most 'supported' learning text for the autodidact

[daler]

Greetings all. I'm looking for advice for my circumstances. 50 year old man with one semester of Latin and 2 years of German under my belt. I'm not particularly 'great' with languages, but enjoy studying as a hobby. I've explored a little bit of ancient greek but was quickly struck by the paucity of quality( I guess by modern standards) resources in comparison to latin. I am, of course, not looking to learn to speak ancient greek, but I found being able to hear and speak german and latin helped me tremendously to learn those languages. It just was an extra way to help lock words in my mind. That being said, pronunciation seems to be a fast moving target in ancient greek with nothing agreed upon by anyone. Not to mention that most (any?) text books do not have audio resources. I think the exception might be Mastronarde Attic Greek text's website. Unfortunately I found his book dry and killing my interest.
My other complaint is the layout and font of so many books. There are some very poor quality books out there as far as readability and organized layouts. The language is challenging enough without struggling to decipher thick, old fashioned traditional typeface that is small and not put in columns for easy learning of declensions etc.
I'm sorry that the tone of this is coming across as complaining. I am sure there are a number of you out there that feel you managed to learn greek in spite of these petty complaints, but it just strikes me as sort of obvious why maybe fewer and fewer people are attempting to learn ancient greek (excepting seminary students maybe).
So...to some up my request is for opinions on what might be best for someone with no teacher, that has at least some reasonable audio support (please do not say JACT audio. everyone knows it is terrible) even if it is youtube vidoes, has a good amount of practice exercises with answer key and is not painful to read because of bad layout/typeface.
I am interested in Koine or Attic but am not interested in using modern greek pronunciation.
I REALLY appreciate your opinions and enjoy this site tremendously. Thank you in advance.

[cb]

Hi, I think Mastronarde is actually really well laid out, and has a very useful supporting website:

http://atticgreek.org/index.html

If however you don't like it, perhaps try Athenaze, revised third edition. There are useful online resources (e.g. quizzes) here:

https://global.oup.com/us/companion.web ... 7/student/

There's also (unofficial) audio support on youtube—first video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsKhcHpYk00

Cheers, Chad

[hlawson38]

I use Mastronarde for self-instruction, but I've taken several fairly long holidays. I'm in the middle 20s of his 40-odd units, and I've slowed way down on Mastronarde. I think this textbook would work much better for me with a face-to-face teacher and fellow f2f students.

Things I like:

1. Very thorough

2. An answer key is available for the exercises http://tinyurl.com/yxkfmgyr

3. Excellent web page with lots of drills http://atticgreek.org/

4. Complementary web page here, with handouts: https://classics.uchicago.edu/faculty/dik/niftygreek

[smitterle]

I love Reading Greek, texts are recorded and edited as Speaking Greek. Second editions.