My ICELANDIC parents try speaking ENGLISH part 2 

Thank you for watching! Don't forget to TURN ON the subtitles!! Merry Christmas everyone ❤

Icelander: these words are too strange English speakers reading the Icelandic words: 🤨🤨

Hats off to your parents. They did WAY better pronouncing english words than I could do pronouncing literally anything icelandic, so.. haha

Because your parents were such good sports, they deserve to see non-Icelanders try Icelandic words. But only if you find people equally cool.

When your mom suddenly said SKULL in a totally American accent! 😂💀

2021 DICTIONARY UPDATE: All English words are from now meaning ‘excitement!’

As a Norwegian its so strange how easily I understand the Icelandic words when I hear them and see them written (though differently than here).

I love how we don't often talk about how there is an island of people with the most isolated history in Europe where there's just kind of a few cities where everyone speaks the same complicated Norse branch language and it's super safe there and no one realistically ever has to learn English. That's kind of crazy cool.

If you want volunteers for a “English subscribers try to speak Icelandic” video then I’m your girl 🤣🤣 I’ll get them wrong but it looks fun af

My dad still calls the TV show Breaking Bad "Baking Bread" because for some reason it's easier for him to say that... (we are not native English speakers either)

I love how her parents are so open-minded.

I appreciate Hrafna's parents making these videos, it shows how hard it is for non English speaking people to a) know the pronounciation of the words and b) know the meaning. I'm guessing in some cases there are no direct translations between English and Icelandic. I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday, please look after each other.

"Sagittarius" is a Latin word which means "archer" or "bowman". "Astronaut"(and not astronut) is a Greek word which means "star sailor".In the same manner the word "Cosmonaut" means "cosmic sailor".

"Why are these words so hard?" As an English-speaker, I felt that. 😂

Kindergarten is a german word in english that means a school year between preschool and first grade. Prekindergarten through 12th grade. And then college after 12th

I’m such a sucker for videos with parents, no idea why, they’re just so sweet! Merry Christmas to you and your family Hrafna ☺️

The "hard" words are the ones added from French into English. I'm sure they would do better with just the Anglo-Saxon words.

I was never that early before. Your parents are so sweet.Gleðilega hátíð Hrafna. Happy holidays to everyone. ❤

I would really like to thank you and your parents for doing this. Among other reasons because most of the people I've known in my life are monolingual and have no idea how difficult the English language is, because they learned it at two young of an age to remember how difficult it was to learn at the time.

Astronaut.

Just something I noticed/an observation: when you and your parents speak Icelandic I understand almost nothing of what you say, but then sometimes there's this one word or small sentence which sounds just like Dutch! A long time ago both of the languages were part of the Proto-Germanic languages (where they were more similar), but after centuries of language development, changes, and (in the case of Dutch) influences from other languages, I was pleasantly surprised about the parts of our languages that were similar and that I could understand. It makes me even more excited to one day learn more North- and West-European languages (including Icelandic), and finding other similarities between these languages :)

Your parents are so sweet! Watching this video made me laugh and feel genuine joy

Love the way your dad says flabbergasted . He sounds Scottish . Its brilliant 🎉

I would really love a part 3 of this 'series' or what to call it, your parents are just way too cute and trying so hard and yet they can laugh at their own mistakes and not take any offence when you laugh, which I just LOVE about them! Being able to laugh at oneself and not taking things too seriously is a really great quality that I wish more people would pocess! And given the fact that they've never learned English or been in that much contact with the language they're doing a great job! And most importantly, having fun! I love to see what a great bond you seem to have with your family! So if you can, pleeeeaaaase try to convince them to do a part 3! This is what I would call a real "feel-good-video" :)

Your parents are lovely ! Icelandic accent sounds kind of cool

I love how your parents said a word had too many letters/it was too long! Lots of love from Chicago 💗💗💗

"its kind of hard to translate, its like "to be". Very introspective moment here for me, i had to pause the video. When I first began learning Spanish the verb "to be" , was one of the hardest verbs for me to conceptualize. (wrap my head around). I didnt understand how "work" for example, conjugates as I work, you work, he/she works etc, but "To Be" conjugates as I am, you are, he/she is? The two ideas didnt correlate in my mind. But with time I began to understand. It made me feel so much better when you said "to be", is not an easy concept to translate. This was so endearing to watch. I was never forced to learn another language, but I chose to, so I know (like you know), how hard it can be at times. Watching them even try means the world to me. I wish learning 2-4 languages was the norm here in the u.s.a, but it isn't, I salute you guys. 👌🏽🖤

You and your parents are adorable together, love when you and mom get laughing. Hope you and family have a merry Christmas.

I do not know much about English, nor do I know about Icelandic at all! But I know you have a lovely parents; And your parents have a lovely daughter.!

Loved this!

Love your videos, keep em coming.

This is just so wholesome❤

Aw! Your parents are so cute!

Aw I love these so much! So funny

Such nice people! Merry Christmas!

