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It's easy to teach yourself Icelandic!

Complete Icelandic: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Icelandic, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Icelandic with confidence.

Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society.

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Dagur Kari's Noi the Albino (Noi Albinoi, 2003) succeeded on the international festival circuit as a film that was both distinctively Icelandic and appealingly universal. Noi the Albino taps into perennial themes of escapism and existential angst, while its setting in the Westfjords of Iceland provided an almost surreal backdrop whose particularities of place are uniquely Icelandic. Bjorn Nordfjord's examination of the film integrates the broad context and history of Icelandic cinema into a close reading of Noi the Albino's themes, visual style, and key scenes. The book also includes an interview with director Dagur Kari.--Noi the Albino's successful negotiation of the tensions between the local and the global contribute to the film's status as a contemporary classic. Its place within the history of Icelandic cinema highlights the specific problems this small nation faces as it pursues its filmmaking ambitions, allowing us to appreciate the remarkable success of Kari's film in relation to the challenges of transnational filmmaking.--Bjorn Nordfjord is assistant professor and director of the film studies program at the University of Iceland. His publications in both Icelandic and English focus equally on Icelandic national cinema and world cinema. ... Read more

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It's easy to teach yourself Icelandic!

Complete Icelandic with Two Audio CDs: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Icelandic, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Icelandic with confidence.

Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society.

The accompanying audio CDs include audio exercises--performed by native speakers--that reinforce communicative skills.

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• Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience
• Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress
• Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the basics of the language