Regarding Ōsweald Bera. A Student’s Guide: Any chance of getting a sneak preview or sample of some of the grammatical explanations and practice exercises before the book is published?
Currently students in the Ancient Language Institute's Old English programme have access to the early version. We'll probably put out some preview material at some point over the next few months though.
Thanks for the links to other good language resources. Somehow I've dabbled in all of those languages, and I've especially had a hard time finding this sort of content for Hebrew. Thank you!
Someone ought to put together a comprehensive list of resources like this. 🤔
Hey, I just found your youtube and substack via the interview with Simon Roper, this is wonderful stuff - I'm a religious studies/history student doing Biblical studies and the like through into the Medieval period, focusing on Jewish stuff but looking to broaden, and linguistic pedagogy is a very live issue in the university system - I managed to skip a year of Hebrew just by forcing myself to learn the siddur and mishnah alongside everything else - I think the big issue is not just lack of input, but lack of resources for maintaining input (a lot of people just memorize things without thinking about the linguistic side of it)
the other issue, however, is scripts - I'm getting into Aramaic this coming year, and thinking "I should read Targumim and Gemara alongside Daniel" (because, honestly, the grammatical differences aren't super big) but also, in the back of my head thinking "what about Peshitta and Mandaeic literature" but that's two more scripts - do you know good resources for just drilling through that barrier of scripts, when the underlying grammar and vocabulary is largely shared? It would be fairly similar between German and Yiddish but that's a significant hurdle that needs to be overcome prior to just reading and reading and reading (which I have already learnt the value of)
Exciting to know that the audio book as well as the grammar supplement with exercises are planned for 2025. Thanks so much for doing this for those of us who are interested in Old English.
Regarding Ōsweald Bera. A Student’s Guide: Any chance of getting a sneak preview or sample of some of the grammatical explanations and practice exercises before the book is published?
Currently students in the Ancient Language Institute's Old English programme have access to the early version. We'll probably put out some preview material at some point over the next few months though.
Thanks for the links to other good language resources. Somehow I've dabbled in all of those languages, and I've especially had a hard time finding this sort of content for Hebrew. Thank you!
Someone ought to put together a comprehensive list of resources like this. 🤔
That's an excellent idea, thank you! It would help especially for the less studied languages, beyond Latin (and maybe Ancient Greek)
An audio book! I love the idea!!! Please let us know when it's complete!
Thank you
Don't worry, I'll be shouting from the rafters once it's done! :)
Hey, I just found your youtube and substack via the interview with Simon Roper, this is wonderful stuff - I'm a religious studies/history student doing Biblical studies and the like through into the Medieval period, focusing on Jewish stuff but looking to broaden, and linguistic pedagogy is a very live issue in the university system - I managed to skip a year of Hebrew just by forcing myself to learn the siddur and mishnah alongside everything else - I think the big issue is not just lack of input, but lack of resources for maintaining input (a lot of people just memorize things without thinking about the linguistic side of it)
the other issue, however, is scripts - I'm getting into Aramaic this coming year, and thinking "I should read Targumim and Gemara alongside Daniel" (because, honestly, the grammatical differences aren't super big) but also, in the back of my head thinking "what about Peshitta and Mandaeic literature" but that's two more scripts - do you know good resources for just drilling through that barrier of scripts, when the underlying grammar and vocabulary is largely shared? It would be fairly similar between German and Yiddish but that's a significant hurdle that needs to be overcome prior to just reading and reading and reading (which I have already learnt the value of)
Exciting to know that the audio book as well as the grammar supplement with exercises are planned for 2025. Thanks so much for doing this for those of us who are interested in Old English.