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@barryyoung9063 2 күн бұрын
Fantastic lesson but the book doesn't seem to be available in GB.
@janettenash3204 4 күн бұрын
One note as an Aphant with no inner voice: not everyone subvocalizes, yet we can still learn languages.
@mysotiras21 4 күн бұрын
Loved this. In my senior years I have become fascinated with Old English. Learning to read it is on my to-do list, after I brush up on Biblical Hebrew.
@RllyPrince 7 күн бұрын
Can we please revive this clinic and resuscitate my conlag
@RMCricket103 7 күн бұрын
Thanks again for all the effort to finally publish Ōsweald Bera: the youngsters and I are having a lot of fun with the text. I just wish there had been a Kickstarter for us to buy into the project more: the possibility of getting early access to (even drafts of) any additional learning materials would have been neat. You could have even had a "Wessex" package with a stuffed bear with "Ōsweald" scrawled on with marker, and I would have been first in line. :)
@daviddesalvo623 8 күн бұрын
What reading level would you say the Heliand is, if you were to place it in your reading program for studying old english
@daviddesalvo623 6 күн бұрын
I retract this question, lol
@murattanyel1029 8 күн бұрын
It helps to know German; for example, hatte = heißen.
@terryoneill377 8 күн бұрын
I got a such lot from watching this video. Comparing vocabulary with Grammar, value of rereading, not getting hung up on pronunciation, and more. Thank you. I'm learning Koine Greek and am doing modern Greek at the same time. Every day I doubt the wisdom of this but was encouraged when you mentioned learning multpile languages simultaneously as a posiiblility. It's my first time learning a second language.
@robertlindsey3596 9 күн бұрын
I'm up to Chapter 12 after having received the book about 3 weeks ago, and while I'm going slow to consolidate my vocab, this is finally sticking for me. I first tried Old English about 20 years ago, but I think I've been quietly waiting for a book like this to come along before trying again.... Thank you so much Colin, this is wonderful. I'm just wondering whether there's any forum/place online to ask questions of the text. Eg. There's a half-paragraph in chapter 11 that kind of stumps me, and more generally I'd love to see other people's experiences/challenges/questions!
@crbgo9854 9 күн бұрын
I received your book osweald bera for Christmas and ive never read a good graded reader your work is incredible and working 👏🏻👏🏻
@gary.h.turner 9 күн бұрын
The riddle is known as "Exeter Book Riddle 33" (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records), and the answer to the riddle is "an iceberg". "Shield-walls carved" refers to the cutting into the sides of ships. The "mother" is the sea-water from which the iceberg was formed, and the "daughter" is the "gracefully standing" lake that is left behind on the land once the iceberg has melted.
@joriskbos1115 9 күн бұрын
That analogy at the end reminds me of how Americans tend to pronounce Goebbels as Gurbles
@13tuyuti 10 күн бұрын
Will these tips work in 2025?
@TheNordicharps 10 күн бұрын
I don't know how unusual I am, but I really want to be able to speak Old English rather than read it (although I'm sure I will read it eventually). I grew up in Scotland, have lived in Sweden for 49+ years, have dipped my toe into Irish and Icelandic and am fascinated by the archaeology of the Iron Age and the Anglo-Saxons. I am excitedly waiting for the audio book!!!
@rwbaira 11 күн бұрын
Real world example of a misheard name: I was introduced to Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy via the BBC dramatization. It was years before I realized Slartibartfast wasn't Slatibadfast
@warbrush 12 күн бұрын
I'm trucking through Latin and have been for a while now, I got a bit burned out so O picked up your book and OMG it's such a refreshing read. AND THE ADJECTIVES ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE!!!!! This book is already pulling me out of my language funk. Thank you!
