I love faroese ! It´s so alike icelandic in some ways yet so different in others ! I would deffenetly want to learn to speak it someday so i would like to thank you for this video :)
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 - 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!
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!
I am from Canada and i'm planning a trip to the Faroes in 2009. This lesson was/is very helpful, and i'm not sure where i would have found this kind of aid without your video. tusund takk!!!
i'm from denmark and i'm like 25 percent faroese and after my grandma and grandpa passed away (grandma was from faroese and my grandpa could speak it) i wanted to learn it and travel there... i never did get the chance to visit it with them but i hope one day i can travel there and see where my grandma used to live and see the culture of my ancestors.
"hjarta" occurs in the song at 6:49 in the sentence "Eg spyrji hjartað, hvussu hevur tú tað". By the way, as a non-Icelandic speaker, I find the "thodd" and the ð in Icelandic very difficult. I know it's similar to "th" in English, but in Icelandic, it occurs so often that it requires to train my tongue more.
I am advanced level in Icelandic and close to advanced level in Norse, and these sounds are actually very easy to make, plus Norse and Icelandic have the easiest category 1 pronunciation with the accents that are the easiest to imitate, as easy as the English / Gothic / Dutch pronunciation and accent, and they are way easier to pronounce than Faroese and Danish and German and Swedish which have category 2 pronunciation / accent - the letter þ is the thorn letter which is a T sound that is a bit less obvious like in the English words think / thing / thole etc, while the letter ð is the eth sound which is a less obvious D sound like in the English words then / the / that etc and in the Spanish word nada, and, if one hears and says the Icelandic words and the Norse words many times, one can easily say them, because the more one sees / hears / says a word or sentence, the more automatic that word or sentence becomes, as with every other Germanic language, so 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!
English is not spoken among people, but most people especially below 40 or so, would find it easy to communicate in English. I also speak Danish, yes. If I met an Icelander... I used to think that commincation with Icelanders was only possible through English or Scandinavian (Danish-Norwegian), but I met someone from Iceland a few months ago, and I was surprised to find that we could have a conversation if we spoke our own languages slowly.
here are some nice songs that you can find here on youtube. Frændur - 80'ini, Eros, Hvítar Flykrur, í millum mussarnar, Mítt Land Páll, Finnur, Páll. - Sangur til Georg, Bermannlag, Berlandið Kári P. - Villar Víddir, súrligar nætur í Keypmannahavn. Týr - Regin Smiður, Stýrisvølurin, Eivør - Trøllabundin, Elisabet og elinborg, ???? - Nólsoy. Enjoy.
Saying "manga takk" in the way I said it only means "thanks for the food". If you would say "manga takk" pronouncing it "maenga" instead, then it would mean "many thanks", but it's a very unusual and painfully polite way of saying the more common "tusund takk". I don't know why we say "manga takk" only when thanking for the food, and why it's pronounced "mAnga" and not "mAEnga, but that's the way it is.
In most cases I've read the phrases twice: First as the phrase would sound in everyday life, and the second time with a clear, word-by-word pronounciation.
Faroese is much closer to Swedish than to regular Norwegian, but when you venture into west-norsk, then Norwegian becomes much closer. scroll the comment page 2 months down to see some recommended music.
Faroese is a category 1 language, as all other Norse / Germanic languages, so it’s very easy to learn it, Norse / Germanic languages being the easiest to learn with the prettiest and most memorable words - now, the Faroese pronunciation and accent are less easy than the Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Dutch / English pronunciation and accent, as Faroese has a category 2 pronunciation like German / Danish / Swedish, so one is not going to sound native in Faroese at a beginner or intermediate level, but, if one learns each word automatically with its pronunciation and spelling and if one revises and says each word a lot, one shall be able to say the words naturally without difficulty and sound native at a native speaker level, because the more one sees / hears / says a word or sentence, the more automatic that word or sentence becomes, as with every other Germanic language, so I highly recommend learning all the 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 created 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!
