Talk:Introductory Ancient Greek Language/Lesson 5

This lesson strikes me as inadequate, but I don't have time to rewrite it. Here are notes for a future revision:

Ijon 12:47, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) I think a clear distinction between theme vowels and endings should be made, even as early as this stage.
 * 2) The verb to demonstrate paradigms with should not be luw, but one such as paideuw/bouleuw (i.e. ending with a diphthong, to avoid the issue of contractions and lengthening before aorist and future sigmas).  Then when teaching the aorist, switch to verbs such as philew/nikaw, which demonstrate both contractions and lengthening.
 * 3) The comment saying eimi is understood implicitly before any verb such as luw is incorrect.  We may say that the personal pronoun (egw, sy, etc.) is understood before a verb without an explicit subject, but not the verb eimi.

Pronunciation
Pronunciation makes no sense without reference to the period of Ancient Greek, see w:Ancient Greek Phonology. 70.51.184.52 18:05, 11 April 2008 (UTC)