Learning a language in the field: Faroese

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Scandinavian Languages, University of Göttingen, language: English, abstract: Taking a summer course in Faroese at the University of the Faroe Islands. This Nordic language is spoken by about 50.000 people in the middle of the North Atlantic, where not only the weather is quite exotic. One of the rare possibilities in the world to learn the West Nordic lan...