How to Speak in Old English | Beginner Lesson in Reading and Speaking in the Anglo-Saxon Tongue

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Dr. Colin Gorrie, Old English and Latin Fellow of the Ancient Language Institute, introduces the brand-new Old English program at ALI, and walks Ryan Hammill and Jonathan Roberts through the opening pages of his new Old English Oerberg-inspired graded reader, Lingua Anglica Antiqua Per Se Illustrata, the tale of Osweald the talking bear, who wanders through medieval England and encounters various slices of Anglo-Saxon life.
Learn more about Dr. Gorrie's work preparing a Direct Method textbook for Old English, as well as about the online Old English classes at the Ancient Language Institute.
Old English at the Ancient Language Institute: ancientlanguage.com/old-english/
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@ancientlanguageinstitute Жыл бұрын

If you are interested in reading Osweald Bera and learning Old English with Dr. Gorrie, you can sign up to join us. We run classes in the Fall term (Sept - Dec), Spring term (Jan - Apr), and Summer term (May - Aug). Check out the registration page for Old English here: ancientlanguage.com/register-for-old-english/

@barneyclifton6402 19 күн бұрын

Who else is here in preparation for the upcoming time travel back to Anglo-Saxon times?

@IosuamacaMhadaidh 5 ай бұрын

Slàinte mhath mo charaidean Sasannach! 😊 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️ I'm part Ænglisc but lean to my Gaelic roots, although plan to learn Old English too!

@leocomerford Жыл бұрын

It definitely helps to know a little bit of modern Standard German too.

@peterfireflylund Жыл бұрын

A bit of Scandinavian helps, too.

@manifestman132 Жыл бұрын

This was my thought too. Even back in high school when we read Beowulf. Then again 2nd year of university.

@ae3898 9 ай бұрын

I’d love to see sample lessons like this for the other ALI language course offerings. If they’re all this good, I’m in.

@ancientlanguageinstitute 6 ай бұрын

Great idea!

@johnloony68 3 ай бұрын

This is fun. I’ve just finished reading “Beowulf” so I wanted to learn more.

@MarkPierro Жыл бұрын

Okay, fellas from initial chaos comes a really fun, entertaining and well thought through system of learning any language. Fantastic work

@ancientlanguageinstitute Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sticking with it!

@zoetkarel Жыл бұрын

Fantastic lesson and the book looks awesome! I'd definitely buy a copy along with audio whenever it comes out.

@ancientlanguageinstitute Жыл бұрын

Someday, and hopefully not too long from now!

@schrodingerscat4769 Жыл бұрын

The language of my ancestors!

@geoffboxell9301 Ай бұрын

Holte is a wood rather than a forest isn't it? Forests are not just trees but also a lot of open ground, usually heathland.

@johnrobinson4445 Жыл бұрын

24. Wonderful. Subscribed.

@noahbarger1 11 ай бұрын

wait a minute, i watched his videos, which were casual sort of conlanging and translation stuff, but i had no idea he had a doctorate

@ancientlanguageinstitute 11 ай бұрын

He's a talented guy!

@fabo1343 5 ай бұрын

I am really interested in the book and audio files when they come out. I live in the Netherlands and will not be able to follow live classes. When will the book come out?

@ancientlanguageinstitute 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! We've made lots of progress on the book, so hopefully people won't have to wait too much longer.

@Yoreni 11 ай бұрын

is the english im speaking old enough? i have been speaking it for over 20 years so it must be pretty old.

@voorster Ай бұрын

Das kann man gut verstehen

@RunicDream 7 ай бұрын

As a speaker of both modern English and Hochdeutsch, I found the oration very easy to understand. The text seems more difficult to read. Interestingly, I usually find it is the opposite for me with modern Germanic languages such as Plattdeutsch in which I have an easier time reading than listening.

@einarkristjansson6812 Жыл бұрын

Hi, how old is your Old English? It´s obviously pre 1066 AD, but is it pre Viking invasions from Denmark and Norway in the beginning of the 9th century AD? Of course Old Norse is strongly related to the languages of the Angles and Saxons who moved from North Germany to England after the fall of the Romans in England.

