I was recently at a renaissance festival and realized I need to
practice to be good at conversing in olde english. Are there any good
tutorials I can get? Perhaps a website or a book that can help me
believably talk in olde english?

Hello mxnmatch,

Here are four Web resources on "faire" language:

"Proper Elizabethan Accents" [also cited on the page mentioned by pinkfreud]
Ren Faire
http://www.renfaire.com/Language/index.html

"Elizabethan Language Guide"
Heart of the Forest Renaissance Faire
http://www.forestfaire.com/language-guide.html

"Faire Speak," by Victoria A. Chavez and Melissa L. Holt
The Music of My Mind
http://www.museangel.net/speak.html

"Renspeak Language Guide"
Rosalily's Renfest Regalia
http://www.cloudnet.com/~renfest/renspeak.htm

- justaskscott


Search strategy --

Searched on Google for:

"renaissance faire" language links
"renaissance fair" language links

good stuff!

Great question!  Perhaps these 2 links will help a 'little' bit.  :)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/sayings.htm

http://www.mun.ca/Ansaxdat/vocab/wordlist.html


Best regards,
tlspiegel

I doubt that you actually want to learn "Old English." Old English is
virtually unintelligible to modern speakers of English. Here, as an
example, is the Lord's Prayer in Old English:

Fęder ure žu že eart on heofonum; Si žin nama gehalgod to becume žin
rice gewurže šin willa on eoršan swa swa on heofonum. urne
gedęghwamlican hlaf syle us todęg and forgyf us ure gyltas swa swa we
forgyfaš urum gyltendum and ne gelęd žu us on costnunge ac alys us of
yfele sožlice.

You might want to investigate Middle English and/or Elizabethan English:

http://historymedren.about.com/cs/middleenglish/

I immediately thought of Chaucer: 
 Whan that April with his showres soote
The droughte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veine in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flowr;

Whan Zeperhis eeke with his sweete breath,
inspired hath, in every holt and heath....

Heck, I had to memorize that over 18 years ago, the whole
introduction, and now I can't seem to recall all of it...

Ah, by Google, I found it!

You might also contact the Pilgrim Village Museum in Plymouth, Mass.
The guides there attempt to speak early 17th century English.  I
expect that the organization has some basis instructed the folks.

http://superpages.com/cities/mtg/37733/