[gothic-l] Re: is Gothic the language of one or a few men?

[Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l]]

I think that there are quite some books on the markets to learn Gothic,
most of them academic ones, but none of them contains audio. You would need
to ask a Gothic teacher from some university if he or she would be willing
to contribute to a book in which both parts of the Bible, the Skeireins,
the Title Deeds, modern texts and improvised texts are pronounced in Gothic.

2015-02-12 23:05 GMT+01:00 write2andy at yahoo.com [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> I don't think you have to be Catholic to go to the Vatican library, but
> I'm not sure who's allowed in there. (If it's not restricted to the pope
> and suchlike, I'd love to go.)
>
> I think denoting long "a", "e", "o", and "u" is good too, so you know
> whether to use -ji- or -ei- (such as "nasjis", short "a", versus "sokeis",
> long "o".) We use the macron for that. (I actually never use macrons for
> Gothic, but for teaching, it is optimal.)
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> I think a Gothic textbook should have exercises such as "fill in the
> diacritics in a passage" or "pronounce aloud and compare with the audio
> CD". This would teach people what goes where. But there would be a notice
> saying it's not guaranteed that someone will use them in their writing.
>
> Now I want to write a textbook for Gothic. Not by myself (and I'm not apt
> for teaching Gothic yet anyway), but some of the people here might be good
> at it. I'd proofread the English at least, since I am very good at that.
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