I’ve been trying to use more recordings to help my studies, as they are a good way to quickly and pleasantly review what I’ve already seen. The readings I’ve so far collected are those of Bedwere’s, Stratakis’ of Athenaze, these of the New Testament, these of the Septuagint, these ones by GreekFreak and some other ones that can be found at https://librivox.org/ (the Histories of Thucydides, the Homeric Hymns, the Odyssey). Not much of these are useful for a beginner (except those of Stratakis’ for Athenaze, of Bedwere’s for the Greek Ollendorff and Blackie’s Primer, and of Greek Freak’s for Beresford and Douglas’ First Greek Reader), but I downloaded them anyway just to have them available. Are there any other recordings you recomend? I am confortable with any respectable pronunciation (i. e. Modern, reconstructed Attic and Erasmian, but none of those national ones), as far as they sound natural (so no extremely long long vowels! Well done vowel length is fine, though, and even desirable). They can be from any book (primers, history books, poetry, dialogues, philosophical works…).
It’s in reconstructed Attic, and I try my best to reproduce every aspect of the reconstructed phonology, but if anybody notices something wrong I’d love to hear it! (One problem I’m well aware of that I read too slowly to sound natural; I’m still improving.)
The book itself is a beginner’s text in the public domain, so it should be useful for learners.
Thanks! When you say it is a beginner’s text, do you mean it is made for people with little, but some Greek (e.g. someone struggling to read continuous prose, or who has already completed an introductory course such as Athenaze), or for people with no Greek (like Athenaze itself or Reading Greek)?
It’s a companion reader to W.H.D Rouse’s textbook First Greek Course, as he explains in the preface. There’s no grammar explanation in the reader so you can’t use it to learn from scratch.
Alexandros to Hellenikon Paidion is adapted from this reader and is supposed to be more LLPSI-like, but I don’t think it achieves that goal.
What if I use it with the First Greek Course? I’ve seen some people saying it (the Greek Course, not AGBaH) is bad for self-study, but I simply wanted to supplement Athenaze and Zuntz with even more reading; maybe that makes it more usable for me, since I’m not learning solely from it, but also from it?
Seems like the best to do, indeed. Anyway, thanks for the recordings! They will be of use (although I don’t use the reconstructed pronunciation myself)…