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Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5668 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese
| Message 9 of 13 22 September 2009 at 12:26pm | IP Logged |
skhval wrote:
Hello guys! I am looking for a self-teaching book for ancient greek for an absolute beginner. What would you advise me? "athenazi"? , "reading course in homeric greek" or any other suggestions?
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My uni used Athenaze, it's pretty good. It's been a while since I used it, but if I remember correctly, they start off their chapters with a text, giving you the new words in a wordlist before the text itself - the texts are made to be readable using already known grammar and vocabulary, plus the vocabulary given in the chapter. Then they explain the grammar, after the text, which is usually a good way to do it. They also include interesting cultural notes in the lessons, as well as adapted versions of interesting original texts that you are mostly able to read after you've learned the lesson's material. You don't absolutely need the workbooks, the exercises aren't the best, but I think the verb charts and such were in the workbooks, and I wouldn't want to be without those.
If/when I go back to Ancient Greek I'll start with Athenaze, and not just because I already have them - the course is well structured and teaches you stuff reasonably well, without focusing too much on grammatical drills. I remember I had some complaints about it when I used it, but I don't remember what they were, so obviously they weren't serious enough. I think it had something to do with explanations being overly grammatical at times, but it was still good overall.
Liz
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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6053 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin
| Message 10 of 13 22 September 2009 at 2:25pm | IP Logged |
Les Belles Lettres publishes bilingual French/Latin and French/Greek editions of the classics. I'm no expert but they
seem good to me.
http://www.lesbelleslettres.com/
For example, the have Caesar's Gallic War: http://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/?GCOI=22510100681860
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| skhval Newbie United States Joined 5359 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 11 of 13 22 September 2009 at 9:53pm | IP Logged |
Thanks a lot for your explanations. I looked for "Athenaze" on line and it seems to me it is a very good. What about " A Reading course in homeric greek"? Schroder Horrigan Does anybody familiar with that textbook?
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| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 5881 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian
| Message 12 of 13 22 September 2009 at 11:15pm | IP Logged |
skhval wrote:
Hello guys! I am looking for a self-teaching book for ancient greek for an absolute beginner. What would you advise me? "athenazi"? , "reading course in homeric greek" or any other suggestions?
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Try this. Ancient Greek is at the end:
http://www.kypros.org/LearnGreek/
ChristopherB wrote:
Quick question...does anyone of know of any sites that specialise in selling books or collected works of Latin and Ancient Greek literature in the original languages? Or is one resigned to reading e-books? |
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Here is a cool site for ancient greek/english side by side:
http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/greek-word.asp
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| elbereth Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5247 days ago 22 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Latin
| Message 13 of 13 28 December 2009 at 1:09pm | IP Logged |
Loeb and Les belles lettres seem cool,the latter I can practise French with too,lol.Rachelle's post is largely why I made my own post on whether to do either one or both of Latin and Ancient Greek.All the little words,verb hanges,voices,moods,plus it being in the different alphabet just seems crazy and too much work for me.I don't know,is it worth another shot,I mean,I already want to drop Spanish.Is Old English as fiddly as Ancient Greek,it sounds pleasing phonologically,from the little I've heard,but,sometimes it may not be worth it to start.I love the sounds etc. of Latin though :) :)I am loving the idea of trying those links though:),it's amazing how people find these things:)
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