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5 Reviews For John Taylor, Greek to GCSE

  • Guest 10th Sep 2009

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    Impenetrable waffle ruins John Taylor's, Greek to GCSE, for me. I found the long winded explanations, that rarely included pertinent information, frustrating. Constant comparisons with Latin didn't help. Exercises, however, were relatively well paced and gave lots of practise, but it doesn't give quite enough depth for GCSE. The stories were worse, and made little sense even when translated correctly. I would definitely try find an alternative course if you wish to study Ancient Greek without tearing your hair out in frustration.

  • Guest 17th Oct 2008

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    Logical thinking but needs a little more in-depth advice and reasoning. I use John Taylor's Greek To GCSE regularly and it's helped me with the subject.

  • Guest 2nd Oct 2008

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    Not reccomended at all. I have used this book for two years in a row on two talented Greek classes and it was a disaster, not covering any of the appropriate specifications for GCSE or even containing much about the Greek language.At many ponts the author becomes confused as to whether he is writting about classical or modern Greek - which are not the same!I have now switched to the Cambridge Greek Course and have since acheived far better results. I tnink this book is appalingly written and poo ...

  • dave 42 16th Sep 2008

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    Greek to GCSE is a brilliant book which however is sometimes abused by the author for setting long and impossible preps from it

  • Jonathan Sambrook Rank: Lance Corporal 26th Mar 2008

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Having ground to a halt when trying a couple of other course books on koine (common/Hellenistic/New Testament/linuga franca) Ancient Greek, these two books on "proper" Ancient Greek seem to be doing the trick. It may be that my previous attempts have laid some foundations, but these books seem much better paced in term of the amount of exercises interspersed amongst the fresh material.