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7/13/2025, 7:51:45 AM
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Google nifty greek handouts, find the UChicago website, get the λύω paradigm, print it out, memorize it by doing multiple passes a day. Start by doing present primary indicative (top left), then secondary (below that), then subjunctive (below that, lengthened vowel signpost), then future (sigma signpost, top middle), then aorist, etc. Ignore imperatives and participles for a while. Try to feel the logic and come up with mnemonics: "oh this is just this signposted pattern with this other pattern added." Do the same for a Greek noun declension paradigm (like pic related).
You will save yourself 80% of the initial pain if you do this since so much of your early learning will be brute forcing verb conjugation. You have lots of time so 30-60 minutes a day will go a long way.
I also recommend doing the first few chapters of your Greek textbook preemptively. Email the professor and ask which one you will be using. This will get you past the initial bewilderment phase, and then when you do it in class you can focus on really learning instead of just getting your bearings.
That's what I wish I had done before taking a similar course. So much of learning Greek is coming with strategies for remembering things that honestly aren't that hard to remember, and getting extensive reading in. But the problem is, you're doing that while ALSO wading through all your rookie mistakes. If you can remove the latter from your agenda of day to day bullshit, it can actually be fun. Also don't underestimate your ability to memorize these things. You will be reciting them to yourself in the shower within a week, and beyond that they become instinctive and you just "feel" the genitiveness of certain constructions.
Google nifty greek handouts, find the UChicago website, get the λύω paradigm, print it out, memorize it by doing multiple passes a day. Start by doing present primary indicative (top left), then secondary (below that), then subjunctive (below that, lengthened vowel signpost), then future (sigma signpost, top middle), then aorist, etc. Ignore imperatives and participles for a while. Try to feel the logic and come up with mnemonics: "oh this is just this signposted pattern with this other pattern added." Do the same for a Greek noun declension paradigm (like pic related).
You will save yourself 80% of the initial pain if you do this since so much of your early learning will be brute forcing verb conjugation. You have lots of time so 30-60 minutes a day will go a long way.
I also recommend doing the first few chapters of your Greek textbook preemptively. Email the professor and ask which one you will be using. This will get you past the initial bewilderment phase, and then when you do it in class you can focus on really learning instead of just getting your bearings.
That's what I wish I had done before taking a similar course. So much of learning Greek is coming with strategies for remembering things that honestly aren't that hard to remember, and getting extensive reading in. But the problem is, you're doing that while ALSO wading through all your rookie mistakes. If you can remove the latter from your agenda of day to day bullshit, it can actually be fun. Also don't underestimate your ability to memorize these things. You will be reciting them to yourself in the shower within a week, and beyond that they become instinctive and you just "feel" the genitiveness of certain constructions.
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