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A complete course on reading and understanding Old English, designed for absolute beginners, built around authentic texts and featuring online audio to aid pronunciation. You will be able to access this audio online via your browser or by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app.
Let's explore the sounds of Old English, starting with the consonants. The consonants below are categorised by their place of articulation. You can select any of the coloured IPA symbols in the row below to hear how they sound.
With a very few exceptions, the Old English consonant system is essentially identical that of Old English. Hence the sound spelled by the Old English letter b was pronounced more or less as is that spelled by our modern b: Old English bār, Modern English boar (i.e. wild pig).
Pronouncing Old English. Note: if you are unable to hear the Old English sounds on your computer, click here for help. Vowels. There are many relatively complicated charts that explain the pronunciation of Old English vowels. You can find them in any basic Old English grammar book.
Old English Online Series Introduction Jonathan Slocum and Winfred P. Lehmann. All lessons now include audio! Recorded by Thomas M. Cable, Professor Emeritus of the University of Texas at Austin. Old English is the language of the Germanic inhabitants of England, dated from the time of their settlement in the 5th century to the end of the 11th ...
This website is designed to help you read Old English, whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced learner. It will introduce you, topic by topic, to the structure and sound of the Old English language in easy to digest chunks with plenty of opportunity to practice along the way.
Mark Atherton’s Complete Old English is an Old English primer without long lists of gram-matical paradigms, overviews of sound changes, markers of vowel length, Alfred the Great and Ælfric’s Colloquy.
