RÚV ORÐ - A new way to learn Icelandic
RÚV ORÐ is a new website, free to use, where people can use TV content to learn Icelandic. One of the goals of the website is to facilitate immigrants’ access to Icelandic society and thus contribute to greater and better inclusion.
On this website, people can select RÚV’s TV content and connect it to ten languages, English, French, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Thai and Ukrainian.
The skill level is chosen in accordance with the person’s Icelandic skills, so that suitable material can be accessed – from simple words and sentences to more complex language.
The website is interactive, among other things, it offers words to be saved, for learning later. You can also solve tests and various projects.
RÚV ORÐ is a joint project of RÚV (Icelandic National Broadcasting Service), the Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and the Ministry of Education and Children withthe NGO Språkkraft in Sweden.
Darren Adams at RÚV English Radio, talked recently to Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, Minister of Culture and Business Affairs, about the launching of RÚV ORÐ. He also has interviewed Niss Jonas Carlsson from the Swedish NGO Språkkraft where he explains how the system works – and why peoples help in testing the service is so important. Both interviews can be found here below:
HELP SHAPE A NEW WAY TO LEARN ICELANDIC
One of the goals of the website is to facilitate immigrants’ access to Icelandic society.