Why Ancient Greek is so hard... and how to fix it!

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If you want to learn to read and speak Ancient Greek, Latin, Biblical Hebrew, or Old English in fun, immersive classes, sign up for lessons at https://AncientLanguage.com 🏺📖 Why exactly is it so hard to learn Ancient Greek? While learning Latin poses no small challenge, those who have learned the first language of the Romans often find the Hellenic tongue to be strikingly difficult by comparison, for reasons never quite clear. In this video, I summarize all the greatest challenges and pitfalls of studying Ancient Greek, I explain why Ancient Greek is much harder to learn than Latin for the majority of people, much more than they expect, at least, and most importantly I tell you how you can remedy these problems and become a fluent reader of Ancient Greek, once and for all. The Ranieri-Roberts Approach to Ancient Greek: https://youtu.be/2vwb1wVzPec Carla Hurt's The Lover's Curse, A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4: https://amzn.to/3N2qDSP C. T. Hadavas editions of the Ancient Greek novels: Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale: https://amzn.to/3BoozCh Chariton, Callirhoe: https://amzn.to/3BoUiTR Longus, Daphnis and Chloe: https://amzn.to/47S1DHK Geoffrey Steadman Ancient Greek literature editions: Plato's Symposium: https://amzn.to/3MWs2dK Euripides' Bacchae: https://amzn.to/3XIqklk Euripides' Medea: https://amzn.to/3ZzmCwT Plato's Apology: https://amzn.to/3Xzw0Og Plato's Phaedo: https://amzn.to/4evKEwU Plato's Republic I: https://amzn.to/3XxuCMd Plato's Meno: https://amzn.to/3BgruNh Plato's Phaedo: https://amzn.to/4ezET1i Lysias I and Plato's Crito: https://amzn.to/47EtQRW Xenophon's Anabasis Book 1: https://amzn.to/4edHbDx Xenophon's Anabasis Book 4: https://amzn.to/4dju0iS Sophocles' Antigone: https://amzn.to/3MXnMdY Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: https://amzn.to/4dj7Zku Homer's Iliad 6 and 22: https://amzn.to/3XvmThA Homer's Odyssey 6-8: https://amzn.to/47CNDkU Homer's Odyssey 9-12: https://amzn.to/47F4Zhe Herodotus Histories Book 1: https://amzn.to/4ej31FO Genesis 1-11: Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate: https://amzn.to/3XSEhOz Iliad 100: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/iliad-100-homers-iliad-book-1-lines-1-100 Gospel of John: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/gospel-of-john-english-latin-greek-trilingual-audiobook-text Judgement of the Goddesses: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/lucians-judgement-of-the-goddesses-in-6-ancient-greek-pronunciations Ancient Greek is easy...GOTCHA! https://youtu.be/XI66x0bISJ8 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LukeRanieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com 🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus" https://learn.storylearning.com/lu-promo?affiliate_id=3932873 ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: https://paypal.me/lukeranieri 🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam 🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian) https://www.youtube.com/ScorpioMartianus 🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio: https://lukeranieri.com/audio 🌍 polýMATHY website: http://lukeranieri.com/polymathy/ 🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukeranieri/ 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: https://youtube.com/LegioXIII 👕 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus 🦂 https://www.ScorpioMartianus.com 🦅 https://www.LukeRanieri.com 📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2nVUfqd Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart, conducted by Neville Mariner 00:00 Intro 1:10 Alphabet & diacritics 4:32 Morphology, stem changes, augments 10:08 Heterogeneity of the target literature 13:12 The Textbooks & Readers 18:19 The BIGGEST Problem is... 25:09 How to solve the problem 30:20 You’re not gonna like this 41:16 Why the Ranieri-Roberts Approach is so effective 46:53 The most important thing I should tell you 48:35 HOW to read 54:57 How to begin reading real Ancient Greek literature 58:29 Bilingual texts are NOT cheating 1:02:10 Tentative Reading Plan #ancientgreek #greek #ancientgreece