Hi there everyone, just a heads up that Lesson 82 won’t be out until tomorrow night (BST) at the earliest - just finished filming it and now I have almost two hours of footage to edit! 🤯😂 Hopefully that will be closer to an hour or an hour and a half after editing. Best wishes, David
Hey everyone, thank you all so much for your lovely comments and messages - I really appreciate all of them and I aim to get back to as many messages as I can in the coming week. Also, I am indeed still editing Lesson 81, which I can now confirm should (God/fate/the universe/chance willing) be out tomorrow afternoon or evening BST; sorry for the delay. In the meantime, here’s a pic of *both* of my beloved ratties together 🐀🐀 Best wishes
Hi there :) I just wanted to say that Lesson 81 will be out by Sunday night (BST) at the earliest and Monday night at the latest, since it has turned out to be a lesson of GARGANTUAN length in terms of the raw footage (despite my expectations given its rather rare subject matter). However, in the meantime, I have attached a photo of my rat Weems for you to behold. He sometimes chomps but he is adorable and I love him and his non-chompy brother Larry very much. Best wishes, David
Hey everyone! I have just reuploaded Lesson 80 because I have made a small change to it, namely: in the first version of the video, I said that you could have -γαται, -καται, or -χαται in the third-person plural for the gutturals, and similarly that you could have -βαται, -παται, or -φαται for the labials, but you can in fact only have -χαται and -φαται respectively (i.e., the consonant before the -αται ending needs to be the aspirated version of the guttural/labial). This is only a small update but I wanted to make sure that the information was as accurate as possible. There is actually a preferred way of forming the perfect indicative passive third-person plural in any case, but we shall meet that later on (once we have covered participles). Thank you to @The_Silver_Advice35 for asking a question which led me to realise that we can only have -χαται and -φαται for the gutturals and labials respectively. Sorry for the initial incorrect inclusion of the non-existent -γαται, -καται etc. All the best. David
Hey everyone, Lesson 80 will be out on Sunday rather than Saturday, and I am actually going to move all subsequent lesson releases to Sundays (i.e., every other Sunday) since that schedule seems to work better for me. Thank you all so much for your support; I wish you all the best. David
Hi everyone, just wanted to let you know that Lesson 79 will be out on Monday rather than the usual Saturday, largely because the lesson footage is much longer than I had expected and I need more time to finish editing it. But the lesson - along with the updated version of the full vocab list - will be released on Monday (God/the Universe/chance willing). Thank you all and best wishes. David
Hi again everyone. Following on from my last post, I have decided to unlist Lessons 77 and 78 for now, correct the issues with them, add some extra information to Lesson 77 (concerning the formation of the aorist passive), and then reupload them. Thanks for bearing with me :)
Dear viewers, please note the following two corrections:
1) πεμπω goes to *ἐπεμφθην* in the aorist indicative passive. I put ἐπεμφην in Lessons 77 and 78, and thus I wrongly missed out the theta. When θ is added to π or πτ, then you get φθ, because the aspiration spreads. Therefore, πεμπω goes to ἐπεμφθην. But what is particularly tricky about this is that θ is not added in the aorist passive of every verb with a stem in -π- or -πτ-. For instance, θαπτω ("bury") goes to ἐταφην, where we just have phi, no theta. And even more weirdly, κοπτω ("cut", "knock") goes to ἐκοπην, where we just have pi, no aspiration whatsoever! The aorist passive is a little bit crazy, my friends. And in light of this fact, when I release the full, regularly updated vocab list in the coming days, I shall include the principal parts of each verb on the list, and therefore you will be able to see the (verified!) aorist passive form of that verb in Classical Attic Greek (as well as its other important forms).
I wish to thank @DemetriosKongas for spotting the issue with the aorist passive of πεμπω :)
2) As I mention in Lesson 78, θυω goes to *ἐτυθην* rather than ἐθυθην (as one of my exercises implied in Lesson 77). I make a suggestion as to why this may be the case in Lesson 78.
It is clear that I need to take my own advice and carefully check each form in my presentations before uploading each video! Having to hand the full vocab list with the verified principal parts of each verb will help in this regard.
