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Designed to get you to speak Icelandic.

TVÍK takes you through a digital 3-month course with everything you need to take your Icelandic from 'Ég skil smá!' to conversational.

Course outline

TVÍK includes 84 lessons that form a single storyline, with new grammar weaved into each conversation.

WEEK 1

Your new little robot friend

Pronunciation'Ekki'CasesNoun gender

WEEK 2

Cookies, parties, and chaos

Definite article'Að ætla'PluralPossessionVerbs

WEEK 3

The joys of modern services

Past tenseQuestionsNumbersTimeLocationsIrregular verbs

WEEK 4

Cheesecake, depression, and a yellow warning

'Þessi'AdjectivesGenitiveComparisonPresent perfect

WEEK 5

Cold plunges and northern lights

SubjunctiveTo needTo knowTo wantTo thinkSlangAdverbs

WEEK 6

TVÍK's getaway mission to Tenerife

Indefinite pronouns'Með''Við''Fyrir'Future tenseParticiplesConditional

WEEK 7

Friendship, love, and vacuum cleaners

Reflexive verbsReflexive pronouns'Enough''Eftir''Maður'

WEEK 8

Budgets, bottles, and corporate wonders

OrdinalsImperativeCalculationsEmails'Að'Locations II

WEEK 9

Road trips and old men

Non-gendered languageReflexive pronouns IIParticiples IILocations IIISubjunctive II

WEEK 10

Hikes, campfires, and trouble

Numbers IIIGenitive IISubjunctive IIIAdvanced pronouns

COMING SOON

WEEK 11

A turn of events

Advanced practice

COMING SOON

WEEK 12

The grand finale

Advanced practice

Gym skills

TVÍK makes sure you're ready for tougher conversations by making you level up your grammar muscles first.

Vocabulary

Pronoun declension

Verb conjugation

Gender identification

Noun inflection

Numbers and plural

COMING SOON

Adjectives

COMING SOON

Pronunciation

Get TVÍK

What's included?

  • the 3-month digital course consisting of 84 lessons
  • access to grammar gym
  • access to grammar toolbox
  • access to our online learning community (+ online events, coming soon!)

The license remains valid for a year. If you still need more time after a year, you can renew it at a discounted price.

Optional

  • Once you have finished all of the lessons, you have the option to receive a certificate of completion upon surviving the Final Exam a casual 15-minute Icelandic conversation over a cup of coffee (in-person or virtual) with one of our humans.

Download TVÍK and try the first course week for free! No payment card required, just sign up.

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With Union Reimbursement

4,850 to 12,150 ISK

Check with your union or employer; most reimburse 75-90% of the costs of Icelandic courses.

Without Union Reimbursement

48,500 ISK

Not in an union or otherwise financially constrained? Get in touch via email for a personal 75% discount. Our mission is to make Icelandic learning more accessible, and we do not want your financial situation to be a barrier. No questions asked.

We are currently offering a limited amount of discounted pre-sale licenses while we finish developing the last weeks of lessons. Get TVÍK at 30% off!

Premium luxury package

All of the above, plus 12 private tutoring sessions with the TVÍK team after each course week. The absolute fast track to conversational Icelandic.

  • Do I need a smartphone?

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    For now, we have finished developing the learning platform to be accessible on most modern smartphones running iOS and Android, so you can take TVÍK everywhere (well, anywhere with a stable internet connection). If there is demand, we will consider adding web-based access; let us know!

  • Does TVÍK make me speak out loud?

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    No! Well, yes, but only in your own brain. TVÍK will make you construct sentences, but will not record you, as we have not found talking to your phone to be particulary effective in helping you build confidence. However, we are developing an optional Gym skill for you to practice pronunciation.

  • Is TVÍK for everyone?

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    TVÍK is ideal for those who have attempted learning Icelandic but are stuck between vocabulary-heavy apps and grammar-focused classes. If you're entirely new to the language, the learning curve will undoubtedly be steeper, but don't worry——TVÍK is equipped with every tool you'll need along the way. We also hope you're quite comfortable reading English, although we hope to offer support for other languages in the future.

  • Can I buy TVÍK for my employees?

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    Yes! Get in touch via email or +354 7645707.

  • Isn't this quite expensive?

