An Interview with Adrian Hundhausen (in Ancient Greek) about His New Book: ὁ Φάρος.

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17 күн бұрын

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This is an interview (in Ancient Greek) with my good friend Adrian. Adrian is a polyglot who applies his knowledge of learning modern languages to learning Ancient Greek. We talk about tips for language learning as well as about his newest book which we are proud to hereby present to you: "ὁ Φάρος, A Thematic Guide to Ancient Greek Vocabulary and Set Phrases".
❦ The Pharos is now available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/%CE%A6%CE%AC%C...
❦ For a book preview and more information, you can visit: www.argos-didaskei.com/produc...

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@inorbit8666 Күн бұрын

Guys, I'm greek and I understood 95% of all you said ! I guess I missed the rest 5% probably for accent reasons.. After 30 seconds i stopped reading the subtitles ! You do amazing work !!

@parrhasius 12 күн бұрын

Εxcellent , Greek being my mother tongue , i could follow quite a lot of your conversation, its amazing how this sacred language has survived ..

@daveduvergier3412 10 күн бұрын

This channel is such a joy, it's amazing to see you having such a fluent conversation. I can use my Greek A-level knowledge from 1983 (!) to get the gist of most of what's said, despite getting lost occasionally :)

14 күн бұрын

Fantastic. I cannot write in ancient Greek but I could follow most of the conversation, and I love how you are having fun, joking etc. Makes it feel so alive. Looks like a fantastic book - it would be interesting to know more about the process he has gone through to compile it. And it would also be interesting to have a digital resource where you could click directly into the texts mentioned. But fantastic - something for my Christmas wish list! :)

@truthterrain3484 20 сағат бұрын

I have the book. Amazing work, thank you!

@g.v.6450 15 минут бұрын

I was struggling to find Ancient Greek words for modern things. Some like “ηλικοπτρον” were simplicity itself. Most were more difficult. Some extremely hard. I found one reference that listed “ταινα” as scarf, and “ταινιδιον” as “a colored ribbon worn for decoration” (a good description for a “necktie”) Sadly I couldn’t locate it again to list the reference. My feeble list is nothing compared to “Φαρος”. I’ve compared my list to your entries and all are the same. Now to learn how to speak as well as you two. Ευχαριστώ πολύ!

@pavelnovotny4852 12 күн бұрын

Χθὲς ἦλθεν ἐμοὶ τὸ βιβλίον. Ἔστιν ἀληθῶς θαυμάσιον.

@adrianhundhausen2522 10 күн бұрын

μεγάλως χαίρω τοῦτο ἀναγινώσκων, ὦ Παῦλε

@discipulusromae 15 күн бұрын

καλῶς!

@KarlKarsnark 10 күн бұрын

I love that his name is "Hundhausen" (Dog Houses in German) and he's holding a cat the whole time :)

@savvassyrmopoulos5570 2 күн бұрын

"Hunde"="Κύων" (e.g. Procyon).

@savvassyrmopoulos5570 2 күн бұрын

"Heim" relates to the verb "κείμαι"= to lie down, to exist somewhere

@user-uo7fw5bo1o 7 күн бұрын

On the cluelessness of us USAmericans due to our monoglot population: USAmerican: "What language do you speak?" Greek native: "Helleniké." USAmerican: "It's all Greek to me."

@Thelirante 15 күн бұрын

Τρέχω νῦν πρὸς καπηλεῖον ἵνα τὸ βιβλίον ἀγοράσωμαι. Χάριν ὑμῖν δίδωμι!

@iliasdomalis201 6 күн бұрын

Τρεχεις προς καπηλειον ινα αγορασεις βιβλιον η μηπως οινον?

@MenelmacarLG 15 күн бұрын

Μέγιστον εφαίνετο τὸ βιβλίον πρίν με ιδεῖν αυτὸ μᾶλλον εγγύτατα τῆς καμέρας! Ώιμην χερσὶ γίγαντος άξιον πριάσθαι βιβλίον...

@oraetlabora1922 15 күн бұрын

Χαῖρε, πόθεν εἶ;

@MenelmacarLG 15 күн бұрын

@@oraetlabora1922 Διὰ τί ερωτᾶις; Άτοπόν τι έγραψα;

@ArgosDidaskei 15 күн бұрын

ναί, μέγα ἐστὶ τὸ βιβλίον ὅτι καὶ ἡ ἑλληνικὴ γλῶττα μεγάλη ἐστίν :)

@oraetlabora1922 15 күн бұрын

@@MenelmacarLG Διὰ περιεργίαν. Ἄτοπον οὐδὲν ἔγραφας.

