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OLD ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND EXERCISE BOOK. PART I. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. HISTORY. 1. The history of the English language falls naturally into three periods; but these periods blend into one another so gradually that too much significance must not be attached to the exact dates which scholars, chiefly for convenience of treatment, have assigned ...
Old English Pronunciation Guide. The letters of the Old English alphabet are: A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U X Y Ƿ Þ Ð Æ. You should notice there are four letters which are not present in modern English: wynn (Ƿ), thorn (Þ), eth (Ð), and ash (Æ), and there is no 'j', 'v', 'w', or 'z', but that's not to say these sounds are not ...
This revised edition adds ten basic texts, together with full notes and a comprehensive glossary, which convert the Guide into a self-contained course book for students beginning a study of Old English.
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.
The following podcast contains an exercise that will let you practice your Old English consonants, long and short vowels, and diphthongs. You complete the exercise as follows: Listen to the Old English sound, example word, and Modern English translation; In the pause that follows this, trying saying the Old English sound and example word yourself
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 century.
You can find them in any basic Old English grammar book. But the power of new information technology has suggested to us a better way to learn how to pronounce Old English words: simply click on the hyperlinks below to hear the word in Old English.
