Old English in Action | Episode 1
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2023
- Learn Anglo-Saxon through video! Dr. Colin Gorrie, the founder of the Old English program at the Ancient Language Institute, has developed a video series called "Old English in Action," which introduces key vocabulary and grammar concepts in a totally immersive audio-visual format with, as C.S. Lewis might have said, "no officious Modern English intruding."
The vocab and grammar progression you see in this series corresponds to the progression found in Dr. Gorrie's forthcoming Old English nature method textbook, "Ōsweald Bera." Each episode is meant to accompany the chapter of the same number in "Ōsweald Bera."
Inspiration for this series of videos comes from fellow ALI Fellow Luke Ranieri's "Ancient Greek in Action" video series, which you can find on his ScorpioMartianus channel: • Ancient Greek in Actio...
Episode 1 includes basic vocabulary and some simple question-answer in Old English.
Learn more about Old English at the Ancient Language Institute: ancientlanguage.com/old-english/
Subscribe to Dr. Gorrie's linguistics-focused RUclips channel: / colingorrie 
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You've just somehow travelled to a different dimension and parallel timeline where the English won the Battle of Hastings and you're stuck here so now you need to learn Ænglisc.
We at NASA are using this to train our time travelling cadets. Thanks!
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Thankyou! This is a much better way to learn a language. I feel like home. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a revival of Old English.
…a wonderful approach, method, and technique. I’m an English professor who loves diachronic linguistics and ancient language learning (Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, etc.). It’s my goal to finish Sarelli’s “Elementary Old English” (2011) by next summer. Videos of this style will certainly be useful for not just learning, but true acquisition. Operationalizing vocabulary in real life and in a communicative approach is a wise idea for any language learning effort. Thanks for your videos! 👍 I will be watching!
Thanks for watching - and for saying so!
only pre-11th century kids remember this
Excellent! But I kept waiting to find out what the bears did in the forest.
The same as the Pope.
Excellent thank you.
Very enjoyable thanks.
Love it! Really helpful.
Awesome - so glad!
These are SO helpful!
We're so glad!
My mind keeps flipping between hearing a completely unintelligible set of phonemes and hearing comprehensible English spoken with a very peculiar archaic accent. It’s the closest feeling I’ve ever had to suddenly being able to "flip a switch" and understand a foreign language like a native speaker.
Εῦγε!
Great video! When will the Lingua Anglica per se Illustrata be released?
Thanks! Can't make any firm promises quite yet. We're still test-running the content on our students and revising accordingly.
@@ancientlanguageinstitute looking forward to it either way!
@@gudenruben thanks :) we're so excited to get it out in front of more people!
Swīþe gōd!
it's a kind of better than reading.
Also some Dutch in it
Þis is god! Ic wille þæt ma manna on Englisc sprecen, and þæt þas filmenna niwra leorningcneohta helpen, and oðre filmenna ðe sind gelice him.
Ac ic wene þæt þæt wif on meadwe sie, and þæt se cyning and seo cwen sien on metingum! (Ac þa metinga sind on sele, gea.)
There's actually a bit of an Old English online community, there's a forum where everyone talks to one another in the tongue. I have conversations in it with a fellow enthusiast via WhatsApp. Though if an Anglo-Saxon could hear us they would probably find it...amusing, as neither of us are exactly fluent, but it's a great way to practice if like me you want to be able to *speak* the language as a living language.
it seems to me like a old German language
Good ear!
English is a Germanic language. Even more so back then.
Hit is swā.
That one women is nowhere near the woods; clearly outside of them, in a field.
And se cyning and seo cwen sind on metingum, na on sele!
Hey, @@nicholassinnett2958 I think "sele" is fine. There's may cognates across many languages, not just Germanic. E.G. French, and they all more or less mean "hall". That fits well with where a king and queen would be, whereas you suggestion is not found on wiktionary or bos-worth toller. It may occur in some other resource, but Sele works as far as I see.
Would it be possible to make a video with the translation in modern English because some of these where a guessing game 😂
Sē sele = The hall / the manor
Sē tūn = The town
Sē wer = The man / The were
Sē fǣder = The father
Sē cyning = The king / The kyning
Sēo cwēn = The queen
Sēo wyrt = The plant / The herb
Sēo mæġþ = The girl / The maiden
Þæt holt = The forest / That holt
Þæt wif = The woman / That wife
Þæt hūs = The house / That house
Þæt stǣr = The story / That history
Sē bera = The bear
Sē nama = The name
Middanġeard = Earth / World / Middenyard
Engla-land = England / Land of the Angles
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@@TitoHabifInteresting how "that" was singular while "the" was plural.
"Promo sm"
many of these examples are confusing
like are you referring to the plant or the leaves of the plant or the planting of a plant?
are you referring to the person writing, the person speaking, or the person reading?
are you referring to the person just being in the forest, the act of walking in a forest?
are you referring to the cathedral or the ceiling of the cathedral?
the examples sentences didn't provide much clarity either
i guess im just too stupid
Interestingly, for those comments written in Old English, Google translate obviously can't recognize the language and does a pathetic job of translating them.
Sé bera níedes ān wīf. 🐻⛪💍🐻=🧸
going through this im going to type what i think each are as im listening:
se sele not sure , u show the palace, a celing and another building. pa selas seems to be collection of buildings.
se tun is the town, pa tunas the towns
se wer / pa weras all just seem to be men nothing else in common?
se faeder is the father, pa faerderas is the fathers
se cyning is the king so pa cyningas is the kings
seo cwen being the queen, pa cwebe THE queens
seo wyrt the plant? - pa wyrte plants ?
sep / pa maegp is gil / girls i think but i will have to stop here theres simply not enough explanation to understand fully what im GUESSING at for episode one this really should be a build up to individual things like this ... one a basic understanding is made...
Sele is a Hall, think French: ''Salon'' as it comes from the same root.
Wer is Man, think ''Werewolf'' as well as the Latin and Celtic ''Vir/Wir''.
Wyrt is ''Wort'' another name for plantlife in general ala ''St. John's Wort''.
Maegth is ''Maiden/Girl''.
@@MixerRenegade95And "mægden" actually started out as a diminutive form of "mægþ" (and eventually replaced it after it lost the diminutive sense and became a synonym for the original word).
It's one nitpick I'd make with the video, "mægþ" was rare outside of poetry, except in compound words, since "mægden" had all but replaced it by the time of recorded Old English.
@@nicholassinnett2958 That's interesting, as something similar has happened in modern Dutch. The word 'meid' isn't used often, and the diminutive 'meisje' has pretty much taken its place.
þa cwena =pl
Bit pointless reviving old English, but ditching lots of french words could be done as mostly English still has its Germanic doubles ,it would give English a better flow to it.
Ever heard of "Anglish"?
@@ChildishSoap yes anglish is something I've been meaning to look into further , find it really interesting
Why is the word for woman neuter? It's kind of odd.
It stems from the Verb: to weave (OE: wefan) Someone who weaves is a Wifmann and while anybody can weave it became associated with Women who wove mostly hence Wif became Wife (Weib in High German) and Wifmann became Woman. For a Man weaving he would be called a ''Wefere'' or Weaver.
@@MixerRenegade95 Cool. Thank you for the explanation :)
@@Elriuhilu You're welcome.
Wtf. Its like a combination of norwegian and English