Apology of Socrates, Part 1 [Plato] [Attic Greek] [Beginner's Level]

RELAX!
"The right way" to use this video doesn't exist. You will certainly profit from it even if you don't use or even understand all its information. Even if you were to just read the English words, you would still be getting a deep feel of the Greek word order and some of its constructions, which is not bad for starters! However you use this video, focus on enjoying it. Feel curious about some grammatical issue? Then NOW, and only now, is the right moment to learn about it. Don't feel curious about the grammar? That's OK, too! Did you know you can learn a new language without consciously learning its grammar?

WHERE SHOULD I START?
Each text in the Beginner's Level section is marked as for a reader who is facing Greek for the first time. This system makes itself redudant at a very fast pace, since probably no-one needs to be reminded 50 times in a row of the meaning of καί. (The size of the English words should allow for them to be easily ignored.) The good part is that a novice can start reading any text! Choose the text which appeals to you, instead of choosing an "easy one" which bores you to death. Oh, and feel free to change to a different text at any point. You won't get any points for finishing a particular text, and since you might be damaging your motivation, NOT finishing it will help you more in the long term:

DECODING
The decoding of this video tries to make the Greek text exhaustively understandable, but it doesn't aim at producing a proper English translation.

YOU THINK THE DECODING IS NOT UNDERSTANDABLE
The whole point of the video is that it should be understandable, so please tell me if you feel that some parts aren't.

The grammatical color coide is explained in this video:

YOU THINK THE DECODING IS NOT ACCURATE
If you feel that a Greek word or construction hasn't been accurately translated, then your level is almost certainly higher than the level of the target audience of that part of the English decoding. Feel free to ignore it and continue enjoying the reading. (Unless, of course, I have made a real mistake, in which case please tell me!)

The color code is a different matter: if you think you have detected a mistake, you're probably right, so please tell me! (But have a look first at my -partially arbitrary- rules)

[ThePhsevero]

amazing! do more videos on socrates' ancient greek!