How good/bad was Daniel Tammet’s Icelandic?

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  1. He has an accent (naturally), and he mixed up the conjugation for a few words, but otherwise this is extremely good Icelandic considering the short time. He’s speaking in complete sentences, he got the grammar more or less nailed down, and his vocabulary is quite impressive.

  2. His grammar is amazing! I know people who are fluent in Icelandic as a second language, and still have trouble with conjugation, but he mostly landed on the right cases. Very, very impressive.

    Obviously there’s a limit to how much vocabulary you can be exposed to in a week. Honestly that seemed to be the only thing tripping him up!

  3. Really good. Can’t say perfect but if this is what he accomplished in a week, he’d be fluent in a month, probably less

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