When I read a foreign language, I prefer to read aloud.
You’re right that this helps, and I do it when I can. It’s sometimes hard to find a place to do this where it’s not so disruptive.
For languages I don’t know well, reading comics helps me most...and to radio
No comic books or radio, unfortunately, since its a dead language. Thanks for the suggestions though. Now that I think about it, I think I can read Harry Potter. That might be worth looking into.
Attic Greek, and my motivations are serious and professional: I can’t get the job I want without learning Greek. But on an hour to hour basis, that’s still not enough pressure. My experience with myself is that I have to find something pleasurable about an activity to do it reliably. I’m just not disciplined enough to do things I find really unpleasant. Fortunately, I don’t have to do unpleasant things very often, but this is an exception.
Sorry about the repeated questioning. I’m just thinking along the following lines: If you are keen to get a particular job that requires knowing Attic Greek, then presumably there are things about that job that you’re keen to do for their own sake[1]; it seems likely that some of them involve actually using Attic Greek, in which case aren’t there fun things you can do more of as your knowledge of the language improves?
[1] I can’t think of any jobs that (a) people do just because they want the money and (b) require skill in Attic Greek.
No, you’re right. It’s a job in academic philosophy, and I want the job for it own sake. There are very enjoyable things I can do with attic once I have better command of it, but it’s a terribly difficult language and I’m probably a year or so of hard work away from being able to enjoy them.
You’re right that this helps, and I do it when I can. It’s sometimes hard to find a place to do this where it’s not so disruptive.
No comic books or radio, unfortunately, since its a dead language. Thanks for the suggestions though. Now that I think about it, I think I can read Harry Potter. That might be worth looking into.
There are also multiple volumes of Asterix available in Attic Greek: Link
Cool! Thanks.
Latin? Ancient Greek? (Probably not koine Greek because I don’t think Harry Potter has been translated thereto.)
What’s your reason for wanting to learn the language? Is there something there that can be used for motivation?
Attic Greek, and my motivations are serious and professional: I can’t get the job I want without learning Greek. But on an hour to hour basis, that’s still not enough pressure. My experience with myself is that I have to find something pleasurable about an activity to do it reliably. I’m just not disciplined enough to do things I find really unpleasant. Fortunately, I don’t have to do unpleasant things very often, but this is an exception.
What’s the job you want?
Sorry about the repeated questioning. I’m just thinking along the following lines: If you are keen to get a particular job that requires knowing Attic Greek, then presumably there are things about that job that you’re keen to do for their own sake[1]; it seems likely that some of them involve actually using Attic Greek, in which case aren’t there fun things you can do more of as your knowledge of the language improves?
[1] I can’t think of any jobs that (a) people do just because they want the money and (b) require skill in Attic Greek.
No, you’re right. It’s a job in academic philosophy, and I want the job for it own sake. There are very enjoyable things I can do with attic once I have better command of it, but it’s a terribly difficult language and I’m probably a year or so of hard work away from being able to enjoy them.