Góðan dag.
I doubt you know this already if you've even taken the time to read this, which I can assure you really isn't the best way to spend your time, but I love languages. They teach you so much about the culture of a country: how it works, the structure, how people like to think of themselves there. For example, Spanish sounds sexy and is actually very straight-forward for an English speaker, whilst Icelandic emphasises the first syllable of every word and is extremely conservative, almost no change really from Old Norse. That's what makes it beautiful. I won't even touch on Finnish, for that is extremely confusing mutta suomi on vanha ja kaunis kieli.
I've always thought that Faroese was fairly similar to Icelandic and even though I doubt it will help me at all I've downloaded a free 417-page guide to the language. You know, I might actually learn this with you. That's something I've always wanted to do. I might teach you all some Faroese as I learn it via my blog.
Now - the title. Today at 8PM UTC I am hosting the seventh and final episode of the first series of my game of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Just for fun, I translated the title quickly to Faroese - it literally means "You want to be a millionaire?". I'm always searching for contestants from around the world to win £1m on my show - it's only easy if you know the answer! We had our highest winner so far last week when Caprice came along and won £64,000 on a question which basically asked "When were the Stonewall riots?".
So... Vit spælir tú skal vera millióner? ("Let's play Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?").
Don't worry, I won't torment you with this all the time. But I have got a second series coming up in January 2021, which I can get you into.
Farvæl!
Sign-off: Magnus Torkelsen
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