Ancient GreekReading: Bouncing around from Plato’s
The Apology to
The Histories of Thucydides to Book 1 of Plato’s
Republic, I settled on the last because there is audio of it, and I have determined to listen as well as read. I also want to incorporate the study of second aorists, as suggested by Woodward and Pagos in their
Enchiridion, their (slightly unorthodox) introduction to Ancient Greek.
Useful freely available commentary on
Republic is ed. James Adam, Cambridge 1905,
The Republic of Plato, Volume 1, Books 1-5, useful freely available translation
The Republic of Plato, 3d ed. Trans. Benjamin Jowett. 1888.
Listening: To date I have listened to Tomin’s reading of the first 10 chapters of Book 1 of Thucydides (14:26 min) by Nikolas (?) (Librivox) and 327a1-328b3 of
The Republic (3:15) by Tomin.
Using more Study Stack to study the second aorists.
FrenchI’ve been saying I’ve not read any French for awhile, but it’s not true, because I have been reading
La Seconde Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, by Jean Quellien. Tallendier, 2015, Kindle. I have got in the book to where France has fallen and the world—even Hitler--is wondering what comes next. Standard fare.
Hugo French in Three Months. A grammar workbook Ronald Overy and Jacqueline Lecanuet, DK, London, 2003. I’ve worked my way through Exercise 43 (out of 71), results not stellar. Especially poor among other things on expressions of time, superlatives, the partitive de, expressions with aller, numbers (one thing I forgot is that the French
screw up see differently not only 80 but also 60). Not stopping to work on these because I intend to tackle next
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French Grammar and after that the CLE
Grammaire progressif du Francais, niveau intermédiare, 2003.
Using LWT I plan to bite the bullet and read poems by Apollinaire and the usual suspects of Baudelaire.
SpanishMonday, October 24, 2022
Fortunata y Jacinta: (dos historias de casadas) por Benito Pérez Galdós
Parte Primera, i., plus audio 14:38 m
Tuesday, Oct 24, 2022
Parte Primera, ii, audio 10:06 m
Hugo Spanish in Three Months through exercise 31 Lots of bungling as in French, especially demonstatvie pronouns, relative pronouns, ser vs estar (grrr!), indirect objects and direct objects, pluperfect tense, and comparisons. After Hugo moving on to
Practice Makes Perfect Complete Spanish Grammar.
Many things which are false are transmitted from book to book, and gain credit in the world. -- attributed to Samuel Johnson