How do I learn Ancient Greek?

Go look up what they use in the schools or something. Just pick one, and if you find that it doesn't suit you, pick another. I only know German textbooks so I can't make specific recommendations.

No one pronounces Ancient Greek correctly because the original spoken language was tonal and we can only really guess at reconstructions of how it worked. When you learn Greek these days, you learn to interpret accents as stresses, but they were originally tonal shifts, like Chinese has. No teacher will really give a fuck if you are trying to sound all fancy and roll your rho's when you read passages out loud, or pronounce deltas as halfway between a "th" and a "d," or whatever. As long as you have consistency in how you use them, you can sound however you want.

Teachers generally don't even care if you pronounce Latin all fancy-like with rolled r's. My teachers didn't even care if we pronounced it like medieval Latin.

Anglophones pronouncing all vowels as diphthongs is slightly annoying.

spotted the anglo

How close is modern greek to ancient?

Why do you guys hate the master race so much?

why do greeks totally spazz out when you suggest that modern greek sounds different from ancient greek?

Sometime in the first few weeks after Veeky Forums was created some guy who posted OP's pic recommended pic related.

I immediately ordered it, but I procrastinated for a long time. However since September I have been autodidacting hard a few hours every day, and I have come to enjoy studying it for its own sake.

I haven't tried any other books so I wouldn't know if I am doing it the hard way, but I am getting results out of this one.

Yesterday I was having fun reading the first book of the Iliad in the original meter, but unfortunately my comprehension is not quite at the same speed as my reading is. I can feel myself getting closer and closer every day though.

If learning Greek is something you want to do, I definitely suggest at least trying.

Because modern Greeks, those swarthy half-arab mutts, still like to think they're one in the same with those ancient Greeks. They still like to think themselves the creators and of Western civilization.

why?

just read translated bro unless you're a pseud

I'll just leave this here...
thepiratebay.org/torrent/7637815/Ancient_Greek_Language_Learning_Pack

translations are imperfect, every language has words and grammatical constructions unique to itself. if there's any work you really want to understand, it must be read in the original

that's just cause professors don't want to turn people off from studying classical languages at all
the reconstructions aren't just guesses, they're based on hundreds of years of research

some of them are still real greeks. but yes, the majority, even in ancient times, were the remnants of primitive tribes that had been conquered and enslaved

same thing with ancient romans/modern italians, ancient chinese vs. modern chinese, etc.

For anyone interested in what Homer sounds like in meter,this video is excellent. He sings the scene where Hector returns to the city to see his family for the last time.

youtube.com/watch?v=qI0mkt6Z3I0&t

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