Learn Hardcore Icelandic: Hlustunaræfingin fær hana til að heyra sérhljóðin betur, en samhljóðin eru samt erfið. - The listening exercise makes her hear the vowels better, but the consonants are still difficult.

Breakdown of Hlustunaræfingin fær hana til að heyra sérhljóðin betur, en samhljóðin eru samt erfið.

Why is hlustunaræfingin written as one long word?

Because Icelandic, like the other Germanic languages in the North, very often makes compound nouns as a single word.

Hlustunaræfingin can be broken down like this:

So hlustunaræfingin literally looks like the listening exercise.

What does the ending -in in hlustunaræfingin mean?

It is the suffixed definite article, which is very common in Icelandic.

So:

Instead of putting a separate word like English the in front, Icelandic often attaches the article to the end of the noun.

Why is it hana and not hún?

Because hana is the accusative form of she/her, while hún is the nominative form.

Here hana is the object of fær:

So the sentence uses hana because the exercise is affecting her.