Lesson 1a: Use the Words

Use The Words

Think of something in real life you find beautiful and call it καλός
something "long" and call it μακρός and so on.
Run through all the words that way till they're really familiar. Words in any foreign language are finally just that, other ways of labelling the same concepts, objects, ideas, realities.
It is not only: κλῆρος = farm, farm = κλῆρος
It is: κλῆρος and farm both mean: that thing in the country where animals are reared and corn is grown. They are just different labels put on the same reality.
You learnt one, no reason why you shouldn't be able to learn the other. Provided you really want to and accept the fact that different people use different sounds and combinations of letters for expressing the same ideas. That's what makes life interesting, variety.
You'll see, words are much easier to remember if you attach them to concrete realities and real life situations rather than to abstract translations.

Examples using the text

	What/Who is Dikaiopolis?	ἄνθρωπος αὐτουργός Ἀθηναῖος
	Where does he live?	ἐν τοῖς αγροῖς
	Why?	αὐτουργός ἐστιν
	Where does he work?	ἐν τοῖς αγροῖς
	What does he do all day	πονεῖ
	What does he do exactly?	γεωργεῖ τὸν κλῆρον
	What is he like?	ἰσχυρός ἄοκνος ἐλεύθερος
	What's his work like?	χαλεπός ἀτέλεστος or ἀπέραντος μακρός
	and his life?	χαλεπός
	So what does he often do?	στενάζει
	Why?	ὁ βίος ἐστὶ χαλεπός ὁ πόνος μακρός , ἀτέλεστος or ἀπέραντος ὁ κλῆρος μικρός ὁ σῖτος οὐ πολύς
	Is he always complaining?	οὐκ αἰεί, ἀλλὰ πολλάκις
	So how does he often feel?	χαίρει
	always?	οὐκ αἰεί, πολλάκις
	Why does he also often rejoice?	φιλεῖ τὸν οἶκον ἰσχυρός ἐστιν ἐλεύθερός ἐστιν ὁ κλῆρος καλός ἐστιν ὁ κλῆρος σῖτον παρέχει
	How much food/grain?	οὐ πολύν, ἀλλὰ ἱκανόν
	Who is his God?	(ὁ) Ζεῦς
	How does he implore him?	ὦ Ζεῦ