Resources for learning Valyrian besides Duolingo course?

Question

Valyrian is one of the fictional languages in Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire. Duolingo offers a course in High Valyrian; David J. Peterson, who created both Dothraki and Valyrian is said to be one of the contributors.

However, are there any other resources for learning High Valyrian, either online or in print?

Answer 1

The most contributed-to resources seem to be the Valyrian Wiki. There are several useful links on the Wiki: the High Valyrian Corpus, the High Valyrian Phonology, the High Valyrian Vocabulary, Valyrian Historical Linguistics, the Astapori Valyrian Phonology, and the Astapori Valyrian Vocabulary page.

The Academy of High Valyrian is a twenty-video YouTube playlist that begins with a basic introduction to the language and goes through more advanced grammatical concepts.

The Learn Dothraki and Valyrian forum seems to be an active place to ask questions about the language as well.

Answer 2

Things have changed in the years following fi12's answer.

The Valyrian Wiki (aka. The Tongues of Ice and Fire Wiki)¹ is still the main resource. However, David Peterson (DJP) recently uploaded his work on a Reddit AMA. This contains:

• A Wiki for all his languages "with enough critical mass to release" (this is not yet fully complete, but with time I expect will supersede the Valyrian Wiki).
• Almost all of his work for Game of Thrones - this contains a lot of information, including the audio snippets he created to help the actors of the show with the dialogue.
• The dialogue of Game of Thrones "in a more digestible format".

The Academy of High Valyrian is still the best series of videos about HV, although if you want the pronunciation (and more than the absolute basics), DJP himself made the audio (as well as the content) for the Duolingo course.

The forum is no longer in use, as we've instead migrated to a server on Discord named Valyrio Udrir. There's also a Facebook group, Duolingo High Valyrian Learners.

In addition, I've also made a few resources. They're not quite as up-to-date as the Wiki, but they're not far behind. I will update these when time permits, but that could be a while away:

• A Dictionary, available in word, pdf, access database and csv formats.
• I used this to create a Decks/Memrise course. (there are a few others available, although they are much smaller in size)
• This was also used as the dictionary in a Discord bot called Merlin².

The links I've emboldened are the ones I view as the most important.

As a bonus, if you want to read through more detailed explanations and some details about how the language was created, DJP also made a series of blog posts over the years, where he still holds the occasional Haiku competition.

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^{1 For full disclosure, I'm one of the editors}

^{2 Created by Sorcerertech, also has a Klingon dictionary}