If attic greek is the horse and koine greek is the donkey well septuagint greek is something of a mule.
How long to learn attic greek.
So now take a closer look at the tables below.
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.
Mastronarde s introduction to attic greek.
He wrote a book that filled those gaps.
Having studied classical i e.
Attic greek is the greek dialect of the ancient city state of athens of the ancient dialects it is the most similar to later greek and is the standard form of the language that is studied in ancient greek language courses attic greek is sometimes included in the ionic dialect together attic and ionic are the primary influences on modern greek.
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.
The greek alphabet was taken over from the semitic as used in the phoenician area which in turn was based on an egyptian alphabet.
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Actually over time the language simplified as many languages do the the later koine is simpler than earlier attic.
Attic greek in school it is very easy to study koine or read the new testament.
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.
Many parts of this site will be helpful however to anyone beginning or reviewing.
After answering the above questions to your own satisfaction then you ll be in a better position to figure out how long it will take you to learn greek.
The greek alphabet and pronunciation.
A1 level elementary knowledge 100 120 hours of lessons a2 level basic knowledge 120 180 hours of lessons.
It is essential then to learn the basic inflections of these parts of speech.