anyone studied it? i'm taking it this semester, and i'm liking it so far. it's an online class, so if anyone is interested, my professor allows the distribution of the website.

the course is located here.

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ooo thanks for the link. i picked up a book to teach it to myself not long ago, and this will help.

It looks way more complicated than modern Greek. Too many fkn accents and shit!

This is a pretty cool resource for modern Greek if you're interested at some stage: http://www.kypros.org/LearnGreek/ I imagine it would be quite a natural transition if you master ancient Greek.

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Deux hommes font une promenade amicale. L'un des deux porte un parapluie à son bras.
Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait.

I studied it for 5 years, it's amazing. I liked it a lot better than Latin.
Good luck

that's what i was thinking, but i looked at the modern greek book i have (which also has CDs), and it threw me off completely. the pronunciation is scary. i think i could do it one day, though.

and i agree that it's better than latin.

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latin's wonderful. i don't know how you go about comparing languages, really.

sokkarthon if you want reading or anything i have lots of stuff to recommend.

no, i love latin, too, but greek is more natural for me. i have some latin books that eventually i am going to get around to working through (vol. 1 and 2 of the cambridge latin course). greek, latin, and old norse are really the only archaic languages i am interested in. well, maybe old english.

recommend me things.

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omg you have CLC there? caecilius est in horto! jesus/.

i'm not sure a pitch-accented language can possibly be natural for anybody unlerss their own language is pitch accented (i know there are still some, but don't know which). i suspect them of being scandi.

do you have the reading greek textbooks? you should. they are fantastic. you'll probably be given some thucydides to get on with - he's a deceptively simple historian. he's good for getting used to greek word order but he makes the peloponnesian war seem so looooong. did you do any scansion in your latin classes? if so, and if you did any hexameters, just open up the odyssey pretty much anywhere. homer isn't hard to read.

i have never taken latin. i found the CLC used and got them cause i heard they were okay. i want to take latin, i jut cannot afford it at the moment. i have seen/heard about the reading greek so i will have to go get it. hopefully i can get it here?

i have read thucydides in english so i guess i will have to trudge through it in greek. i am excited about homer, though.

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ps if you get ANY translation of either the iliad or the odyssey, get richmond lattimore's verse translations. breathtaking

demosthenes writes simple greek, but you might be bored if you're not into rhetoric. try some theognis for homo funz. i don't advise starting with the tragedians. particularly not aeschylus. it's all mindblowing and it's hard.

here's the best online guide to meter i can find. ignore that it says they're latin meters: it refers to a lot of greek stuff too.

if you promise me a faithful promise i'll send you my old reading greek. i will not forgive if you don't use them, or don't return them.

that would be thrilling.

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Same here

i did greek last year. used the textbooks linked above.
i was initially irritated at myself for choosing it but i ended up being fond of it.

I study ancient Greek and Latin too in university.I can say greek is too difficult for me-but I have A in my last examI wish I could know these languages better cause lessons are only once a week and this is not enough

i'm learning greek since a month and it's difficult for me but i won't surrender
i'm going to live and work in greece

its not.
i know modern greek fluently and take ancient in school. ancient greek is dry with english pronounciations. the accents dont really mean anything except the breathing mark ones. Like a million ones for no reason.
It's just hard for me and greeks cause we're used to real greek so we struggle because of the declensions and conjugations but everybody else in the class pretty much thinks its ok. I think learning it is so stupid. It's dead and never used. anywhere. ever.

i studied ancient greek for five years. i quite liked it. i also enjoyed latin.

erm, you don't learn ancient languages to "use" them.

do they actually require you to take it?

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