Thank you so much for helping me with my ancient greek learning journey. It's so much fun to study this language, I'm really falling more and more in love. Χάριν οἶδα σοι
Thank you so much for your work! I'm from Kazakhstan and I'm so happy that the internet gives me this opportunity to learn from your lessons. I understand everything you explain and you actually make it more interesting. So glad that I'm already on lesson eight. Thank you!
Just wanted to add to the positive comments here, you're a fantastic teacher and I do hope you'll find the time and energy to continue this series. Great work, and thanks for making quality teaching available for free for a wide audience!
The best part of your videos are the extended practice sessions. So many language videos on UA-cam just present the lesson and give you no material to reinforce what you learned. Well done!
I found this lesson really interesting because I’ve been studying French (and a bit of many other languages) for over 10 years now so conjugation is such a natural concept to me I genuinely forgot that people would need this explanation of what it means. It was a really good description though!
These videos are very informative. Thank you so much for teaching! A few weeks back , I decided I wanted to learn ancient greek because I genuinely love language, and I have been studying latin for 2 years now. At first, I was overwhelmed by ancient greek, but when I discovered these videos, it's very exciting and quite easy to comprehend. Keep up the great work!
@@whimsicalpansy I’m very glad to hear that my videos have been helpful :) If you have studied Latin for two years, that should make learning Greek easier than it would be otherwise; I am sure that you recognise quite a number of similarities between the languages. However, one big difference is that Greek does not have the ablative case; instead, Greek can use the dative to mean “by” or “with” (this is called the “instrumental dative”, that I shall cover in a future video). Thanks for your comment!
i just looking for such a simple and fluent teaching and found your video. i have exam actually and it was amazing. thank you so much. waiting for your another video
βαινω is quite a difficult verb to start with. If you want to do other tenses then you are kind of forced to change verb or get somewhat early on into irregularities.
You’re welcome! Thank you for your comment. I shall eventually make one for verbs in -μι, although I do not intend to cover them for quite a while yet, I’m afraid, due to the fact that there are so few of them in comparison to verbs in -ω. I intend to go on to -μι verbs only once I have fully covered conjugating verbs in -ω, which won’t be for quite a few months yet, I’m sorry to say! But I’ll get around to them eventually :)
@@LearnAncientGreek No problem! it is comforting to hear atleast what you said about the quantity of -μι verbs. I shan’t focus on those then for now. χάριν σοι εχω
@@devourmevoid Thank you for your comment and nice Greek! :) I just wanted to add that, when I say that there are so few -μι verbs, I mean this in the sense that there are only a few of them to learn the meanings of, whereas there are LOTS of verbs in -ω to learn. But you will certainly see -μι verbs in Ancient Greek texts as well. However, I do think it is best to start with verbs in -ω and, after learning how to fully conjugate verbs in -ω, you will find it much easier to learn how to conjugate -μι verbs :)
You’re on the right lines! “Pause” is a derivative of παυω - that is to say, we do indeed get the English word “pause” from παυω. However, it is not exactly a transliteration of παυω, since that would be “pauo”. But, by transliterating παυω, we can see that we do in fact get the word “pause” from it (that “pause” is a derivative of παυω). You made a great link there :) Making such links is very helpful in learning Greek, and drawing these links is fun and enlightening in itself! And thank you for watching and commenting! I’m glad you like the videos :)
I was just looking into the etymology of “ball” and it turns out that we do not actually get “ball” from βαλλω, according to etymologists. They say that we get “ball” ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root “bhel-”, meaning “to swell”, and this root gives us the Greek word φαλλος (I am serious), but not βαλλω. Some online blogs link βαλλω and ball, but I have not seen any etymologist do so. I have deleted my initial comment as I now think that I may have checked the etymology of “ball” previously and did not use the word for that reason. However, it is still true that sometimes the more obscure derivatives come to mind first :)
As a fluent Latin speaker, I consider your videos on Ancient Greek to be the best ones on the internet. Congratulations.
I am from China, thank you so much for the high quality ancient Greek teaching video.
You’re very welcome - I shall have more coming soon! :)
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Thank you very much for the incredibly kind comment! :) I’m glad that you like the videos
Great lessons !
I also dig your exercises which are very useful.
Keep them coming ! 👍
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Thank you so much for helping me with my ancient greek learning journey. It's so much fun to study this language, I'm really falling more and more in love. Χάριν οἶδα σοι
Thank you so much for your work!
I'm from Kazakhstan and I'm so happy that the internet gives me this opportunity to learn from your lessons.
I understand everything you explain and you actually make it more interesting. So glad that I'm already on lesson eight. Thank you!
Just wanted to add to the positive comments here, you're a fantastic teacher and I do hope you'll find the time and energy to continue this series. Great work, and thanks for making quality teaching available for free for a wide audience!
