No it definitely doesn t mask the hard bits of learning ancient greek by any means.
How hard is attic greek to learn.
The greek alphabet and pronunciation.
But at the same time it doesn t inflate how hard they are.
After this particular study time you will reach speaking 3.
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.
And it says.
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.
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 s called introduction to attic greek and it s published by berkeley.
Mastronarde s introduction to attic greek.
General professional proficiency in speaking s3 and reading 3.
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.
Actually over time the language simplified as many languages do the the later koine is simpler than earlier attic.
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.
Attic greek in school it is very easy to study koine or read the new testament.
The result is that when they are faced with a difficult greek passage they don t know what to do what the heck.
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.
It s published significantly later than the first version of reading greek.
If attic greek is the horse and koine greek is the donkey well septuagint greek is something of a mule.
It was published in 1993.
It is essential then to learn the basic inflections of these parts of speech.
This is an easy greek for the most part a low style.
Having studied classical i e.
General professional proficiency in reading r3 please keep in mind that this ranking only shows the view of the foreign.