Laura in China (and others looking for Ancient Greek)

[Melissa B]

Laura,

 

I saw Bolchazy mentioned on the high school board for Latin workbooks and couldn't help taking a look. :)

 

I found a workbook for Greek - linked below.

 

http://www.bolchazy.com/prod.php?cat=greek&id=5491

 

 

And the text that accompanies it is available from Amazon.

 

 

This is the best alternative I have found so far, since it sounds like Galore Park Greek is questionable and/or far in the future.

 

Have you heard anything about these? What do you think?

 

I was thinking about working through it myself over the next year and starting dd around age 11 or maybe 12.

[Melissa B]

Bumping from page 5 - the boards are really moving quickly today!

[kalanamak]

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[Laura Corin]

We can probably wait for the GP Greek, as Hobbes is only seven, but this does look like an option.

 

Thanks

 

Laura

[Melissa B]

I'm so glad to hear that you have ordered them! They look promising, but it is hard to tell. I'm looking forward to hearing your opinion on the books!

[kalanamak]

Kaegi's Greek Grammar and the Readings, both translated by James Kleist (I think they were in the German originally). I have the twenty first edition, published by Bolchazy-Carducci.

 

Quality paperbacks that will stand up to many readings.

Assumes you have a very solid understanding of grammar. (Remember, being 100 years old, it taught people who did study grammar)

From page 64:

III. SECOND PERFECT AND SECOND PLUPERFECT ACTIVE

88. 1. Formative syllables are -a and -ei, to be added directly to the reduplicated verb stem

(some examples)

Such II perfect and II plupf. active (without K) are found only in mute verbs and in some few liquid verbs. Those tenses are inflected throughout like the I tenses.

2. It may happen that the verb stem remains unchanged in the second perfect. But more frequently it is changed as follows: final gutturals and labials are altered to the corresponding rough mutes.

 

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I'm trying to imagine the child who could get through that.

So....adult book, not for the fainthearted. I think it would a fabulous reference book if you had an experianced in-the-flesh teacher, personally.

 

Glad I got them so cheap!

HTH

[Melissa B]

Thanks for the update!! I have the book Greek Grammar by F. Connell and it sounds similar.

 

I found what I think is the same subject and here is what he has to say. I put the greek letters in parentheses since I can't type them out on my computer. In the book it is merely the actual greek letter.

 

pg. 82

 

The tense-signs, (sigma) of the first aorist active, (kappa) of the first perfect active, and (theta) of the first aorist passive, disappear in the second tenses, - and the present stem is generally shortened. But it may undergo various other modifications which can be learned from the dictionary. Some of these modifications are as follows:

 

In the second perfect of (pi)-mute and (kappa)-mute stems, the last consonant is generally changed to the aspirate (phi) or (chi) as in _____.

 

Monosyllabic shortened stems in (epsilon) change (epsilon) to (alpha) in the second aorist and future; as ________.

 

In the second perfect and pluperfect the stem vowel (epsilon) is regularly changed to (omicron,) (alpha) often to (eta,) and (epsilon iota) to (omicron iota;) as ___________.

 

 

This was in the chapter titled Second Tenses following the chapters Liquid Verbs and Mute Verbs.

 

I'm wondering if I could put the two books together, since they seem to cover the same topics and figure it all out.

 

What did you think of the workbook? Does it follow the text? Is there much grammar work or is it primarily translation work? Does it seem at all helpful?

 

Thanks!

[Melissa B]

Sorry about the wink there. I was really going for a semicolon and parenthesis.