This book series is so fucking badly written. I've heard German and French have better books for Latin and Greek.
I agree, the Joint Association of Classical Teachers don't know anything. /lit/ should write uni textbooks on Greek to replace their dross
>>25339249Fuck off faggot. Maybe the English language isn't as great and complete as you think it is. The topic of the thread is whether German and French have better books for Greek and Latin than English does. You know jack shit about that so fuck off.
>>25339243just learn modern greek and work backwords. or even just go from modern to classical. >inb4 this doesnt workit does. if a Russian wanted to read/perform shakespeare in the original language, would you tell him he should start with shakespearean grammar? no, he should learn modern English first.classical Greek is more analogous to middle English, anyways. modern greek has a shitload of conscious archaisms due to LARPing. they're not "two different languages"(yes, I know Shakespeare isnt Middle English, but it's very popular English literature, but it's also fairly archaic at this point).
>>25339331A better comparison is between ancient Greek and Old English. Middle English is like Medieval Greek.There aren't non-English courses on middle English or Old English afaik. English is also the lingua franca the same way Latin was in the middle ages.
>>25339243Ive just been using the perseus vocab tool and sorting from most common words to least common and and using memory systems and memorizing grammar tables and im already almost advanced after a month
>>25339331>>25339367Both of you are retards. Fuck off.
There isn't a perfect textbook. If you're serious you need to also go through other textbooks (ether at the same time or one after the other) and fill the gaps.
>>25339331But, anon, I want to read stuff from the great minds of the past, not engage with modern peasants and modern Greek culture.
>>25339478I mean these textbooks are HARD as fuck. Learning Greek should not be a major pain in the ass
>>25339478>There isn't a perfect textbook.*in English
>>25339331Have you tried it? I started on my own with Koine because I wanted to read the bible. A few years later I took two semesters of Classical Greek and one of Homeric plus dialects (Sappho and such), and it went well, but then Koine is still pretty close to Classical Greek.>>25339481You can get modern translation of Ancient Greek texts if you really want it.
