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[bedlamsbard]

Does anyone know of any Attic Greek drill sites like Praxis for Latin? I'm using Shelmerdine's Introduction to Greek; I kind of doubt that there's a cult of Shelmerdine the way there is a Cult of Wheelock, but there aren't practice exercises in Shelmerdine and I, um, less that convinced by my prof. I'll probably end up asking her, but I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions first. I'm old-school; I need to do a lot of drill to get anything down early on, which is why my first Latin teacher was ideally suited to my language learning temperament.

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[bedlamsbard]

*sighs* We've been doing quite a bit of war stuff in this book. Army, march, soldier, general! THEY ALL SOUND THE SAME. (also, Greek, WHY DO YOU NEED BREATHING MARKS? *hiss*)

[darklyndsea]

At least you can have normal sentences with your war words. One of ours translated as 'the word is deathless'. Which, um, who would say that? Why do we need to learn it in first semester Greek?

The breathing marks are working for me, surprisingly enough. It's just, like, "invisible h!" and "visible no-h!", which works for me as long as I remember how it's pronounced. But we skipped over the chapter on the accent marks, so I'm clueless there.

[bedlamsbard]

This is true. We can have normal sentences! Like "The soldier sacrifices to the goddess in Athens." We totally know that.

See, I would probably hate breathing marks and accents less if my prof didn't stop forgetting them. Which is one of the reasons I keep getting worried about whether or not she, you know, actually knows Greek. (I mean, I'm sure she does! She just...doesn't seem that good at teaching it.)