For those individuals learning Greek on their own as a self-study program, what study techniques keep you motivated to study?
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Dimitri
Self learning motivation for Greek
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I don't have any techniques for keeping myself motivated. What motivates me just happens... I can be struggling for days with one passage from Rouse's book and be ready to quit, but then one word finally makes sense and everything else becomes clearer. Ahhh, what a good feeling that is! Or else, I can finish a terribly difficult chapter without any good sensation, but then the next one proves to be a piece of cake. Ahhh, that's like paradise! Anywho, why don't you grab yourself an easy Greek reader and go over it once you finish a lesson you thought was particulary difficult: it will probably make your studies less boring.
Keep going!
Keep going!
Lisa: Relax?! I can't relax! Nor can I yield, relent, or... Only two synonyms? Oh my God! I'm losing my perspicacity! Aaaaa!
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My experience is similar. When I get tired of memory work etc, I just read for a while. You still learn Greek, (better perhaps) but in a more enjoyable way.jk0592 wrote:I started about one and a half years ago. I am struggling now with volume 2 of Athenaze.
When I get tired of studying grammar, verbs and vocabulary, I keep my motivation by reading Herodotus, and trying to gauge my progress.
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Χαί?ε, ὦ ϕίλε!
My study material was the German Gottwein course that includes translation exercises from German into Ancient Greek. These exercises contributed a lot to my motivation because I wanted to be able to produce Greek texts, and the exercises helped me keep an eye on my progress of being able to write Greek. I believe that if I had used common German study material like Kantharos (a book used at German schools), I would never have got that far.
From time to time, naturally, I too was confronted with sentences that I did not understand at all. Whenever I was just too frustrated to go on, I spent some time reading Aesopian fables (my favourites ) without worrying too much about details until I felt better and felt I could go on.
My study material was the German Gottwein course that includes translation exercises from German into Ancient Greek. These exercises contributed a lot to my motivation because I wanted to be able to produce Greek texts, and the exercises helped me keep an eye on my progress of being able to write Greek. I believe that if I had used common German study material like Kantharos (a book used at German schools), I would never have got that far.
From time to time, naturally, I too was confronted with sentences that I did not understand at all. Whenever I was just too frustrated to go on, I spent some time reading Aesopian fables (my favourites ) without worrying too much about details until I felt better and felt I could go on.