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Thursday, March 15, 2007

More language resources (classical)

Of course, for those who want their languages classical (that is, classical Latin and Greek), may I recommend www.textkit.com. This is a most valuable resource, in that Greek and Latin primers of the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries have been converted to pdf files and made available on the internet. These texts include primers, prose composition, and explicated classical texts such as The Iliad and The Annead.

And for those of you who want language courses which include sound files, may I recommend www.kypros.org. This website touts itself as the largest online course in Greek. While it mainly teaches modern Greek, it also includes a course in classical Greek, and promises to produce more such courses. It would be worth further examination. While I've been unable so far to find any online Latin courses which include sound files, may I also recommend an approach to Latin as a living language here, based on the teaching of Fr. Reginald Foster.

For Latin and Greek resources, I must recommend the Oxford University Classics Resources webpage. Another good source for online Classical resources is the Blind Bookworm's Guide to Latin and Greek, which has a wealth of links to other Greek and Latin pages in the internet.

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