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish etc together, and learning each word automatically, and practicing a lot, as these languages are the prettiest languages ever that are the most fun to learn and speak and hear and see and analyze etc, and they are way too pretty not to know!
By the way, I would recommend the best songs on yt that have Faroese / Norse / Icelandic lyrics are all the Skáld songs, including SæKonungar (Faroese + Norse lyrics) and those with Norse lyrics like Níu and Óðinn and Grótti and Rún and Trǫll Kalla Mik and Hross and most others and the Icelandic ones like ValFreyjuDrápa and Ríðum Ríðum etc, and the folk songs in Faroese and Icelandic which are the best folk songs ever that can be heard by typing ‘frægir funnu land’ and ‘folk Icelandic lyrics’ etc, and, Icelandic also has lyrics for the Icelandic versions of all those known songs from movies like Frozen / Vaiana etc, same as Dutch / Norwegian / Danish etc, and, there are also great songs in Gothic that one can hear by typing ‘Gothic song márch’ and ‘Gothic lyrics inweita’ and ‘Gothic hun Latin’ etc, and for Norse there is also the Norse version of some known songs like ‘palästinalied Norse version’ and ‘herr mannelig Norse’ etc, and the same yt that has the two previous songs also has songs in Proto Germanic and Forn Svenska and Óld English that are also super pretty with pretty melodies and lyrics, and, for NyNorsk I recommend the song SolRingen, so I highly recommend learning all these gorgeous languages together, as they are the prettiest languages ever (as pretty as English) that are way too pretty not to know, memorizing the lyrics and analyzing the words being a great way to start learning the gorgeous heavenly languages!
As a Norwegian it was super easy for me to pronounce most of these words as both the accent and pronounciations are extremely similar to the Norwegian one. Faroese is basicly Norwegian mixed with Icelandic. In fact, most of these words and expressions were nearly the same as, or very similar to Norwegian ones. Especially the swear words, it almost sounded like they took our swear words and altered them a little bit. Like for real XD Anyways, well done. I am very curious about the Faroese language and eager to learn a thing or two about it :)
Eg skilji teg ikki. Eg = I. skilji = to make out one from the other (to split)r; to see (in the dark); to understand. teg = you. Norwegian: deg. Danish / Swedish: dig. ikki = not. Direct translateion: I understand you not. Alternative: I can't make out what you're saying.
Eg dugi ikki at tosa føroyskt. Eg = I dugi = capability, to be able or to do (as in being enough) ikki = not / cannot at = to tosa = speak (This is a guess, because there is no equivalent in any other language descended from Norse. Perhaps it comes from British "to say?") føroyskt = Faroese Direct translation: "I able not to speak Faroese." Another way to put it is, "I am of no use speaking Faroese."
