Be your own teacher when you read Greek & Latin - a demonstration

In this video I show you a technique for making yourself the teacher as you read Greek and Latin, as a way to increase the amount of spoken input you receive, to practice speaking, and finally to gain a better understanding of the text, all without needing help from other people — ideal for autodidacts!

I mentioned this technique briefly in the recent video on the main channel about why Ancient Greek is So Hard and How to Fix It:
And now the present video shows how it works in detail. Let me know if you find this useful!

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[iberius]

One of your best pedagogical videos, for sure. I loved the "thinking Hellenically" part.

[iberius]

Beautiful demonstration. Awesome Restored Attic pronunciation, as always.

[jobarin]

Yes, we definitely do want more Latin readings! :D Personally I find your latin recitations extremely enjoyable and inspiring, and your rare attention to vowel length has helped me immensely to appreciate and interiorise the Latin meter. I couldn’t thank you enough!

(Still hoping for a Kephalos Challenge with the Aeneid or the Metamorphoses!)

[carlinberg]

The classical attic pronunciation made me feel like you were singing the Iliad and I immediately started sit-dancing...

[RiccardoRadici]

We would simply love to listen to you reading An Ephesian Tale!

[nicholasnelson]

I did my MA thesis on Xenophon of Ephesus, so I will always vote for you reading Xenophon.

[maria-elenapickett]

I'm going to try this method. I'm currently reading Livy and I will try to ask myself questions in Latin as I go along. Thank you so much for this suggestion. I've got a strong feeling that it may work for me!!!

[iberius]

Carla Hurt's book looks nice and worth purchasing, as does Callirrhoe!

[joshuasims]

I read the Callirhoe bilingual Loeb, it's a fantastic read! I'd recommend it highly, it is one of the earliest novels ever written. I admit I mostly read the translation, I need to try the Hadavas text so I can work through the greek properly!

[Glassandcandy]

I’ve always found it enjoyable to just think out loud in Latin while reading texts or just doing anything really. It helps to get your brain to start reacting spontaneously in the language, rather than operating like: input—> concept—> English—> Latin—> output.

It’s important to try to streamline the actual physical and mental process of language use as much as possible.

[Horace-em]

Salve ScorpioMartiane! Ex Helvetia gratias multas tibi: labor enim facis incredibilis ad discendas antiquas linguas ❤ ! Addere etiam volo : nobis omnibus tantum placet cum latine loqueris ut spectamus magno cum gaudio pelliculas tuas de Aenneide aut aliis fabulis, factae erunt. Salvus sis !

[iberius]

Gradibus gradatim prōcēdimus ad legendum!!!!

[KalaMan-ysjg]

Thanks for clear information and explaining please upload more videos like this

[iberius]

15:47-15:52 I hope to do this with Coptic and Ancient Egyptian, some day, as I assume you do, as well!

[loganmars]

Have you tried GPT again with the advanced voice feature? My hang up with GPT was the fact that with voice it would pronounce Latin with a national/anglicized accent, but you can order it to pronounce things with a classical pronunciation now. I’m not sure it’s very good, but to my very early learning ears it’s an interesting tool to practice conversational Latin with.

[SilentJaguar]

Hey Luke, do you ever read the editions of the Loeb Classical Library? I have a Greek New Testament (Reader Edition) and Xenophon's Anabasis. And it's that beautiful Loeb Greek green, so my fingers started itching to acquire more editions of Greek and Latin from Loeb. I heard elsewhere that the Loeb literature is some of the hardest to read extensively.

[fisicogamer]

i think this technique just adds to the ranieri reading technique, making it even more effective!

[pdn]

Have you tried to talk to people who speak modern Greek? I am sure you know that modern not that different. As a native speaker myself I can tell you that I understood most of what you read (like 80%). Granted I couldn't reply back in ancient, but I think for example that I could have a basic conversation with someone speaking ancient and me modern and we both understand each other (more or less of course).

[АлександрТкачук-нй]

Hi, I'm currently learning Biblical Hebrew using Psalms and the scriptorium technique. I found it difficult to find any similar material which you showed in your videos, with Latin and Ancient Greek. Maybe you have some suggestions on how I can boost my input?

[alberteinstein]

Luke's voice to me is that of a Twix bar to a outposted roman soldier.