księżycowy wrote:What edition do you have?
Which edition do you have again? I have the fourth edition: A Guide to Old English Revised with Prose and Verse Texts and Glossary copyright 1986.
As for which resource to use, I haven't actually looked through
AGtOE, so I'm not sure how well directed to the beginner it is.
I have a pdf called
oe_grammar that's 89 pages and a possible text for us.
(Edit: Instead of including the content of the preface, I realized that I got the pdf from Mike, which is what he used in his TAC. Here is the public-domain digital PDF. It's called "An Old English Grammar and Exercise Book” by C. Alphonso Smith (Louisiana State University, 1896)).I have bookmarked two sites with OE lessons, which are:
1)
An OE course at the University of CalgaryNotes: Apparently the course content was taken down at what looks like the end of January of last year. I was able to find the content, however, through the Internet Wayback Machine.
2)
A guide by some random personNotes: The guide might not be fully finished. In his
About this Guide section, the author explains why he decided to write the guide. He apparently started with
AGtOE, but didn't like it and he explains why:
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This guide is motivated by my own needs. In trying to learn Old English on my own, I started using A Guide to Old English by Mitchell and Robinson. I found this work very hard to use - it provides loads of highly technical information on declension, conjugation and sound changes, but does not cover things like syntax and what constructs are actually used in Old English works until very late in the text. This makes learning extremely hard - it is not easy to tell what is important and what is a rare exception. Also, there is no stage by stage acquisition of the vocabulary needed and there are no exercises to test either vocabulary or understanding of the constructs. So my theory goes that if I can write a guide which does some of the things I've said are lacking in Mitchell and Robinson, then it will not only aid my own understanding, but might be of use to others.
At all stages in this guide I want talk about how the constructs are used, rather than working through how all the words work and then talking about syntax. What I'd like to do, like Wheelock's Latin Grammar, is to introduce vocabulary, and have sentences/passages from real works as exercises (they will need to be simplified for the early chapters).
There is also, of course,
Teach Yourself Old English, which I have and I'm up for using. It does seem to be less technical than
AGtOE, but I know not everyone like TY materials. If we go with it, I could provide the audio for it.