Love them and you !

Your parents are delightful. Merry Christmas!

I love these videos, your parents are SO adorable.

Your parents are very lovely!!!!

I just watch this over and over. They are great.

Fantastic job i totally enjoyed this video! ♥️

These are great fun, takk!

Such a lovely video! Thank you! Your parents are just adorable 😍

I love these videos you do with your parents 💜

Loved it like always! Your parents are awesome! Happy Holidays!

Your parents are the cutest aaahahahah I love this!!

I legit love your cute little parents. They did AWESOME!

That was adorable and so much fun to watch! Merry Christmas to you and your family

Your parents are so cool! Nice video 👍🏼

Oh my god, your parents are so cute! What sweethearts!

Much love to your parents! These two videos with them have been so sweet. Thank you for sharing.

Your parents are so lovely! Merry Christmas to you all and a very happy New Year xx

Love your parents. So cute. Your mom's laugh is contagious.

I love your videos! Hello from Tennessee!

Kind, lovely, amazing, gorgeous and beautiful family!

Your parents are so sweet!

That was great! Spending a day with your folks would be entertaining.

What a great time to upload a video! A day before Christmas Eve!

That was cool. Really great folks. Merry Christmas y'all.

That was a great video, your parents are cool. I can see that you all get along really well.

I adore your parents! I'd love to see yall laugh at me learning your language

Your parents are the cutest! They did such a great job. Já já já! I don't speak Icelandic, but I had to look that up because I loved when y'all said it. 💚

I enjoyed this so much ❤❤❤ thank you for sharing…

Merry Christmas to you too. I really love your parents. They seem to be a lot of fun and good natured.

What a lovely video. The interaction with you and your parents is what really makes the video. I hope you and your family had a great Christmas.

Very entertaining video from the beautiful Hrafna!

A bit late but I love your parents. Merry belated Christmas and a happy New Year to you three!

Love your mum's laugh it is infectious....Merry Christmas to you and your family

Your parents are so wonderful. This was fun to watch. Happy Holidays to you and your family.

That’s like watching a family game night on RU-vid. Your parents are so fint!

Awesome! Really enjoyed the first of these videos, so it's great to see a second one! Merry Christmas Hrafna & family! :)

Love your Iceland videos :)

I love when you speak with your parents. It's the cutest thing ever! More please! They are such good sports and so nice.

I love that you did a part two to this! Your parents are so cute and sweet, and I love that they’re really trying and doing well at English! I wish I could do that well at Icelandic....Merry Christmas to your family!

Merry Christmas 🎄 Your parents are very sweet. They must be very proud of you. ☺️

That was bery entertaining. I love your parents. And even more i love how the love between all of you is so obvious! Thank you!

I love this video!

I just stumbled across your channel. You are too cute. Your parents. Adorable. I love this. ❤️

They are getting very good, Merry Christmas and Happy New year to you and your beautiful family Hrafna xx

Merry Christmas, y'all! :) In a reverse way, I was delighted that they immediately pronounced "mountain" and identified it as "fjall". Because I just learned the word "fjall" from a Swedish video. Now I have a 'free' Icelandic word. Sagittarius is Latin for archer. Same idea, different language family. But your parents got it as soon as you said star sign. So they did know!

this is so awesome so sweet teaching your parents English God I want to go to Iceland

This was a fun video. It made me happy. Thank you for sharing some Christmas spirit. Have a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Great. You are incredible

Love this!

What great sports your folks are! They must love you so very much.

Makes me smile to see your parents having fun with you in participating in your RU-vid video. 😄

Awww, was hoping I could finally be first :(

Watching the three of you together made my heart 😊 Happy Yule from our family to yours!!

This was fun to watch. And they honestly did really good for not speaking English. Hope you guys have a fun holiday

You guys are so cute! I love that they go like “wait, you don’t know what it means either” for the word flabbergasted. 😂😂😂 Love the way your father pronounces “all” at the end! I love these videos with your folks! ❤️🇮🇸

What makes proper English so difficult is the way we utilize our tongues to form our glides. That and the fact that our spelling is chaotic, our words having been drawn from such a diversity of sources.

I love this idea so much 😂 your parents are adorable and are really good sports about everything. Also it's surprisingly difficult to find examples of people speaking Icelandic in an informal way like this, it's really interesting. Hope there's a part 3+ 🤞

I could listen to your dad say “flabbergasted” on loop for an hour!

Your parents did a good job. You chose pretty tough words. You didn't make it too easy on them. 👍👍. Merry Christmas and all the very best for New Year to you and the family

Could you do a video where you read icelandic poetry? I'm sure that sounds nice. Happy holidays!

its so funny listening to other people's accents and especially when they are trying to read words by directly translating them from their native language.

This is delightful. :)

That old lady's laugh 😂😂😂🧓 Merry Christmas to you and all your loved ones Cheers from Middle East

So cute!!!💛💛💛💛

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