Swish Swoosh Book

Continually on the side of the non-linguist, Beginning Old English gets you involved in reading and then never lets up! There is footwork to do'that's always the case'but any initial enthusiasm that a reader brings to this book will be thoroughly rewarded.

Having revealed how much more Old English vocabulary can be identified by English speakers of today than perhaps imagined, the first half of the book continues on to build up a basic grammar, supplying "the essential tools to begin to read more extended Old English texts." These chapters are chopped up into usefully bite-sized morsels, always bound up in extracts from Old English texts of a manageable length, such that dipping in and out over the course of a day was for me both possible and effective, allowing a head of steam to be built up, a sense of achievement to be experienced and all the time gaining exposure to the real aim of the whole undertaking anyway: enjoying reading Old English in the original.

I have my own motivations for learning Old English, and this book has left me encouraged and with the belief that, yes, I can do this and am indeed already, enjoyably, well on the way.

Thank you :)