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