Thank you very much for the reference Sarah. But
please, call me Bjorn. I prefer my scadian name to
anyother. That and I have a memory problem and I
forget my mundane name quite often. Thanks again
though and I will check that out.
Snaebjorn
--- Sarah Bowen <bowensli@...> wrote:
> Hi Mark!
>
> Glad to see from your last post that you haven't
> left us! I'm not sure if
> anyone has directly responded to your question
> ... How do I learn this language from the basics?
>
> I found the best way was to start with Haukur's
> lessons
> www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/olessons
> where he explains the grammar in a very
> user-friendly way and introduces the
> terminology for describing language. I know many
> English-speaking people
> have never been taught the grammar of their own
> language, let alone of
> another language. When I asked my teenagers (all of
> whom are bright and
> plan on going to university) what an adjective is,
> they looked at me
> blankly. They simply had never been taught it at
> school!
>
> The terminology is really quite easy to pick up and
> I find it easier to
> apply to Old Norse because the form of the word
> usually makes it clear
> whether it is a noun or adverb etc, whereas in
> English words tend to remain
> relatively unchanged. Take a simple word like "hit"
> for example...
> she hit the table
> it's a hit!
> the hit song
> Here we have apparently the same word performing
> three different functions!
> But in ON the forms of the words would be quite
> different and so more easily
> recognisable for what they are!
>
> Hope this makes sense and good luck with your
> studies!
> Kve�ja,
>
> Sarah.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Grass" <snaebjornr@...>
> To: "norse course" <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:35 PM
> Subject: [norse_course] thanks sjuler
>
>
> > Thank you very much. That was how I was thinking
> it
> > was pronounced but I couldn't tell. By the by my
> > persona is early 11th century not 13th. *L* Thank
> you
> > all again. Now for the fun part. How do I learn
> this
> > language from the basics?
> > Snaebjorn
> >
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