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Greek 101 4 days ago

Am in greek 101! (attic greek)
studying from Mastronarde’s textbook, which is great!
have professor mcfarlane, who is an amazing prof (:
so far i like it more than latin! : )

did okay on the first midterm
the second one is around the bend

so far am on ch 14 – Consonant Nouns (the 3rd declension) which has a LOT of rules to know!

gotta catch up on memorizing vocab! - was sidetracked from that by shena & her insistence that i get acquanited with JackAndAmir.com :P



Resources 5 days ago

I have found Kalos, and it is beautiful! Fully searchable greek dictionary software, for free with the added bonus of tables of declined grammatical vocabulary.

I got it from http://www.kalos-software.com/downloads.php for Mac.



Beginning organisation 6 days ago

Having spent a couple of years getting to know language learning, I have just done some rough lesson plans.



mad musical genius is studying ancient greek.. and latin :)

Untitled 4 weeks ago

Yesterday, I bought some textbooks from Amazon—the two Mastronarde ones (the textbook and answerbook). I read up on which ancient Greek textbooks were best, and Mastronarde seemed to come out tops (along with the JACT books).

They should be arriving around the 6th :) in the meantime, I’m learning a bit of Koine greek from a New Testament-oriented textbook we had hanging around in our bookcase. Do you think mixing Latin and Greek and learning them at the same time will be confusing? I’m hoping it won’t be because they’re in different scripts, so hopefully that will separate them in my mind.

I love Homer (only read the Iliad so far), and I’d also really like to read Aristotle in the original language. Apparently Homer uses a somewhat different dialect of Greek compared to the other classical authors who tend to use Attic.

This is exciting…!



Trying to track down a private tutor 3 months ago

I’m one of those people who take naturally to linguistics, as I’ve been studying latin for not quite a year now but zoomed 3 years ahead in the course of my class, and have made it onto Caeasar: gallic war and am not having a lot of difficulty with it, I’ve also gone through the poems of Catullus. Before I head off to college I’d like to try to master classical greek as well, because if I do move into the classical field it’s going to be a necessity, and will make the course in it that much easier, plus I’d like to be able to read some of plato’s works. I found a pronunciation guide online so have pretty much learned the alphabet but don’t know any vocab, so trying to track down a tutor.



conversational Attic 6 months ago

Want to find an Attic Greek method that begins with reading and speaking (conversational) Greek. Grammar and other structural issues will follow down the road.



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Greek is the language of philosophy 8 months ago

I very much want to learn Greek, as I have an interest in philosophy, as well as greek gematria, and proper pronunciation would also be a benefit to me, for other reasons.



ο γαρ Μινοταρος ειστθε οι ανδταοι 8 months ago

Well I like my ancient philosophy, mainly Aristotle although Plato has some good points too, and Greek doesn’t translate in to English very well. So I’ve decided that I need to learn how to read, write and speak Ancient Greek (specifically Attic Greek – cause that’s the dialect that the afore mentioned philosophers wrote in).



Greek... 10 months ago

So, I took a year of Attic Greek in college, but want to get it back up to speed. Almost, but not quite, like learning it for the first time! I’m working w/ Liddel and Scott’s Greek: An Intensive Course, the book we used at UNC, and highly recommend it.



Ancient Greek 11 months ago

As an ancient history buff learning Greek would enable me to read homer in the original.



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