Vorkosigan

A subforum is a great idea! Bring it on. Tomorrow: Mounce. Have we a target date?

Diogenes the Cynic

I can help with pronunciations by spelling things phonetically and showing where the accents go. It's not that difficult to learn and one of the great things about Greek is that the phonetics are very consistent. Once you learn to pronounce the letters and the dipthongs and learn the accents you can suss out the pronunciation of any word.

Peter Kirby

The CD in the book with Mounce's spoken lectures should help.

best,
Peter Kirby

Rick Sumner

The CD in Mounce's book is excellent.

For the benefit of those who may purchase the book used (and thus lack a CD), and those who are just following along without the book, Mounce also has lectures online all over the place (most, predictably enough, on his website). Most of them are for _Basics of Biblical Greek_ (should we move to that next, they'll be invaluable, I would imagine, though I worked solely through the CD, so can't comment with certainty), but that shouldn't prevent them from having application for Greek for the Rest of Us. For example, there is this lecture on pronunciation, and this on syllibification. Pronunciation, at least for me, was the easy part, once you get the hang of it--it's far harder to attempt to phonetically pronounce a challenging word in English than in Greek, because phonetic rules are much more stable.

As an unrelated (at least unrelated to the remainder of my post) aside, there is an abundance of software for lexical aid available online (flash cards and the like), a collection of links to them might be helpful (though Goodacre has already collected the vast majority of them) as we progress.

Regards,
Rick Sumner