Hello, and welcome to the ENGL 433 course blog. I'll post helpful links here as I run across them. I will also post lecture notes here for those (rare) classes when I talk more than you do.
For a start, I want to point you to to the Middle English Compendium. This contains a link to the Middle English dictionary, which is the premier lexicographical resource for studying Chaucer's English words. Feel free to poke around the page and look at some of their other resources. I suggest you bookmark this one in your browser. You may even want to create a "Middle English" folder in your bookmarks so you can organize things easily.
For some fun, check out the Chaucer blog--someone is blogging in "Middle English" as if he (or she; the author's identity is a closely-guarded secret) is Chaucer. The blog has some good links in the sidebar for learning Middle English, and I'd bookmark it, too. If you can't quite read the posts yet, don't worry--it will be very readable (and funny) by the end of the semester.
Finally, an excellent resource for pronouncing Middle English is here. You'll want to spend some time on this site listening the sounds being pronounced.
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