[B-Greek] To what extent do different pronunciation schemes interfere with speaking Greek?
Nigel Chapman
nigel at chapman.id.au
Wed Sep 8 02:42:00 EDT 2010
Greetings,
When I learned Koine (for reading) there was no emphasis on speech, and we
were encouraged to over-pronounce the words as much as seemed helpful for
memorization.
I'm doing a block of Buth's Living Koine course every day at the moment
(which I'm very impressed with), and progressively updating the words in
my mind to the reconstructed Koine. The much smoother breathings,
sometimes counter-intuitive vowels (oikos as almost eukos), and some very
guttural consonants are taking the most time to adjust to, though I expect
it'll be natural fairly soon.
I have some friends with more of a classics background with whom I've been
practising speaking occassionally, and I'm curious as to whether switching
to reconstructed Koine would prove too great a barrier to commuincation
going forward.
Could anyone with experience in both advise me on this? Put differently,
should I expect in time to be able to adapt to and converse with someone
who has learned, say, an Erasmian or a reconstructed Attic pronunciation?
Nigel.
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