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    Right?! With TVÍK's mission being to ensure access to Icelandic learning for everyone? TVÍK is a digital course that has taken years to develop and perfect, and offers over a hundred hours of course content (84 simulations + gym exercises). We're committed to keeping TVÍK cheaper than other Icelandic in-person courses (15-40 hours, usually around 55,000 ISK) or four 45-minute sessions with a private tutor (usually 10,000 to 15,000 ISK), while still offering vastly more than a regular course. We are not yet making enough to cover our monthly expenses and have so far relied entirely on grants for development, but as soon as we find ourselves operating with a surplus, we're committed to lowering the costs further. We also hope to seek funding to support different languages and expand our market to hopefully lower costs for Icelandic learners even further in the future. Until then: if you don't have access to union reimbursements or find the cost a barrier, please get in touch—we'll offer you a discount, no questions asked. We're not here to profit off the tremendous lack of access to opportunities that foreigners in Iceland face, we're here to fix it.

  • Why don't you offer a subscription?

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    TVÍK is a 3-month digital course, designed to be completed as a single journey, with a single storyline, with a beginning and (unfortunately) an end. We don't consider the subscription model fair, since those that happen to have more time on their hands or are faster learners would pay less than those that progress through the course slower; we want you to progress through the course at the pace that suits you. However, we do want to push you to complete the course within a year, and prevent any large gaps in your learning. The 1-year limit also makes sense for us as a quickly evolving startup, to make sure we have space to develop TVÍK towards becoming the absolute most amazing way to learn a language. If you're concerned about the renewal fee at 50% off course price in case you can't finish the course in a year, don't fret — if you can't afford it, we'll help you out.

  • Do I need to finish the course in 3 months?

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    TVÍK contains 84 lessons, which means you can complete it in 12 weeks if you finish a lesson every day. The license remains valid for a year from date of purchase, so you'll have enough time to go through the course. If a year is not enough, you can renew the license at a discounted price.

  • Do I need to understand English?

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    For now, yes — at least well enough. We are working on seeking additional funding to add other support for other languages and to fulfil our mission of making Icelandic learning accessible for everyone.

  • What is the story of TVÍK?

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    After months of struggling to piece together a single sentence in Icelandic, even with a decent grasp of the vocabulary, Gamithra found herself thrown into the deep end of the pool working on a remote sheep farm in North Iceland where she had no chance other than to make all the mistakes she needed to gather the courage to speak to real humans. She moved to Iceland at 17 from Estonia in an attempt to fulfil her childhood dream of becoming an Icelander, and kept daydreaming of combining her background in coding with the idea of throwing people in imaginary sheep farms. In 2022, this vision won her Gulleggið, the largest idea competition in Iceland. The project has been in development since.

  • Who owns TVÍK?

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    TVÍK ehf. (490522-0690) is fully owned by Gamithra. No hungry venture capitalists waiting for their money back, just a 25-year-old girl living in Vesturbær with a dream of making Icelandic learning accessible for everyone (and maybe one day, afford the down payment for an apartment). She is also a co-founder of the Icelandic Association for Humane Technology (Samtök um mannvæna tækni). The project has been made possible thanks to grants from Rannís, Fræðslusjóður and Atvinnumál kvenna.

Humans of TVÍK

TVÍK is not built by Icelanders. TVÍK is built by people that learned Icelandic through blood, sweat and sheep s%@t to figure out what works and what doesn’t.

FOUNDER

Gamithra Marga
NAMEDOES WHAT

unclear, sits and drinks coffee? no one knows

FAVOURITE TECHNOLOGYdishwashers, Windows XP and Disco Elysium

HUMAN EMPLOYEE

Yevhen Bilyi
NAME

Yevhen Bilyi

DOES WHAT

writes magic symbols on a screen

SPEAKSUkrainian, Python, JavaScript, and to ChatGPT

CORE COLLABORATOR

Johann Marga
NAME

Johann Marga

DOES WHAT

draws pictures of strange machines and hologram sheep

FAVOURITE COLOURSmonk orange, pebble gray and #000000

CORE COLLABORATOR

Derek Terell Allen
NAME

Derek Terell Allen

DOES WHAT

figures out how to make Icelandic learnable again

FAVOURITE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTthe buttery grammar layers of the African-American Vernacular

CORE COLLABORATOR

Richard Annilo
NAME

Richard Annilo

DOES WHAT

tests, breaks, and tries things

FAVOURITE ICELANDIC WORDSlaugardagur, tölva, eldhús

CORE COLLABORATOR

NAME

Klaus Jancis

DOES WHAT

produces bloops and bleeps and bad beats

FAVOURITE SONG"Electric Counterpoint (Movement 3)" by Steve Reich
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