Learning Greek: How Far To Go?

YalieFan at aol.com YalieFan at aol.com
Tue May 15 14:36:09 EDT 2001


In a message dated 5/15/01 2:11:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net writes:


> No one anywhere on the globe speaks Hellenistic Greek. For this reason
> I consider the quest  for conversational Hellenistic Greek a utopian one.
> Utopia is nowhere and that is where Hellenistic Greek is spoken.
> 
> 
> 

I used to feel the same way about Latin- it's a dead language; no one speaks 
it anymore....that is until my graduation from Yale College.  One of the 
professors gave an address in Latin, complete with jokes, that many others 
laughed at and obviously understood.  I will say, that after 4 years of Latin 
at Loomis- Chaffee School (my high school), and a course at Yale on the 
poetry of Catullus, I still didn't understand much of the speech, nor any of 
the jokes!  But there are some for whom Latin was, and is, a spoken language. 
 I do understand and speak 7 (modern) languages, including modern Greek.  I 
do agree with most of Mr. Miller's remarks on the components of language 
learning.

Yours sincerely,
Marianna Steriadis
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