@MenelmacarLG 15 күн бұрын

@@oraetlabora1922 Ἁπλῶς αποκρίνει. Εν τῆι Αμερίκηι καλουμένηι κατοικῶ. Τί δὲ περί σου; Ποῦ ἡ οικία; Καὶ πόθεν Ἑλληνίζειν έμαθες;

@christophjasinski4804 5 күн бұрын

I still wonder what’s the fastest way to learn AG. Still going the Modern Greek route? Also how far can you go with 1h every day for a year?

@vassilisbabaletakis3488 Күн бұрын

Well, with an hour every day you will improve very fast. You will be able to read and understand a lot of the New Testament, a book written in koine, hellenistic greek, a simplified form of ancient greek. You will be also able to understand some modern greek, as, in this language, many words have not change for thousants of years.

@fazzxides8429 15 күн бұрын

❤📜🏛️❤🙏🏼

@neanias19 12 күн бұрын

ἀρέσκει

@fredrutter610 14 күн бұрын

Congratulations on this mammoth achievement. But Tip No. 1 is enough not to buy this Koine-heavy book so as not to interfere with my Attic Greek.

@ScorpioMartianus 4 күн бұрын

As a proud owner of the book, and as someone who favors Attic, I can tell you, you should still buy it: more than 75% of the lemmas listed are also Attic. Where a term is Koine only is clearly specified.

@fredrutter610 3 күн бұрын

@@ScorpioMartianus Alright, thanks - An SM recommendation is hard to resist! 🙂

@theodorelioliousis7242 7 күн бұрын

Γιατί βάζετε διαλυτικά στους διφθόγγους?

@kyriakoskaroullas 6 күн бұрын

Η προφορά που χρησιμοποιούν λέγεται Ερασμιακή προφορά ή Ητακισμός..

@user-up8ghpur554 4 күн бұрын

διοτι τους παρεσυρε εκεινος ο γελοιος ο Ερασμος...

@Kinetic.44 12 күн бұрын

Is this biblical, Koine?

@adrianhundhausen2522 10 күн бұрын

Koine, taken in the broad sense of the term. "Biblical Greek" and "New Testament Greek" are essentially marketing terms. The Greek of Luke and Paul is the same Koine as the pagans were writing, albeit spiced up by phrases from the LXX (a Greek translation of Hebrew Scriptures so literal as to be awkward in many places). Literary Koine was not far removed from Attic, and this lexicon also indicates which words and phrases appeared in 5th- and 4th-century BC Attic prose.

@jodown5584 10 күн бұрын

@@adrianhundhausen2522Thank you so much. 🙏 My son will be turning five years old and starting his “kindergarten” homeschooling lessons in just a couple months. This book is going to be SO much help for teaching him his vocabulary words for his grammar studies. This is exactly what I’ve been wishing for and at the perfect time! 😃 🙏 I am so thankful!

@adrianhundhausen2522 10 күн бұрын

@@jodown5584 Nice to hear that! I think you will find the book quite useful. Just be aware that this guide really is complete and encyclopedic, so there is a page or two in the chapter on human biology/physiology that I wouldn't put in the curriculum in elementary school 🙈😁 BTW another book has recently been released that might be good for your purposes: Logos, Lingua Greca. All in Greek but from the beginning with pictures. Best of luck to your son!💪

@jodown5584 8 күн бұрын

@@adrianhundhausen2522 😂 Thank you for the warning! And thank you so much for putting together such a useful tool. 🙏 It feels like the world is about to experience another Renaissance, with the Greek language and mind being more accessible than ever for the common man, due to the work being done by people like yourself. ☺ I can't wait for my copy of the book to arrive! 😃

@adrianhundhausen2522 5 күн бұрын

@@jodown5584 also try googling Koinegreek kids :)

@geogeo2299 5 күн бұрын

The Erasmian pronounciation is pure medieval rubbish, so don't use it.

@christophjasinski4804 5 күн бұрын

Actually, I heard it was an academic joke but nobody got it.

@geogeo2299 5 күн бұрын

@@christophjasinski4804 Interesting note, the times on this present vid that both the interviewer and the writer MISS on the Erasmian spelling (thus pronouncing the phthongs correctly), are quite a lot. Erasmian is not only ugly sounding, it's so hard to spell that most of the time your tongue will just refuse to obey.

@ddpmk355 3 күн бұрын

@@geogeo2299Ancient Greek was not ugly. It may just seem unfamiliar to modern Greek speakers.

@geogeo2299 2 күн бұрын

@@ddpmk355 Then it may have seemed much more unfamiliar to medieval Dutch speakers, such as Erasmus... But just to save you from guessing at how ugly would Erasmian have sounded to ancient Greeks, there's this specific condition in phonology that the Greeks notoriously disliked and preferred to steer well clear of - it's called Χασμωδία (vowel hiatus). Now, keeping in mind what Χασμωδία was, can you perhaps pronounce for us the word Αἰάντειος in Erasmian??

@ddpmk355 2 күн бұрын

@@geogeo2299 I don’t think so. He didn’t say anything like that.