GCSE Greek

I didn't, but I know someone who did. I don't think it's that much of a challenge if you have an aptitude for languages, to be honest.

Baklava, anyone?

I am pretty sure ancient Greeks didn't have baklava.

There you go - the document is attached. I just have a funny feeling that my version of the Greek is abridged...

This is the Greek I have for the bit I translated ("Harpagus... in whichever way you like"):

I'm doing Classical Greek on OCR this June - doing the Herodotus "Infancy of Cyrus" for the prose and the Odyssey extracts for verse. Seemplez

My class has begun learning Classical Greek this year (to take the GCSE next year). I've gone far ahead of my syllabus as far as Language is concerned, because I've learnt all the vocabulary and grammatical constructions required in the AS syllabus (well, all of them in John Taylor's A-Level Greek book), plus a whole load of another 1200 Greek words. Of course, that doesn't mean that I would be able to instantly translate anything at AS-Level because I don't yet have a full understanding of the language, but I would still prefer to do at least the Language part of the GCSE this year (the 2010 Past Paper seems extremely easy). Since I haven't done any independent study of Literature (nor has my class started it), I am obviously completely unprepared for the Literature exam (but I'm not taking it this year).

If you want to know anything about Greek or the way I'm studying Greek, feel free to ask.

so guys... got greek prose on monday 23rd may 2011, i'm doing herodotus infancy & boyhood of cyrus (like most others).. since our teacher was sort of rubbish and we didn't finish prose until a few weeks ago we have not had any chance to learn it (there are 7 people in my class taking gcse classical greek). i have got a system of learning it, like some other, i type it out with greek line then english then greek and so on... buuuuuuuuut i'm worried about knowing what each word means. sometimes it's easy to work out from elimination and some words are obvious like to speak, etc. but there are lots of other words that well i don't know the meaning of... advice? english learning is going good, breaking up into chunks of lines and reciting it out load blah blah blah... greek part is about 50% there, just need to find a way of learning unusual words. (for some reason, im doing latin as well, i find words in the latin easier to learn and recognise... oh and any advice for if i have latin language and greek language one the same day which I DO, damn it... )

Did you do Odyssey and Cyrus?

How did you find it?? It was so straightforward! I LOVED it

Loved the essay questions so straight forward and the points were literally handed to you. Did any of you get the translation part? I think it was the part of how ''having heard this and having taken up the child the herdsman went back on to the same road behind and arrived at his hut (dwelling place). And to this man, on that day, his wife gave birth to a child''

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so guys... got greek prose on monday 23rd may 2011, i'm doing herodotus infancy & boyhood of cyrus (like most others).. since our teacher was sort of rubbish and we didn't finish prose until a few weeks ago we have not had any chance to learn it (there are 7 people in my class taking gcse classical greek). i have got a system of learning it, like some other, i type it out with greek line then english then greek and so on... buuuuuuuuut i'm worried about knowing what each word means. sometimes it's easy to work out from elimination and some words are obvious like to speak, etc. but there are lots of other words that well i don't know the meaning of... advice? english learning is going good, breaking up into chunks of lines and reciting it out load blah blah blah... greek part is about 50% there, just need to find a way of learning unusual words. (for some reason, im doing latin as well, i find words in the latin easier to learn and recognise... oh and any advice for if i have latin language and greek language one the same day which I DO, damn it... )