Learning Greek: utopia

Randall Buth ButhFam at compuserve.com
Wed May 16 07:18:00 EDT 2001


Message text written by c stirling bartholomew
> but I cannot find anyone speaking Hellenistic Greek. Why
>not? 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.

Clay, 

Might you perhaps be mixing 'mother-tongue' speakers with 2nd-language
speakers? Would you have said the same thing about 19th-century Hebrew? 

Utopia may be just around the corner from your house. 
And fortunately, 2nd language learning can take place without mother-tongue
speakers. 
But it's hard and needs mutual encouragement.

ERRWSO
Randall Buth
Jerusalem



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