Ya, although it sort of made sense in the grand scheme of things. They were going mostly to look at the energy resources and some of the hot springs, and the were only interacting with a few people at a time. There weren't really anywhere that had a lot of Icelandic people all together, and everyone they spoke too had really good English, with faint but interesting accents (some of them sounded almost Gaelic to me.) Second languages are much easier at young ages.
Ya... Polish is very liberal in its use of z's and w's and generally makes sounds English doesn't. I do, however, suspect that Icelandic would bend my brain too, if I ever tried to learn it. (English is my first language, and I learned French throughout grade school and high school.)
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Date: 2020-07-25 08:08 pm (UTC)Ya, although it sort of made sense in the grand scheme of things. They were going mostly to look at the energy resources and some of the hot springs, and the were only interacting with a few people at a time. There weren't really anywhere that had a lot of Icelandic people all together, and everyone they spoke too had really good English, with faint but interesting accents (some of them sounded almost Gaelic to me.) Second languages are much easier at young ages.
Ya... Polish is very liberal in its use of z's and w's and generally makes sounds English doesn't. I do, however, suspect that Icelandic would bend my brain too, if I ever tried to learn it. (English is my first language, and I learned French throughout grade school and high school.)