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Easy Greek Reading Project now has a blog!

Seumas Macdonald

Seumas Macdonald

26 Feb 2018
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It's over at https://thepatrologist.com/content/files/2026/07/easygreekreading-wordpress-com.html

You'll get (a minimum of) once a week easy greek readings!

It's that simple, for now. I hope to see the project develop in new directions as well, but let's start modestly...

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