@@Tinydude10 Thank you very much for your encouraging comment! :) You’re welcome!
The best part of your videos are the extended practice sessions. So many language videos on UA-cam just present the lesson and give you no material to reinforce what you learned. Well done!
@@brandonhord8949 Thank you very much! I’m glad to hear that those parts are useful :)
I found this lesson really interesting because I’ve been studying French (and a bit of many other languages) for over 10 years now so conjugation is such a natural concept to me I genuinely forgot that people would need this explanation of what it means. It was a really good description though!
Thank you very much! Yes, when you study an inflected language for a while, it does become very natural to you :)
These videos are very informative. Thank you so much for teaching! A few weeks back , I decided I wanted to learn ancient greek because I genuinely love language, and I have been studying latin for 2 years now. At first, I was overwhelmed by ancient greek, but when I discovered these videos, it's very exciting and quite easy to comprehend. Keep up the great work!
@@whimsicalpansy I’m very glad to hear that my videos have been helpful :) If you have studied Latin for two years, that should make learning Greek easier than it would be otherwise; I am sure that you recognise quite a number of similarities between the languages. However, one big difference is that Greek does not have the ablative case; instead, Greek can use the dative to mean “by” or “with” (this is called the “instrumental dative”, that I shall cover in a future video). Thanks for your comment!
@@LearnAncientGreek Thank you for the clarification! I'm looking forward to the next video.
i just looking for such a simple and fluent teaching and found your video. i have exam actually and it was amazing. thank you so much. waiting for your another video
Thank you very much! I’m glad that it helped. I have another video coming soon!
That was a great video:) I think it taught me a lot about conjugating in Present Indicative Active. Thank you for the lesson!
Thank you for watching and for your kind comment! :)
Great.
This is fantastic! Thank you!
You’re welcome! :)
βαινω is quite a difficult verb to start with. If you want to do other tenses then you are kind of forced to change verb or get somewhat early on into irregularities.
thank you for this lesson. could you make one similarly for -μι ?
You’re welcome! Thank you for your comment. I shall eventually make one for verbs in -μι, although I do not intend to cover them for quite a while yet, I’m afraid, due to the fact that there are so few of them in comparison to verbs in -ω.
I intend to go on to -μι verbs only once I have fully covered conjugating verbs in -ω, which won’t be for quite a few months yet, I’m sorry to say! But I’ll get around to them eventually :)
@@LearnAncientGreek No problem! it is comforting to hear atleast what you said about the quantity of -μι verbs. I shan’t focus on those then for now. χάριν σοι εχω
@@devourmevoid Thank you for your comment and nice Greek! :)
I just wanted to add that, when I say that there are so few -μι verbs, I mean this in the sense that there are only a few of them to learn the meanings of, whereas there are LOTS of verbs in -ω to learn. But you will certainly see -μι verbs in Ancient Greek texts as well. However, I do think it is best to start with verbs in -ω and, after learning how to fully conjugate verbs in -ω, you will find it much easier to learn how to conjugate -μι verbs :)
You know you're from the Southern USA when you decide to turn "You (pl.)" into "y'all" to make it easier to distinguish for yourself 😭
Is "pause" a transliteration of the second word you used, since it also means "stop"? Thanks for these amazing videos!
You’re on the right lines! “Pause” is a derivative of παυω - that is to say, we do indeed get the English word “pause” from παυω. However, it is not exactly a transliteration of παυω, since that would be “pauo”. But, by transliterating παυω, we can see that we do in fact get the word “pause” from it (that “pause” is a derivative of παυω). You made a great link there :) Making such links is very helpful in learning Greek, and drawing these links is fun and enlightening in itself! And thank you for watching and commenting! I’m glad you like the videos :)
@@LearnAncientGreek Ah got it now. Thanks :)
Your videos are very clear. I am teaching myself classical Greek and find your explanations so useful.
I think it's hilarious that you used "ballistic missile" instead of the much more simple "ball" for βάλλω derivatives lol
I was just looking into the etymology of “ball” and it turns out that we do not actually get “ball” from βαλλω, according to etymologists. They say that we get “ball” ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root “bhel-”, meaning “to swell”, and this root gives us the Greek word φαλλος (I am serious), but not βαλλω. Some online blogs link βαλλω and ball, but I have not seen any etymologist do so.
I have deleted my initial comment as I now think that I may have checked the etymology of “ball” previously and did not use the word for that reason. However, it is still true that sometimes the more obscure derivatives come to mind first :)
@LearnAncientGreek Thanks for revisiting this with a fun anecdote. I never would have guessed that that ballistic and ball had different origins!
@@brandonhord8949 You’re welcome, I thought you would like to know :)