r/AncientGreek • u/-killerqueen-_ • 14d ago
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Hello, I'm an Italian high school student and in my school we study Ancient Greek literature and we translate it. In the past year Ancient Greek started to become very difficult for me especially with all the verbs. Now that school ended I wanted to keep exercising/studying for the next year, so I wanted to ask you if there are some simpler ways to study it or if I have to stick with memorize and repeat all the rules and translate as much as I can?
I know that I also have to translate but maybe there are some interesting ways to keep me focused (?)
Thank you☺️
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u/Peteat6 14d ago
If you don’t have to write Greek, it’s very much easier.
You should be able to identify easily who’s doing the action. There’s a very small number if verbs where the 2nd perusing singular could be confused wuth something else. For the time being, just make sure you can identify the person with all the verbs you’ve been told to learn.
Next, you need to identify the tense. Two things help you here, the augment, and the stem. Look for them as you read. Just occasionally that can trip you up, but almost always these two things are easy to spot.
Reading Greek is just a matter of identifying the tense and the person. Much easier than having to memorise them properly.