[B-Greek] Should someone learning ancient Greek do Rosetta Stone Modern?

N.E. Barry Hofstetter nebarry at verizon.net
Tue Sep 28 15:12:55 EDT 2010




>>They say that a Movie Star's career goes through four stages.  1.  Who's Robert De Niro?  2.  Get me Robert De Niro. 3.  Get me a Robert De Niro type.  4.  Who's Robert De Niro?  While it is true that there is no Rosetta Stone for Ancient Greek, there is plenty of Koine Rosetta Stone TYPE stuff out there, with more being produced every day. <<

I used Rosetta stone for Mandarin, and didn't get very far, due to being distracted by 20 billion or so other things.  However, for starting and and acquiring lots of useful and practical things to say in a language, Rosetta Stone is a good start.  If you want to go on the language, though, exposure, practice, and eventually even learning some real grammar must follow.  About the only thing I remember now is Ni hao and Hambaobao, the word for hamburger, so when we go to MacDonalds, it's "Ni hao, hambaobao!"

What I really want is Rosetta Stone for Sahidic Coptic, so I can learn to say things like "Where can I go to see Cleopatra's asp?" and other functionally important phrases for late ancient Egyptians.

Barry





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