Greeking out

We talk about Koine Greek Advent and Christmas music and Monique's teaching with the Circe Institute. Monique Neal: Monique.c.neal@gmail.com Circe Institute Greek Apprenticeship Program Circe Institute Music mentioned Today the Virgin Christos Genatai [Christos Genatai] (https://youtu.be/hIaLOmg0gsE?si=zTP8HNHS1W7Mj0fF) Text of the Homily by Gregory the Theologian Greek English

How dopamine works in our brain and how this affects our ability to focus, do hard things, and how we can leverage this system to increase motivation. Huberman Lab Podcast : Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination and Optimize Effort How to Increase Your Willpower and Tenacity Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright 2022 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribut...

Some thoughts for independant language learners I got from reading Don't Go Back to School by Kio Stark. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Go-Back-School-Handbook/dp/0988949008 Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright 2022 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license . Ft: Wally Tungsten (http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/65571)

Some thoughts on the Iverson method for vocabulary learning. It's a quick, simple wordlist based approach and I think it may have some potential to fit into a CI based learning routine. Links YouTube: Language Learning 1: NJL Iversen's Wordlist method

Tune in today for something different. I’m talking with Colin Gorrie about Old English and his journey to learn and teach an even more niche ancient language. Links Website Youtube Twitter Substack Ancient Language Institute's Old English page

Reading of LGPSI Cpt 3 in Lucian Pronunciation. Text by Seumas Macdonald: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/003.html

In this interview I'm talking with Leigh Cobley, but you probably know him better as Leandros Corieltauvorum. He's one of the two people behind The Ancient Greek Podcast. Leigh didn't start out learning Greek in formal classes. He started through language exchanges or intercâmbios. We talk about the importance of motivation and community to language learning, being comfortable being un...

In this episode I talk with Kevin Grasso, one of the founders of Biblingo. Kevin's story is a bit different than some of the other people I've interviewed. He started out trying to apply communicative methods early on. Now, he's also trying to bring insights from general linguistics into the Koine Greek world. We talk about second language acquisition theory and how this applies to lea...

If you're reading the GNT, STEPBible makes it really easy to figure out if a word is worth learning or not by making word frequency info easy to find. Here's how.

In this episode, I talk with Andrew Morehouse. Andrew's a high school Latin and Ancient Greek teacher. He's also one of the founders of Latinitas Animi Causa, a site offering resources as well as classes in Ancient Greek and Latin. Tune in for a great conversation about his Greek journey. We also talked about about how Second Language Acquisition research affects how we approach learning G...

In this episode I talked with Michael Halcomb. A Greek professor, pastor, podcaster, and one of the founders of GlossaHouse. This was a great conversation, especially if you're learning Greek in a class or program that doesn't use communicative based methods. Michael shares how he incorporated more natural and communicative methods into the courses he took when he was first learning Greek....

In this episode I'm talking with Jenny and Rogelio of Tridos Trivium about their journey into Ancient Greek. Jenny and Rogelio teach Latin and Greek online and create some truly wonderful YouTube videos in Ancient Greek. Website: https://www.triodos-trivium.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@triodostrivium Twitter: https://twitter.com/triodostrivium

A reading of LGPSI, chapter 2 by Seumas Macdonald. Text: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/002.html

A reading of LGPSI, Chapter 1 by Seumas Macdonald Text: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/001.html LGPSI homepage: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/

In this episode I interview James Tauber about the Greek Learner Texts Project. This episode's a little different, but it's valuable and was a lot of fun to record. Links James's website: https://jtauber.com/ Greek Learner Texts Project: https://greek-learner-texts.org/ Paul Nation's publications: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources/paul-nations-publication...

An explanation of my thoughts on how humans learn languages and what that means for how we go about doing it as adult learners.

The text of 1st John 1 used is from the SBL Greek New Testament (https://www.sblgnt.com/), which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (https://www.sblgnt.com/license/)

An interiew with Luke Ranieri about how he got started with Greek, some of the things he's used, his thoughts on resources, and pronunciaiton schemes, and more Links Luke's website: https://lukeranieri.com/ PolyMATHY: https://www.youtube.com/@PolymathyLuke ScorpioMartianus (Latin): https://www.youtube.com/@ScorpioMartianus Legio XIII (Latin and Greek podcast):https://www.youtube.com/@Legio...

I used the song Good King Wenceslas to learn the Greek Alphabet. Maybe it will help you too? Or at least you can laugh at my singing ;-) Intro and outro music: Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright 2022 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/65571 Ft: Wally Tungsten (http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/65571)

An interview with Dr. Seumas Macdonald of www.thepatrologist.com about his journey learning Koine and Classical Greek. He's a teacher, tutor, and author of comprehension based materials for learning and teaching Greek. He offers some very practical advice for learning Greek.