Thank you so much Ken, you are a wonderful teacher! I was struggling learning Greek through a book and other videos in youtube but you are the best!!!! I am so much happy to learn from you. After Greek, I am going to follow Hebrew classes as well through your videos.
Jake Monahan Great video, but I don't understand why people learning Greek (either Ancient or Koine) usually don't make a single effort to produce the sounds Greek has, that English doesn't. For example, "English doesn't have the sound of upsilon (like the German ü / French u), so I'm not gonna pronounce it like this". Or "English doesn't have the sound of epsilon-upsilon, so I'm not gonna pronounce it like it's supposed to be". Since you're learning a foreign language, then why don't you (by "you", I mean people learning Greek) make at least a minimum effort to pronounce these sounds?
These accents and breathing marks seem a lot like those marks in Hindi to me. I won't be terribly surprised if they are similar. As it stands now only appear alike.
Moreover in basic training I was told us that it would be better if we did not already know how to shoot a weapon. Why? The way to shoot a civilian weapon is not the same as shooting in the military. Many people who had years of experience had to unlearn how to shoot in some cases. I think it is the same with modern and biblical greek. So it would be better to learn biblical first and than learn modern.
People learn ancient greek to translate the New Testament. In any regard a language will always sound different from thousands of years a ago. Even if you take english about like 500 years ago you probably would not recognize it. So those who speak modern greek should not be so rude with the comments.
I don't know what I'm going to do when I start learning Ancient Greek. I absolutely detest the Erasmus pronunciation especially because I already speak Modern Greek. There is no chance that AG was pronounced with an American English accent.
Correct pronunciation for diphthongs is: αι=ε like (e)co! ει=ι like (i)gnore, the same for οι and υι! The sound like one letter! The rest like αυ= av ου=u like (u)ma therman, Thanks.
Why perpetuate this ugly pronunciation of Greek? The Greeks have decided long ago how to evolve the pronunciation of their language. Why are foreigners insisting in using this a unnatural pronunciation of Greek?
I like this systematic way to remember them, even though I already know their sounds.
thank you so much sir. I was so confused about those things now it is clear and you are really the best teacher.
You have taught me more than my Ancient Greek teacher un university.... seriously....
Thank you for these awesome videos!
Thank you so much, it's very clear.
Thank you so much Ken, you are a wonderful teacher! I was struggling learning Greek through a book and other videos in youtube but you are the best!!!! I am so much happy to learn from you. After Greek, I am going to follow Hebrew classes as well through your videos.
excellent videos ken learning more here than at bible college....please more more more
Thanks Ken. Very helpful.
Jake Monahan Great video, but I don't understand why people learning Greek (either Ancient or Koine) usually don't make a single effort to produce the sounds Greek has, that English doesn't. For example, "English doesn't have the sound of upsilon (like the German ü / French u), so I'm not gonna pronounce it like this". Or "English doesn't have the sound of epsilon-upsilon, so I'm not gonna pronounce it like it's supposed to be". Since you're learning a foreign language, then why don't you (by "you", I mean people learning Greek) make at least a minimum effort to pronounce these sounds?
Apostolos Touloupas I do, I actually try to pronounce the diphthongs correctly. But üpsilon hurts my throat for some reason lol
Apostolos Touloupas plus ancient koine pronunciation isn’t the same as 400AD pronunciation.
These accents and breathing marks seem a lot like those marks in Hindi to me. I won't be terribly surprised if they are similar. As it stands now only appear alike.
Thank you
Moreover in basic training I was told us that it would be better if we did not already know how to shoot a weapon. Why? The way to shoot a civilian weapon is not the same as shooting in the military. Many people who had years of experience had to unlearn how to shoot in some cases. I think it is the same with modern and biblical greek. So it would be better to learn biblical first and than learn modern.
People learn ancient greek to translate the New Testament. In any regard a language will always sound different from thousands of years a ago. Even if you take english about like 500 years ago you probably would not recognize it. So those who speak modern greek should not be so rude with the comments.
I don't know what I'm going to do when I start learning Ancient Greek. I absolutely detest the Erasmus pronunciation especially because I already speak Modern Greek. There is no chance that AG was pronounced with an American English accent.
Damien Thorn
Correct pronunciation for diphthongs is: αι=ε like (e)co! ει=ι like (i)gnore, the same for οι and υι! The sound like one letter! The rest like αυ= av ου=u like (u)ma therman, Thanks.
This is what I thought but Ioannis Stratakes changed my mind.
Check him out.
Why perpetuate this ugly pronunciation of Greek? The Greeks have decided long ago how to evolve the pronunciation of their language. Why are foreigners insisting in using this a unnatural pronunciation of Greek?