@mariannehepple4907 12 күн бұрын
I like the way you teach Old English for beginners, but ... as someone who has always learnt languages in an analytical and comparative way, I actually enjoy the old fashioned grammars. Having thoroughly learnt Hochdeutsch and also being minimally au fait with Modern Norwegian, Danish and Swedish. I also learned Latin at school from the Cambridge tutors - 45+ years ago - and it has stood me in good stead
@mariannehepple4907 12 күн бұрын
Love me a schwa! I'speak NZ English so all our vowels have been flattened. Fush and Chups etc Supposedly early NZ accent is closest to Suffolk English accent
@isaacriggs4656 12 күн бұрын
It makes sense that it's run, because if you replace the end of the first syllable with the last one you get "hoof it."
@isaacriggs4656 12 күн бұрын
Starting with a p? My creatures that speak this language don't have lips. I don't just create languages willy nilly, I create them for my book characters to speak.
@haukur1 13 күн бұрын
Mikið var gaman að hlusta á þessa sögu. Nú langar mig að heyra framhaldið. Ef til vill tæki skemmri tíma að læra þetta samanborið við dönsku, haha 😅.
@rahashi 13 күн бұрын
Are you in any way, shape or form related to Tolkien? This was very thorough. Being Flemish Dutch speaking myself I can see lots of links with other saxon languages. The influence of old Norse languages is, of course, very clear as well.
@thezaftigwendy 15 күн бұрын
Just got it today! Already read chapter 1 once, stumbling over pronunciation a wee bit.
@douglascampbell7143 15 күн бұрын
What the world needs is "O familie romaneasca" 🙂
@fekixrudolfbischof 15 күн бұрын
Wow, what a handsome you are! ❤ cute! also the beard.
@morganwalsh1049 15 күн бұрын
Reading widely below your level solidifies common structures in the language and reinforces vocab mastery. Look for novellas published for learners. Focus on the best stylists for genuine texts and go as slowly as you need. Each sentence is a trove. As soon as possible, compose sentences in the language using unfamiliar vocab. It will make review very simple, even if the sentences are grammatically accurate but slightly ridiculous. Articulate a selection aloud (Vergil) to replicate how ancient authors sung in meter. Keep a diary of your impressions in your ancient language so you can plainly observe your progress and development.
@bradwalton3977 15 күн бұрын
Good advice.
@granite_4576 15 күн бұрын
God I wish I could roll my Rs.
@carlinberg 15 күн бұрын
Great etymology deep dive! I've always wondered about Christ/messiah but for some reason never looked it up 😅 Happy Little Christmas Eve as we say on the 23rd in southern Scandinavia!
@wclk 11 күн бұрын
It is fascinating. Hebrew "Moshiach" and Greek "Khrīstós" are proper nouns created from their verb forms for anointing with oil. Germanic languages had a similar verb for anointing with oil (smear), but when Anglo-Saxons first became christians they called the Christ, "Hælend", meaning Savior or Healer, coming from the same root as Heal, Health, and Whole. Playing into Jesus' role to save and make you physically and spiritually healthy (whole). Interestingly looking back to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) roots, we can see the divergence of words that language families took for meaning "anointing". The Ancient Greek "khrī́ō" (to smear, to anoint) has the same PIE root as what became "grime" and "grima" in the Germanic languages. The PIE root for anointing in the Germanic languages (smear, smørja, schmieren) lead to the Greek "múron" meaning sweet oil or perfume, which coincidentally is an anointing oil for Christian ceremonies.
@carlinberg 11 күн бұрын
@wclk thanks, super interesting! 😊
@clajelquicho8118 15 күн бұрын
I just wanna point out you say some of your vowels as dipthongs "pa pal(schwa)wei" at 52:22 cool stuff tho
@Romanophonie 16 күн бұрын
Sē forma capitol is swīþe gōd :D
@Ecotechnologist 16 күн бұрын
6:35 Instead of re-reading, I've found myself just getting two very closely related textbooks. Like I'll read two different grammar books for reinforcement rather than the same one twice. However I do read graded readers twice or thrice.
@Romanophonie 16 күн бұрын
I think Ōsweald Bera is my spirit animal 😁🐻... Also, I like the bloopers at the end 😂
@DarkLight748 16 күн бұрын
You didn't pronounce Christmas differently at the end, dislike dislike dislike.
