Revived traditional language
Courses and materials
ON-LINE HERE: Gerlyver Kescows, 2nd edition, full text, completely revised, 5000 words and phrases for conversation + grammar words + 'outbursts' + place-names, easily browsed, easily searched
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Kescows Nebes Moy, 2nd edition, thousands more words supplementing Gerlyver Kescows, classified by topic, easily browsed, easily searched (work-in-progress)
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Minimum working vocabulary for those wishing to learn just a little Cornish, or a first step for those aspiring to greater things
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Short phrases worth learning for fluent everyday conversation
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Cara Kernowek Book One is the first in a series of coursebooks specially commissioned for learners of the traditional Cornish language
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Cara Kernowek Book Two is the second in a series of coursebooks specially commissioned for learners of the traditional Cornish language
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Cara Kernowek Book Three is the third in a series of coursebooks specially commissioned for learners of the traditional Cornish language
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Bilingual consolidated index to the first three Cara Kernowek coursebooks
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Pdf draft of Cara Kernowek 3 (currently being road-tested in class)
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Quick Cornish, free taster course
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Worksheets and other material
Read MoreMaterials produced in the support group for Desky Kernowek, the comprehensive self-study grammar book by Nicholas Williams
Read MoreItems are in alphabetical order of Cornish title. Alternatively, for items recently added for reading on-line, you can click or tap ON-LINE HERE: MOST RECENTLY ADDED and follow the links.
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Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Catalogue of famous First Chapters available to read in Cornish on this website with full vocabulary support
Read MoreLink to a comprehensive list of published material available in Kernowek Standard (KS)
Read MoreJules Verne's Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days), abridged for young readers
Read MoreON-LINE: George Orwell's Animal Farm, with Cornish-English glossary (instalments from January 2021)
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Chapter 1 of Animal Farm by George Orwell, with Cornish-English glossary
Read MoreThe Holy Bible (Old Testament, New Testament)
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Hans Christian Andersen's Prinsessen paa Ærten (The Princess and the Pea), with Cornish-English glossary
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Rudyard Kipling's The Crab that Played with the Sea (a 'Just So' story), with Cornish-English glossary
Read MoreWe are planning our on-line Summer School to run every Thursday at 20:00 from 27 June until 29 August. When we take a break from coursebook based learning. This year we intend to practise the skills needed to read novels aloud in Cornish to make successful audio books. Watch this space for more information coming soon. Contact Us if you would like to enrol in the Summer School.
We are considering whether to organize a weekly on-line beginners class, by Zoom, starting on Monday 2 September 2024 at 20:00. The language taught would be idiomatic revived Cornish, taking account of all the sources for historical Cornish, and spelled in the system called Kernowek Standard (KS). The classes would be conducted mostly in English, but with conversational exercises in Cornish, and would last one hour. The coursebook would be Cara Kernowek 1 which is available on the Courses page of this website. The teacher would be Ian Jackson MA (Cantab), MA (Oxon), QTS. Contact Us if you are interested in joining such a class.
We are planning a fortnightly on-line class, by Zoom, starting on Thursday 5 September 2024 at 20:00, for those who have already done a beginners course and now wish to complete Level A of the Council of Europe Common European Framework. The language taught will be idiomatic revived Cornish, taking account of all the sources for historical Cornish, and spelled in the system called Kernowek Standard (KS). Classes will be conducted mostly in Cornish, lasting one hour, and will be based around the eighteen lessons of coursebook Cara Kernowek 2 which is available on the Courses page of this website. Students will be expected to spend approximately one hour every week preparing each lesson. The teacher will be Ian Jackson, MA (Cantab), MA (Oxon), QTS. Contact Us if you are interested in joining this class.
We are planning a fortnightly on-line class, by Zoom, starting on Thursday 12 September 2024 at 20:00, for those willing to help develop the fourth coursebook in the Cara Kernowek series, to Level B2 of the Council of Europe Common European Framework (approximately equivalent to an A Level or IB). The language explored will be both formal and idiomatic revived Cornish, taking account of all the sources for historical Cornish, and spelled in the system called Kernowek Standard (KS). The teacher will be Ian Jackson, MA (Cantab), MA (Oxon), QTS, author of Cara Kernowek Books One to Three. Students should already be confident with Cornish at Level B1. Contact Us if you are interested in joining this class.
This class is for those progressing to Common European Framework of Reference B1. Thursdays, 19:30, by Zoom. The coursebook is Cara Kernowek Book Three, which remains a draft until we have fully road-tested it. The course runs until June 2024.
ON-LINE HERE: A practical guide to pronouncing Cornish
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Cornish words spelled in the International Phonetic Alphabet
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Handy reference chart of the inflected verb forms in Cara Kernowek 1
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Basic verb patterns with bos, gwil, mydnas, gallos, godhvos
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Famous prose passage written 40 years ago, and how it might look if written today
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Ready-reference guide
Read MorePlaylet for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 1
Read MorePlaylet for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 2
Read MorePlaylet for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 4
Read MorePlaylet for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 5
Read MorePlaylet for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 7
Read MorePlaylet for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 8
Read MorePlaylet for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 10
Read MorePlaylet for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 12
Read MoreSimple vocabulary crossword for Skeul an Tavas Part 1 (Lessons 1-6)
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Read MoreSimple vocabulary crossword for Skeul an Tavas Part 1 (Lessons 1-6)
Read MoreDon't go to the key until you've attempted the crossword
Read MoreSimple vocabulary crossword for Skeul an Tavas Part 1 (Lessons 1-6)
Read MoreDon't go to the key until you've attempted the crossword
Read MoreSimple vocabulary crossword for Skeul an Tavas Part 2 (Lessons 1-12)
Read MoreDon't go to the key until you've attempted the crossword
Read MoreSimple vocabulary crossword for Skeul an Tavas Part 2 (Lessons 1-12)
Read MoreDon't go to the key until you've attempted the crossword
Read MoreFor students of Skeul an Tavas Books 1 & 2
Story for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 5
Read MoreStory for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 7
Read MoreStory for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 15
Read MoreStory for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 18
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Weekly lesson sheets to accompany on-line meetings of the Newlyn class
Read MoreWorksheet 2 for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 2
Read MoreWorksheet 3 for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 3
Read MoreWorksheet 4 for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 5
Read MoreWorksheet 5 for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 5
Read MoreWorksheet 7 for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 8
Read MoreWorksheet 8 for use with Skeul an Tavas Lesson 9
Read MoreA critical edition with translation by Graham Thomas and Nicholas Williams (2007)
Read MorePhilip Payton's revised and updated history of Cornwall (2017)
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Paper by Prof Nicholas Williams (2022)
Read MoreA new edition of Henry Jenner's original monograph from 1904, underpinning all subsequent work to revive the Cornish language (2010)
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Paper by Rod Lyon (2007)
Read MoreA critical edition with translation by David Frost (2023)
Read MoreTwo important historical texts, re-edited and translated, together with bilingual review (2020)
Read MoreOverview of historical Cornish, and of the early years of revived Cornish, by P. Berresford Ellis (1974)
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Read MoreA short English-language grammar of Breton
Read MoreObservations on contemporary revived Cornish by former Grand Bard Rod Lyon
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Cornish tongue twisters by Janice Lobb
Read MoreON-LINE HERE: Diagram showing how Cornish is descended from the ancestor language, Proto-Indo European, spoken in Eastern Europe 6000 years ago
Read MoreThe ground-breaking examination of revived Cornish, first written by Nicholas Williams in 1995 (3rd edition 2006), leading eventually to Kernowek Standard (KS)
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