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« on: March 12, 2010, 11:22:12 PM » |
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I am deeply amazed and in love with the greek and russian languages.
Sadly I have to wait until college to get started.
I would go to my parish for greek lessons, but I can't make it every week or even every month due to the distance, anyone speak either languages and english that is willing to help me with a head start?
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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2010, 01:07:17 AM » |
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I am deeply amazed and in love with the greek and russian languages.
I love those languages too, but wait till you discover Romanian! Foarte frumoasa! |
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« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2010, 06:06:31 AM » |
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I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?
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« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2010, 09:17:27 AM » |
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I am deeply amazed and in love with the greek and russian languages.
Sadly I have to wait until college to get started.
I would go to my parish for greek lessons, but I can't make it every week or even every month due to the distance, anyone speak either languages and english that is willing to help me with a head start?
I can certainly help you with Russian. Ukrainian and Russian are my two equally "first" languages (my parents spoke Russian, while my retired grandfather, with whom I, as a little kid, spent perhaps even more time than with my working parents, spoke Ukrainian). My education, from kindrgarten to graduate school, was entirely in Russian. |
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« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2010, 03:25:20 PM » |
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I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?
I don't even know the alphabet in greek is it larger than the american one? |
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« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2010, 03:38:19 PM » |
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I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?
I don't even know the alphabet in greek is it larger than the american one? You mean, the English one?  Its shorter by 2 letters. Start with the sounds of the letters, and the dipthongs (blends of two letters which make a different sound, for example, the "au" in your name would produce the sound "av" as a dipthong in Greek). Make sure that you don't learn to pronounce according to "Erasmian" Greek which was a failed attempt at a "scholarly Greek" still popular in English speaking countries. |
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« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2010, 08:56:30 PM » |
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I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?
I don't even know the alphabet in greek is it larger than the american one? You mean, the English one? Its shorter by 2 letters. Oh? I learned classical Greek, which only contained 22 letters. What are the two additional letters in modern Greek? |
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« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2010, 11:32:07 PM » |
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I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?
I don't even know the alphabet in greek is it larger than the american one? You mean, the English one? Its shorter by 2 letters. Oh? I learned classical Greek, which only contained 22 letters. What are the two additional letters in modern Greek? Um... Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω That's 24. There used to be the Digamma (Ϝ), but that fell out of use before the Classical era. |
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Τῷ μεγάλῳ χρίεται μύρῳ καὶ χειρονεῖται βασιλεὺς καὶ αὐτοκράτωρ τῶν Ῥωμαίων, πάντων δηλαδὴ τῶν χριστιανῶν...οὐδὲν οὖν ἔνι καλὸν, υἱέ μου, ἵνα λέγῃς, ὅτι ἐκκλησίαν ἔχομεν, οὐχὶ βασιλέα, οὐκ ἔνι δυνατὸν εἰς τοὺς χριστιανοὺς, ἔκκλησίαν ἔχειν καὶ βασιλέα οὐκ ἔχειν. – EP Anthony to Basil of Moscow c. 1395
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« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2010, 11:43:00 PM » |
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So are they aligned correctly?
is the F seriously shaped as a Z?
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« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2010, 11:47:29 PM » |
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So are they aligned correctly?
is the F seriously shaped as a Z?
No. The Z is "Zeta" and is the "z" sound. The "F" is Φ (21st letter). |
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« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2010, 12:06:09 AM » |
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Here is a website where you can learn the name an pronunciation of each letter and the blended letters (digraphs) which form the dipthongs: http://www.foundalis.com/lan/grkalpha.htm |
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« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2010, 05:05:52 PM » |
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I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?
I don't even know the alphabet in greek is it larger than the american one? You mean, the English one? Its shorter by 2 letters. Oh? I learned classical Greek, which only contained 22 letters. What are the two additional letters in modern Greek? Um... Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω That's 24. There used to be the Digamma (Ϝ), but that fell out of use before the Classical era. You're right; I miscounted. |
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« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2010, 12:08:54 AM » |
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How's it possible to miscount if you learned classical Greek? That's like one of the first things you learn with just about any language. A Professor Emeritus should know this!
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« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2010, 01:17:58 AM » |
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I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?
I don't even know the alphabet in greek is it larger than the american one? You mean, the English one? Its shorter by 2 letters. Oh? I learned classical Greek, which only contained 22 letters. What are the two additional letters in modern Greek? Um... Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω That's 24. There used to be the Digamma (Ϝ), but that fell out of use before the Classical era. You're right; I miscounted. *chuckles* I hate it when I do that sort of thing.  |
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Τῷ μεγάλῳ χρίεται μύρῳ καὶ χειρονεῖται βασιλεὺς καὶ αὐτοκράτωρ τῶν Ῥωμαίων, πάντων δηλαδὴ τῶν χριστιανῶν...οὐδὲν οὖν ἔνι καλὸν, υἱέ μου, ἵνα λέγῃς, ὅτι ἐκκλησίαν ἔχομεν, οὐχὶ βασιλέα, οὐκ ἔνι δυνατὸν εἰς τοὺς χριστιανοὺς, ἔκκλησίαν ἔχειν καὶ βασιλέα οὐκ ἔχειν. – EP Anthony to Basil of Moscow c. 1395
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