@ancientlanguageinstitute Жыл бұрын

On the later side. Dr. Gorrie is aiming for around the year 1000 in Wessex. One exception: the diphthongs ie/īe which are only found earlier. By the time he's aiming for they’d have been mostly y/ȳ. But because many dictionaries use the Early West Saxon spellings, he uses it as a kind of standard.

@cito2820 Жыл бұрын

I would also be very interested in buying the book! I've been searching for a nature method like course to go along with the Old English class I'll be taking next semester! Any recommendations would be welcome!

@ancientlanguageinstitute Жыл бұрын

If you're looking for a nature method Old English class, we're starting a cohort this spring! ancientlanguage.com/beginner-old-english/

@johnloony68 3 ай бұрын

43:40 I have heard þ being pronounced as ð sometimes if it’s between vowels in the mibble of a worm, but do you mean that the letter ð is sometimes pronounced þ? I noticed that the MS text of Beowulf was sometimes not entirely consistent in writing maþelode / maðelode, or even Bēowulf / Bīowulf.

@niceuneasy 6 ай бұрын

Old English don't let it die out 😞

@ripamontir Жыл бұрын

Would be interested in buying this book when it's available.

@ancientlanguageinstitute Жыл бұрын

We'll be testing out the book in classes for the next few semesters - once Colin is happy with it, publication is the plan!

@Fatelovesirony960 Жыл бұрын

@@ancientlanguageinstitute any updates?

@ancientlanguageinstitute Жыл бұрын

@@Fatelovesirony960 Nope - we're kicking off our first term using the text this January. We'll want to hone it over the course of 2023.

@maureenhallahan9336 Жыл бұрын

Good to hear

@maureenhallahan9336 Жыл бұрын

@@ancientlanguageinstituteDo you mean January 2024 or is it all available now.?i am really impressed and want to join!!

@thomasbernhardqed 5 ай бұрын

I NEED to know what happened next to the bera

@ancientlanguageinstitute 5 ай бұрын

Coming soon!

@ReplyToMeIfUrRetarded 7 ай бұрын

I wanna learn old english so badly.

@ancientlanguageinstitute 7 ай бұрын

You can do it!

@ReplyToMeIfUrRetarded 7 ай бұрын

@@ancientlanguageinstitute Thank you.

@Fatelovesirony960 Жыл бұрын

Where can we buy this

@ancientlanguageinstitute Жыл бұрын

Nowhere, yet. We'll certainly do a big splashy announcement once it's ready, though.

@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands 9 ай бұрын

Sounds like old Dutch to me :)

@ancientlanguageinstitute 25 күн бұрын

Ōsweald Bera will be introduced to the world in Fall 2024! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l7-do9WqxJOmdJ8.html

@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands 9 ай бұрын

Ik hātte Willhelmz.

@zacharyetches7578 10 ай бұрын

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@sivirgo 9 ай бұрын

I think you should go back speaking like this… to keep english as original as possible or alternatively Anglish

@user-upwjchb Жыл бұрын

ic lufige þis

@Malevich2024 Жыл бұрын

The reason this sounds so strange is that modern English is only about 40% English it's 35--40% French and the rest Latin, Greek and other languages its a hybrid Germanic/Romance language the readings on this video sound like a children's record played backwards

@SF-ru3lp 4 ай бұрын

Psssssst! Can I pass on a note about a modern Engkish preposition? One of the group said "beginners TO Old English".... the correct and logical preposition in Modern English is "beginners IN Old English". Americans' usage of prepositions is very non standard and non ligical. Apologies for my critical note. Thank you for the content! G Ire

@soybeledward3 9 күн бұрын

You are most likely mispronouncing allot of it, ANGLISKSONS means english sons there are allot of vowels that you are not sounding out correctly you have to do some more studies you need to find some old record of speaking or some kind of glossary or some dictionary that will give you some idea of how to pronounce it