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Learning Icelandic:

• Digital Dialects: Basic words and phrases in Icelandic
• Icelandic 101: A great source for beginners, including pronunciation guides and history on the language.
• Icelandic Online: Free Icelandic lessons put out by a university in Iceland
• ieLanguages: A very basic guide to Icelandic
• Live Mocha: A great website with multiple lesson levels. (A poor man’s Rosetta Stone, if you will.)
• My Languages: Very basic Icelandic lessons
• Quizlet: Colloquial Icelandic flashcards
• Tungumalatorg: Icelandic video lessons with subtitles to help with following and understanding the dialogues.

Pronunciation:

• Introduction to Icelandic Pronunciations
• Forvo: Lists of words with translations and native pronunciations.
• Sigur Ros: Icelandic Pronunciations
• Wikipedia: Icelandic Phonology

General:

• Icelandic Phrases for conversational Icelandic
• Short list of basic greetings and phrases
• Icelandic poems with their English translations

Grammar:

• Icelandic mini-grammar: A brief introduction to Icelandic grammar.
• Mirmir: A website with nothing but Icelandic grammar. Very indepth.
• Nativlang: A basic introduction to Icelandic grammar.
• Verbix: A great website that gives conjugations for nearly any verb you can think of. (Also has most other languages as well.)
• Wikipedia: Icelandic Grammar

• Icelandic Noun Phrases: An indepth article discussing grammar and noun placement. PDF
• An Icelandic Primer: Grammar text-book. PDF

Icelandic Dictionaries:

• Icelandic-English: This is very indepth, but hard to navigate unless you know what you’re looking for.
• Icelandic-English: A great resource, with links to common abbreviations and short grammar guides.
• English-Icelandic-Danish: Online dictionary that has English-Icelandic, and Danish-Icelandic. Though it may require payments to access some information.
• Slangurorðabókin: Icelandic Slang dictionary. It is in Icelandic, but fun for someone learning to see.

Tumblrs:

• everysinglewordinicelandic: Posts random words with descriptions.
• fuckyeahislenska: Posts pictures with words on them. The posts usually include notes on the declensions and uses. 
• icelandiclanguage: A really great resource for anyone interested in studying Icelandic, run by an incredibly nice person that is always very helpful to anyone with questions.
• longicelandicwords: Like most Germanic languages, Icelandic has many long compound words. This tumblr shares some of the longer ones.

Other:

• Flick: Kind of like an Icelandic Reddit or 9gag.
• Icelandic Tongue-twisters
• Gossip.is: Icelandic Gossip

Radio:

• Bylgjan 98,9: Popular Music (Reykjavik)
• FM957: Popular Music (Reykjavik)
• Gull Bylgjan: Oldies (Reykjavik)
• Létt Bylgjan: ‘Contemporary Adult’ (Reykjavik)
• Lindin Radio: Religious (Reykjavik)
• Rás 1: Classical
• Rás 2: Pop Music/Sports
• Suðurland FM 96.3: Popular Music (Selfoss)
• Útvarp Kántrýbær: Country music (Skagaströnd)
• Utvarp Saga 99,4: News (Reykjavik)
• Xid 97,7: Rock (Reykjavik)

News:

• Bæjarins Besta: News printed in Isafjordur
• Dagblaðið Vísir(DV): Oldest Newspaper in Iceland? Tabloid.
• Eyjafréttir: News from Westman Islands. 
• Eyjar: Local news from Westman Islands.
• Fjarðar pósturinn: News from Hafnarfjörður
• Iceland Review: Icelandic news in English.
• IceNews: Icelandic news in English
• Morgunblaðið: Icelandic newspaper. (This link is for the English page, but it also offers the news in Icelandic)
• Reykjavik Grapvine: News in English; more cultural than political?
• Skarpur: News from Húsavík.
• Sports.is: Sports news
• Víkurfréttir: News from Southwest Iceland
• Vísir: Icelandic News from Reykjavik

myrcellas:

who doesn’t love languages? or free resources? or free! language! resources!?

i was on duolingo, reading a discussion, and saw a link to a free swedish grammar book! and when i checked the website, there were loads of free language books in downloadable pdf form just waiting to be put in a tumblr post. i even used proper capitalisation for the book names! but that was shortlived, as i have a nonchalant online presence to consider. 

Arabic- Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic,Colloquial Arabic (Levantine),Arabic: An Essential Grammar
Cantonese-Basic Cantonese,Intermediate Cantonese
Catalan- Colloquial Catalan
Croatian-Colloquial Croatian
Czech-Czech: An Essential Grammar
Danish-Colloquial Danish
Dutch-Dutch: A Comprehensive Grammar, Dutch: An Essential Grammar
English-Colloquial English,English: An Essential Grammar
Estonian- Colloquial Estonian
French-Colloquial French,Modern French Grammar,(another) Modern French Grammar,Student Grammar: French
Georgian-Georgian: A Learner’s Grammar
German-Basic German,German: An Essential Grammar,Intermediate German,Modern German Grammar, (another) Modern German Grammar,German Synonyms
Greek-Essential Grammar: Modern Greek
Hebrew-Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar
Hungarian- Hungarian: An Essential Grammar
Icelandic-Colloquial Icelandic
Irish-Basic Irish,Colloquial Irish,Intermediate Irish
Italian-Basic Italian Grammar,Colloquial Italian,(another) Colloquial Italian,Intensive Italian Workbook,Modern Italian Grammar,Modern Italian Grammar Workbook
Japanese-Colloquial Japanese
Norwegian-Colloquial Norwegian
Polish-Intermediate Polish
Portuguese-Portuguese: An Essential Grammar,Portuguese of Brazil
Romanian-Romanian: An Essential Grammar
Russian-Colloquial Russian, Contemporary Russian,Intermediate Russian,Russian Grammar
Scottish Gaelic- Colloquial Scottish Gaelic
Serbian-Serbian: An Essential Grammar
Swahili-Colloquial Swahili
Swedish-Colloquial Swedish,Swedish: An Essential Grammar
Tamil-Colloquial Tamil
Thai-Thai: An Essential Grammar
Turkish-Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar
Yoruba-Colloquial Yoruba

obvious disclaimer: i don’t own any of the rights etc etc to any of the above etc etc, i just thought i’d share.

and while i’m here, if you want an actual free online course to do, FutureLearn has some language ones (as well as lots of other disciplines too!) i did a few modules of their Italian For Beginners which i really had fun doing and i learnt a lot of the basics- unfortunately they don’t offer those at the moment, but do check back as they introduce new courses all the time! 

Open University offers loads of free courses, including some language ones. i haven’t done any language specific ones through OU, but i have done a few history ones which i enjoyed (although personally, i prefer the format and structure of FutureLearn, if i’m being honest). 

Open Culture seems to have lots of language courses (48 languages, to be precise), although i have never personally used their resources they have been recommended to me, and they seem to offer a lot of languages not previously covered by any of the above, so it may be worth a look! 

YouTube and Spotify also offer some good visual/aural learning resources which really helps with pronunciation, but you’d have to check for your specific target language. i am currently trying to learn swedish and italian (although i have fallen dreadfully behind in the latter) and i’ve found some useful things on both!