It really is not necessary to type in such huge letters. (Honestly, I think the recent font size increase was bad enough.)
If people need larger text, they will increase their browser’s font size themselves.
Rakeswell vobis omnibus S.P.D.
Mihi valde placet hunc locum interretialem apud quam multos
doctissimos invenire. Contendo ut pure et Latine loquar at multum
oportet mihi discere. Si fallor (ut soleo) me corrigeatis, quaeso, ut
melius fiam. Quantum auxilium libenter afferam ut possum.
Macte virtute!
It really is not necessary to type in such huge letters. (Honestly, I think the recent font size increase was bad enough.)
Actually, one of the advantages that Textkit has over other sites where Greek is used is that it’s really easy to increase the font. On many other sites, it’s hard to read the accents/breathings because the font is so small. But you are right, now that the Jeff has magnified the basic font size, the huge letters are probably not necessary, although I still think this is good for communicating in Greek
και συ; αρα συ θελεις γραφειν Ελληνιστι; ει συ γραφεις εμοι, εγω γραψω σοι. ει συ λαλεῖς σοι, εγω λαλησω σοι. μαλιστα αγαπω χρασθαι τῃ γλωσσῃ Ελληνικῃ. ὁ Μαρκος ασπαζεται σε
Salve Rakeswell, gratus tuus adventus hoc in forum nostrum!
Latine apte scribis quod mihi valde placet. Unum autem mendum in tuo scripto vidi: “me corrigatis” debuisti scripsisse. Utinam Cicero novus factus sis!
Multas gratias tibi, thesaure, ago!
This is my I-am-not-a-spammer post! I am here for future help with Greek which I am learning because I opened my big mouth on my usual haunt (a religious debate forum) and am now determined to make good on my claim that one should read one’s holy text in the language in which it was first written. Although, the Bible isn’t my holy text and I am decidedly not reading the NT until I can in the Greek because I want an unbiased approach. Perhaps I am crazed but, so far, I am enjoying the challenge of decoding this strange language. Hopefully, my slowness (I am really quite bad at Greek!!) will be tolerated here amongst the pros.
Hi!
I’m pretty new to this forum. I’ve visited the site numerous times, though. I’m trying to teach myself Ancient Greek because I would love to read the Bible and other ancient texts in Greek. I also would love to move to learning Modern Greek in the future as well. From what I can tell so far it’s hard! But I think it will definitely be worth it. If anyone has any tips, that would be great! One I’ve learned so far is that I need to practice every day. I think that may be why I struggling. But if anyone has any other tips, I’d love to hear them!
Good luck, everyone!
Granville Sharpe in the 1700’s also taught himself Greek so he could debate theology with knowledge and authority, and they named a grammatical rule after him.
The best to you with your endeavor.
Hi, I"m Christopher a four year Latin student and second year Greek student. My teacher is of the firm belief that “John White is always right.” (The First Greek Book) with which I couldn’t agree more!
Hello, my name is Mark and I am learning Koine Greek with my son Soren. I hope to advance in learning to classical Greek after that. I live in Westminster, CO.
Welcome to the forums! (I’m from Lakewood, fyi!)
Hi! I had an account here before, several years and email addresses ago. (Jeff, I still have that dusty old book, Pharr’s “Homeric Greek” copyright 1920, should you ever need to re-scan it.)
I’m finally having another go at learning Latin, after several years away from it. I’m restarting back at the beginning of Orberg’s “Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Familia Romana.”
Well welcome back and it’s nice to see that you’ve cycled back to Latin.
Jeff
Hi All,
I saw some comments above on the large fonts. I’m decided to increase the default fonts because the number one link on the forum pages (using Google Analytics) is the increase font size button. I’m running a test to see if that goes down.
Jeff
Hi again, Textkit. I’m not exactly a new user (I joined here in 2005) but I haven’t posted in years. In the olden days I read the forums every morning, but then I was sidetracked by work and studying Japanese (not necessarily in that order).
