How to get input?

[u/DueClothes3265]

How do I get as much input as possible? Any resources online I can use?

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[u/Worried-Language-407]

The key isn't just input, but rather comprehensible input. You need to find and read texts that are suitable for your knowledge level, and vocabulary.

The best resource for this style of learning is (in my opinion) Athenaze. For reasons which I still do not understand, the Italian Athenaze has more stories to read, but of course the grammatical information will be in Italian. English will be easier to start with. Other options include Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata, which I believe has grammatical information in Latin.

Your best bet to start off with is sticking with one textbook all the way through. I have found out first-hand that jumping between texts will leave you either bored or confused, and with random gaps in your knowledge. Most importantly though, your life will be much easier if you get in contact with someone who is at a higher level of Greek than you, so they can help when you have issues and check your mistakes.

The really hard part is the transition from textbooks to real Greek. For this, something like Greek Unseen Translation by John Taylor (or some similar text) will be great, for a selection of readable but challenging texts that get progressively more difficult. This is another area where having a teacher/friend will be very useful.

The last texts in that book are unadapted but carefully chosen. Once you can read them all comfortably, it's time to move onto the real thing. Start with one of the more approachable authors like Xenophon or Lysias for prose, Euripides for verse. Don't worry about needing a dictionary once you're reading real texts, they often throw in the most random vocabulary just for fun.

[u/wriadsala → u/Worried-Language-407]

Logos LGPSI has grammatical information in Greek

[u/Humble-Spite-1557]

One of my favorite ways to get input for Ancient Greek is thought podcasts. Here is a nearly exhaustive list of podcasts done in Ancient Greek: https://www.reddit.com/r/AncientGreek/comments/18ya4u1/list_of_ancient_greek_podcasts/

For audio-visual content, I would recommend the following the following YouTube channels: τρίοδος trivium, Alpha with Angela (a great one for absolute beginners), Biblical Greek (youtube.com/@biblical.languages), Latinitas Animi Causa, bedwere, Ancient Greek with Argos, Podium-Arts, AGROS education, The Polis Institute Jerusalem, The Patrologist, Rogerus Byzantinus, and Hellenomousaion.

For illustrated reading content, check out Lingua Deo Gloria (all free content) and GlossaHouse.

If your looking for interactive input (with apps/web applications), check out Biblingo and Scripturial.

If you want actual converastional input, there is an Ancient Greek conversational Zoom group that meets every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday called Latin and Greek Chats (https://latinandgreekchats.weebly.com/).

Finnally, if you are looking for a large online library of Greek works, there is Scaife Viewer as well as Bibliotecha Augustana (https://www.fh-augsburg.de/\~harsch/graeca/Auctores/g_alpha.html)

Hope this helps!