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If you want to improve your score, the blog author (Dr. Colin Gorrie) has just the thing: a book which will teach you Old English by means of a story about a ta
by leoc 8mo ago
If you want to improve your score, the blog author (Dr. Colin Gorrie) has just the thing: a book which will teach you Old English by means of a story about a talking bear. Here's how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZhlWdVvZfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZhlWdVvZfw . Your dream of learning Old English has never been closer: get Ōsweald Bera https://colingorrie.com/books/osweald-bera/ https://colingorrie.com/books/osweald-bera/ today.
- guerrilla 8mo agoMan, I really needed this when I was studying OE. I was trying to do the Alice in Wonderland book and an Oxford textbook but it was really a lot of work compared to other language learning (even compared to Latin). This would have made it a lot more fun.
- satvikpendem 8mo agoThe link above mentions Ørberg who did something similar for Latin (Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, ebook and audiobook), which I've read through with good success. It's known as the immersive Ørberg method after him.
- satvikpendem 8mo agoThe Ørberg method is great, I wish more languages had media utilizing it.
- fpsvogel 8mo agoThere are actually several similar books for modern European languages, available as PDFs (in the public domain and/or out of print): https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books.html https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books.... Ørberg may be the best, though.
- LAC-Tech 8mo agoco-sign this. Oswald the Bear is an amazing book and taught me how to read Old English remarkably quickly. The first chapter is like a book for toddlers in Old English (with questions and loads of repeated vocab), and each chapter gets a bit harder. Half way in its like a Young Adults Novel level of difficulty. But each step up is relatively small. The actual story is great too. Æthelstān Mūs is my spirit animal.
- Podrod 8mo agoShame that it only seems to be available in physical form and only from the US. The price is already quite high and with postage to the UK it adds up to be quite expensive.
- LAC-Tech 8mo agoMy friend from the UK bought it and it got sent from somewhere locakly. I am in NZ and mine was sent from AU. So I think you should be covered.
- tkocmathla 8mo agoThe "locakly" typo is perfectly placed in the comment thread of this article!
- fcatalan 8mo agoYes. I could get over the 1300 hump and at least make general sense of everything past there because I have read about half of Ōsweald Bera