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I had to read a selection from Canturbury Tales for my English class last year, and it was like reading another language. You know, grammatically, Old English is closer to modern German than it is modern English? Also, old French is closer to modern English than Modern French. I actually have very little difficultly reading Old French, not just because I speak French - many of the spellings are identical to those in English ("forest" instead of "forêt", etc.,etc.). Cool, eh?
Your first language isn't English, right? Man, studying middle English must have been difficult, then. D: I have difficulties with it, and I consider myself fairly well-read.
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Date: 2008-10-19 10:52 pm (UTC)I had to read a selection from Canturbury Tales for my English class last year, and it was like reading another language. You know, grammatically, Old English is closer to modern German than it is modern English? Also, old French is closer to modern English than Modern French. I actually have very little difficultly reading Old French, not just because I speak French - many of the spellings are identical to those in English ("forest" instead of "forêt", etc.,etc.). Cool, eh?
Your first language isn't English, right? Man, studying middle English must have been difficult, then. D: I have difficulties with it, and I consider myself fairly well-read.