After ending up several times in this forum, I’ve decided to become an active member. My name is Carlos and I come from Northern Mexico. On my exchange semester in Dresden I’ve decided to take “Klassisches Griechisch I”. Partly -using Internet slang- “for the lols”, partly because I’ve been surrounded by “greek stuff” since I was a child. The course is quite heavy on grammar, and we use a compendium of short texts selected by our teacher, grammar explanations and many, many tables that she compiled.
Yeah, I’m supposed to translate Ancient Greek into German Ach du Zeus!
To be honest, I’ve done decently so far. I’m also using Assimil’s Le Grec Ancien, and I’m looking foward to use this great forum! Learning languages seems miraculous to me ^^. Even more so when it’s Attic Greek.
That is a fine textbook, if you enjoy the Assimil approach. Extremely funny (as Assimil tends to be). Also, if you care about that sort of thing, the recordings are, as far as I know, the only example of pitch accent being used consistently and without sounding like someone’s sticking a δόρυ through your eardrums.
It’s true! I do enjoy it. It’s very “user-friendly” and doesn’t overwhelm you with grammar. I also prefer the recordings’ pronunciation to German’s pronunciation .
Since you’re steeped in Greek, do you know anyone there who can explain how they came up with their own meter for Ephesians 1:3-14? I talked to a guy some years ago who pointed me to a link in German (which I can’t read too well), and it mapped the passage showing ‘stoichometrie’. Can’t find that link or source now.
NT books are metered, like the OT books, in sevens. First time it sevens is a DATELINE telling you when the book (or chapter) was written. Style is the same in Hebrew (first), carried over in Greek. So I’m dying to know what the Germans think of that. I can’t find anyone else who found this sevening meter, and since I don’t read German too well, I’m not sure THAT is the meter they found.
Then again, if my question annoys, please ignore me. Thank you for your time!
My name is Carlos and I come from Northern Mexico. On my exchange semester in Dresden I’ve decided to take “Klassisches Griechisch I”. Partly -using Internet slang- “for the lols”, partly because I’ve been surrounded by “greek stuff” since I was a child. The course is quite heavy on grammar, and we use a compendium of short texts selected by our teacher, grammar explanations and many, many tables that she compiled.
Ach du Zeus!
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