How would it be made possible to speak Ancient Greek?
Saturday, July 17th, 2010 at
1:54 am
At the moment I'm preparing for an experiment of trying to make it possible to conversate in Ancient Greek, do you guys have any advices that can help me to find basic phrases of the language for example to make a start and to improve?
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You should have been born some thousands years ago…:)
In Greece, they study ancient greek at school. A Greek friend told me that it is a dead language as nobody is using it (like latin). The only way to make it possible to speak Ancient Greek is to learn them from the beginning (grammar, syntax, vocabulary). I think that you have to find a teacher who will lead you. Of course, as conversation is interactive, you also need at least one person to talk with! Good luck with the experiment. It must be very interesting!
first, study Ethiipian or Somalian
Why not?
Just hop along to a decent university. At Oxford, you can still study ‘Greats’.
Have a look at http://www.greats.eu/
There is a very famous ancient Greek word which is more like "you ought to learn how to walk before learning how to fly.It means that you ought to learn how to do it with ancient Greek style before trying to learn how to speak Ancient Greek language.Thanks.
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When my husband studied Ancient Greek at school in England in the 1950s they were taught to pronounce what people thought would have been the ancient language – they didn’t converse though, rather they read poetry aloud. But conversation would have been possible if anyone had wanted to do it. Certainly,his school performed plays in Ancient Greek, and that’s a form of conversation. I assume it’s still happening. Now that we are studying Modern Greek he had a hard time adjusting to the current pronunciation (though he did and his pronunciation is now better than mine). But to converse you have to study the language the same way you would study any other – vocabulary, grammar, reading. What you seem to be looking for is a phrasebook of the kind used by visitors needing a brief introduction to a currently spoken language – those aren’t generally produced for forms of the language no longer in use. You have to learn them from scratch.
Here is a text in ancient Greek:
Yäzêgennät Keber Bä-Ityopp’yachen S’änto Tayyä Hezbawinnät Dar Eskädar Bärto. Läsälam Läfeteh Lähezboch Näs’annät; Bä’ekkulennät Bäfeqer Qomänal Bä’andennät. Mäsärätä S’enu Säbe’enan Yalsharen; Hezboch Nän Läsera Bäsera Yänoren. Denq Yäbahel Mädräk Yä’akuri Qers Baläbêt; Yätäfät’ro S’ägga Yä’jägna Hezb ennat; Ennet’äbbeqeshallän Alläbben Adära; Ityopp’yachen nuri Eññam Banchi Ennekura!
your question is illogical.. becuse even if u learn ANCIENT GREEK…. not just modern revised ancient greek,,,,
WITH WHOM WOULD U SPEAK IT WITH?…..
THE ONLY REASON WHY PEOPLE TODAY MIGHT LEARN REAL ANCIENT GREEK WOULD BE ACADEMICS TO DECIPHER ANCIENT TEXT OR. AS PER HISTORIANS OR ARCHIOLOGIST..OR PEOPLE WHO NEED TO KNOW THE ROOTS OF A WORD AS A LAUNGAGE EXPERT ..
most modern greeks will know a few words but dotn speak it ..it is not a very easy laungage to speak first off as ..modern greek is not easy to a forenier….but as i said even if u do learn ancient greek… with whom would u speak it with?
are u sure u havent confused ur self with some thing else other than ancient greek have u heard any ancient greek at all?
…and to t he person below me. who said her husband had to learn ancient greek i was around when those thigns where taught ..the trouble was i didnt understad then when i was a kid but .in my adult life i got a hold of one of those text books ..the school system was then had as it ciriculum ..and let me tell u some thing i had the best laughs.. as all of it was a waste of time.. to even teach it….and NOT TO MENTION HORRIDLE WRONG IN EVERY PHONETIC WAY.
LET ME GIVE A MODERN EXAMPLE: alexanders horse name was BECAUPAHLOS. this is the way the englsi spell it and grossley gramatically intepert it ..wich the grmatics to it is herrendous ..u see… THE (B) in greek makes the sound of a (V)… not (B)..although the ancient and modern letter for the (V)sounding letter is MODERN english (b),the englis have confused the phonetics tot eh class of the letter.. what they should be using instead of a (B) is the modern english letter of (v)….
you see the greek word for cattle was VODI….or BODI… in ancient greek..which aleaxander named his horse becuse of two reason one his horse had avery large head..and the second was that when some thign or some one is stubborn and dosent want to learn easy.we call them a vodi..as per cattle who have the capacity of doing nothing but on thier minds to chew the grass…which literally means emphty head..from where the english word void comes from the emptiness of soem thing… so u see the truth is BEACEPAHLOS ..should be VODIOCHEPALOS…to a greek who knows ancient greek or even modern greek beaucephalos DOSENT MAKE GOOD PHONETIC OR GRAMMATIC SENSE… so that was just one word of ancient grek origin DO U STILL WANT TO LEARN ANCIENT GREEK????????