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highlyeccentric) wrote2007-11-30 03:43 pm
highlyeccentric) wrote2007-11-30 03:43 pm
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Bored?
Anyone bored out of their brain this (southern) summer? ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
goblinpaladin and I are going to be working through Peter Baker's Electronic Introduction To Old English if you want to join us. B is doing it for the first time, because he is a NERD and doesn't fancy waiting the twelve months or so before he can take the course at uni. I'm doing it for the grammar review.
Baker's online anthology and Old English Aerobics provide their own answers, so you can pick up a feel for the language even if you lack anglo-saxonists in your vicinity. There will be both translation and grammar involved. We won't badger you, unless you ask us to, about how much you have or haven't done. Plan is, we all help each other out according to our various skill levels, and if everyone learns something then we consider it a success.
So, if you've always wanted to learn some AS but never had the time, or if in fact you never wanted to learn it but you are so bored you'll try anything right now, or you've learnt it before and are bored enough to want to review it, come and join us in a nerdy adventure.
ed: i just noticed the number of times I used the word "bored" in this entry. Rest assured Anglo-Saxon is not boring. It is in fact the BEST possible cure for boredom.
goblinpaladin and I are going to be working through Peter Baker's Electronic Introduction To Old English if you want to join us. B is doing it for the first time, because he is a NERD and doesn't fancy waiting the twelve months or so before he can take the course at uni. I'm doing it for the grammar review. Baker's online anthology and Old English Aerobics provide their own answers, so you can pick up a feel for the language even if you lack anglo-saxonists in your vicinity. There will be both translation and grammar involved. We won't badger you, unless you ask us to, about how much you have or haven't done. Plan is, we all help each other out according to our various skill levels, and if everyone learns something then we consider it a success.
So, if you've always wanted to learn some AS but never had the time, or if in fact you never wanted to learn it but you are so bored you'll try anything right now, or you've learnt it before and are bored enough to want to review it, come and join us in a nerdy adventure.
ed: i just noticed the number of times I used the word "bored" in this entry. Rest assured Anglo-Saxon is not boring. It is in fact the BEST possible cure for boredom.