Learning Greek Verb Endings Song

[DeaconCliff]

brilliant!

[HermanuitBerman]

great song!!

[traindude95]

thats not a first aorist, thats a root aorist

[Agami8ite666]

why learn fuckin ancient greek??? :p

ΕΙΣΑΙ ΜΑΛΑΚΑΣ?

[KincumberBoy]

Love it thanks for posting. I have thought of doing the same. Glad someone else already came up with it.

[INLOVE150]

hahah this is awesome! the very fact that you brought a guitar into it and recorded it is great, now i need you to do an irregular verb song.

[tsavalos]

"λυω" sounds "lee-o" not "loo-o"!!!!!!!

the song is horrible, so does the accent of the singer!!!!

[INLOVE150]

@tsavalos Seeing that you have traveled back in time and listened to Attic Greek having been spoken, can you please tell us all what Plato said Socrates said in the Apology, I think it was something along the lines of, " On the one hand (this man) believes that he knows something while not knowing anything, and on the other hand I do not believe that i know anything being equally ignorant". So tsavalos chill out and realize that we are all ignorant and are only confident in what we know.

[especialness]

learn to pronounce it correctly! this is absolutely wrong! when you want to learn one language you have to learn the real pronounciation and not pronouncing it like your mother tongue sounds like. it's ridiculous. ancient greek sounds exactly like new greek and not like english or german or whatever. accept it!

[aggieclint]

@especialness why are you so angry? It is simply a song to help me remember the verb endings

[AnthonytheTBaggers]

@aggieclint SING IT HOW YOUR SUPPOSED TO SAY IT, SHIT GUY!! ANY greek rather correct your grammer than your accent any day of the week. all your doing is having your mind trained to hear the wrong sounds and your going to be LOST if someone starts spitting some real words at you b! its great you wanna learn just do it right!

[nobunaga86]

@aggieclint Thanks for helping me get an A in my Grk I class in grad school.

[kskngr]

You are right. I am greek and I am really happy that people learn ancient greek. It is hard even for as to learn it at school. You did a nice job, don't care about what they say. Trust me, only teachers can write (not speak) ancient greek and know the grammar. From the rest, about 5-10 % have a basic education but forget almost everything at the age of 25-30

[kskngr]

By the way, trying to help you, I'd tell that pronouncing this verb right is not difficult. 'υ' must be pronounced like ee, let's say like alligator

[kgdmx201]

@especialness ancient koine greek does not sound exactly like modern greek and there is a huge debate on whether or not it is even possible to speak it out loud correctly at all so i think this is great to remember the verb endings.

[vaevictus]

@especialness attic greek has several pronunciation differences. and even those are often hotly debated. chill.

[nobunaga86]

@especialness greetings time traveler, and welcome to our era. Perhaps if you have a recording of the local people speaking from your visits to ancient and Roman era Greece you could be of some use to us, other wise I would point you to peruse some of our fine grammers and grammarians who have concluded that we don't really know exactly how to pronounce the language from these eras.

[KincumberBoy]

@especialness And how could you know that? Modern and Ancient Greek are vastly different

[AddisShing]

Great performance!!

[twilightdewdrops]

this is wonderful man! congratulations on the idea and realisation of it!

[denmasxe]

Although i'm not sure if its the vest way for someone to lern ancient greek, I have to admit its one of the most creative aand enjoyable youtube videos. Haha

[girloffaith16]

Thanks for making this! that is one thing that has kicked my butt in Greek is those dang endings and tfs so thanks so much!

[DoctorWright]

This is great! The accents are funny, but this song is really helpful in remembering most of the endings. The 2nd person (pl) for Perfect Midd/Active Indicative is throwing me off though. "LaLesthe" haha super funny. I need to turn this into an mp3 and listen to it while I drive.

[notgodsemigod]

LELOUKA LELOUKAS..... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA

this guy is excellent!!! but Greek is not Latin. U was between a french "u" and a french "i": "h" was between "e" and "ee" more close to the second etc. etc.

[QLigarius]

haha ovo je žalosno XD

[RACLAX]

jesus, pluperfect active is SCARY, best bit is the end though, luu-oo-oh-ohh. :D

[RACLAX]

so much help for my gcse ancient gk ...although the perfect mid/pass is a little frightening... god help me come a level..

thanks though! :)

[morebaileyskim]

Don't listen to those here who would belittle your work - it's awesome and you have done us all a service by creating this video and sharing it. There are so few resources on line for ancient Greek and this is one I find incredibly useful!

[vaguelyhumanoid]

Wonderful song, but terrible pronunciation. Greek isn't English, FYI.

[andrereisu2b]

great

[musikLmind]

make modern greek song and please for godsake, could you pronnounce good! your voice is realy cool tho! im an artist =) i like the song...i used to learn all my «by heart» stuff at school by singing and making songs...history class, i sang all the sudy pages of our Nationnal history(canada) for the final exam cause i failed 2 times loll it works.im a natural musician.so I LOVE YOUR IDEA

[Markos33AD]

This works for me. I particularly like the pluperfect. ευγε. καλως. αγαπω ταυτην την ωδην. ευχαριστω σοι.

