I have spoken about my love for Memrise on here before, so it is no surprise that I am super excited about Memrise’s recent announcement to roll out an official Icelandic course on their language learning platform.

Why did they make an official Icelandic Course?

Most of Memrise’s official language courses are for learning more widely spoken languages, like Mandarin, Arabic, English, French and so on, but Icelandic is spoken by less than 400,000 people in the world! Learning the language is not essential for most people, unless they live and/or work in places where the language is used.  However, the Polyglot Conference is being held in Reykjavík this year and according to Memrise’s announcement, they designed the 100 item course specifically for this event.  Memrise is a platinum sponsor of the event, so it is cool that they are rolling out this official Icelandic course to help people learn some words and phrases.

Jumping for joy on a red sand beach in the Westfjords in Iceland

Jumping for joy over the announcement!

What does the official Icelandic course include?

Because the course was specifically designed for the 2017 Polyglot Conference in Reykjavík, it will include phrases that will allow you to  “ask which languages somebody speaks, to order some ram’s testicles, and to tell somebody that they have a lovely accent”, according to Memrise’s blog post.  It already sounds like a fun course!  Oh, and did I mention that it is free?! The Memrise Pro membership isn’t necessary for you to access any of their courses, but there are some benefits to using it.

The Course’s Limitations

Even though, I am jumping for joy over this announcement,  you will only have 100 items to learn. Therefore,  you can’t rely on it for learning everything about the language.  I hope that Memrise will create a fully developed Icelandic language course  like the others I mentioned above,  but there is no guarantee that they will.  However, there are loads of member created Icelandic language courses on the Memrise platform that will provide you with hours of Icelandic learning fun. 

I plan to check this course out when it is available on October 6th, 2017 and I hope you will too! Áfram Ísland (Go Iceland)!!!!

Icelandic flag waving in the wind in the Westfjords of Iceland

Icelandic flag in the Westfjords

Þakka þér kærlega fyrir að lesa og sjáumst fljótlega (Thank you kindly for reading and see you soon)!