Attic greek in school it is very easy to study koine or read the new testament.
How hard is attic greek to learn.
The greek alphabet and pronunciation.
Mastronarde s introduction to attic greek.
This is an easy greek for the most part a low style.
So many students go straight to biblical greek bypassing attic the greek dialect prevalent in and around athens during the time of aristotle plato and the like.
It is both wise and academically appropriate to guide the learner towards the highest as regards beauty and level of difficulty form of the ancient greek language namely that of the 5th century b c.
You can guess what happened.
It is essential then to learn the basic inflections of these parts of speech.
The attic language or its earlier form the homeric language only after they have been taught the hellenistic common language the language of the gospels and the new testament which without.
He wrote a book that filled those gaps.
It has different letters various intonations and a quite difficult.
Greek in particular is really hard to learn not only for english speaking people but all latin oriented language speakers.
It was published in 1993.
After this particular study time you will reach speaking 3.
And it says.
The result is that when they are faced with a difficult greek passage they don t know what to do what the heck.
But at the same time it doesn t inflate how hard they are.
It s published significantly later than the first version of reading greek.
It s called introduction to attic greek and it s published by berkeley.
General professional proficiency in reading r3 please keep in mind that this ranking only shows the view of the foreign.
Actually over time the language simplified as many languages do the the later koine is simpler than earlier attic.
This is a no holds barred approach to ancient greek written by a professor who got tired of seeing students coming to graduate school with huge gaps in their basic knowledge.
Having studied classical i e.
The foreign service institute fsi has created a list to show the approximate time you need to learn a specific language as an english speaker.
No it definitely doesn t mask the hard bits of learning ancient greek by any means.
The greek alphabet was taken over from the semitic as used in the phoenician area which in turn was based on an egyptian alphabet.