Greek question

[Hot Lava Mama]

I just bought "The Cat in the Hat" in latin for my ds to translate for next year. He is looking forward to it, and I think it will be fun. Is there anything like that for Greek? We have been using "Hey Andrew" so far (levels 1 and 2), and are switching to EG (level 1) for this next year, so we are still in the "beginning" category.

 

Also, how different is modern Greek compared to Koine Greek? I would assume that studying greek of any kind would help to learn modern greek. Right?

 

Thanks for your help!

Hot Lava Mama

[Plaid Dad]

Modern Greek is significantly different in both grammar and vocabulary. Any type of Greek will of course help somewhat with learning modern Greek, but it's a very different language.

 

Are you looking specifically for modern children's books translated in to Koine? I haven't seen anything like that, but there is an Attic translation of the first Harry Potter book. It's definitely not for beginners, though!

 

How much Latin has your ds had? I ask because Latin translations of children's books tend to be rather difficult. Amazon lists the book as appropriate for ages 4-8, but I think they must have pulled that from the English edition. Cattus Petasatus has verb forms that typically aren't taught until the second or even third year of high school Latin - just as an FYI. :)

[Hot Lava Mama]

He hasn't had much Latin. We have finished PL and are starting LfC A this fall. It sounds like he won't be able to do the Cat in the Hat book as we planned.

 

As far as the Greek translation, I was hoping for an "easy reader" type of thing (like what I THOUGHT the Cat in the Hat was) for the Koine greek. Sounds like I am out of luck.

 

Thanks for the help!

Hot Lava Mama

[latinteach]

He hasn't had much Latin. We have finished PL and are starting LfC A this fall. It sounds like he won't be able to do the Cat in the Hat book as we planned.

 

As far as the Greek translation, I was hoping for an "easy reader" type of thing (like what I THOUGHT the Cat in the Hat was) for the Koine greek. Sounds like I am out of luck.

 

 

There ARE easy readers for Latin students.

 

Bolchazy-Carducci has a series of easy readers entitled "Now I Am Reading Latin" and "Now I Am Reading Latin Stories." (They also produce a lot of the children's classic books in Latin, like the Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein books.)

 

One of the easier children's classics to have been translated into Latin is Amy High's translation of "Oliva: The Essential Latin Edition." It's still going to be more challenging than the "Now I Am Reading Latin" readers, though.

 

Minimus-Etc. has published some Mini Books based on their Latin series. You can find those here: http://www.minimus-etc.co.uk/minibookpage/minibooksabroad.htm -- due to the exchange rate, which is in favor of the British and not in favor of the dollar, they might be a little pricey, but would probably be nice to read along with the Minimus textbook.

 

I don't know if there are children's books in Koine Greek.

[TracyR]

There are also the Little Latin Readers from CHC http://www.chcweb.com/catalog/LanguageArts/Latin/catalog.html? .

These are Christian in nature but very nicely put together . They are not babyish at all and teach Latin at the same time as reading Latin .

[mom2abcd]

As far as the Greek translation, I was hoping for an "easy reader" type of thing (like what I THOUGHT the Cat in the Hat was) for the Koine greek. Sounds like I am out of luck.

 

 

 

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