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> I can't read Greek but I've always heard that it's quite a bit harder than Latin I actually found ancient Greek (most from Herodotos' time as that was my exa
by consp 5y ago
> I can't read Greek but I've always heard that it's quite a bit harder than Latin
I actually found ancient Greek (most from Herodotos' time as that was my exam subject) actually much easier than Latin, but that might have more to do with my interest in everything around the language like the stories, culture and lifestyle. So maybe it's just a personal preference. If you ignore the different letterings sometimes used it's not even that bad. Fortunately all textbooks are in the Ionic writing scheme (and sometimes adapted to suit students more) so no sudden digamma's or other dialects.
- kgeist 5y agoInteresting, I found Greek more complex, because, in my opinion, there are far more irregularities than in Latin (especially in verbs), and that there are countless dialectal variations to learn if you want to be able to read any Greek text, not just the Attic dialect.