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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5132 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes  Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 185 of 195 23 May 2015 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I have the bilingual version (it's parallel by left and right) and yes, I am reading them in Greek. However, because the pages are split in half do I need to read at least 100 pages instead of 50 to consider it one book?
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4906 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 186 of 195 23 May 2015 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | ||
You need to read 50 pages of Greek to count 50 pages of Greek, simple as that. If the pages are half your target language and half translation, then yes it seems reasonable to count each page as half. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5132 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 187 of 195 24 May 2015 at 6:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Okay then, challenge accepted.
LANGUAGE: Greek CHALLENGE: Half CURRENT LEVEL: Less than A1 COMMENTS: Can only read letters as well as know some meanings of words used in scientific fields. I don't even know what's the difference in pronouncing eta and epsilon. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4906 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 188 of 195 24 May 2015 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Do you know how to say the names of the letters eta and epsiolon? Then the difference is right there in the first letters. Epsilon is usually a short e like in 'pet' and eta sounds like a long a as in 'rate' or 'hair'. That applies to both the "Erasmian" pronunciation and to the reconstructed version used by JACT. I have no clue about modern pronunciation. Which leads me to mention: you should specify ancient Greek rather than just Greek (unless you're planning to read both).
Have you thought of anything you could use for the "film" portion, or will you only be reading? One option is The Cambridge Greek Play which they put on every few years. Some of them are available to watch. You can also use audio for the film portion, but audio books in ancient Greek are hard to come by. Edited by Jeffers on 24 May 2015 at 12:22pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5132 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 189 of 195 24 May 2015 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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OK, thank you. For the "film" part, today I watched Dragon Ball OVA in Greek subs and the first episode of Digimon Adventure Zero Two (dubbed as Digimon Next Generation) in Greek dub. Each are about 30 minutes. Which one counts as a third of a film?
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| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5233 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 190 of 195 24 May 2015 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | ||
Just send your stats to the twitter bot. It will calculate the amount of the film for you. SO you can just tweet: @langchallenge #Greek #30 minutes "Digimon Adventure Zero Two" @langchallenge #Greek #30 minutes "Dragon Ball OVA" And it will add up the minutes and do all the calculations for you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6594 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 191 of 195 24 May 2015 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Are you reading the Elements in modern Greek, or are you counting ancient and modern together? I thought counting Swiss German as German was enough of a stretch...
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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5132 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 192 of 195 24 May 2015 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I count ancient and modern Greek together.
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