If you've taken a Romance language (French, Latin, Italian, even Spanish), you'll find that your accent from that class will help your pronunciation of the Middle English (particularly the vowels, which still have continental values in the fourteenth century). Here's his videos on pronouncing vowels and pronouncing consonants you can click through for his other videos too (which I haven't vetted). The YouTuber Thatoneguyinlitclass has a series of videos on dealing with Middle English, and they are great places to start.Christopher Cannon read Chaucer's short poem "Truth" or the first stanza of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Over on YouTube, you can listen to the first 18 lines of the Canterbury Tales to Dr.Listen to (and follow along with) the full, Middle English read-through of the General Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales here are links to the web version, Apple, and Google Play sites for download. ![]() (You might want to download these MP3 files rather than trying to listen on the oft-outmoded browser players.) Some short ones are on the Luminarium Canterbury Tales pages. Out of class, there are several audio files online that you can listen to and practice along with.In class, listen closely to my pronunciation.Start with my Guide to Reading Middle English - it will get you started on what to pronounce, when, and how.(Besides, who wouldn't jump at the chance to say "k-nnn-i-ggit" as the Pythons do in Holy Grail?) How do I learn and become comfortable with this accent? Because Middle English is largely written phonetically, sounding them out will help you identify the word, particularly when the spelling is counterintuitive to our twenty-first century eyes. Along the same lines, you'll find that you recognize more of the words if you can hear them than if you only read them silently.Much of a poem's sense becomes clear when experienced aurally, and you'll find that your comprehension increases if you read it aloud to yourself when you're preparing for class. Middle Engish literature was meant primarily to be read aloud - to be performed, even - not to be read silently. ![]() ![]() Yes, I do expect you to read Middle English aloud in class when asked to do so, and I expect you to do so in a reasonable approximation of a Middle English accent. Poetry Identifier lp_prologue-to-the-canterbury-tales-read-in-m_geoffrey-chaucer-nevill-coghill-norman-dav Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0dw03f30 Lineage Technics SL1200MK5 Turntable + Audio-Technica AT95e cartridge > Radio Design Labs EZ-PH1 phono preamp > Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Original-ppi 1200 Pages 4 Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 600 Ripping_date 20200529041758 Ripping_operator Ripping_scanner archivelp-rip-cebu04 Ripping_software_version ArchiveCD Version 2.2.53lp Ripping_time 8493 Scandate 20200303092740 Scanner archivelp-cat-cebu01 Scanningcenter cebu Software_version ArchiveCD Version 2.2.Do I have to read Middle English in class? ![]() Adaptive_ocr true Addeddate 04:42:47 Betterpdf true Bookreader-defaults mode/1up Boxid IA1599516 Catalog_time 235 Country GB Derive_submittime 18:34:23 Disccount 1 External-identifier
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