
Greeking out
A podcast about learning Koine and Ancient Greek, featuring interviews and personal thoughts on the language. The host shares insights and experiences related to studying these classical languages.
Episodes

Interview with Dr. Laura Eidt
In this episode, I'm talking with Dr. Laura Eidt, a professor at the University of Dallas about... Latin.LinksDr. Laura Eidt's faculty pageLatin through Stories(Neo) Latin dialogues: http://colloquialatina.org/Intro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Wally Tungsten(http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralb

Interview with Sarah Stephens
Interview with Sarah Stephens form the Greek Learner Text ProjectIntro/outro music is Funky Thanksgiving by Admiral Bob (c) copyright2022 Licensed under a CreativeCommons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Wally Tungsten(http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/65571)

LGPSI 6 (Restored Koine Pronunciation)
Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata, chapter 6 (https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/Lingua...) by Seumas Macdonald (https://thepatrologist.com/) with a Restored Koine Pronunciation

LGPSI 5 (Restored Koine Pronunciation)
Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata, chapter 5 (https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/Lingua...) by Seumas Macdonald (https://thepatrologist.com/) with a Restored Koine Pronunciation

Interview with Jordash Kiffiak
Interview with Jordash Kiffiak
Links
Omilein website
Jordash’s Youtube channel
Jordash’s Instagram
Jordash’s Soundcloud
Jordash’s Spotify

LGPSI 4 (Restored Koine Pronunciation)
Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata, chapter 4 by Seumas Macdonald with a Restored Koine Pronunciation

How to learn Greek on 24 hours a day
Links
How to live on 24 hours a day by Arnold Bennett
Video about pocket notebooks: YouTube
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Interview with Tony Marsh
Links
Tony's Website
Tony's YouTube channel
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Interview with Carla Hurt
Links:
Carla’s website, Found in Antiquity
Carl’s tiered reader of Aeneid book 4, The Lover’s Curse
Found in Antiquity YouTube (Greek)
Found in Antiquity YouTube (Latin)
Twitter/x
Bluesky
Article about creating tiered readers, “Adapting Antiquity”, by Ballestrini & Sears
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LGPSI 3 (Restored Koine Pronunciation)
Rerelease of Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata, chapter 3 by Seumas Macdonald but with a Restored Koine Pronunciation

LGPSI 2 (Restored Koine Pronunciation)
Rerelease of Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata, chapter 2 by Seumas Macdonald but with a Restored Koine Pronunciation

Interview 2 with Colin Gorrie
Interview #2 with Colin Gorrie.
Links:
Osweald Bera
Website
Substack
Ancient Language Institute
YouTube
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Thoughts on Fluency Development (Solo episode)
Resource mentioned (Free PDF): Paul Nation's What do you need to know to learn a foreign language?
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LGPSI 1 (Restored Koine Pronunciation)
Rerelease of Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata, chapter 1 by Seumas Macdonald but with a Restored Koine Pronunciation

Interview with Sawyer Moranville of Lingua Deo Gloria
Lingua Deo Gloria links:
Website
Twitter/X
YouTube
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Interview with Adrian Hunhausen
Resources mentioned:
Luke Ranieri's Ephemeris technique
Amazon: O Pharos by Adrian Hundhausen
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Physical flashcards, why and how
Language Card Games Leitner box tutorial: https://youtu.be/HN0OUnLxFeU?si=OxNbfBZE12PIP81E
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Interview with Jenny Teichmann
Links
Jenny's Website: argos-didaskei.com
YouTube: Ancient Greek with Argos
Google Doc for organizing collaboration: here
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Interview with Timothy Brady
Interview with Timothy Brady in which we talk about his new Greek Reader and how to manage vocabulary and phrasing to learn to speak or write a specific period of Greek.
Links:
Reading Greek with the Desert Fathers (book)
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Interview with Michael Kopf of Agros Education
Interview with Michael Kopf of Agros Education
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/agros-edu/
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/AGROS_edu
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AGROS_edu
Facebook: https://facebook.com/agrosedu
Email: agros.edu@gmail.com
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Memory Techniques for Ancient Greek: a Comprehensible Input Approach
Resources
Lynne Kelly's Memory Craft
Anthony Metivier's Magnetic Memory Method
Mattias Ribbing and his book with Per Sundin, Maths Unwrapped
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Interview with Rogelio Toledo
In this episode I’m talking with Rogelio Toledo, who along with Jenny Teichmann ran Triodos Trivim. Rogelio and Jenny decided to close Triodos Trivium at the end of last year, so I thought I’d find out what they’re up to now.
Links:
Rogelio’s website
Summer
School that Rogelio and Jenni Glasser are running
Rogelio’s
YouTube Channel
Gospel of
John with Homeric paraphrase (archive.org)
Intro/outr

