Lestu Áfram Hlustaðu. Lestu með. Segðu upphátt. Haltu áfram.Listen. Read along. Say it out loud. Keep going.

Learn Icelandic through stories & conversations you can understand, when it's convenient for you.

Short stories created sentence by sentence for beginners, narrated so you can listen as you read, at a level you can understand and learn from. Practice everyday conversations out loud, with help when you get stuck.

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The Láttu vaða episode list: numbered five-minute episodes such as Ég heiti Mía, Rödd og röð and Feimin og fegin, each with a play button and its length
The app celebrating 5 hours: confetti falls around a card that says 5 klukkustundir af íslensku! Vel gert. 5 hours of Icelandic! Well done. The Vel gert screen: 9 hours 3 minutes of Icelandic since 2 Oct, 17 days you went for it, and counts of episodes, questions, recordings and conversations

Vel gert · Well done

Celebrate your success.

  • Count what you did, not what you missed.
  • Celebrate every hour you spend, confetti and all.
  • Go for it. Mistakes and mishaps are how you learn.

No streaks. No scores. No stress. Láttu vaða!

Hlusta · Lesa með · Upphátt

Press play and just listen, or interact with the story.

The story player, with play and skip buttons

Pick up where you left off

In the car, at home or at the gym. One tap to start & keep listening.

Story text with the sentence being read highlighted

Lesa með · Read along

Follow along with text as you listen, or read the story aloud.

A tapped word showing its base form and English meaning

Tap any word

See its base form, the English meaning, and save to your word list.

Hvað viltu gera í dag? · What would you like to do today?

Pick whichever fits your day.

Láttu vaða

Dive in

Short episodes with Mía, an immigrant to Iceland. She's shy and nervous, but she finds a way to go for it anyway.

After each episode, take part if you like. Upprifjun brings back anything you skipped, one at a time.

A Skilurðu? question: What did Mía mean to ask the woman at the till?

Skilurðu?

Three questions to check your understanding.

Segðu eftir Míu: the sentence Ég skil ekki, with buttons to hear Mía, record yourself, and play both

Segðu eftir Míu

Hear Mía, record yourself, then play the two together.

A situation from the episode, with phrases to choose from

Nú þú

What would you say? Stuck? Ask for help.

Kafa dýpra

Go deeper

Longer stories, told twice from different perspectives: one at A1, then another at A1+, so you can understand and learn.

The same story told by Rebekka and by Logi

One story, two tellings

One with more challenging words than the other.

A page of the story with the current sentence highlighted

Page by page

Each sentence is highlighted as you listen.

A question at the end of the story

Skilurðu?

Questions at the end, to check you understood.

Láttu gamminn geisa

Let the words flow

The speaking side: everyday conversations, help phrases and short out-loud drills. Get the words out.

A short phrase to say out loud, with its meaning

Segðu það · Say it

Short out-loud drills. Nothing is scored.

An everyday conversation in speech bubbles

Samtöl · Conversations

Everyday scenes. Read along, then do it yourself.

A list of help phrases with play buttons

Bjargráð · Help phrases

Getting stuck is fine. Phrases to help if you need.

Hæ, ég heiti Heather.

I moved to Iceland in 2021 and I'm learning Icelandic too. I couldn't find stories easy enough to follow and interesting enough to keep me going, so I started making them.

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