AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: Greek for Reading by Gerda M. Seligson, Susan Shelmerdine, Ariel Loftus ISBN: 0-472-08266-3 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent basic course to start reading quickly
Comment: Greek for Reading covers the basic grammar of Classical Greek in a fairly unusual way. Most texts have lengthy discussions of grammar and syntax and few reading exercises, and fewer with translations to guide you. This text, however, has you reading basic sentences as soon as possible, most of them drawn from classical sources like Plato or Menander. The quotes are often quite clever and, therefore, easier to remember than the dull drills one encounters in many other books. If you want a thorough grammar with everything you could want to know, try Hansen and Quinn's intensive course.

The other reviewer here (April 2000) implies that this book is a course in modern Greek, which it is not. Classical and modern Greek are not mutually intelligible (a common mistake).

Rating: 4
Summary: Greek for Reading.
Comment: Well, the first thing I have to say is that my girlfriend is from Greece and I am from the Dominican Republic. We live in the United States and we'd like to go to Greece next year and I'm trying very hard to learn Greek. When my girlfriend saw the book, she said: "This is the one that I need for you." After that I have improved my reading, of course, because of the structure of this book. yeeahsou.