@Mugin16 No, but my Dad was born there and came to the US with my grandparents as a teen, so he spoke both English and Icelandic to us kids growing up and occasionally my grandparents spoke Norwegian when we would see them.
@Mugin16 They spoke both. They actually spoke more in Icelandic but Norwegian too. My Dad never spoke it. He understood it but would always reply back in Icelandic or English to them. I think he wasn’t very good at speaking it and I’m not very good at it either.
@Mugin16 I still speak my Icelandic a bit like an American though because I still think in English. And my accent is a bit off from a true native speaker because of influences were I lived in the US.
@Mugin16 I was raised in the rural Northern MidWest US on a farm and only heard my family and a couple ranch hands talk until I went to school because the farm is remote. My accent is a mix of Icelandic from my Dad, Northern Irish (which is quite different from the southern Irish brogue most people think of when they think of Irish) from my Mom, and a rural Northern Midwest accent. It’s horrible. The only person that sounds like me anywhere is my older brother. Luckily my accent goes away when I sing. IDK why.
@DarkHeaven My daughter speaks farsi and she feels and says many if the things you do when it comes to accent or grammar Nevertheless it's always great to hear her speak :)
@Niloo My Dad loves it too. He teases me once in a while but he loves that we kids speak it and are proud of our Viking heritage. It’s almost like a secret thing we all share because nobody in that area knows Icelandic except our family.
