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| sipes23 Diglot Senior Member United States pluteopleno.com/wprs Joined 4867 days ago 134 posts - 235 votes  Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Spanish, Ancient Greek, Persian | Message 17 of 17 14 February 2014 at 7:53am | IP Logged |
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Having done this a few years back. I can tell you it took me all summer to pull the trick (after about 15 years after
one year of college Greek). So believe what you will. I'd say I socked about a half an hour a day into it. I devoured JACT and Athenaze and Ancient Greek Alive. All I can say is, the grammar rules sink in better with a lot of reading. I mean a lot. At the end of the summer I picked up a copy of Steadman's Herodotus Histories Book 1. After a few attempts at finding an entry point that worked, I managed to read the whole thing. As for pronunciation, who cares? Unless you've got plans to go to Greece, no one will ever know. I promise. Especially if you wind up being able to read works written in Greek. My usual advice: pick one pronunciation and stick with it. Once you are at the point of being able to read for fun, Geoffrey Steadman and Stephen Nimis have put together several readers for beginning readers. They are cheap and well worth it. Search their names on Amazon. Lucian's A True Story is solid gold. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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