What's the level of mutual intelligibility/transferrenc between ancient/modern Greek?

[fomalhaut]

Well considering that I'm currently learning the two at the same time, I can honestly say that I don't see that many similarities between the two. If ancient Greek has relevance today outside of academic pursuits, for me as an English speaker, many words are derived from ancient Greek and studying the Greek in turn helps me master the English language better.

this is disappointing. thank you Brave Brave Sir Robin!

i am already going well into Latin at this point so learning 2 non living languages is just too much time 'wasted' so to speak. Latin has already shown itself to be immensely helpful and it still does have a second language speaking community (in fact im sure most of us here know 101 level at the least due to our interest in history)

but ancient Greek is too too specific at that point if it's only marginally useful in learning modern Greek. I'll just stick to Lattimore to give me the power of the tongue