Vrixton Phillips
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Gregory B. Sadler:
I saw in one of your answers that you speak French, German, or Greek [or at least have a working knowledge, no?] and I remember in one of your YouTube videos you said you "worked through the grammar book" for German and Greek, at least. My question is: what was your method for working through grammars to learn/refresh your knowledge of a language? I mean did those particular books have exercises, or--?
Gregory B. Sadler
When I'm referring to a "grammar", I mean something like Smythe's Greek Grammar or Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar, not a textbook.
These are very dense, systematically organized books. They don't have exercises, but they do have a lot of examples. So, working my way through them, meant quite literally reading through the entirety of them, often quite slowly, and going back and forth between entries. I'd also try to think for myself how I might compose using that particular concept I was studying.
What I like about those two grammars is that they are based in comparative Indo-European linguistics, so in many of the entries that have to do with morphology, you're getting comparisons and examples from other languages as well.
These are very dense, systematically organized books. They don't have exercises, but they do have a lot of examples. So, working my way through them, meant quite literally reading through the entirety of them, often quite slowly, and going back and forth between entries. I'd also try to think for myself how I might compose using that particular concept I was studying.
What I like about those two grammars is that they are based in comparative Indo-European linguistics, so in many of the entries that have to do with morphology, you're getting comparisons and examples from other languages as well.
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