Can-Do Statements

After this module, you can...

• Read a Belarusian text printed before 1918 without treating its forms as errors
• Recognise the older forms that survive in poetry, proverbs and place names
• Tell an archaism from a dialect form from a simple misprint
• Use a historical form deliberately, and know what it costs
• Follow a discussion about where a Belarusian word came from
• Say what you cannot verify about a word's history, and stop there