If I were you, I'd ask what he has in mind. Classical Greek isn't bad (I had a year of it at college, and enjoyed it immensely); however, modern Greek drives me a bit bats because of the shifting of sounds. What was (transliterated) tt in a word is now ss, what was mp is now b, and so on. Wouldn't he just be happy with Koine Greek (what the Bible was written in) which is classical with sloppy endings, street talk, the way people spoke down by the docks in Pireas instead of declaiming philosophy up on the Acropolis? Seems to me that Koine, plus drift, is what he really wants. Beginnings of words, then not quite the right or usual ending. There are books that teach Koine.
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If I were you, I'd ask what he has in mind. Classical Greek isn't bad (I had a year of it at college, and enjoyed it immensely); however, modern Greek drives me a bit bats because of the shifting of sounds. What was (transliterated) tt in a word is now ss, what was mp is now b, and so on. Wouldn't he just be happy with Koine Greek (what the Bible was written in) which is classical with sloppy endings, street talk, the way people spoke down by the docks in Pireas instead of declaiming philosophy up on the Acropolis? Seems to me that Koine, plus drift, is what he really wants. Beginnings of words, then not quite the right or usual ending. There are books that teach Koine.