Luke Ranieri's method for learning Ancient Greek

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Some time ago Luke Ranieri from the Youtube channel Polymathy published this spreadsheet that orders different books to learn Ancient Greek and achieve reading fluency: http://bit.ly/ranieri-roberts-approach

_“The essence of this approach to learning Ancient Greek as an autodidact is to read many introductory readers simultaneously, according to a sequence of grammatical “anchors,” in order to become exposed to sufficient input in grammar, vocabulary, and syntax to achieve reading fluency, explained in detail in this video” :https://youtu.be/2vwb1wVzPec_

What is your opinion about this method? Have you put it into practice in case you are studying Ancient Greek?

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I think it’s a good method. Because when I use one textbook, there are few texts to read. I didn’t do it like Ranieri, following his system. But like this: I have quite a lot of textbooks and readers. I took some textbook and read until it was easy. When it was too hard, I took another textbook and read it again from the beginning. When it got too hard, I took another textbook. And so on. Now I can read the whole textbook, it’s easy.

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Luke Ranieri: Don’t use those old fashioned grammar books to learn a language. Grammar study doesn’t work. Just read instead.

Also Luke Ranieri: The reading approach works best with the Dowling method, where you begin by cramming every single grammar chart by copying 200 times. Let me sell you some files to help you start cramming the grammar.

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To be clear, I think reading methods work, and that Ranieri’s sequence of readers would work for someone who can stick with it. I don’t agree that traditional grammar approaches don’t work, and I think if he really believed it, he wouldn’t advocate cramming grammar charts before you begin.