So I singed up for a class to learn ancient Greek?
Monday, September 6th, 2010 at
3:38 am
What is the difference between ancient Greek and modern Greek?
and knowing some ancient Greek can one get by a little in Greece or is there really no point in learning ancient Greek to be able to communicate in Greece?
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yes there is no point in learning ancient greek in order to communicate in modern greek.
omg why would u do that?!!?ancient greek sucks and no its not the same with modern
You will not be able to communicate with greeks speaking ancient greek. Go for modern greek instead. There is a linguistic connection, but for the most nobody is going to understand you here.
Both essentially use the same alphabet, but values of some letters have changed. For example H (eta) was pronounced more like /ey/ in Ancient Greek but now sounds like /ee/. They’ve also simplified the accent marks. Ancient Greek (written by modern people at least) has a variety of accent marks that indicate tone, while Modern Greek has only one accent mark that indicates stress, since tone accent disappeared. Noun declensions are simpler, so there are fewer forms of articles and nouns. And of course, much vocabulary has been influenced by surrounding languages, so there are fewer "native" Greek words in Modern Greek.
Absolutely different lingo.
Think of Old English vs Modern English..
Huh? You should choose Latin. Ancient Greek = Ethiopian. You don’t need it. It is an African language, because Greeks move to Europe from Ethiopia.
In general, we can say that ancient Greek resembles modern Greek the same way that medieval English resembles modern English.
My husband studied Ancient Greek in high school; I had no background in Greek when we both started our study of modern Greek. He has had a somewhat easier time recognizing vocabulary and grammatical forms, but overall we have made similar progress with the spoken language. Where the ancient Greek helped him when we first started travelling to Greece was in reading some signs — but by no means enough to read a newspaper until we had made considerable progress in the modern language. If you can switch your class, do.