When scholars in the English speaking world in 2020 read books in the Ancient Greek language, do these scholars usually read a book in Ancient Greek that uses the Ancient Greek language but the individual letters are in the Roman alphabet, or do American/British scholars reading ancient Greek today read books in the Ancient Greek language, do these scholars actually read a book using all the letter of the Greek alphabet such as the alpha symbol (I don't know how to write this symbol with my keyboard, but you know what i am writing about) and the delta symbol, etc ? However, I believe that the Ancient Greeks had their own alphabet, which is probably called the Ancient Greek alphabet. For instance, Ancient Greek and/or Ancient Latin might use a totally different grammar structure than English.ĭoes Ancient Greek use a totally different grammar structure than English?ĭoes Ancient Latin use a totally different grammar structure than English?Īncient Latin uses the Roman alphabet just like English, so I don't think I would have to learn a new alphabet to learn Latin. It occurred to me that learning ancient languages might entail more than just learning the foreign language equivalent of English words. I was hoping people here could teach me about this. I've thought about buying Rosetta Stone software or maybe some sort of other type of software for learning Ancient Latin and Ancient Greek. The 'u' in 'gung' sounds like 'oo' in 'boot'.Īnd it's always so. 'ie' sounds like 'ee' in 'bee' or similar. 'W' sounds like 'V' and 'V' sounds like 'F'. It's a composed word made by 'Wieder' and 'Vereinigung'. German can terrorize with long composed words: what about the 'Wiedervereinigung'? But about German this is the reality.Īt first sight you could be discouraged, but when you know the rules you can pronounce any German word, while to pronounce an English word you have to be sure to know the right pronunciation in a not irrelevant number of cases. This is substantially the rule with Neo-Latin languages, it's odd that a Germanic language enjoys this advantage. You substantially always know how to read a German or an Italian word. There are fix rules of pronunciation in German like in Italian, the irregular pronunciations are usually objects of quizzes! I cannot say if I've found German 'natural' because of my roots or because about pronunciation it's like Italian: you read like you write. I have developed a fluent English using it. Now, if I avoid to write, French is quite 'natural' for a North Western Italian. In Italy we exaggerate with foreign languages! Personally I've studied English, German and French.

Ancient greek to english alphabet