[swordofisis]

fratboys...

[nbelgr]

well done that's really good

[jessloosemore]

this song is responsible for me smashing 1st semester greek at bible college - thanks so much!

[RozaBOOM]

hahaha you're unbelievable, but that's ancient Greek..i hope you know it..

Anyaway, keep being so creative while you're studying:)

[DannX4484]

looooooooooooool

[niettevragen]

You want to learn Greek ?....well it is simple...all you need to do is GET A GREEK !

the rest is HIS or HER job....

[3anamarija]

haha i love it!

[TininSkywithDiamonds]

finally I now Greek verbs!!!!!!!!! :D

[soulaki08]

@TininSkywithDiamonds , IT'S NOT GREEK ,, IT'S ANCIENT GREEK....!

[RebyTheRebel]

I LOVE YOU!

[fishlicksmanintree]

ROCK ON!!!!

[padazakis]

oups I wrote ''λύουμεν''... it's ''λύομεν''

[AegNuddel]

We say lu-O for the in the present active indicative in our class...And the pluperfect should also have an "aah" sound instead of "ay."

But yeah, no one's pluperfect :P

[floodtube1]

Beautiful song for a beautiful language.

[padazakis]

ancient Greek: λύω, λύεις, λύει, λύουμεν, λύετε, λύουσι(ν)

modern Greek: λύνω, λύνεις, λύνει, λύνουμε, λύνετε, λύνουν

[peterpan260983]

Interesting!Is ther any evidence about the origin of the insertion of the ny in the modern Greek verb?

[padazakis]

sorry peterpan but what about ny? What is ny? You mean the pronunciation or the letter ''Νν'' or something???

[peterpan260983]

padazakis, no, not pronunciation. I mean why is the letter "v" inserted in the modern Greek verb?

[padazakis]

peterpan....hmm I don't know. We just say it like this and in ancient Greek it was without ''ν''. Ι don't know the reason... I 'd like to learn why me too. But in general, as you can see, there aren't so many differences...

[padazakis]

this is ancient Greek and the pronunciation is not(for example the ''λέλυκα'') ''lelouka''. It's ''lélika'' It's the verb ''λύω'' which means ''I solve''. It's a regural ancient Greek word, and that's why we all first learn this one... it's simple and easy.

[EchoParkPinay]

What a great way to remember the verbs once you know the rules! Thanks for doing this!

[brainouty]

This is adorable. 5/5, fav'd! Pisteute epi ton kurion, kai sothese su!

[nickman90gr]

LOL!!! Nice song, but please somebody tell him that the verb is not LUO but LYO!!! It's pronounced like leo... It's i not u... :-)

[brainouty]

nickman, it's pronounced loo-oh. :)

[nickman90gr]

No its not... :-P

I'm Greek and I know... I know I hated learning ancient greek but this much I know... :-)

[brainouty]

Yes, nickman90gr, it is pronounced loo-oh. There's a recent trend among Greek speakers to claim that ancient Greek was pronounced as more modern Greek. They're wrong. They're trying to get a monopoly on what the Greek language was, and it's patently false, what they claim. Sorry.

[nickman90gr]

How can you know that you're right and its pronounced loo-oh and not how the Greek-speaking tradition has preserved it (lyo)... Have you been living among the ancients??

[brainouty]

Yes, nickman90gr, and so have you. The ancient Greek texts are many, not only in the Bible but outside it. Septuagint, for example, translitered many Hebrew names, so we know how the Greek was pronounced. I did my Greek Alphabet video's pronounciation based on the LXX pronounciation, not based on so-called modern seminary (where the attempt to monopolize pronounciation to more modern Greek is rampant).

[peterpan260983]

nickman is right. If you pronounce it as you do (LOO-OH), then it means "to wash" and is written lambda-omikron-ypsilon-omega

[brainouty]

peterpan260983, I understand what you are saying, but the LXX uses that pronounciation, going by the spelling. The verbs sound similar but are not exactly the same. louw is 'to wash' and sounds like 'akouo' due to the dipthong. Kinda like reed and read, two very different meanings, very different contexts of usage, so confusion is rare.

[brainouty]

Probably the omicron is sounded shortly before the upsilon, in louw, but in normal speech that distinction would be swallowed.

[sioannid]

@emeca04

I suppose you're not Greek, yeah?

The idea of this song is really very nice and helpful.

However, if you teach modern Greek then you don't need that cause it's for ancient Greek.

And I wouldn't give it to students. The pronunciation is not good at all. Even if they learn, nobody will be able to understand what they say.

[cradleofalex]

ancient greek with shitty American accent; though, the idea is great. It really makes us remember the verb

[designedsayer]

lol I know cradle,that's why I use my Spanish/Latin(ancient) accent for Greek.

[personnenestici]

hahahahahahahahahahahahaahha

[emeca04]

how awesome...

i teach modern greek & i think i'm going to have my students do this with modern greek verbs :-)