someone in another forum proposed this site for those wanting to learn Ancient Greek, I came to check and saw that I could actually refresh my -pathetic by now- Latin.
Name’s Irene (obviously) and I am Greek. I used to work as a teacher up to last year but had to stay away from teaching Latin since I have been too lazy after leaving Uni . I hope that now I will be able to re-study both Latin and French (just don’t ask!)
My ancient Greek is in perfect shape thank God, though , being Greek, I only know about the ancient pronounciation theoretically (we pronounce them as we do Modern Greek)
Anyway, to avoid writing another long-winded double-sheet of a post before you know me better,
Your Ancient Greek is in perfect shape because you are Greek?
The reason I ask is; A while back another Greek asked if there were any books available to teach Ancient Greek to a Modern Greek person.
He had difficulty with Ancient Greek.
I didn’t say that! I said that it is in perfect shape without telling why
I mentioned my being Greek in relation with the way I pronounce ancient Greek. (all Greeks do; and before you ask, “how come if they don’t know it well”, the answer is that they have to pronounce it somehow since it’s a course in high-school)
If what you ask is whether Greeks in general know ancient Greek well then the answer is a resounding NO.
If what you ask is why my ancient Greek is in perfect shape then the answer is that this is one of the subjects I studied and taught
Welcome to Textkit…I’d love to hear more about what Ancient Greek you studied and taught…Classical, Homeric, Koine??? BTW, how do you spell your name in Greek…it is a cognate of EIRHNH??
Kopio, Episcopus, my name is not a cognate of EIRHNH; it IS EIRHNH hehe. Irene is just the way EIRHNH is transliterated in Latin chars.
Kopio, since I studied in the Uni in order to teach them, I studied all forms of the Greek language (from Homeric up to Modern) Of course my studies concentrated (when it comes to the ancient forms of the language) to Classical Greek. I have to admit also that I am not up to scratch when it comes to “deciphering” Byzantine handwriting
Episcopus, I will stick around for more than a week, that’s for sure! (though I can only hope to be able to begin re-studying Latin in a couple of weeks at best)
thank you nostos, Y is the first letter of my last name actually (well, stricktly speaking, it should be a G really, but I always prefered the phonetically correct spelling).
I used to use (rich vocabulary there) IY or ela_de (modern greek “slang” meaning ‘beats me’, ‘that’s a good question’) but I decided to make it a bit more personal (plus, I am sick of people shortening “ela_de” and calling me “ela”-come-. It makes me feel I should bark or something)
