Icelandic lessons written only for you.
Víkingur is an Icelandic learning app. Learn Icelandic online, from your first word or from what you already know. It writes your first lesson from why you are learning, and every lesson after it from your results.
It starts by asking why you are learning Icelandic.
Every Icelandic lesson is built from your results.
Every skill you touch gets a score from your first-try answers. Anything under 70% comes back at the same level until it holds. Words you already know are never taught again as new, and words due for review turn up inside real activities.
It tells you whether your Icelandic goal is realistic.
Write the goal in your own words and pick your minutes a day. If the sums do not work, it says so before you have paid anything, and gives you three ways to make them work.
Twelve kinds of Icelandic practice. Try four of them here.
This is the real lesson card from the app. Try it.
Icelandic conversation practice with the people from your own life.
It builds the people you actually need to talk to, like your partner's mother or someone at work. They speak first, out loud, in an Icelandic voice, and you answer by typing or talking. Write to them in English and they stay in Icelandic until you ask, in Icelandic, how to say it.
Less English as your Icelandic gets better.
Four settings, from English with Icelandic words in it to no English at all. You never pick the setting. It moves you up when 100 answers hold at 85% first try and you have stopped flagging things as too hard, and every move locks in for three weeks. Press one to see the difference.
Three tools for the Icelandic you meet outside your lessons.
Today’s Icelandic news, rewritten at your level.
Three Icelandic news stories every morning, written at your level from the day's headlines on RÚV and Vísir, with the English underneath and the original one tap away. Only the good news: nature, food, festivals, whales. Nothing about crime or disasters.
32 badges, all of them Icelandic things.
Six categories with Icelandic names, and every badge marks something you can now do. There are no points, and nothing you can lose.
What Víkingur does.
It costs less than one hour with an Icelandic tutor.
A private Icelandic tutor is €25 to €40 an hour and has to be booked. This is there whenever you are.