Luke Amadeus Ranieri

Ancient Greek in Action Returns! (Patreon)

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2025-10-10 05:50:28

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2025-10-10 05:58:03

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2025-10

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Χαίρετε! I am very excited to announce the return of Ancient Greek in Action!

I have been planning the rebooted series, and this video in particular, for many months. This first video is an attempt to remedy what I have come to perceive as a great weakness most of us are faced with at some point: we know the present well enough, but the simple-past and the future can be difficult to produce spontaneously, especially if those forms are irregular!

The goal of this video is to help you acquire the future, present, and simple-past of four verbs. When you have the chance to perform these physical activities, repeat the verb forms aloud: future before you do it, present as you do it, and simple-past after completing it. Connecting these verb forms with movement will ingrain them in long-term memory.

I can speak from experience: this technique revolutionized my spoken Ancient Greek but turning a weakness into a strength, and dramatically improved my reading fluency since I could readily recognize so many irregular future and aorist forms that had become second nature through this exercise.

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Ancient Greek in Action! ep.1 | βάλλω, τρέχω, ἀναβαίνω, καταβαίνω

Ancient Greek in Action teaches you the language entirely through the medium of Ancient Greek, an approach called Comprehensible Input. In this video, the only words you need to acquire are the future, present, and simple-past of the verbs of throwing, running, going up, and going down, which are printed on the screen. Other words are uttered in the video which are not essential to acquire at this time; merely concern yourself with learning by heart the forms "I will throw, I throw, I threw," etc. Once you have seen this video enough times, repeat these verbs from memory every time you throw something, run, or climb or descend the stairs. Find opportunities to use these verbs, joining your utterances to physical actions that will ingrain them into long-term memory. The full script, while unnecessary for the scope of this video as a Comprehensible Input tool, will be provided (link will appear here later) to my Patreon supporters. The pronunciation you hear is Classical Attic, which I now believe to be the most useful for the broadest of paedagogical applications. However, I naturally support individuals' decisions to employ different pronunciations in their own scholarship. 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LukeRanieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com 🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus" https://learn.storylearning.com/lu-promo?affiliate_id=3932873 🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54058196 🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: https://paypal.me/lukeranieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com Join the channel to support it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRllohBcHec7YUgW6HfltLA/join 🌅 ScorpioMartianus apud Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukeranieri/ 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: https://youtube.com/LegioXIII 🎙 Hundres of hours of Latin & Greek audio: https://lukeranieri.com/audio 👕 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus 🦂 https://www.ScorpioMartianus.com 🦅 https://www.LukeRanieri.com