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Progeniture-celicole wrote:I hope a few of you wish to also learn OHG, so that we can talk about it a little!
linguoboy wrote:The problem with OHG is that we don't have much in the way of texts, and they're mostly translations.
johnklepac wrote:linguoboy wrote:The problem with OHG is that we don't have much in the way of texts, and they're mostly translations.
Aren't translations linguistic gold, assuming you can locate the originals?
Viridzen wrote:it's small, it doesn't explain things well, and the only exercises it gives are reading, with plenty of words you aren't taught yet.
księżycowy wrote:And part of the reason hardly anything is explained is because you're expected to know some Latin and/or Greek already and to make the connect to the Latin or Greek. That's the way a lot of the old "textbooks" for these languages work. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
księżycowy wrote:To learn Old High German? There aren't too many choices. Wright's grammar is about the only thing I can think of in English. There are also some German resources if you know any German.
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