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Hi everyone,<br /><br />my name is Clemens and I'm from Austria (that's the reason for my (sometimes at least) terrible English, feel free to correct my mistakes if necessary...
)<br /><br />I'm trying to learn Classical Greek because it's a fascinating language.

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Welcome, Clemens! I hope you enjoy your stay at Textkit. <br /><br />I've never actually been to Austria, but I've read about it-it sounds like a beautiful country. I hope to visit it someday! <br /><br />Again, welcome. <br /><br />Keesa
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Yes, I was feeling very sick. I'd never seen so many mountains in my life... not to mention I'm a bit scared of hights. Luckily there was a cafe where I could sit...<br />On the other ski slopes we went to there was always enough cloud around, luckily.
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I imagine it would be! <br /><br />I am afraid of heights, too, but only sometimes; climbing to the top of a tree doesn't bother me, for example, but standing on a roof does; ladders do, but stairs don't; mountain cliffs with trees around don't, but much gentler mountain slopes without trees around do. I think it has something to do with wanting something around to grab hold of if I fall...<br /><br />I've never gone skiing before, which is probably a good thing. I've ridden horses before, though, bareback, where there was nothing to hold on to...I suppose my fear of heights is selective. Either that or it was just that the horse and I were good friends, and I knew he wouldn't let me fall off.
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Same with me...<br />But it's probably also what I'm used to... I don't mind cliffs, my Grandparents live like 100 meters from the beach and there are loads of cliffs in Cornwall, but I'm not scared when walking along them. <br />It was very scary for me though... I remember while I was skiing, once the clowds parted and I could look down and around me... everywhere mountains and it just went down and down and down...<br />I fell over and refused to get up again, until finally a teacher and a friend of mine forced me to get up.
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Well, in the end I did manage a red slope alright, though nearly all my friends were going down back ones... <br /><br />You must be really good at skiing. When we were there (not in the tourist season, so it was only our group and locals) the slopes were being terrorised by 4 and 5 year olds. I think they learned to ski before they learned to walk!
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[size=150] ὡς εὐ παρέστης, ὦ κλῆμενς ἐξ αὐστρίας ! <br /> <br /> Herzlich willkommen beim Textkit-Forum, Clemens!<br /><br /> good luck with your Greek studies, and enjoy it all in beautiful and serene Austrian setting (< jealous >) . I know that Austria, like Germany, has a long and strong tradition in scholars for Greek, so I think you must really mean it, to learn this difficult language. <br /><br />
αἴτιον: ἡ ψυχὴ μετὰ λόγου· συναίτιον: τὸ πῦρ [Ἡράκλειτος]
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Welcome to Textkit; I hope you have a good time here learning Greek.<br /><br />Also, I have a queston: Where and by what means did you learn to speak English so well? <br /><br />P.S.<br />Everyone here at textkit either speaks German or French; I feel like an utter loser with my inordinately facile, third-world Spanish. 

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[quote author=Lumen_et_umbra link=board=6;threadid=601;start=15#5447 date=1062892603]<br />Everyone here at textkit either speaks German or French; I feel like an utter loser with my inordinately facile, third-world Spanish. ;)<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Well I must be the most dismal of all, since I know *only* english, and nothing else... a few words each of french and spanish... but that's it :)
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<br />Hi Clemens,<br /><br />Welcome to the Textkit forum. If you haven't already discovered this, there are lots of Greek books available for download on this site. To find them, click on the Learn Ancient Greek link above. I hope you enjoy your stay here.<br /><br />
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Halo, Clemens!<br />Willkommen hier. Ich bin also sehr neu hier. Und meine Deutsche ist kein besser als dein Englisch, wenn nicht schlimmer. Na, sowieso, ich bin sehr angeregt hier im greiechischen Lernung. Viel Spaß hier!<br /><br />
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@Lumen_et_umbra<br /><br />I'm learning English for 9 years now. All kids here start learning it when they are 8 or 9...<br /><br />@Mariek<br /><br />Thanks, I've already seen it, but I think it would be very, very difficult for me using English books for Greek because I'm not too good at both languages...<br /><br />@mingshey<br /><br />
<br /><br />Vielen Dank, so schlecht war es gar nicht.Hallo Clemens!<br />Willkommen hier. Ich bin auch ziemlich neu hier. Und mein Deutsch ist kein bisschen besser als dein Englisch, wenn nicht schlechter. Na, trotzdem, ich werde hier sehr ermutigt beim Griechisch lernen. Viel Spaß hier!

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in multis provinciis linguam Brittaniae doceri debet - semper hodie toti liberi qui Germani sunt eam doceri debent. <br />cogito germanos liberos bene doceri sed in Galliam sunt nulli liberi qui linguas discere possunt. non scio utrum magistri episcopi an liberi episcopi sunt (si dixit quod volo)<br /><br />Nunc quod dicere latine volo non possum! Quamquam linguam galliae scribo multa verba latine sunt dura ei episcopo (nonne vides?) sed tu multa (complicated ones!!) verba latine dicis. <br /><br />Some day I hope that I will be as good at Latin as you...it makes me sad when I can not say what I want to.<br /><br />Das muß sehr schwer sein, daß du kein Buch auf Deutsch hast, um Griechisch zu lernen...Ich könnte das nicht machen (wenn ich alles auf Deutsch lesen mUsste!)<br />Trotzdem hoffe ich daß du hier viel spaß hast und auch daß du viel lernen wirst
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Of course I have German books for Greek. Did my reply let you think I had only English ones? (Mariek hat mich auf die e-books aufmerksam gemacht, die man hier downloaden kann, nur kann ich damit nicht sonderlich viel anfangen, weil sie eben alle auf Englisch sind.)<br /><br />
Do you talk with me? I don't speak Latin...<br /><br />Anaway, thanks 
<br />Some day I hope that I will be as good at Latin as you...it makes me sad when I can not say what I want to


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Lehrbuch: Kantharos (zusätzlich verwende ich auch noch diesen online-Kurs.<br /><br />Grammatiken: Bornemann/Risch, Ars Graeca<br /><br />Wörterbücher: Gemoll, Menge-Güthling<br /><br /><br />Das sind so die Wichtigsten, die ich habe. Ich hätte auch gerne Griechisch in der Schule, aber das geht hier leider nicht... 

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Ja, ich benutze auch den Gemoll und die Grammatik der Ars Graeca habe ich auch, finde sie aber z.T. verwirrend oder unvollständig. Von dem Lehrbuch, was du benutzt hab' ich noch nie gehört. Ist es so ein bring-dir-selbt-Griechisch-bei Buch?
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