No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.
I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
I have friends who read my books in Greek.
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
For my part, it was Greek to me.
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