•   English 152A: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales                      

Some aids in learning and reading Chaucer's Middle English:

• QuickTime Audio recording of the Prologue.
• QuickTime Audio recording of The Miller's Tale.
• QuickTime Audio recording of The Wife of Bath's Prologue.
• QuickTime Audio recording of The Wife of Bath's Tale.
• A  short glossary of the most common words of Middle English
• An amusing (but accurate) guide to pronunciation by John Gardner
• A more extensive glossary compiled by Edwin Duncan (Towson University)
• A tutorial on the pronunciation of Chaucer's language done at Harvard (slow to load because of sound files)
• Hear the General Prologue read (from Jane Zatta's Chaucer page; audio file takes a while to load).
• Search for the meaning of a word in Harvard's searchable glossarial database of Middle English.
• Search the on-line Medieval English Dictionary at the University of Michigan.

• A brief description of Middle English (from Harvard page)
•  The Great Vowel Shift (Harvard)
• A map of the medieval dialect regions of England (Harvard)