Peter Jones and the conjugation of existence

[fajrdrako]

Never enough time for all the things I want to do, or that I think I should. Keeping up with dishwashing seems like the summit of my accomplishments these days.

After three months of study (or, more significantly, not-study) I have got to the first page of chapter one of Learn Ancient Greek. I spent a long time on the introduction because I wanted to get it right - that's my excuse, anyway.

I love Jones' writing style. An example from chapter one:

The verb 'to be' always seems not to be (yes, Hamlet, a question?) regular. But it is so common one may as well learn it first and get the agony out of the way.

There is also an important gain in going this. With a very few extra words, you can enjoy the most gripping exchanges with other Greeks at once, asking (for example) "who are you?" and replying "I am who I am" or "alpha and omega" or whatever. This is known as the 'oral method' and is, apparently, fantastically up-to-date as an educational method. Nice to know that one is at the cutting edge.

Do you think I can have mastered the six words I need for the present indicative of 'to be' by tonight? Surely I can do that. Just that.