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What's the Best Way to Learn Greek?

What's the Best Way to Learn Greek?

justlearnj
Justlearn
4/20/2021
3 minute read

The Greek language is one of the oldest languages, even many experts still use it and apply it, unlike other languages such as Latin, it is that this language is still alive and is still the official language in Greece. If you are interested in studying Greek, the benefit of this is that you will be able to read writings by famous authors such as Lucian, Plato, Hippocrates, Xenophon, Homer, and even the New Testament in its most original manuscripts that you can find.

Besides that, you will be able to establish communication with the Greeks in their mother tongue, on the other hand, the study of this language improves the vocabulary in Spanish since many words come from the ancient Greek language. So the objective of this article is to give you advice that will serve as a guide on how you can learn Greek in the best way:

1. Don't forget to learn the Greek alphabet and the English pronunciation of each letter name. Later, you can try to learn other more accurate and useful Greek pronunciations.

2. It is a good idea to acquire a book that is written in Greek, so you can read it and review it carefully. Remember that the best way to learn a language is by reading it over and over again, after you finish the first book you can acquire more to enrich your knowledge of the language and culture.

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3. You must bear in mind that the first writings that were made in Greek, as is the case of the Codex Sinaiticus, you can notice that it will be written in capital letters, it should be noted that the lowercase letters in Greek were invented years later to allow writing to be done quickly.

4. It is not a bad idea to get a Greek-English dictionary to help you learn new words, what they mean and how you can use them in writing and conversation.

5. One trick is that you can read the so-called Johannine comma, you get it in the First Epistle of John. Try to be the original text, the purple one. The idea is to learn to read Greek texts to encourage your practice in the language. When you have finished, even if it has simple words and so you can go up the level of complexity to progress little by little, if you are familiar with the Spanish language you may find it similar to this language, we must remember that reading does not imply that know a lot about Greek, in some cases, you can get books with the English translation on one side of the original text, this to facilitate the understanding of the reading and use it as a reference when necessary.

6. If you want to speak and master Greek, and improve your pronunciation, you will do this with training, for that you must get a teacher or an online course like JustLearn to achieve fluency and understanding of the language, not to mention that it is good that you Provide material such as mechanical, repetitive and verb rules to facilitate the process, it is undoubtedly one of the best ways to learn Greek.

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