I'm neither Swedish nor Norwegian but you can differ the languages by typical letters. Ää+Öö is used by Swedes only, Norwegians and Danes use own letters for (not on my keyboard, but you can find them here in the comments)
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
Swedish and Norwegian are very similar, but you can recognize Swedisch by Ä + Ö in their ortography. Danes and Norwegians have special letters for (not on my German keyboard)
Anything, is simply that the Spanish and Faroese languages are from different language families, that is why languages are so different. Anyway, I love Faroese (L)
Germanic languages and Latin languages are different in many ways as they are from different language families, but they are also very similar in many ways, because Germanic languages come from Latin, as a dude created Proto Germanic by modifying Latin words and giving them new meanings and creating lots of new words, so all the word endings and letter combinations and sounds that are in Latin and Spanish etc are also in Germanic languages, plus half of the words are cognates tho they are used with different meanings in Germanic languages, so, even though they look very different at first sight, if one analyzes all the words from these languages in detail, one shall notice that they are a lot closer than one may have thought, and the similarities between them are especially obvious in Norse and Proto Germanic and Gothic and Ancient German and even Óld English etc, which give off strong Latin vibes - there is even a song in Gothic and Latin (one can hear it by typing ‘Gothic hun Latin’ on yt) that blends Gothic lyrics and Latin lyrics so well, as they have very similar sound patterns and word endings and letter combinations, and the Skáld songs like Óðinn and Grótti and Rún and Trǫll Kalla Mik and SæKonungar and ValFreyjuDrápa and Ríðum Ríðum and ValHalla / Valhöll and Hross etc also give off strong Latin vibes, with words like Sól (Sun) and inum and sal and brunni and mæra and þú (the pronoun ye / tu / you) and mar etc and all those words with Latin word endings like um / num / inum / ar / unum etc, so, I would say, the Germanic language family and the Latin language family and the Celtic language family are the language families that are the closest! (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!)
hmm, I think it's beautiful, but then again, it's probably because it's my first language. I think you should have one more try by listening to the female singer, Eivør, performing "Trøllabundin" or "Nú brennir tú í mær" here on youtube. If this doesn't change your mind, then nothing will.
Yeah i made a mistake there i meant Norse, however from what my Father in law has told me (he's Faroese) norn was similar to there language. The main reason the Scandinavian languages have a similarity to Danish is because the danes overthrew most of denmark in the 14 and 15th century and forced danish upon them
@siggdigg yes, we do. You know have you Norwegians have no problem with reading danish but big problem with understanding spoken Danish, well, when we talk to Sweds and icelanders and norwegians we speak a different Danish, known as Gøtudanskt, it's basically danish as it is written. so that's why it is so easy for you to understand it.
Exactly, that's what I'm getting at. I still wish Old Norse was the language that English-speaking countries spoke though, or at least Anglo-Saxon... :(
Haha, I come from western Norway and I have never heard this language before. But when you talk, you just talk like me using my dialect! This is so cool!:)
I know it might be confusing, but Faroese people, when saying for instance "eg veit ikki" they wouldn't say the phrase word by word. It would be more like: "eveisj". Compare it to English. People don't say "I do not know" they say: "'dunno"
Jú, summi ting geva ikki meining, men sakin er tann, at fólk brúka "góðan dagin", tað er so tað, sum eg havi lært, og eg valdi, tá eg gjørdi hetta, at hava tað við, sum fólk brúka. Hugsa um "manga takk" - hví verður tað úttalað "mAnga" heldur enn "mÆnga"? Tað gevur ikki meining, men tað verður brúkt, og tað er tað, sum hevur týdning.
Yes I am from Western Norway and I can assure u it sounds Norwegian. Listen to "Hvussu eitur tu". I dont write it like that but I would say it in the same way. I would write "Korjsn heite du". And this concerns 90% of the words he says in this video.
I learned the pronunciation of the different characters not common in English because of Ólavur Riddararós by Týr, singing and following along online =D
Thanks for posting this. It's very interesting and intriguing language but could you do a video of the Faroese alphabet, it will be easier to understand the pronunciation for beginners as I am.
