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 Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:51 pm
Welcome to the Classical Greek General Discussion! This is where we discuss everything related to the Classical Greek language, including, but not limited to:
-asking specific questions about Greek vocabulary and grammar (people who can speak Greek fluently can help answer others' questions)
-recommendations for Classical Greek dictionaries, websites, etc
-and everything else about the beautiful langauge of Ancient Greece! 3nodding
Please note that although speaking in Greek is allowed here, it is not mandatory.
Let's start off with a few facts about the Classical Greek language:
Spoken in: (dead language)
Total number of speakers: unknown; none as a first language
Language Family: Greek
Regulated by: n/a
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:56 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:58 pm
DICTIONARIES/GRAMMAR BOOKS ETC
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:59 pm
If anyone here has any other reccommendations for websites/dictionaries/grammar books etc, please feel free to tell us about them in this thread.
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:57 pm
They've translated Harry Potter into classical Greek. My mom has a copy of the first book.
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:12 am
Eccentric Iconoclast They've translated Harry Potter into classical Greek. My mom has a copy of the first book. That is so awesome. Do they have a Latin version, by any chance? I'd buy it.
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:40 pm
Sola Catella Eccentric Iconoclast They've translated Harry Potter into classical Greek. My mom has a copy of the first book. That is so awesome. Do they have a Latin version, by any chance? I'd buy it. I think so, I'm not sure.
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:41 am
Sola Catella Eccentric Iconoclast They've translated Harry Potter into classical Greek. My mom has a copy of the first book. That is so awesome. Do they have a Latin version, by any chance? I'd buy it. Yep! 3nodding but unfortunately they only have the first book in Latin cry
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 11:58 pm
I speak Modern Greek, but not ancient greek, seeing as how most of the letters have been swapped around.
I checked out Wiki, and it helped me learn some things.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 3:56 am
Dimenshia I speak Modern Greek, but not ancient greek, seeing as how most of the letters have been swapped around. I checked out Wiki, and it helped me learn some things. If you were to read an Ancient Greek text or listen to somebody speak Ancient Greek, do you think you'd easily be able to understand it/them?
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 10:51 pm
Proudly_Jewish Dimenshia I speak Modern Greek, but not ancient greek, seeing as how most of the letters have been swapped around. I checked out Wiki, and it helped me learn some things. If you were to read an Ancient Greek text or listen to somebody speak Ancient Greek, do you think you'd easily be able to understand it/them? Probably. There's a lot of different ways of pronouncing things. Different parts of Greece use different pronounciations, as well as spelling. It's sometimes hard to decypher what they're saying, but for the most part, it's all the same.
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 11:44 am
Dimenshia Proudly_Jewish Dimenshia I speak Modern Greek, but not ancient greek, seeing as how most of the letters have been swapped around. I checked out Wiki, and it helped me learn some things. If you were to read an Ancient Greek text or listen to somebody speak Ancient Greek, do you think you'd easily be able to understand it/them? Probably. There's a lot of different ways of pronouncing things. Different parts of Greece use different pronounciations, as well as spelling. It's sometimes hard to decypher what they're saying, but for the most part, it's all the same. I see smile
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:27 am
heart heart heart
Awesome thread, and I'm sure it'll develop into more awesomeness.
I have a friend and an English teacher who are Greek, and they tell me that their pronounciation is completely different from the way Ancient Greek is pronounced.
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:37 am
Ah! Some fellow sharers in my Ancient Greek madness! Just out of interest, how did you people come to learn Ancient Greek and which books did you use to learn?
As to the Ancient versus Modern debate, I have a friend on the web who calls himself Fivos whose name in Greek letters is spelt like phoibos (yes, like Apollo - sorry about letters, I'm confused by the whole Greek letters and technology - the stuff I study is thousands of years old, computers are just too new...), so, having learnt Ancient Greek, I would automatically pronounce this as it looks - "oy" like in "toy", the "b" like a "b" and not a "v", etc. I found it really interesting to see how the sounds have changed over time.
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:01 am
I'm lucky enough to have it taught in my school.
We use Athenaze, by Maurice Balme and Gilbert Lawall from Oxford smile . It's a pretty good textbook, although they go very over-heavy with the grammatical explanations and use English words my teacher doesn't understand >.<. But at least we already know what they're on about because of the simpler explanations of grammar in Latin.
The change in sounds is interesting. I was in a reading competition a while ago, and this particular Greek English teacher, got me to read it to the class. She said she would pronounce everything quite differently, but didn't want to confuse me by actually doing it >.>
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