Best wishes and thank you for all of your support and patience,
Hi everyone! I have made and released Lesson 73 a week early as I will be trying to take a small break next week! The lesson covers the instrumental dative - a new use of the dative case which we shall need to know about in order to continue our quest to master Greek verbs. How do spoons link to the new lesson? You will have to find out by watching it 😉🐸 Best wishes, David
Hi everyone. Thank you all so much for your kind wishes and support. Thankfully everything has been resolved now, and I have in fact recorded the new lesson today (i.e., Lesson 71), but unfortunately I will not be able to edit it in time to release it tomorrow (it's much longer than I expected!) I therefore intend to have Lesson 71 released by Tuesday 10th March instead. My apologies for the delay; I love you all! 🐸❤️ David
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Hi there everyone, just a heads up that Lesson 82 won’t be out until tomorrow night (BST) at the earliest - just finished filming it and now I have almost two hours of footage to edit! 🤯😂 Hopefully that will be closer to an hour or an hour and a half after editing. Best wishes, David
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Hey everyone, thank you all so much for your lovely comments and messages - I really appreciate all of them and I aim to get back to as many messages as I can in the coming week. Also, I am indeed still editing Lesson 81, which I can now confirm should (God/fate/the universe/chance willing) be out tomorrow afternoon or evening BST; sorry for the delay. In the meantime, here’s a pic of *both* of my beloved ratties together 🐀🐀 Best wishes
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Hi there :) I just wanted to say that Lesson 81 will be out by Sunday night (BST) at the earliest and Monday night at the latest, since it has turned out to be a lesson of GARGANTUAN length in terms of the raw footage (despite my expectations given its rather rare subject matter). However, in the meantime, I have attached a photo of my rat Weems for you to behold. He sometimes chomps but he is adorable and I love him and his non-chompy brother Larry very much. Best wishes, David
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Hey everyone! I have just reuploaded Lesson 80 because I have made a small change to it, namely: in the first version of the video, I said that you could have -γαται, -καται, or -χαται in the third-person plural for the gutturals, and similarly that you could have -βαται, -παται, or -φαται for the labials, but you can in fact only have -χαται and -φαται respectively (i.e., the consonant before the -αται ending needs to be the aspirated version of the guttural/labial). This is only a small update but I wanted to make sure that the information was as accurate as possible. There is actually a preferred way of forming the perfect indicative passive third-person plural in any case, but we shall meet that later on (once we have covered participles). Thank you to @The_Silver_Advice35 for asking a question which led me to realise that we can only have -χαται and -φαται for the gutturals and labials respectively. Sorry for the initial incorrect inclusion of the non-existent -γαται, -καται etc. All the best. David
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Hey everyone, Lesson 80 will be out on Sunday rather than Saturday, and I am actually going to move all subsequent lesson releases to Sundays (i.e., every other Sunday) since that schedule seems to work better for me. Thank you all so much for your support; I wish you all the best. David
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Hi everyone, just wanted to let you know that Lesson 79 will be out on Monday rather than the usual Saturday, largely because the lesson footage is much longer than I had expected and I need more time to finish editing it. But the lesson - along with the updated version of the full vocab list - will be released on Monday (God/the Universe/chance willing). Thank you all and best wishes. David
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Hi again everyone. Following on from my last post, I have decided to unlist Lessons 77 and 78 for now, correct the issues with them, add some extra information to Lesson 77 (concerning the formation of the aorist passive), and then reupload them. Thanks for bearing with me :)
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Dear viewers, please note the following two corrections:
1) πεμπω goes to *ἐπεμφθην* in the aorist indicative passive. I put ἐπεμφην in Lessons 77 and 78, and thus I wrongly missed out the theta. When θ is added to π or πτ, then you get φθ, because the aspiration spreads. Therefore, πεμπω goes to ἐπεμφθην. But what is particularly tricky about this is that θ is not added in the aorist passive of every verb with a stem in -π- or -πτ-. For instance, θαπτω ("bury") goes to ἐταφην, where we just have phi, no theta. And even more weirdly, κοπτω ("cut", "knock") goes to ἐκοπην, where we just have pi, no aspiration whatsoever! The aorist passive is a little bit crazy, my friends. And in light of this fact, when I release the full, regularly updated vocab list in the coming days, I shall include the principal parts of each verb on the list, and therefore you will be able to see the (verified!) aorist passive form of that verb in Classical Attic Greek (as well as its other important forms).
I wish to thank @DemetriosKongas for spotting the issue with the aorist passive of πεμπω :)
2) As I mention in Lesson 78, θυω goes to *ἐτυθην* rather than ἐθυθην (as one of my exercises implied in Lesson 77). I make a suggestion as to why this may be the case in Lesson 78.
It is clear that I need to take my own advice and carefully check each form in my presentations before uploading each video! Having to hand the full vocab list with the verified principal parts of each verb will help in this regard.
Best wishes and thank you for all of your support and patience,
David
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Hi everyone! I have made and released Lesson 73 a week early as I will be trying to take a small break next week! The lesson covers the instrumental dative - a new use of the dative case which we shall need to know about in order to continue our quest to master Greek verbs. How do spoons link to the new lesson? You will have to find out by watching it 😉🐸 Best wishes, David
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Hi everyone. Thank you all so much for your kind wishes and support. Thankfully everything has been resolved now, and I have in fact recorded the new lesson today (i.e., Lesson 71), but unfortunately I will not be able to edit it in time to release it tomorrow (it's much longer than I expected!) I therefore intend to have Lesson 71 released by Tuesday 10th March instead. My apologies for the delay; I love you all! 🐸❤️ David
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