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[Anonymous No.13593176]

STUDY GREEK

[Anonymous No.13593177]

>Yeah I skipped the Greek, what gave it away ?

[Anonymous No.13593196]

βάλλ' εἰς kόραkας

[Anonymous No.13593206]

>>13593196
τι;

[Anonymous No.13593224]

>learn enough greek to translate basic sentences very slowly with the help of a dictionary
>tell people I know greek

[Anonymous No.13593230]

>he didn't learn both Greek and Latin innHigh School
What kind of High School did you guys to to?

[Anonymous No.13593912]

>>13593176
Where do I start?

[Anonymous No.13593923]

>>13593912
with the greeks

[Anonymous No.13593929]

>>13593230
An Americ*n one

[Anonymous No.13593937]

>>13593224
Technically you know Greek. The average person is probably too dumb to learn the basics of ancient greek anyway

[Anonymous No.13593974]

>>13593937
Unless you can drunkenly write an ode in perfect hexameter while standing on your head in the Parthenon in the scorching greek heat, you don't truly know Greek.

[Anonymous No.13594079]

>>13593912
daily dose of greek
greek for everyone

[Anonymous No.13594091]

>>13594079
and these are for koine. but if you learn koine you'll understand attic anyway

[Anonymous No.13594202]

>>13593176
Study latin instead. It's easier in my experience.
t.studied latin for years in school and am starting to learn it again

[Anonymous No.13594240]

>>13593912
Athenaze. The books are cheap (for textbooks) and well structured. They rely on inductive methods, which are much more effective than rote memorization in the long run.

>>13594091
You've got that backwards, bubba. Koine is ezpz Greek and is learned from Attic.

[Anonymous No.13594245]

>studying dead languages rather than building a new one

[Anonymous No.13594376]

>>13594245
What would I even gain from that?

[Anonymous No.13594389]

>>13594245
people still speak greek you nimrod

[Anonymous No.13594393]

>>13593176

But I am studying Greek. I'm studying it right now.

[Anonymous No.13594440]

>>13594393
hows the contact with italian going? i was studying attic through the 2nd american edition of athenaze but im focusing mostly on koine nowadays. i often hear it's better to first learn attic and then move to koine but i honestly never see any evidence that the switch from koine to attic is troublesome

[Anonymous No.13594500]

>>13594393
this doesn't look all that different to the english version. why does the italian one get shilled so hard exactly?

[Anonymous No.13594521]

>>13594500
not him but the italian version has more text and significantly larger vocabulary for each chapter plus more exercises as well

[Anonymous No.13594537]

i like italian and would love to learn it one day but i think it would dishearten me from greek if i had to face 2 foreign languages at once. even tho my mother lang is a romance one

[Anonymous No.13594562]

>>13594500
>why does the italian one get shilled so hard exactly?

The main reason is that the Italian version has way more readings.

>Italian and English versions side-by-side.

[Anonymous No.13594584]

You get more activity books too.

[Anonymous No.13594591]

>>13594562
what's the name of those books?

[Anonymous No.13594597]

Thirdly, there's little pictures on the sides of the Italian version :3

[Anonymous No.13594598]

>>13594202
In some ways I think Latin is harder. The presence of the definite article almost feels like cheating after battling through Latin.

[Anonymous No.13594604]

>>13594591

The bottom one of that picture is Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I (2nd edition)

The top one is Athenaze: Introduzione al greco antico Volume 1

The two are substantially similar, but the Italian one has extra stuff. I use the two books in conjunction since I don't speak Italian.

[Anonymous No.13594613]

>>13594604
thanks based anon. good luck.

[Anonymous No.13594622]

>>13594584
δε ο Χανθιας λεγει προς τη δεσποτη τι εις χαλεπος ω δεσποτη

it's been a while im rusty

[Anonymous No.13594632]

>>13594622

That Xanthias is a rotten scoundrel to be honest.

[Anonymous No.13594647]

>>13594632
kek. i love when he goes to sleep when his master is not around and tells him to not be so harsh on him

[Anonymous No.13594702]

I don't like how it sound and I hate Greeks, except for the bronze age ones

[Anonymous No.13594714]

did anyone used the Reading Greek course?

[Anonymous No.13594905]

>>13593176
ληkύθιον ἀπώλεσεν

[Anonymous No.13596430]

>>13593929
Unless you grew up in bumblefuck nowhere every school has latin.

[Anonymous No.13597218]

>>13596430
not true at all. I had to study it at university.

[Anonymous No.13597518]

can i understand modern greek if i learn ancient greek?

[Anonymous No.13597529]

>>13597518
90% yes. The accent is different though so it depends on your fluency.