#LearningOldEnglish SEVEN: 'It's not grammar so much as it's vocabulary.' Create a vocabulary learning system. It matters less *what* form it takes – spreadsheet, app, looseleaf notebook, flashcards – than actually creating it. It can become your single most valuable learning resource. #OldEnglish
#LearningOldEnglish SIX: Watch Thijs Porck's overview of OE cases and gender: www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Zx...
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#LearningOldEnglish FIVE: Locate good models of OE pronunciation. (There are some bad ones online!) One model we recommend, clear & consistent – Josh Tyra's videos, where you can hear the OE, read the OE & follow an interlinear ModE translation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOfv... #OldEnglisc #Englisc
#LearningOldEnglish FOUR: Remember the 100-hour rule. Devote 100 hours to any skill or subject & you'll have mastered more than 90% of others attempting the same thing. It's not a competition, but a simple statement of the value of persistence. & the rule holds up quite well in practice. #OldEnglisc
#LearningOldEnglish THREE: Find an OE learning community, or create one. Asking questions, learning together & sharing your interest helps you stay focused & enjoy the journey. Online communities are thriving, but may take some tracking down. They can help with resources, links, strategies, etc.
#LearningOldEnglish TWO: Gather resources. Find free resources online – the skills needed to locate them match well w/ those for learning OE: resourcefulness, patience, discipline. The Internet Archive archive.org and Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org should be your friends. Read bibliographies!
#LearningOldEnglish ONE: get your learning goal(s) down in writing – this matters! Want to speak OE at re-enactments? Read OE poetry and prose? Write OE? Satisfy a degree requirement? Each calls for a somewhat different approach. Most texts focus on learning to read OE. #OldEnglish #Englisc
