For more than a year, I have read this little book a page or two at a time. It is a review of Ancient Greek grammar for Francophone students. Each page I read had me looking up a dozen words in French. The Greek was easier because every grammar in every language uses common words with regular declensions as examples.
So it was easy to puzzle out the noun being declined or the verb being conjugated.
I occasionally read books like this because if I read a French Grammar or an Ancient Greek Grammar written in English, I would be thinking in English. Reading about Greek in French keeps me from reverting to English meanings. I can look at French in terms of Greek and vice versa.
Is this method effective? I don't know. But it presents me with linguistic puzzles I would not see any other way.
First eighteen books of 2022:
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
First Principles by Thomas Ricks
Political Tribes by Amy Chua
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew Knoll
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Understanding Beliefs by Nils Nilsson
1776 by David McCullough
The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
Marie Curie by Agnieszka Biskup (en francais)
The Next Civil War by Stephen Marche
Fritz Haber, Volume 1 by David Vandermeulen
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