Wanna share your ambitions and intenstions?

[Fredrik]

Hi!

I guess everyone here have some intentions and reasons why you wanna 
learn gothic. One could be a general interest in languages and 
specially in gothic, but why is that?

Different from other languages like english, german and spanish which 
people learn (mostly) because it could be useful in their work. 
Gothic is not that useful, coz nobody uses it.

So why do you wanna learn it/did you learn it?
Was it maybe because you wanna know how to speak it, of some reason 
or was it coz you wanna understand germanic hostory more??

Myself I have changed my reasons during the time. First of all I have 
a interest in languages and especially in germanic ones. When I 
first, long ago, found out that there was a third branch of the 
germanic family, the eastern this become my main interest, so I began 
to study it as much as possible. First just to learn a little about 
it and see what this east germanic branch was like, and what was 
different between this and the west and noth germanic branches.

Later I got a book with some basic grammar, a tiny dictionary and 
some text samples from the bible. Since that time I have been trying 
to learn gothic. Mostly when it comes to understanding those texts.
It's kinda hard to learn speaking it when it lacks so much (attested) 
words.

Do you also wanna share your ambitions and dreams/thoughts?

Mine is to learn to speak gothic fluently and with a much better 
pronunciation then I have now. (It's still a long way to go...my 
grammar kinda sucks for now). This means that my vocabulary has to 
expand but also that the total gothic vocabulary has to that too. 
That's why I'm tryin to collect neologisms in a dictionary. My 
present goal is to reach 30 000 words, which is the average number of 
words is a pocket dictionary.
I don't think it's total necessary that all these neologisms is 
standard for all gothic speakers, if some one like to use other words 
I think thats OK. For example we can say that I prefer a puristic 
vocabulary so a word like republic should be thiudawaihts, but if 
some one like raípubleik (to remind of other germanic languages) or 
smth like that...go for it.

My dreams and (utopic) thought is that I should be able to use it in 
daily speech. For that I probably need some one or two in my life 
that also know how to speak it, (and that's not like it today).

I think it would be interesting to know a little about you and what's 
on your mind about all this...so plz share your thought.

/Fredrik





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