Sinfest

[pne]

No Sinfest at work. But Sinfest at home. And thanks to Opera 7, page from one comic to the next at the touch of the spacebar.

It is a goodness.

(Though I do sometimes get annoyed when Opera takes me to the "next" page when I've pressed the spacebar once too often on other pages.)

Comments

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

Yay Sinfest!

[declaude.livejournal.com]

Hi there,

I just surfed by. I have seen you on some language communities but I just noticed that you spoke Greek. I don't speak it really, but I just wondered if it's your native language or if you learned it as a 2nd language. If you did then I'd love to know what you used or any specific advice you have on learning certain things like declensions etc...

Greek

[pne.livejournal.com]

I learned Greek as a second (well, fourth) language while preparing to be a missionary for my church in Greece and Cyprus. I spent nine weeks in the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, which included an intensive course in Greek, and then nearly two years in Greece and Cyprus speaking Greek every day.

I suspect neither of those two methods of learning (MTC and time in the country) is easily available to you :) There's also one text I liked a lot but that was in German, so it's probably not useful to you, either. (But if you're interested, I can look out title and ISBN.) The MTC used an English-language text but I didn't think much of it; I think I learned more from the actual lessons and from the German-language text I had brought along from Germany.

One thing I remember is that I complained about learning second declension nouns in -ος because they had the largest number of distinct endings, upon which one teacher pointed out that their endings match those of the masculine definite article. And I remember a lesson where we talked about the genitive plural and the teacher said this would be the shortest lesson ever - he simply wrote "-ων" on the black board :D. (Though that simplifies things a bit since you need to learn about the -τ- in -μάτων and the change in stress in -ιών and such.)

Re: Greek

[declaude.livejournal.com]

Thanks for responding!

You are right, I don't have the opportunity to go live 2 years in Greece or Cyprus unfortunately. I do know a lot of German but not enough to really use that book you were talking about.

But anyway thanks for the help!