
annis wrote:You might say that the difference is like the difference between Latin and Modern Italian. They're clearly related, but different languages.<br /><br />Here's a nice overview:
annis wrote:There's no real reason to learn Modern Greek if you only want to learn to read Homer or Plato, just as there's no reason to learn Modern Chinese if you only wish to read Laozi or Tang Shi San Bai Shou.<br /><br />
annis wrote:You might say that the difference is like the difference between Latin and Modern Italian. They're clearly related, but different languages.<br /><br />Here's a nice overview:
annis wrote:There's no real reason to learn Modern Greek if you only want to learn to read Homer or Plato, just as there's no reason to learn Modern Chinese if you only wish to read Laozi or Tang Shi San Bai Shou.<br /><br />
chad wrote:hi peter, i'm not sure about that. one of my philosophy teachers was greek and obviously knew e.g. plato's works and ideas very well. but he couldn't read plato in the original.
Miltiades wrote:Well, it isn't that simple in Greece. You see chinese peolple learn greek (ancient or modern) as a foreign language and this makes it easier to learn it all from the beginning. Greek people learn to talk this language from the day they're born and it's much more complicated to learn the ancient greek as they use modern greek every day and it's hard for us to go back to a previous state of our language before learning the the procedures of our language as it is in its current state. I hope you know what i mean...Therefore learning ancient greek in primary school is very difficult. However, the last years, ancient greek is taught in secondary school (7th year).
Bert wrote:I seem to remember a post by a Greek, frustrated because he could not read ancient Greek.
I did a search to try and find this post but alas, not successful.
(I even did a search using the keyword "greek" using all forums and all categories, but it came back -'no topic found'.![]()
Chad wrote: hi bert, i think the thread starting on 13 jan 2004, "how to learn greek if you are a greek", is the one you're thinking of ... cheers, chad.
PeterD wrote:To my fellow Canuck:
[face=SPIonic]feu=, mi/a xelidw\n e)/ar ou) poiei=.[/face]
Ps. Isn't it supposed to be 'summer' instead of 'spring'? Sorry, I don't have an English-Greek lexicon.
Bert wrote:Ps. Isn't it supposed to be 'summer' instead of 'spring'? Sorry, I don't have an English-Greek lexicon.
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