Anyway, my name is Joe and I live about 30 miles SW of Chicago. I got hooked on languages back in high school, went to a preseminary college so I could take German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew, went on to seminary and spent a few years serving a few churches before I decided that it wasn’t for me. Nowadays I’m a systems engineer/programmer/Unix administrator by profession.
Browsing around the great resources over at http://www.wilbourhall.org, I realized that a) I still want to read Euclid in Greek, and b) my Greek is pretty rusty (as well as c: I’d like to get back into Sanskrit, but that’s a topic for a different day). I’d also like to get back to routine reading of the NT and LXX, as well as read some Lucian.
So, it’s time to knock off the rust. I pulled my old copy of Crosby & Schaeffer (from college) off the shelf, but it moves too slowly to hold my interest: at my age, I no longer have forever to get through the book! This morning I decided to try Hansen & Quinn as a refresher and learned that my Greek’s really rusty. I’m hoping that the speed of the course will keep me from getting bored and giving up.
Meanwhile, I thought I’d stop by and see if there are any study groups starting up soon, but it looks fairly quiet on that front. However, the forum still has plenty of good discussion, and that’ll be encouraging as I get back up to speed. It’s nice to be back.
Χαιρέτε φίλοι!
Totally new to Greek learning Internet segment. My name is Eugene (Ευγενής), i’m 23 and i live in Saint-Peterburg(Russia). It’s not common here to learn greek or latin at school. I suppose there’s only one school/gymnasium with such studies here. Ancient languages are learnt at universities at most.
I’m studying ancient greek and latin starting from fall semester at university, faculty of philosophy. At seminars we are reading Herwig textbook, and soon we will read Xenophon and Apology.
Greek texts are cradle of philosophy and literature. I’m interested in tracing origins and basic forms of metaphysical thinking. My aim is to read early Plato, Aristotle, and first wave of Sophists. And sure, i’m in love with Sophocles and want to read greek drama as much as possible.
I think acquiring method is quiet resourceful, so i do some translations into greek and try to speak greek. Also looking for some [history-cultural rooted] translation studies.
Nice to meet you all!
ps
My English isn’t good though i don’t speak or write much.
My name is Mark. I’m a 33-year-old college professor of English. I recently completed my M.Div, which included two years of Koine, followed by a year of Hebrew. A few months ago I discovered that my proficiency in Koine was disappearing at an alarming rate, so I reinstituted my 15-minutes-a-day study time. I’ve discovered, to my great surprise, that what was about as much fun as a root canal during seminary is actually a lot of fun on my own. I find myself thinking about Greek all through the day and compulsively trying to translate small bits of text that I see (signs, slogans, even the hymns in church) into Greek.
If I can get my proficiency back up, I think I’d like to start studying the LXX as well, and I’ve always dreamt of reading Homer (ever since I fell in love with the Penguin Classics editions, and later, the Lattimore translations).
And I’m in Highlands Ranch. Markos lives in the Denver Area, too. We should all get together and speak Greek some time.
Hi All
I am a long time lurker and only recently have I decided to become a member here.
I have taken some instruction in Latin, but only one year. Since, I have continued my Latin and am making some gains, and even reading Virgil and Ovid with some profit and pleasure.
During a recent deployment to Afghanistan, I decided to take on Homeric Greek in order to occupy some of my idle time. I am using Pharr and progress is slow but steady. I have made it through about 40 pages or so of Steadman’s Odyssey (9-12) reader.
Right now, in both languages I find that vocabulary to be the biggest challenge, and in Greek particularly, recognition and retention of Greek verb stems.
Looking forward to posting a little more regularly, perhaps.
Ryan
Salvete Omnes!
Hello Everyone!
My name is JusSza and I’m new to these forums… I joined for the occasional bit of help with my Latin. I’m in Latin 2 B… I’m a sophomore and I enjoy taking Latin so far, but I don’t know if I will take Latin 3 
Anyway,
Thanks for Having this Forum!
-JusSza