[gothic-l] Re: MY INTRODUCTION

[Francisc Czobor]

Welcome, Thomas!

Nobody was born all-knowing and you are still very young.
But you are also more lucky than me, for instance: when I begun to be 
interested in Gothic, there was no Internet yet, and in my country 
(Romania) it was very hard to find a book about the Gothic language.
The Gothic language is very similar to Old English and Old Norse 
because all three are old Germanic language, more close to their 
common ancestor - the unattested, reconstructed Common Germanic - as 
the modern Germanic languages are.
For links to resources on Internet about the Gothic language you 
might visit Mat Carver's "The Gothic Language Website" 
(http://www.matthewcarver.com/gutrazda/). Unfortunately for those not 
speaking German, many good web sites dedicated to the Gothic 
languages are in German.
Koebler's comprehensive Gothic dictionary is now also available on-
line, for free 
(http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/homepage/c303/c30310/gotwbhin.html). This 
web page is in German, but the dictionary itself gives also the 
English equivalents of the Gothic words, and there is also an English-
Gothic dictionary 
(http://www.koeblergerhard.de/germanistischewoerterbuecher/gotischeswo
erterbuch/NE-GOT.pdf).
I wish you much success in studying the Gothic language and culture!

Francisc



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "thomas lindblom" 
<thomas_lindblom at h...> wrote:
> HAILA
> 
> I´m a new member in your group and this is my introduction.
> I am 16 years old and I live in a country far in the north called 
Finland, 
> my mother-tongue is Swedish though. I began learning Gothic quite 
recently 
> when I by an accident found David Salo´s lessons in Gothic on the 
net. I was 
> surprised when I noticed that Gothic is very similar to both Old 
English and 
> Old Norse. Unfortunately I am not old enough to go to any 
university and 
> study Gothic so I have to use the Internet to search knowledge and 
it´s 
> quite difficult sometimes , I found your group when I had finished 
David´s 
> lessons and was desperately looking for more information and I hope 
you can 
> help me.
> I´m not only interested in languages I also know a lot about 
history and the 
> Gothic culture is not unknown to me.
> 
> I hope you will be patient with me I´m not all-knowing but I learn 
fast.
> 
> thomas
> 
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