Class Completed
 Final Exam |
I just finished the exam for the language class. We had 4 hours, but I finished with about 40 minutes to spare. I am using the school’s computer lab for one last time. Tonight we will have a dinner and celebration, then tomorrow morning I will take the bus back to Fuglafjørður.
The language class was a challenge. There were only three of us who didn’t already know one of the Nordic languages, and we were at a disadvantage. The Nordic languages have many strong similarities: similar root words, similar declensions and conjugations, similar sentence structure. About ten students had come from studying Icelandic, some others had been studying Danish, and some knew Swedish and Norwegian as well.
I think I know most of the grammar rules, but my vocabulary is very limited. I bought the new Faroese dictionary that includes a table in the appendices that gives all of the endings for all of the nouns and verbs. The language endings are very complex, and there are many exceptions to the many rules, but now I have a way to look them up, at least.