I have to say, Dr. Crawford, while I understand the hesitation you have at branching out into the communicative style of speaking Old Norse in the classroom, the natural style, I am begging you to teach this way. My one hesitation at not having taken your Old Norse class in the Spring was this; I have a solid foundation of the grammar and vocab. enough to translate whatever I'd like. But, I cannot for the life of me find someone who is truly teaching Old Norse in the natural style, which is how I've learned Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Old English. It would be a blessing to the world of Old Norse studies. I know I am only one voice, but know there is at least a small community of people in the study of classical languages who would love it.
1.For the past three years since discovering your channel I've been working through the back catalog of videos. There is so, so much information there!. 2. I was lucky enough to be able to take your beginner course and it was wonderful. I learned much more than just the old Norse. When I have some spare time, I'd love to take the advanced course. 3. While I think your teaching style would be great for the nature method I can understand that you don't want do it. I feel like you handled my tangents during class quite effectively (dinosaurs, minnishegri vs minnisstykkur, and more!). Regardless, I plan to keep following your work and I'm thankful for what you do.
Dr Crawford, I've been following you for years, and I go back and reveiw old videos semi-frequently. Not all of us can afford traditional education, and UA-cam is a FANTASTIC resource for those of us who get much joy out of studying this, but can't justify the financial expense. I seriously doubt I am the only person out there who feels that way about your work.
What language are you referring to? Latin?, Old Norse? Both these languages are still alive in modern languages like modern Icelandic, and in the case of Latin, modern French, Italian and Spanish.
@@einarkristjansson6812 None of them. My reference was to the movie 'Princess Bride'. Specifically the character portrayed by the great actor (and comedian) Billy Crystal. I was riffing...on the title 'Dead' languages. It's a very funny film, in English anyway. English, not a dead language...yet, although Americans seem set on killing it at every turn (bonus joke).
40:40 You could also just do it the way we do it in Faroese and use the pronoun who + -fall. So Faroese having hvørfall, hvønnfall, hvørjumfall, and hvørsfall, you could explain Old Norse with: hver(r)fall, hver(ja)nfall, hverjumfall, and hversfall.
Not an uncommon method, apparently (German has that as well). About the Grammar learning: I had Latin in school for seven years, taught in my native language. And when I am learning a new language I actually do think about the correspondence between, e.g. Japanese particle に and the locative. My brain has been wired (spell checker wants to say "weird", go figure) to do that.
How you guys learn them when there is literaly no implementation? Wont you forget it quickly over time with exception of people whose job is to use it in real confrontations?
Luke's positivity meeting Jackson's pessimism is the funniest thing.
Thanks again for the conversation, Jackson!
Suppletive has its stress on the second syllable, doesn't it?
(Great conversation, thank you for letting us listen in!)
I have to say, Dr. Crawford, while I understand the hesitation you have at branching out into the communicative style of speaking Old Norse in the classroom, the natural style, I am begging you to teach this way. My one hesitation at not having taken your Old Norse class in the Spring was this; I have a solid foundation of the grammar and vocab. enough to translate whatever I'd like. But, I cannot for the life of me find someone who is truly teaching Old Norse in the natural style, which is how I've learned Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Old English. It would be a blessing to the world of Old Norse studies. I know I am only one voice, but know there is at least a small community of people in the study of classical languages who would love it.
Perfect tombstone etching: in runes, "vehemently did what the algorithm said not to do."(skull emoji)
1.For the past three years since discovering your channel I've been working through the back catalog of videos. There is so, so much information there!.
2. I was lucky enough to be able to take your beginner course and it was wonderful. I learned much more than just the old Norse. When I have some spare time, I'd love to take the advanced course.
3. While I think your teaching style would be great for the nature method I can understand that you don't want do it. I feel like you handled my tangents during class quite effectively (dinosaurs, minnishegri vs minnisstykkur, and more!). Regardless, I plan to keep following your work and I'm thankful for what you do.
Dr Crawford, I've been following you for years, and I go back and reveiw old videos semi-frequently. Not all of us can afford traditional education, and UA-cam is a FANTASTIC resource for those of us who get much joy out of studying this, but can't justify the financial expense. I seriously doubt I am the only person out there who feels that way about your work.
"Look who knows so much! This language is only MOSTLY dead..." - Miracle Max
What language are you referring to? Latin?, Old Norse? Both these languages are still alive in modern languages like modern Icelandic, and in the case of Latin, modern French, Italian and Spanish.
@@einarkristjansson6812 None of them. My reference was to the movie 'Princess Bride'. Specifically the character portrayed by the great actor (and comedian) Billy Crystal. I was riffing...on the title 'Dead' languages. It's a very funny film, in English anyway. English, not a dead language...yet, although Americans seem set on killing it at every turn (bonus joke).
Man, I love this duo. Greetings from Norway!
Sounds like we need more audiobooks
These are the type of collaborations I live for. Thanks to the both of you 🙏🏽
At about 19:00, i bet a pretty large portion of jacksons audience, like luke, binged the whole channel when they found it. I know i did
That's what I did back when I found him!
Maith sibh, fiseán dheas í!
This was a really insightful discussion, thank you! There are some things I'm definitely going to take away as both a teacher and a student.
Woo A Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy ref. in closing - that is really niche.
Wow! Love Robert's work, very cool
🤔 I might have to do the challenge with Havamal.
It did not take me long in my ongoing learning journey to memorize "En arche en o logos, kai o logos en pros ton theon, kai o theos estin o logos."
40:40 You could also just do it the way we do it in Faroese and use the pronoun who + -fall. So Faroese having hvørfall, hvønnfall, hvørjumfall, and hvørsfall, you could explain Old Norse with: hver(r)fall, hver(ja)nfall, hverjumfall, and hversfall.
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Not an uncommon method, apparently (German has that as well).
About the Grammar learning: I had Latin in school for seven years, taught in my native language. And when I am learning a new language I actually do think about the correspondence between, e.g. Japanese particle に and the locative. My brain has been wired (spell checker wants to say "weird", go figure) to do that.
I love the Monty Python And The Holy Grail reference 56 minutes in! 😂
Btw - I revisit all the Saga stories every few months when I want to listen to stories
How you guys learn them when there is literaly no implementation? Wont you forget it quickly over time with exception of people whose job is to use it in real confrontations?
The Kephalos challenge reminds me of how Hindu preists study the Vedic texts.
What is the challenge they were talking about?
Kephalos challenge.
reciting texts from memory
All this talk of consuming and not consuming shorts right up top of the video and not-a-one Bart Simpson joke in the comments yet ?