Cool. It's far more similar to Swedish and Norwegian than I expected! Although I wouldn't be able to understand much by myself, when reading the English translation at the same time so I know what the text means, it's obvious what the corresponding Swedish words are and they are mostly very similar.
eg kommer i fra Norge, skal snart til Færøyene! I come from Norway, im soon visiting Faroes. We are going to Fugloy, is it hotels, motels or sleephouses there? It sounds just like Norwegian :-)
I´m from iceland and i find this so amusing.. This is like danish people speaking icelandic with a few danish word and a grammar issue.. So fun.. Sorry not to be offensive.. I am pretty sure people "frá færeyjum" think icelandic is funny too..
I am from Sweden but surprisingly I can understand almost everything you say, to me it sounds a lot like Danish (and a lot of the time like a certain Swedish accent)
yeah their words are very different....its too hard for a filipina like me to say it!!!...but i really want to know how....is there any other video like this one???
You can't really hear it, cuz it's a stum letter. The only word where you can hear it, is Sleða. But the faroese Ð and the icelandic Ð are not the same(: -correction please.
this is nice I would love to learn this and go to the The Faroe Islands and practice, nice video could you recommend me some nice music on Faroese language
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 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!
that was a good movie,but there were some errors. it stod B.C(before crist), when the vikings came in the year 8oo a.c( affter crist), og eg haldi at tú hevði kunna set nei/noy = no / and i think you could set nei/noy = no og tað vóru nakrar skeivar umsetingar/ and there vere som miss translation, til domis "tín helvitis fani" er verðuliga "you hell´s dimon/for example "tín helvedes fani" is realy "you hell´s dimon" ikki/ and not "you dimon from hell" xD
The Norwegian alphabet is just like the English alphabet + Æ(æ), Ø (ø) and Å (å). Would you really say: Hann er kuulur (He is cool/Han er kul in Norwegian) I am a Norwgian Trønder (from the Norwegian midlands, and I understand almost everythink written here :) Takk te dokk!
Thats what i was told, apparently its not something the norwegiens like to talk about. Check it out on wiki. Denmark Ruled a large portion of scandinavia.
well i think faroese is the most interestin language in the world. it sounds soo .. kinda scandinavian is the male and english the female part ^^ dunno how to say it. its just awesome!!
dani4leif2 ! of course you don't think that it sounds like Norwegian ! Danish people only know how to speak danish and English ! but Faroese people can speak every single Scandinavian language ! and I'm not lying.
isn't it so that you faroese ppl speak a ''cleaner'' (compared to norwegian( no offence danes)) danish too? so that if i go to the faroe islands, i'll be able to speak with you? (i'm norwegian)
Takk fyrir. Ég hafi eisini roynt at lært meg eitt sindur av Íslendsku, men ég er ekki komin so langt. Yes, there are some difficult sounds in Faroese. One of them is probably "ikki", but try to say "itch" in English. That sound is fairly similar. I would personally expect other sounds to be more difficult to for non-Faroese speakers. One of them is "rt" as in "hvar býrt tú" (and also in "hjarta"(heart), which you can hear with better quality in the song).
Egentliga eitur tað ikki "Góðan dagin", tað eitur "Góðan dag." Tað er stutt fyri "Hav ein góðan dag". Eisini, um "Góðan dagin" var rætt, so skuldi ein sagt "Góðan morgunin", "Gott kvøldið" og "Góða náttina"... ljóðar ikki heilt rætt, ha?
halló/hey. hvussu eitur tú? - eg eiti Gudbjørg. hvar býrt tú? - eg búgvi í Sumba. hvussu hevur tú tað? - fínt. stoppar tú við at spyrja nú? ... nei nei nei! kanska, og kanska IKKI! men eg veit! vælgagnist! tín helvitis fani :D hahahah
thanks 4 posting this video! I love the accent and especially the rhythm of faroese. Although faroese is very diferent when compared to my mother language (brazilian portuguese), I want to learn it to read the rhymes! My favorite phrase in this tutorial is "May the devil fry!". lol! I'm gonna say it on my everyday life from now on, it sounds awesome! =D How can I say "I'm a devil from Hell", Would it be "Mín helvitis fani"? Túsund Takk! Bei o/
