by Milito » Wed May 07, 2003 1:18 pm
I had the same crashing problem, and discovered, thanks to the request for info on download problems in (I think) the Open Forum, that it has to do with using Acrobat 4 instead of 5....<br /><br />As for vocab books, I'm afraid I can't suggest anything in particular, but what I found over the last course I took (and I was VERY rusty on my vocab when I started) was that it slowly improved just through use and reading. It was annoying to know I'd seen a word fifty times (okay, that's an exaggeration) before, but still have to look it up; that did go away over time. Now I'm carrying on with reading just to make sure it doesn't happen again!<br /><br />I would suggest just diving into the text you want to read, keeping a dictionary and grammar book very close at hand, and just going for it. There's a discussion in the Greek Forum on translation approaches which has some good ideas in it. ("Exercises", I think the thread is called.)<br /><br />And if you want some lighter reading, you can find the occasional Latin translation of some English classics around - one of my favorites is "Quomodo invidiosulus nomine 'Grinchus' Christi Natum abrogavit", which does have a vocabulary list at the back of it.<br /><br />Kilmeny
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