[29] Does Modern Greek Help Koine Greek?

Summary:

• I set a New Year goal of learning Modern Greek while simultaneously improving my Koine Greek from college.
• The plan was to see just how much one benefits the other and share those results with my readers.
• Koine Greek was the global lingua franca (common language) of the Greco-Roman empire between about 300BC and 300AD. It was also the language of the New Testament and early Christianity.
• Koine is without doubt the most consequential language in history.
• Koine evolved into Medieval and then Modern Greek, so they’re closely related but much has changed over centuries.
• See the link below for the Koine resources I’ve been using.
• I also decided to give Michel Thomas another chance after the publisher sent me the Greek edition to test.

Related blog post:

Learn more about my Modern -> Koine Greek experiment.

Resources:

See my list of top Koine Greek resources (books).