@gary.h.turner 10 күн бұрын
And a Mairreee Kreeeestuhmairsuh to you too! 😅
@sterlingdafydd5834 16 күн бұрын
So you never really told us how to say “Merry Christmas” in Anglo Saxon..!!!
@gary.h.turner 10 күн бұрын
Bliðe Cristes mæsse!
@TerrasScourge 16 күн бұрын
I was always confused as to why we pronounce “Christmas” with a monophthong but “Christ” with a diphthong.
@ghenulo 14 күн бұрын
The same reason that we pronounce "sphere" as /ˈsfɪɚ/ but "spherical" as /ˈsfɛɹɪkəl/, I'd imagine.
@iykury 9 күн бұрын
@@ghenulo i actually do say /ˈsfɪr.ɪk.l̩/
@jimatreidēs 16 күн бұрын
I’m on chapter 3 right now. But I do reread each chapter until it flows. Witondlīċe, þīn bōc is swīðe gōd!
@angelageisler8806 16 күн бұрын
Thank you for all this wonderful information! BLITHE GEOLA!
@sterlingdafydd5834 16 күн бұрын
Is that Anglo Saxon for Merry Christmas???
@eunoiavision7567 16 күн бұрын
Simon Roper sent me. or should I say, Roperum Simonus missa me. LOL. Just guessing here with my new found etymology.
@Ptaku93 16 күн бұрын
Merry Christmas!
@Ryan_Kaufman 16 күн бұрын
Love this kinda stuff, thank you!!!
@michaelwitt530 16 күн бұрын
Morning! Your lesson on Chapter 1 that you recently made available is very engaging and stimulating. Thanks so much. I find that hearing your pronunciation of words improves comprehension. I'm currently working through Chapter 6 of Osweald Bera. I find your method of telling the story very helpful -- the repetition of words and phrases as well as the subtle, gradual introduction to strong verb forms, subjunctive voice, dative forms (probably instrumental too), and adjective endings. I do believe with patience, not only will one understand Osweald Bera without having to constantly turn to an Old English grammar text, but one will also acquire a solid foundation for tackling other Old English texts. I hope you continue to post additional lessons featuring your reading of Old English texts (besides the many that you have already posted).
@GershomEmos 16 күн бұрын
איך האָב זײער ליב געהאַט אַז דו האָסט געניצט דעם אַשכּנזישן אַרױסרײד. ש'כּוח!
@ConciseCabbage 16 күн бұрын
Old English looks and sounds quite a bit like Latin tbh.
@cadian101st 14 күн бұрын
As related languages go back in time they tend to resemble each other more
@josenoesantiago9175 14 күн бұрын
this is due to protoindoeurpeanization
@shanedemeulenaere5792 16 күн бұрын
Language change is so fascinating. I recently read a comment about how Latin (book Latin) may owe a large part of it's historical steadiness, and in some part then it's usefulness, to the fact that it wasn't a 'living' language undergoing all of these changes. It was (and perhaps still is to some extent) outside of linguistic time.
@fekixrudolfbischof 15 күн бұрын
?????😢😂
@saiyajedi 8 күн бұрын
Time to learn the Old Latin used by the playwrights of the Roman Republic!
@Romanophonie 16 күн бұрын
Fascinating! Could you explain why the final /a/ in Latin "missa" becomes an /e/ in Kentish Old English, and subsequently, in West Saxon Old English? Iċ þancie þē!
@hive_indicator318 16 күн бұрын
I can read the last sentence, and I only watched the video on the first chapter of his textbook! I'm so chuffed
@strike6621 16 күн бұрын
First!!!!!!!
@ferrero673 16 күн бұрын
Ancient English was so beautiful i hope we never forget our past
@LordSuppethmybrutheth 17 күн бұрын
What does the word “efne” or “evne” or “ethne” mean? I’m not sure how it’s spelled but Collin says it quit a bit.
@jimicwhite 17 күн бұрын
So do I need a dictionary to be able to decipher this?