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My crash-course in Old English | ||
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| Olympia Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5984 days ago 195 posts - 244 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Old English, French | Message 1 of 1 29 April 2010 at 10:37pm | IP Logged |
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I should have done a log post when I began my Old English odyssey back in January, but I guess I didn't really
count it as one of "my languages" because honestly I was only taking the course to satisfy a university requirement for my linguistics major. The course was advertised as a course in which the students would learn to read Old English after only one semester of study (with a dictionary). We went through all aspects of the grammar at warp speed. One thing I didn't expect at the beginning is that the course was mostly self-study--a first for me. We used Moore and Knott's text, which was first written in the 1950s--very, very old school. It was a bit of an adjustment for me to become disciplined enough to learn Old English independently, but by the end I was sticking to my fifteen-minutes-a-day schedule pretty religiously. Honestly it's the only way to get through that amount of grammatical material in one semester. I've just completed my final exam for the course and I am rather pleased with how it turned out. Not perfect, but I believe I accomplished the goal set out for the course. I can translate from Old English now and I know the ins and outs of the grammar. If someone would have told me six months ago that this is where I would be today, I would have laughed. I never had any intention of learning Old English, but I had to for academic reasons. I can't say that I'll stick with it. I think this log begins and ends here. I much prefer to study modern languages because I like the various media and "current" material available like newspapers, books, TV, etc. Although learning Old English was a nice introduction to the Germanic family. Hmm...maybe German might not be a bad idea? =) We'll see... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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