An Interview with Adrian Hundhausen (in Ancient Greek) about His New Book: ὁ Φάρος. 

Guys, I'm greek and I understood 95% of all you said ! I guess I missed the rest 5% probably for accent reasons.. After 30 seconds i stopped reading the subtitles ! You do amazing work !!

Thank you for not using Erasmian pronunciation. I could actually understand what you were saying. Kudos!

Absolutely fantastic! It is the first time I hear people talking like this. I only hear Koine Greek in our Church and read it in the Holy Bible, but in everyday conversation is so funny! Sometimes my husband and I are trying to speak like this in frond of our kids so they can't understand us, but they DO...

Χθὲς ἦλθεν ἐμοὶ τὸ βιβλίον. Ἔστιν ἀληθῶς θαυμάσιον.

Congrats to you both! Impressive and that's from someone who's Greek.

Ἀρέσκει μοὶ πολλά! Δοκεῖ μοὶ κάλλιστον βιβλίον!

how the heck is that possible? I understood almost everything. I was never a good student in ancient greek, i certainly do not know how to write an ancient Greek sentence

Thank you for the dual language subtitles! This is the only channel I can find of people speaking Ancient Greek like this.

Fantastic. I cannot write in ancient Greek but I could follow most of the conversation, and I love how you are having fun, joking etc. Makes it feel so alive. Looks like a fantastic book - it would be interesting to know more about the process he has gone through to compile it. And it would also be interesting to have a digital resource where you could click directly into the texts mentioned. But fantastic - something for my Christmas wish list! :)

Εxcellent , Greek being my mother tongue , i could follow quite a lot of your conversation, its amazing how this sacred language has survived ..

I have never heard someone speak Ancient Greek with such fluency!!! Bravo!!!

On the cluelessness of us USAmericans due to our monoglot population: USAmerican: "What language do you speak?" Greek native: "Helleniké." USAmerican: "It's all Greek to me."

I love that his name is "Hundhausen" (Dog Houses in German) and he's holding a cat the whole time :)

This channel is such a joy, it's amazing to see you having such a fluent conversation. I can use my Greek A-level knowledge from 1983 (!) to get the gist of most of what's said, despite getting lost occasionally :)

Τρέχω νῦν πρὸς καπηλεῖον ἵνα τὸ βιβλίον ἀγοράσωμαι. Χάριν ὑμῖν δίδωμι!

As a greek this is awesome although the accent sounds suspiciously like the Cyprus accent

γαλέη-γαλή is the ancient greek word for cat

Εύγε! ΚΥΔΟΣ!!!

Ωραία είναι. Αλλά το συντακτικό είναι νεοελληνικό. Το αρχαίο είναι λίαν σύνθετο. Με πολλές μετοχές.

I was struggling to find Ancient Greek words for modern things. Some like “ηλικοπτρον” were simplicity itself. Most were more difficult. Some extremely hard. I found one reference that listed “ταινα” as scarf, and “ταινιδιον” as “a colored ribbon worn for decoration” (a good description for a “necktie”) Sadly I couldn’t locate it again to list the reference. My feeble list is nothing compared to “Φαρος”. I’ve compared my list to your entries and all are the same. Now to learn how to speak as well as you two. Ευχαριστώ πολύ!

@4.41 and 4.49 I heard the word the word απόπατον which my father used when referring to the toilet.

Oh God...not THAT thing again. Ok, I'll try to explain ONE MORE TIME. When you see the letters οι, ει, αι, υι, ου, they are NOT read or pronounced as two separate letters but as ONE letter. For example the word είμαι (I am) is NOT pronounced as e-i-ma-i but as ee-me. You know the Greek language is STILL alive and not that far away from the ancient form in the pronunciation and orthography. It's more than 95% the same. Please stop pronouncing those letters separate because it is brutal to the sounding of our language and let's be honest. You are NOT speaking Greek (old or new) this way. This thing started as a prank a couple of hundred years ago and it HAS to stop.

I have the book. Amazing work, thank you!

Πολύ καλο βιντεο! Κατάλαβα αρκετό ποσοστο των λεγόμενων με την χρήση υποτίτλων. Αναρωτίεμαι αν έχετε την ίδια ευκολία κατανόησης Νεοελληνικών κειμένων / σχολίων.

Congratulations on this mammoth achievement. But Tip No. 1 is enough not to buy this Koine-heavy book so as not to interfere with my Attic Greek.

Μέγιστον εφαίνετο τὸ βιβλίον πρίν με ιδεῖν αυτὸ μᾶλλον εγγύτατα τῆς καμέρας! Ώιμην χερσὶ γίγαντος άξιον πριάσθαι βιβλίον...

Με τα σχολεία έχετε επαφή; Υπέροχοι!

Γιατί βάζετε διαλυτικά στους διφθόγγους?

Γι αυτο είναι σπουδαίο να υπάρχουν οι φυσικοί εκ γενετής ομιλητές.

Ήδομαι μεν ακούων την γνησίαν ελληνικήν φωνήν, οχληρον δε μοι χρησθαι υμας τη ερασμια προφορά. Ει γαρ κληθησοίμην λαλείν περί είδους ανθρώπου γεγονότος ενενήκοντα ετών, ουκ αν ειποιμι τουτον ειναι ως εφαίνετο προ εβδομηκονταετιας αλλά ως φαίνεται νυν, πολιόν τε και αυχμηρόν. Πέραν τούτου, αναμνήσθε οτι ο ιωτακισμός ηρχετο ηδη απο του 3ου αιώνος π.Χ (το "ει" εν αρχή) και υμεις χρησθε τη κοινή ελληνική, ή καθιερώθη μεταγενεστερον

Girl pronounces αυ like o, man pronounces αυ like af/v. Am I hearing this correctly?

Εύγε

Η ερασμιακή προφορά ακούγεται πολύ "περίεργα" σε εμάς τους Νεοέλληνες!!!🌞🇬🇷

Κατάλαβα τα πάντα χωρίς κανέναν απολύτως υπότιτλο

Great! Non Erasmian pronunciation helps a lot to understand nearly 95% of what they say.

καλῶς!

This is not Homeric Greek, this is Koine Greek.

Γιατί δεν μας τα μάθανε έτσι στο σχολείο;

ἀρέσκει

I still wonder what’s the fastest way to learn AG. Still going the Modern Greek route? Also how far can you go with 1h every day for a year?

The pronounce is a little wrong αι=ε and οι =ι if you want to pronounce separately the 2 letters there is a sign αϊ and οϊ

❤📜🏛️❤🙏🏼

Τούτον εστί πολλάν καλόν κινηματογράφημα

Total respect.

Is this biblical, Koine?

Hearing ancient greek with a german accent . The problem with foreign speakers who try to speak modern or ancient greek is that they cant pronounce letters like Δ or Θ properly.

The Erasmian pronounciation is pure medieval rubbish, so don't use it.

μέγα βιβλίον, μέγα κακόν! 😂

Έλεος και ήμαρτον!!!! Αν τα άκουγαν αυτά οι πρόγονοί μας, δεν είμαι σίγουρος για το αν θα γελούσαν, ή αν θα έκλαιγαν, για τούτο το χάλι.