Mastronarde s introduction to attic greek.
Best way to learn attic greek.
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Next you need to move to the combinations of vowels and consonants.
Here s the thing the new testament was mostly written in a type of greek known as koine this is an easy greek for the most part a low style.
Your first task is to listen and repeat the sound while reading them.
The greek alphabet was taken over from the semitic as used in the phoenician area which in turn was based on an egyptian alphabet.
Visiting or even staying in greece is usually thought to be the most effective way.
This is not always true though.
Many parts of this site will be helpful however to anyone beginning or reviewing the study of ancient greek with any textbook.
Even if you do live in the country or spend a good amount of your time there this doesn t necessarily mean you ll automatically learn the language.
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Leonard muellner professor emeritus of classical studies at brandeis university and belisi gillespie phd candidate at uc berkeley have posted 64 videos on youtube which when taken together present all the content covered in two semesters of a college level introduction to ancient greek course.
The best place to start your study of ancient greek is with the attic dialect.
Once you feel more confident start listening and repeating longer words we do love our long greek words and soon enough short meaningful sentences.
The greek alphabet and pronunciation.
It is essential then to learn the basic inflections of these parts of speech.
This is a no holds barred approach to ancient greek written by a professor who got tired of seeing students coming to graduate school with huge gaps in their basic knowledge.
I always advocate starting either with homeric greek easier than attic or with biblical greek also easier than attic and then adjusting to attic greek afterwards if that is what someone wants in particular to read.
First of all good luck.
The textbook used is hansen hardy and gerald quinn.
It is based on croy s biblical greek book which i think is an excellent way to learn greek.
He wrote a book that filled those gaps.
At least spend enough time with modern greek to give yourself a decent foundation before you venture into ancient greek.
You can guess what happened.