Χαίρετε, φίλοι!
I’ve made a little video to teach Ancient Greek according to the model of Familia Romana chapter 1:
It follows 5 previous videos in this series called Ancient Greek in Action: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam
Feedback always welcome! 
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Very impressive!
I had read about attempts to convert LLPSI for Greek but it proved impossible to find anything solid. I have twins nearly 21 months old. They will be bilingual as mum and dad have different mother tongues. Don’t take this too cynically but they are driving me a little crazy with constant request to watch YouTube videos of nursery rhymes in English. So I am going to introduce them to your course starting with the alphabet and see how it goes.
If they absorb another couple of languages like the brain sponges they are all for the good. If they give me a break from continual cutesie YouTube video all for the better. I’ll post again with my successes and failures. I always thought LLPSI in theory would work for young kids.
Hi there Will by happenstance the YouTube Videos if you subscribe take you to a YouTube home page (not sure if that’s the right term) but there you can get the audio files for I think rouse’s original. And I’ve read a review in Teaching Classical Languages Volume 8 issue 1 by Paul Nitz of the new version by Diaz M Avila which you offer a preview of.
What the review seems to be saying I haven’t read it in detail is that yeah its a good teaching aid but it requires a bit of preparation. Part of my problem is shifting back to the beginning and realising even LLPSI is difficult to pick up for a beginner. It seemed so intuitive when I read it as an adult that I failed to pick up how off putting it can be as a first text.
So yes there are many many texts now using modern methodologies some based heavily on conversation practice many assuming grammar will be picked up along the way of reading and when appropriate explained in more detail by a guide/teacher. What I meant was that this was the first time I had seen anyone try to transfer the actual format of LLPSI to Greek.
So I think the man’s name is Luke Ranieri and I like his way of doing videos in general and his approach to languages. But he takes as it were LLPSI and thought about writing something similar as it were taking the first few chapters of LLPSI and presenting it as if you were a second century Koine Greek speaker and were offering a progressive class in Koine Greek to kids.
But he does suggest you go through more basic lessons first. All I can say for now with the twins are. They don’t stare at it as if soaking up some kind of visual drug or the way I watch a Netflix series. They come back and forth looking at the screen I repeat some of the letters and point out stuff on the screen then we knock a few balloons about and maybe one twin comes up and then mom takes one for a bath or whatever. And they’ve been going back and forth. At present one is asleep and one is I think having a bath with Mom.
I divide the world now into normal people and those with kids. Once you have kids I don’t think you can ever return to being normal again.
So thanks for the preview pick I have other books I could start with them. The Polis Institute does a more conversational style. But basically that’s about talking to them and getting them to do stuff. Something about linking physical movement to language. Who knows what works. So long as they don’t feel pressurised to study with me. I am happy.
Oh yeah the review said the nicer thing about Alexandros is the simplicity of the atticized Greek. So yeah it’s a good text. And it’s intuitive. I had heard of other scholars actually converting LLPSI more directly for Greek. But this is the first actual example I have seen of it. If you catch my drift. But yeah there are so many different beginner texts available now. For me I use whatever works. One twin is more studious one more playful. Everybody is different yes.
But thanks for the link all the same. Sorry I went on a bit. it’s not often I get to talk to an adult.
Not entirely sure if I’m posting right. But I just took a look at the Italian version of Athenaze and it seems to me that Alexandros looks similar to that. But Italian Athenaze I think has more detailed margin notes and explanatory diagrams and photos. But either is good.
Wow! Amazing τέκνα that you have!
Yeah, they each have advantages, but mostly severe disadvantages pedagogically. Hopefully my AGIA series makes both courses more user friendly.
Yeah! I like Alexandros a lot, but it’s designed for Latin speakers, and assumes also that you already know some Modern Greek or Ancient Greek, and assumes its being instructed by someone who already knows AG. Thus it makes it perfect for me to teach in these weekly livestreams: Ancient Greek thru Latin
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixzqVhVtpL-l2DWuvmTXwlP
That looks amazing. Are you going to publish this as a text?
Ah Luke old friend, fascinating. Have you (or anyone else) does an in depth review of Alexandros?
A review, no. But essentially it assume you know Latin (and its grammar) fairly well, because it doesn’t explain a lot. And much of the vocabulary is not explained. Even if you’re not a complete novice you have to look up a lot. It worked for me. But not a recommendation I’d make to most. Great to use for a teacher who knows the language, like I do in my livestreams Ancient Greek thru Latin on YouTube.
