My hosts explain and patiently demonstrate these to me. For example, there’s a consonant that, when pronounced, starts with an ‘h’ sound and ends in a trilling ‘r but you wouldn’t know it by looking at it. ![]() And they are not always as they’re written. There are a couple of consonants that are completely unique to Icelandic and many consonants and vowels that are pronounced in ways that are completely unique to my tongue. I’m staying with Gudrun Darshan’s parents. Gudrun Darshan and her husband Logi and son live next door. I can’t yet really spell their names but I’m getting close to being able to pronounce them reasonably well as I figure them out one by one. ![]() It’s about 2:30 in the morning and I’m typing in the dark in my tiny and wonderful room in my hosts’ home. ![]() I’ve been in Reykjavik going on 48 hours. All my molecules have arrived now…which means the bulk of the jetlag has been overcome. I wrote this on Januwhile in Reykjavik Iceland.
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