I wonder if Churchill could read Greek?
Lucus Eques wrote:But I gave up on Greek too, at least for now. Unless someone can direct me to a better one, the only textbooks here at Textkit are painfully dry......Nevertheless, until I encounter a better text, I shall refrain my Greek studies for the time being.
Paul wrote:I am genuinely interested in your opinions as to effective and less dry Greek textbooks. What, ideally, would you like to see in such a book?
Also, of the Greek textbooks you've looked at, did any even approach this ideal?
Turpissimus wrote:If it does, then I may well in future have two enormously difficult dead languages on my plate.
xanthos64 wrote:I have been complaining for over 20 years about the lack of Greek instruction texts addressed to the twentieth/twenty-first century learner. I posted awhile ago "Emperor Pharr's New Clothes" arguing that even the Pharr book, which many of you swear by, seems addressed to the learned British school boy of the late 1800s.
To me, an effective Greek instruction book would be written in the idiom of modern English usage (no "thee", "would that", or "learnt", please, Professor White). It would be fun (a la Peter Jones). And it would contain plenty of exercises with answers (as a modern language textbook does).
the only textbooks here at Textkit are painfully dry
Paul wrote:I am genuinely interested in your opinions as to effective and less dry Greek textbooks. What, ideally, would you like to see in such a book?
That Canadian guy who's always on about politics wrote:Indeed, Turpissimus, dead is a bit too harsh. Don't you think?
Oh bollocks
I am genuinely interested in your opinions as to effective and less dry Greek textbooks. What, ideally, would you like to see in such a book?
Also, of the Greek textbooks you've looked at, did any even approach this ideal?
I have been complaining for over 20 years about the lack of Greek instruction texts addressed to the twentieth/twenty-first century learner. I posted awhile ago "Emperor Pharr's New Clothes" arguing that even the Pharr book, which many of you swear by, seems addressed to the learned British school boy of the late 1800s.
I see your point, but I do mind terribly if reading centuries old ENglish stifles my first objective --learning the Greek language well.
xon wrote:I have returned to Greek.
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