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    Verbs. Lots of people find them hard becaue of irregularities.

    Good luck. If you need any help, do not hesitate to send me a personal message.
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    Don't know much about ancient Greek but my dad speaks modern Greek and he can read the ancient writings. AFAIK modern Greek is very similar with the addition of two more letters of the alphabet.
    Your posting this reminds me that i probably should have specified OP that I'm learning Attic Greek. I don't know how similar Koine and Byzantine Greek (for example) are to modern Greek, but I was told that Attic and modern are completely different.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord of Lent View Post
    Verbs. Lots of people find them hard becaue of irregularities.

    Good luck. If you need any help, do not hesitate to send me a personal message.
    Noted. And thank you for the offer of help, I may take you up on that at some point.

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    there is no point to learn to speak ancient greek only read and write. helps alot when you are interested in where words come from and how they evolved etc.

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    jabarto, glad to hear you wish to learn Ancient Greek. I've been studying it along with Latin for two years and once you get past the load of various inflection forms and getting used to stumbling upon irregularities now and then, I'm sure you're going to like it.

    Feel free to contact and good luck.

    PS: The book you mention, I've heard it praised a lot but unfortunately didn't have a chance to check myself.
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    edoka, ethèka, enjoy.
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