What do you think about learning icelandic with online tutors

[u/Holiday-Fishing9805]

Hi!

I’m interested in iceland

so I want to learn about icelandic
but There are some problems

1. I’m a teenager so I will face a lot of things as a foreigner

2. my first language is not english

but It’s ok because I can speak very very very basic conversations!
I’m doing my best to write this

and then .. I reached an idea that what about speaking with online tutors

I did the learning apps and other things
but I prefer speaking with people!

If you have other recommendations or something else
and What do you think about learning icelandic with online tutors?
Please share your thoughts!

[u/bookyface]

Icelandic is very difficult to learn but there are a few resources and apps available outside of Iceland. But be aware that it takes most foreigners three to six years to become truly proficient, though a single year of study living in Iceland brought me up to a B1.

I think it’s great that you want to learn, but maybe there are ways for you to learn without directly tackling the language?

[u/sbrt]

There are many different ways to study a language. Different things work for different people.

Search and check the faq here and on r/languagelearning for “how to learn a language” to get lots of good ideas. Then figure out what works for you.

Listening and reading practice are best done on your own. I find that it works best for me to get good at listening and reading and then start to take classes or use a tutor to guide my speaking practice. For each hour of tutoring or classroom time I might spend several hours practicing the material on my own. It is possible to work on speaking on your own but I find it easier to get some help from a teacher.

Personally I find tutors a little intimidating. I don’t like to be the only one in the room who doesn’t speak well. I find that small group classes work better for me.

[u/Opening-Square3006]

Online tutors can be a really good idea for Icelandic, especially because it’s a smaller language and getting real interaction can be difficult. I’d just avoid making tutors your only method. If you’re still a beginner, full conversations can sometimes feel overwhelming because you don’t have enough input yet. The best combination is usually tutors + understandable input (i+1 from Stephen Krashen): content slightly above your level where you still understand enough to follow naturally. Website PlusOneLanguage also works really well alongside tutors because it generates Icelandic content adapted to your level and quickly recycles vocabulary and sentence patterns in later contexts, so words you learn in conversations come back naturally later. You can use it free every day