[B-Greek] Knowledge of Ancient Greek

James Tauber jtauber at jtauber.com
Wed Feb 22 10:31:21 EST 2006


On 22/02/2006, at 10:33 PM, Ernest Blum wrote:
> Just how the ancient Greeks, Romans and speakers and writers of Koine
> learned Greek is a matter of great interest to those of us who are  
> eager to
> learn Greek today.

As appealing as it sounds, I'm not convinced that an ancient  
pedagogical approach to learning Greek would be superior.

I wonder if it would be more fruitful to see how modern languages  
with, say, a similar system of inflectional morphology to Greek are  
taught now.

I would guess that looking at how modern Russian children learn their  
morphology would be more useful than how Greek children did in, say,  
Plato's time.

I'm just speculating though.

James
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