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Lukos
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 Message 9 of 10
12 March 2012 at 2:50pm | IP Logged 
I can understand the preference for a coherent story, for certain. JW White's book (from which I learnt... I'm a bit
biased, but no apologies!) managed something like that based on the Anabasis. If you like Xenophon, it's great fun.
If not...

And akkadboy, using friends as guinea-pigs for language acquisition theories is perfectly naughty, so naturally I
think it's a brilliant idea. Only please tell him to learn those verb forms!


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crafedog
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Studies: Korean, Tok Pisin, French

 
 Message 10 of 10
14 March 2012 at 12:02pm | IP Logged 
Thanks for all the great information and the links. I've gone from being completely
clueless to well-informed and with a plan for when I learn Ancient Greek.

@cmj: Thanks for such a great and detailed response (btw I knew that Socrates never
wrote anything it's just that I've always felt Plato's earlier work seemed to reflect
the nature of Socrates better than his later books did [which I despise] so I tend to
split the Socratic dialogues into two types, the more Socratic work vs the more
'Platonic' work [I hated how Plato seemed to turn Socrates into a puppet for works like
the Republic, but that's neither here nor there.])

@Lukos: It's interesting to see some more info about Athenaze as I had seen a negative
review of Athenaze that said the same thing and I was curious as to what was meant by
it (thanks for asking, akkadboy).

@quendidil: Thanks for that great link and the info about Assimil.

@Cabaire: Thanks for the answer to number 5.
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