A stroll through modern Greek

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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:31 am

Assimil Lesson 32 today, "Άφιξη στο νησί" (= Arriving at the island). Wow, this one was tough. Introduces the present participle and lots of new vocab, mostly travel-related, and it's the longest lesson so far.

I like that the word for "hot" (ζεστός /zes.'tos/) makes me think of the word "zesty" in English. In this lesson it was the ήλιος (sun) described as ζεστός.

Reviewed Lessons 25, 18, and 11. Putting lesson 11's vocab into Anki.

Time spent on Greek: 28 hours, 45 minutes
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:15 pm

Assimil Lesson 33 today, Οι συγκοινωνίες στο νησί (= Transportation on the island). This lesson was again about (drumroll) means of public transportation. Not so exciting, but some useful words in it and we see the first use of past tense.

Reviewed Lessons 26, 19, and 12.

Time spent on Greek: 29 hours, 45 minutes
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Tue Mar 14, 2023 11:57 am

Assimil Lesson 34 today, Διαδρομί προς το χωριό (= trip to the village). Comparatives and superlatives introduced, some good new verbs:

αρχίζω: I begin
σταματάω: I stop
απέχω: to be at a certain distance from (το σπίτι απέχει ένα χιλιόμετρο από εδώ = the house is one kilometer from here)

Reviewed Lessons 27, 20, and 13.

Time spent on Greek: 31 hours
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Wed Mar 15, 2023 11:43 am

Assimil Lesson 35 this morning, an Επανάληψη (review). Various personal pronouns, lots of stuff about conjugations. These review lessons are pretty heavy going. I'm glad I do multiple reviews of the reviews, otherwise I'd surely miss a whole lot from these infodumps.

Also reviewed Lessons 28, 21, and 14.

Time spent on Greek: 32 hours, 30 minutes
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Thu Mar 16, 2023 11:51 am

Lesson 36 today, Το μονοπάτι (= The path). This one wasn't too hard and was pretty enjoyable. I tried breaking the lesson up into "chunks" in a document and kind of like the look of it for review purposes:

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I've decided to switch up my reviewing process a bit: if I space my lesson reviews apart by multiples of seven, then once a week I end up hitting four grammar-review lessons in a day, which is pretty grueling. So today I reviewed Lessons 21 and 6 (multiples of fifteen apart). We'll see how my new idea goes.

Time spent on Greek: 34 hours, 45 minutes
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Fri Mar 17, 2023 11:14 am

Lesson 37 this morning, Ελαιώνας και αμπελώνας (= the olive grove and the vineyard). Continuing to follow our characters on a stroll through a hillside olive grove. Another reasonably easy and pleasant one but with some good new constructions.

Time spent on Greek: 35 hours, 45 minutes
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:12 am

Lesson 38 this morning, Τα ζώα του χωριού (= the animals of the village). Animal names (obviously), some new prepositions, some aorist. Maybe the last few lessons have been unusually easy or maybe my brain is just getting better at assimilating new Greek. I'll choose to believe the latter!

Also reviewed Lessons 28, 18, and 8.

Time spent on Greek: 36 hours, 45 minutes
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby philomath » Sat Mar 18, 2023 6:49 pm

Hi tastyonions, I'm really enjoying your log so far! I'm planning to follow a similar routine when I start Greek next year. I was curious what edition of Assimil you're using? I flipped through my copy (the 2017 edition) and realized ours aren't the same.
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:06 pm

philomath wrote:Hi tastyonions, I'm really enjoying your log so far! I'm planning to follow a similar routine when I start Greek next year. I was curious what edition of Assimil you're using? I flipped through my copy (the 2017 edition) and realized ours aren't the same.

Mine says copyright 2017 as well. What was different in your edition? It's possible I misnumbered one of the lessons or something, heh.
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:30 am

Lesson 39 this morning, Κουραστήκαμε! (= we tired ourselves out!). Lots of aorist practice. Copious grammar and usage notes are longer than the lesson text but they look useful.

Also reviewed Lessons 29, 19, and 9.

Time spent on Greek: 37 hours, 45 minutes
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