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The problem falls squarely at the feet of the government for this issue. It is a matter of funding, and a refusal to appropriate any towards teaching Icelandic to immigrants.

I write as someone who has attended numerous expensive, time-consuming Icelandic classes and still do not have a fluent grasp on the language.

To expect every low-paid immigrant worker to pay out tens of thousands of krona, to spend hundreds of hours of their limited free time at classes to learn a difficult language, and then to imply that they are the problem? That is backwards thinking.

Instead, the Icelandic government could and should set up schemes where people could learn Icelandic which is not financially crippling. This could have been done years ago and has not been.

We as immigrants are more often than not seen as cheap disposable labor, not worth investing in.

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