Interview #2 with Dr. Seumas Macdonald
Please welcome back to the Podcast Dr. Seumas Macdonald.
Links:
Website: https://thepatrologist.com/
Bluesky
YouTube
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Interview with Angela Taylor of Alpha with Angela
In this episode I’m talking with Angela Taylor who produces the Alpha
with Angela YouTube channel. We talk about how she began learning Greek
and spend most of the episode talking about Alpha with Angela and what
it takes to produce a series like it.
Alpha with Angela is a free Comprehensible Input based series that
assumes little to no prior knowledge of Greek and uses no English in the videos.
A
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Cognitive Load Theory and learning Greek [Solo episode]
In this episode I talk about Cognitive Load Theory and what I think are some of its implications and applications for us as language learners. This is based mostly on my reading of Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory in Action by Olliver Lovel.
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Interview with Monique Neal on Koine Greek Advent/Christmas music
We talk about Koine Greek Advent and Christmas music and Monique's teaching with the Circe Institute.
Monique Neal: Monique.c.neal@gmail.com
Circe Institute Greek
Apprenticeship Program
Circe Institute
Music mentioned
Today the
Virgin
Christos
Genatai
[Christos Genatai]
(https://youtu.be/hIaLOmg0gsE?si=zTP8HNHS1W7Mj0fF)
Text of the Homily
by Gregory the Theologian
Greek
Engli
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Language learning and Dopamine [Solo episode]
How dopamine works in our brain and how this affects our ability to focus, do hard things, and how we can leverage this system to increase motivation.
Huberman Lab Podcast:
Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination and Optimize Effort
How to Increase Your Willpower and Tenacity
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Thoughts for independent language learners [Solo episode]
Some thoughts for independant language learners I got from reading Don't Go Back to School by Kio Stark.
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Go-Back-School-Handbook/dp/0988949008
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Thoughts on the Iverson method [Solo episode]
Some thoughts on the Iverson method for vocabulary learning. It's a quick, simple wordlist based approach and I think it may have some potential to fit into a CI based learning routine.
Links
YouTube: Language Learning 1: NJL Iversen's Wordlist method

Interview with Colin Gorrie
Tune in today for something different. I’m talking with Colin Gorrie about Old English and his journey to learn and teach an even more niche ancient language.
Links
Website
Youtube
Twitter
Substack
Ancient Language Institute's Old English page

LGPSI: Chapter 3
Reading of LGPSI Cpt 3 in Lucian Pronunciation.
Text by Seumas Macdonald: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/003.html

Interview with Leigh Cobley (Leandros)
In this interview I'm talking with Leigh Cobley, but you probably know him better as Leandros Corieltauvorum. He's one of the two people behind The Ancient Greek Podcast. Leigh didn't start out learning Greek in formal classes. He started through language exchanges or intercâmbios.
We talk about the importance of motivation and community to language learning, being comfortable being

Interview with Kevin Grasso of Biblingo
In this episode I talk with Kevin Grasso, one of the founders of Biblingo. Kevin's story is a bit different than some of the other people I've interviewed. He started out trying to apply communicative methods early on.
Now, he's also trying to bring insights from general linguistics into the Koine Greek world.
We talk about second language acquisition theory and how this applies to l

Quick tip: How to figure out if a word in the GNT is worth learning with STEPBible
If you're reading the GNT, STEPBible makes it really easy to figure out if a word is worth learning or not by making word frequency info easy to find. Here's how.

Interview with Andrew Morehouse
In this episode, I talk with Andrew Morehouse. Andrew's a high school Latin and Ancient Greek teacher. He's also one of the founders of Latinitas Animi Causa, a site offering resources as well as classes in Ancient Greek and Latin.
Tune in for a great conversation about his Greek journey. We also talked about about how Second Language Acquisition research affects how we approach learning

Interview with Dr. T. Michael W. Halcomb
In this episode I talked with Michael Halcomb. A Greek professor, pastor, podcaster, and one of the founders of GlossaHouse.
This was a great conversation, especially if you're learning Greek in a class or program that doesn't use communicative based methods. Michael shares how he incorporated more natural and communicative methods into the courses he took when he was first learning Greek

Interview with Jenny and Rogelio of Triodos Trivium about their journey into Ancient Greek
In this episode I'm talking with Jenny and Rogelio of Tridos Trivium about their journey into Ancient Greek. Jenny and Rogelio teach Latin and Greek online and create some truly wonderful YouTube videos in Ancient Greek.
Website: https://www.triodos-trivium.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@triodostrivium
Twitter: https://twitter.com/triodostrivium

LGPSI: Chapter 2
A reading of LGPSI, chapter 2 by Seumas Macdonald.
Text: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/002.html

LGPSI: Chapter 1
A reading of LGPSI, Chapter 1 by Seumas Macdonald
Text: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/001.html
LGPSI homepage: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata/

Interview with James Tauber on the Greek Learner Texts Project
In this episode I interview James Tauber about the Greek Learner Texts Project.
This episode's a little different, but it's valuable and was a lot of fun to record.
Links
James's website: https://jtauber.com/
Greek Learner Texts Project: https://greek-learner-texts.org/
Paul Nation's publications: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources/paul-nations-publ

Episode 0: The manifesto
An explanation of my thoughts on how humans learn languages and what that means for how we go about doing it as adult learners.

1st John 1 reading in a Lucian pronunciation
The text of 1st John 1 used is from the SBL Greek New Testament (https://www.sblgnt.com/), which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (https://www.sblgnt.com/license/)

Interview with Luke Ranieri on how he got into Greek
An interiew with Luke Ranieri about how he got started with Greek, some of the things he's used, his thoughts on resources, and pronunciaiton schemes, and more
Links
Luke's website: https://lukeranieri.com/
PolyMATHY: https://www.youtube.com/@PolymathyLuke
ScorpioMartianus (Latin): https://www.youtube.com/@ScorpioMartianus
Legio XIII (Latin and Greek podcast):https://www.youtube.com/@Le

Learning the Greek Alphabet - a tip
I used the song Good King Wenceslas to learn the Greek Alphabet. Maybe it will help you too? Or at least you can laugh at my singing ;-)
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Dr. Seumas Macdonald on learning Greek
An interview with Dr. Seumas Macdonald of www.thepatrologist.com about his journey learning Koine and Classical Greek. He's a teacher, tutor, and author of comprehension based materials for learning and teaching Greek. He offers some very practical advice for learning Greek.
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