Learning ancient greek with professor leonard muellner and belisi gillespie.
How hard is attic greek to learn.
Russian hindi thai polish and greek on the other hand take around 44 weeks to learn while the hardest languages which include japanese korean chinese and arabic can take more than a year and a half to reach the proficiency level.
The foreign service institute fsi has created a list to show the approximate time you need to learn a specific language as an english speaker.
The videos are meant to correspond to the textbook greek.
The result is that when they are faced with a difficult greek passage they don t know what to do what the heck.
So many students go straight to biblical greek bypassing attic the greek dialect prevalent in and around athens during the time of aristotle plato and the like.
Attic greek in school it is very easy to study koine or read the new testament.
There s a tongue in cheek book titled learn greek in 25 years but you ll be surprised at how straightforward it is to learn the alphabet.
Mastronarde s introduction to attic greek.
Attic greek was the dialect of greek spoken in and around the ancient city state of athens.
A minor player in the mediterranean athens rose to prominence in the 6th and 5th centuries bc transforming into the cultural and intellectual epicenter of the ancient world.
An intensive course 2nd revised edition by hardy hansen and gerald m.
You can guess what happened.
Having studied classical i e.
General professional proficiency in speaking s3 and reading 3.
Fordham university press 1992.
Actually over time the language simplified as many languages do the the later koine is simpler than earlier attic.
He wrote a book that filled those gaps.
After this particular study time you will reach speaking 3.
The greek alphabet was taken over from the semitic as used in the phoenician area which in turn was based on an egyptian alphabet.
The greek alphabet and pronunciation.
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.
It is essential then to learn the basic inflections of these parts of speech.
General professional proficiency in reading r3 please keep in mind that this ranking only shows the view of the foreign.
If attic greek is the horse and koine greek is the donkey well septuagint greek is something of a mule.