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The best way to learn Ancient Greek is with a live teacher, in person, with lots of contact time, speaking, talking, reading, writing. That's not possible for everyone, and I don't have a position that lets me teach like that anyway. It's why SeumasU
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I know that everyone is always excited to hear about LGPSI and what's happening or not happening. I'm pleased to report that some things are happening. I try not to ever make promises about LGPSI progress, because I never want to disappoint you with expectations unfulfilled.
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A Greek Reader: A companion to A Primer of Biblical Greek, by Mark Jeong. Eerdmans 2022 This review comes in two parts. Firstly, I'm going to give some general impressions and thoughts on the book as a whole. Following that, I have some specific notes on the Greek
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Via Latina: De Lingua et Vita Romanorum, by Maria Luisa Aguilar & Jorge Tarrega This is a new, and much anticipated volume, put out by Cultura Clásica, a Spanish outfit responsible for a good deal of quality Latin and Greek materials, but about whom I confess to know very little.
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(I confess, I wrote this in more of a twitter-thread style of composition, so it reads a bit scattered)I take it that summation assessment is an attempt to assess to what extent a learner has met the overall final learning goals of a unit of instruction. I'
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In my spare time I have been pottering away at some Catullus translations. You can find recordings of these on my soundcloud as well. Warning: Catullus is fairly liberal in his use of expletives, so if profanity offends you, read no further. He's also not a very nice
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Recently the twitterverse was aptly reminded by Dr. Marchella Ward of the existence of "The Road to Latin", a very fine Latin introductory textbook from 1932, not least because it was authored by a Black Woman, Helen Maria Chestnutt. On the whole, it makes excellent reading material for
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Look, I'm not saying I'm actually going to translate a whole novel into Ancient Greek, but here's the first page of Jo Walton's amazing speculative-fiction novel/classical reception, The Just City, rendered into Ancient Greek. Ἡ πόλις ἡ Δικαίᾱ Α’ · Ἀπόλλων
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In the last couple of days, occasioned at first by a tweet and corresponding discussions from Steven Runge, I’ve been teasing out in my head and a little bit of dialogue the difficulties of the “advanced discussion of Greek in Greek” question. It’s a question that any living
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Part 6 of our ongoing series (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) We turn now to consider the Johannine references, which are five: 1:14, 18, 3:16, 18, and 1 John 4:9. Throughout this section I content that the established meaning of ‘siblingless’ in contexts referring to persons
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Download Bullet-with-butterfly-Wings-Anc-Greek.mp3 Here, for your ancient Greek pleasure, I present Smashing Pumpkin's Bullet with Butterfly Wings. Audio: (I sing quite badly. If anyone wants to re-record with a more delightful voice, I'm very happy to assist them to do
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I have a long and complicated relationship with Duolingo . The hate side, in short, is that I think the way Duolingo models language and thinks/treats language is fundamentally atomistic and inimical to good principles of second language acquisition. The love side is that I actually enjoy and continue to