Attic greek in school it is very easy to study koine or read the new testament.
How hard is attic greek to learn.
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.
After this particular study time you will reach speaking 3.
Mastronarde s introduction to attic greek.
It s called introduction to attic greek and it s published by berkeley.
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.
It is essential then to learn the basic inflections of these parts of speech.
It was published in 1993.
He wrote a book that filled those gaps.
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.
Greek in particular is really hard to learn not only for english speaking people but all latin oriented language speakers.
This is an easy greek for the most part a low style.
But at the same time it doesn t inflate how hard they are.
If attic greek is the horse and koine greek is the donkey well septuagint greek is something of a mule.
It has different letters various intonations and a quite difficult.
You can guess what happened.
Attic greek is the greek dialect of the ancient city state of athens of the ancient dialects it is the most similar to later greek and is the standard form of the language that is studied in ancient greek language courses attic greek is sometimes included in the ionic dialect together attic and ionic are the primary influences on modern greek.
The greek alphabet was taken over from the semitic as used in the phoenician area which in turn was based on an egyptian alphabet.
It s published significantly later than the first version of reading greek.
The result is that when they are faced with a difficult greek passage they don t know what to do what the heck.
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.
General professional proficiency in speaking s3 and reading 3.
General professional proficiency in reading r3 please keep in mind that this ranking only shows the view of the foreign.
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.
The greek alphabet and pronunciation.
