It’s Icelandic Language Day 🇮🇸 …and Icelandic might just be the hardest language I’ve ever tried to learn! But here’s what I’ve realized over the years. 👇🏼 You don’t need to be totally fluent to connect with the locals here. Even learning just a few phrases, like learning how to say “hi,” “thank you,” or pronounce a waterfall name correctly, goes a long way. And the best part? Icelanders LIGHT UP when they see travelers embracing their language. 🤩 It’s a small gesture that creates an instan

How can we make learning Icelandic easier? 🇮🇸 Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson is known both as a fervent defender of the language who advocates for its protection, as well as someone ready, willing, and able to shut down conversations about the language’s survival when they turn xenophobic. Although he is now retired from his post of teaching Icelandic at the University of Iceland, he is more active than ever in public discourse around the Icelandic language. This is his take on what can be done to make