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Auditory strategies for learning a dead language?

shanrina wrote in linguaphiles Mar 08, 2015 19:25

I've decided to start learning Classical Greek, but in planning out my studying, I'm running into an issue. For my other languages, a lot of my practice has come from watching movies and listening to music in the target languages (auditory learner here). Obviously I'm going to be mostly reading it rather than speaking it, but has anyone found a ( Read more... )

latin, classical greek, classical languages

Attic Gk. q

bidnez wrote in linguaphiles Oct 01, 2008 14:55

Dear all,

How would one say "What! No Greek [as in language]?" in Attic? Or maybe Koine works better.

Any information is appreciated.

bidnez

classical greek

classical Greek pronunciation w/out IPA

callunav wrote in linguaphiles Aug 22, 2008 00:57

Sorry to be difficult here. It's becoming clear to me that I need to learn IPA, but since there are about a hundred other things on the list of things I need to learn - including Spanish, lock-picking, and Linux - it may not happen soon ( Read more... )

classical greek

Brief query

holde_maid wrote in linguaphiles Jul 02, 2007 23:00

I read online that "Chronos" means "time". I presume that's Greek, but if it is, is it ancient or modern Greek? Because, I tried several dictionaries and they didn't seem to recognise it (and additionally managed to make me feel pretty stupid ( Read more... )

ancient greek, classical greek, translation request, greek