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For those interested in learning old English, I’ve been going through Oswald Bera by Colin Gorrie - https://colingorrie.com/books/osweald-bera/ https://colingo
by Agingcoder 5mo ago
For those interested in learning old English, I’ve been going through Oswald Bera by Colin Gorrie -
https://colingorrie.com/books/osweald-bera/ https://colingorrie.com/books/osweald-bera/
Basically it’s a full blown story/graded reader with no modern English apart from vocabulary. You build an understanding of the language as you read the book and what is initially gibberish becomes quite clear as you progress . It does help if you’ve had a lot of exposure to German ( vocab and grammar), or barring this any case inflected language.
What’s noticeable is that it’s about 200 pages long, so the story gets quite sophisticated , and rather unexpectedly the book is a bit of a page-turner !
- agos 5mo agoThis is super interesting! I wonder if there is something like this for other languages!
- engeljohnb 5mo agoThere's tons, if you look up "[language] graded reader" or "[language] nature method." Familia Romana by Hans Orberg is a great one for Latin. I frequently see people call it the gold standard for this kind of book, but they're all Latin enthusiasts, so they're not exactly unbiased.
- Agingcoder 5mo agoI didn’t find that many - you can find graded readers, but very few ‘graded novels’ ( as in a full novel where chapters are progressively harder, not multiple independent tiny stories ) if I may say so
- devilbunny 5mo agoFamilia Romana is the first part of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata.