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| Tolmides Newbie United States Joined 3633 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek | Message 1 of 2 06 December 2014 at 11:55pm | IP Logged |
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Hello,
A friend of mine and I are trying to practice conversation in ancient Greek. Each of us have some reading ability in the language, and have done massive amounts of work reading aloud in a restored pronunciation (ie., Allen's Vox Graeca). He is more experienced than I am. What I'm looking for is general advice about conversation practice. We find that we can communicate with each other and make ourselves understood, but only with a great deal of error. I had hoped to work on this correctness problem (and perhaps push ourselves) by incorporating some of Blackie's "Dialogues for Use in Schools." This is a book from the last century, which can be found online as a PDF, that includes a number of intermediate to advanced spoken dialogues. However, I am very unsure of how best to use these. We can read them to each other, but I don't feel that we will get a great deal out of that. Our first conversation used the first dialogue as a basis and we tried to improvise, but we would up talking about unrelated things the entire time (and not very correctly). If anyone has advice who on successfully using conversation and dialogues to learn other languages (not just Ancient Greek!) please teach me! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| solocricket Tetraglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3666 days ago 68 posts - 106 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Italian, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Icelandic, Korean, Polish | Message 2 of 2 10 December 2014 at 1:32pm | IP Logged |
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I think if you used the dialogues just as a backbone for establishing some set phrases
and common words used in more colloquial speech (I guess as opposed to translation), then maybe you would have more success talking with your friend. Memorizing more sentence structures in which you can substitute words might be helpful. When I practice French in conversation, for example, I try hard to keep the things I'm saying well in the realm of words and structures I know very well, rather than trying to get too creative. I agree that just reading a dialogue together would not be too much fun :) Best of luck! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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