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Why exactly is it so hard to learn Ancient Greek? While learning Latin poses no small challenge, those who have learned the first language of the Romans often find the Hellenic tongue to be strikingly difficult by comparison, for reasons never quite clear. In this video, I summarize all the greatest challenges and pitfalls of studying Ancient Greek, I explain why Ancient Greek is much harder to learn than Latin for the majority of people, much more than they expect, at least, and most importantly I tell you how you can remedy these problems and become a fluent reader of Ancient Greek, once and for all.
The Ranieri-Roberts Approach to Ancient Greek: youtu.be/2vwb1wVzPec
Carla Hurt's The Lover's Curse, A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4: amzn.to/3N2qDSP
C. T. Hadavas editions of the Ancient Greek novels:
Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale: amzn.to/3BoozCh
Chariton, Callirhoe: amzn.to/3BoUiTR
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe: amzn.to/47S1DHK
Geoffrey Steadman Ancient Greek literature editions:
Plato's Symposium: amzn.to/3MWs2dK
Euripides' Bacchae: amzn.to/3XIqklk
Euripides' Medea: amzn.to/3ZzmCwT
Plato's Apology: amzn.to/3Xzw0Og
Plato's Phaedo: amzn.to/4evKEwU
Plato's Republic I: amzn.to/3XxuCMd
Plato's Meno: amzn.to/3BgruNh
Plato's Phaedo: amzn.to/4ezET1i
Lysias I and Plato's Crito: amzn.to/47EtQRW
Xenophon's Anabasis Book 1: amzn.to/4edHbDx
Xenophon's Anabasis Book 4: amzn.to/4dju0iS
Sophocles' Antigone: amzn.to/3MXnMdY
Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: amzn.to/4dj7Zku
Homer's Iliad 6 and 22: amzn.to/3XvmThA
Homer's Odyssey 6-8: amzn.to/47CNDkU
Homer's Odyssey 9-12: amzn.to/47F4Zhe
Herodotus Histories Book 1: amzn.to/4ej31FO
Genesis 1-11: Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate: amzn.to/3XSEhOz
Iliad 100: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/iliad-100-homers-iliad-book-1-lines-1-100
Gospel of John: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/gospel-of-john-english-latin-greek-trilingual-audiobook-text
Judgement of the Goddesses: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/lucians-judgement-of-the-goddesses-in-6-ancient-greek-pronunciations
Ancient Greek is easy...GOTCHA! youtu.be/XI66x0bISJ8
🦂 Support my work on Patreon:
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📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks:
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🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam
🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian)
youtube.com/ScorpioMartianus
🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio:
lukeranieri.com/audio
🌍 polýMATHY website:
lukeranieri.com/polymathy
🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram:
instagram.com/lukeranieri
🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast:
youtube.com/LegioXIII
👕 Merch:
teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus
🦂 ScorpioMartianus.com
🦅 LukeRanieri.com
📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon:
amzn.to/2nVUfqd
Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart, conducted by Neville Mariner
00:00 Intro
1:10 Alphabet & diacritics
4:32 Morphology, stem changes, augments
10:08 Heterogeneity of the target literature
13:12 The Textbooks & Readers
18:19 The BIGGEST Problem is...
25:09 How to solve the problem
30:20 You’re not gonna like this
41:16 Why the Ranieri-Roberts Approach is so effective
46:53 The most important thing I should tell you
48:35 HOW to read
54:57 How to begin reading real Ancient Greek literature
58:29 Bilingual texts are NOT cheating
1:02:10 Tentative Reading Plan
#ancientgreek #greek #ancientgreece
If you want to learn to read and speak Ancient Greek, Latin, Biblical Hebrew, or Old English in fun, immersive classes, sign up for lessons at AncientLanguage.com 🏺📖
Why exactly is it so hard to learn Ancient Greek? While learning Latin poses no small challenge, those who have learned the first language of the Romans often find the Hellenic tongue to be strikingly difficult by comparison, for reasons never quite clear. In this video, I summarize all the greatest challenges and pitfalls of studying Ancient Greek, I explain why Ancient Greek is much harder to learn than Latin for the majority of people, much more than they expect, at least, and most importantly I tell you how you can remedy these problems and become a fluent reader of Ancient Greek, once and for all.
The Ranieri-Roberts Approach to Ancient Greek: youtu.be/2vwb1wVzPec
Carla Hurt's The Lover's Curse, A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4: amzn.to/3N2qDSP
C. T. Hadavas editions of the Ancient Greek novels:
Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale: amzn.to/3BoozCh
Chariton, Callirhoe: amzn.to/3BoUiTR
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe: amzn.to/47S1DHK
Geoffrey Steadman Ancient Greek literature editions:
Plato's Symposium: amzn.to/3MWs2dK
Euripides' Bacchae: amzn.to/3XIqklk
Euripides' Medea: amzn.to/3ZzmCwT
Plato's Apology: amzn.to/3Xzw0Og
Plato's Phaedo: amzn.to/4evKEwU
Plato's Republic I: amzn.to/3XxuCMd
Plato's Meno: amzn.to/3BgruNh
Plato's Phaedo: amzn.to/4ezET1i
Lysias I and Plato's Crito: amzn.to/47EtQRW
Xenophon's Anabasis Book 1: amzn.to/4edHbDx
Xenophon's Anabasis Book 4: amzn.to/4dju0iS
Sophocles' Antigone: amzn.to/3MXnMdY
Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: amzn.to/4dj7Zku
Homer's Iliad 6 and 22: amzn.to/3XvmThA
Homer's Odyssey 6-8: amzn.to/47CNDkU
Homer's Odyssey 9-12: amzn.to/47F4Zhe
Herodotus Histories Book 1: amzn.to/4ej31FO
Genesis 1-11: Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate: amzn.to/3XSEhOz
Iliad 100: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/iliad-100-homers-iliad-book-1-lines-1-100
Gospel of John: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/gospel-of-john-english-latin-greek-trilingual-audiobook-text
Judgement of the Goddesses: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/lucians-judgement-of-the-goddesses-in-6-ancient-greek-pronunciations
Ancient Greek is easy...GOTCHA! youtu.be/XI66x0bISJ8
🦂 Support my work on Patreon:
patreon.com/LukeRanieri
📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks:
luke-ranieri.myshopify.com
🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus"
learn.storylearning.com/lu-promo?affiliate_id=3932873
☕️ Support my work with PayPal:
paypal.me/lukeranieri
🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam
🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian)
youtube.com/ScorpioMartianus
🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio:
lukeranieri.com/audio
🌍 polýMATHY website:
lukeranieri.com/polymathy
🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram:
instagram.com/lukeranieri
🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast:
youtube.com/LegioXIII
👕 Merch:
teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus
🦂 ScorpioMartianus.com
🦅 LukeRanieri.com
📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon:
amzn.to/2nVUfqd
Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart, conducted by Neville Mariner
00:00 Intro
1:10 Alphabet & diacritics
4:32 Morphology, stem changes, augments
10:08 Heterogeneity of the target literature
13:12 The Textbooks & Readers
18:19 The BIGGEST Problem is...
25:09 How to solve the problem
30:20 You’re not gonna like this
41:16 Why the Ranieri-Roberts Approach is so effective
46:53 The most important thing I should tell you
48:35 HOW to read
54:57 How to begin reading real Ancient Greek literature
58:29 Bilingual texts are NOT cheating
1:02:10 Tentative Reading Plan
#ancientgreek #greek #ancientgreece
