Category: Learning Latin

Learning a Dead Language I: The Basics

I just received a request from a friend who wants to study ancient Greek. I had previously recommended that she stay away from recent textbooks that tend to be too gimmicky–and overpriced–and from New Testament Greek texts. There is no such thing as New Testament Greek, which is nothing more than a rather simplistic form of the Koine which served as a common tongue in the Mediterranean world.