I am very happy to have found this site and hope to utilize it for years to come!
This September I am enrolled in an Ancient Greek class and although our textbook is TBD I thought I should take August to try to get ahead of the game. As I recently lost my job the time factor cannot be an excuse
As each beginnerâs text focuses on different vocabulary I am unsure as to how I should best spend my time after learning the alphabetâŚany suggestions would be most welcome!
[I read the âhow textkit could be improvedâ thread and if there is anything I can do even as a newbie please let me know!]
You may already have done this, but just in case: did you email the instructor? Perhaps they have determined the textbook. Some departments (I have no idea where youâre studying) are speedier about updating their web pages and hallway notices than others.
Dâoh! That person will probably get to decide on the textbook.
Ok. A few suggestions, made at random.
If you do not know immediately what phrases like possessive pronoun, indirect object or subordinate clause mean, your life will be made easier by familiarizing yourself with some grammatical terminology. Youâll be swimming in it for Greek. Thereâs even a book specially designed for this, âEnglish Grammar for Students of Latin,â (whichâll work for Greek, really) which can be had quite cheaply.
LesseeâŚ
You might even grab one of the PDF textbooks here (White, say), and just spend some time reading over a bunch of the starting chapters, not trying to memorize everything, but to get an overview of what youâll be seeing. So often Greek is presented piecemeal that it doesnât become clear how everything works together until way too late. A birdâs eye view can help understand how the whole system hangs together.
Beyond that I hesitate to suggest much, for fear of leading you down the wrong path for what your TPD instructor decides to do. Iâm sure others will have some more suggestions.
A good basic vocabulary list is from the textbook Athenaze, but you do not have to buy the book. Go to www.kenyon.edu and then go to their classicsâ departmentâs website. They have the entire list in an excellent printable format. When you begin studying the principal parts of verbs, make sure you do not just memorize them; understand how each is formed so that you will eventually be able to memorize easily the principal parts of other verbs by analogy. Godspeed!
