Trying to learn your ancesters tongue as an american is the most difficult challenge to ever accept

I love how Icelanders pronounce the voiceless R 💕 The 2 voiced Rs are easy to me because my mother tongue is Spanish 😁

fun fact, Ancient Greek likely also has a voiceless trilled r, which is why Latin transcribed them with rh instead of a simple r (eg. Rhodes)

ok voiceless r's are something I did not expect

Here a little, there a little until we reach the top. You got me hooked up into learning Icelandic. Very informative videos. Thank you.

It´s funny, for English speakers the R can be difficult. But as a Portuguese or Spanish speaker the R sounds are pretty easy. But man, those TH and voiceless letters are hard and subtle.

This channel is gold, thank you!

I think I got pregnant listening to you roll your R's 😍 lol

This is so hard to keep up with, but I love this language so much it is so beautiful but my goodness lol!

I love ❤️ da country

Bro, that word for happy. I bit my tongue. I love it

When you said it sounded like sh it made it so much easier .. I can finally understand the sound thank you

thank you, helped me a lot!

Thanks god im slavic

Hæ! I'm from germany and currently started learning icelandic. And yea, even though german is also very hard to learn I struggle with the R we have some dialects in german where you also roll the R but we dont have those silent things like the "ur" endings in "morgunmatur" otherwise we have surpisingly often words that are similar but sound a little different, or we have even words we use, but not every day or those words are "old words" othere words that cofuse me with the double L like "illa" in " mér líkar illa við" that sound more like "ithla" or al at the end in gaffal that sound like "kaffach" to me where "ch" in german sounds exactly like the ending L This video is very good to understand the R, just subscribed and hope to see more like this :) and also I hope to speak Icelandic some day ;)

Will use this and practice !!! Takk !!!

Small tip, /rl/ is only pronounced /tl/ in specific words, karl and varla for example. But Perla would never be pronounced with /tl/ and always has the /r/ pronounced. :)

Does this mean that rl is mostly pronounce the same as ll? The way you say Perla and Karl would make me expect Pella and Kall - or is there a difference between the way rl and ll are pronounced?

the trilled r is very difficult but my semi native french makes the tapped rotive r a lot easier!

r̥ is very intersting. it starts as a "h", then it goes to a devoiced "r" and I listen to some people pronouncing a very fast "s" in the end.

So subtle! Great lesson as always, þakk fyrir :) BTW who in God's name thumbs down Icelandic grammar lessons ha ha ha. That is some eclectic trolling.

Rolled Rs are easy for me, but the voiceless ones sound almost the same for me. And I don't hear a "sh" there either, which I suppose is good?

I don't if this is due to me being a native polish speaker, but all those rs sound completely different and I have 0 problem with pronouncing them, lol.

Flat and trilled r are the same as simple r and double rr in Spanish

It may be a good idea for practising voiceless consonants, to whisper full sentences instead of using the voice. At least that's helping me identify what the hell an unvoiced consonant is and realize that I'm really able to perform them 😂. Then switching voiced and unvoiced will be a whole new level 🥵

another great video. TAKK FYRIR

Tiene Las R Del Español. It has the R's from Spanish.

eu falo 5 R diferentes mas não consigo esses

the voiceless r is infinitely easier, because you can force the air out

I can do the rolled r but only half the time lol 😭

Very helpful video. I'm struggling with R at the end of words, with the voiceless sound you talked about. I absolutely hear "sh" in words like "fyrir", "vinir", and especially "hundur" , but I don't hear the sound as much in your pronunciation, and in some speakers it sounds exaggerated. Is there variation between accents and words? I've been alternating between a soft -r- and a soft -sh- sound, trying my best to combine them. I'm going to practice just devoicing the -r- like you said though.

why is the voiceless r easier than the rolled r

Is the voiceless R the same as the Czech "ř" in a voiceless position?

For spaniards and germans the icelandic R is very easy. Except for the last part of the video, the letter is not hard. But you forgot Eyra, because it have the voiceless sound. May Odinn-sama be with you.

is it similar to the Czech ř?

Grrrrr! It’s very frustrating that I can’t pronounce at all.

Esto no es tan complejo xd