For context, I'm writing a textbook (or at least I'm trying), and I would like the command \chapter to spell out "Lesson n" instead of the default "Chapter n", where n is the number of the chapter. Maybe there are other ways to do so that don't involve modifying the \chapter command, but that's what I want to achieve.
Thanks in advance.
Charly García is a singer-songwriter from Argentina, and I've attempted to translate the lyrics of one of his songs into Ancient Greek. The song is Canción para mi muerte from his band Sui generis (the lyrics, both in Spanish and translated to English are here), and I thought it would be fun practice to try and translate from Spanish to Ancient Greek at least a part of the lyrics.
I know very little greek, so although I've not translated all of the lyrics it was still difficult for me. Much of the words I didn't know how to translate them, so what I ended up doing was to translate them in my head to English and then I used Woodhouse's Dictionary to find the appropriate word in greek. I'm sure I must have made a lot of mistakes and maybe I wrote things in an awkward fashion, so if you have corrections or suggestions, please write them: I will be more than happy to read them.
ἦν ἡλικία ὁποτε ἦ καλός
καὶ ἀληθῶς ἦ ὀ ἐλεύθερος.
ἔσῳζον δὲ τὰ πάντα ἐνύπνια
ἐν ὑαλίνοις φρουρίοις.
κατὰ μικρὸν ἐτρεφόμην
ἔπειτα δὲ οἱ ἐμοὶ οἱ μῦθοι τοῦ ἔρωτος
ᾤχοντο
ταῖς ὁμοίας πομφόλυξι τοῦ ῥύμματος.
ἡμέρᾳ εὐρήσω αὐτὸν
εἴσω τοῦ δωματίου
καὶ στορεῖς τὸ λέχος συναμφοτέροις.
For example, I guess it is anachronistic to use the attic pronunciation to read Homer or the New testament, but is it a big deal?
I guess this is not the appropriate flair, but let's put that aside.
Basically, what the title says. I'm a math student from Argentina and I've been studying Greek for a while at a slow pace, using mainly λόγος and Luschnig's, as well as other books like Athenaze and Ancient Greek alive. I would consider myself still a beginner, and I'm looking for an study partner: just someone to chat about ancient Greek, share our progress to each other, ask questions, that kind of things.
Any way, I hope this is not bothersome. Thanks in advance.
These kind of pairs of words often disorient me, for I'm no sure what are the differences between them nor when one should be use instead of the other.
Thanks in advance.
I know that these kind of textbooks usually get a bad reputation, but I personally really enjoy grammar and I think they can be useful when used as a complement and not the main source of study. I would like to study Latin mainly with LLPSI and one grammar-translation book on the side.
I know Wheelock's is the standard, but I wanted to know if there is something else I should check. Thanks in advance.
Basically I would like to know if there is a better way to write this small notes bellow the line in a text (that could be useful, for example, to give the meaning of a word in a text intended for learning a language). The solution that came to mind was to use the underbrace command from the amsmath package and the text command in order to have an appropriate style. This is what I did:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, $\underbrace{\text{consectetuer}}_{\text{this is an annotation}}$ adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vesti- bulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque.
I guess it is not ideal, since \underbrace{}_{} is meant for equations and other types of mathematical expressions, and it's not mean to be used with text. I just want to know if there is a better way to do this.
Hi, I love Hermann Hesse and at some point I would like to learn German just in order to read his works in its original language, so if I were to star right now, since the reading part would be my main interest, I would not get into the usual stuff like presenting yourself or greetings, and I would not be bother with trying to have a good accent or native pronunciation.
Do you have any suggestions, resources or advice on learning German just to read literature?
Thanks in advance!
First of all, I'm not sure if this is the adequate community to ask about this topic, so if you know a more appropriate one please let me know.
Hi, I was wondering if there is academic literature not just on the learning of foreign languages in it self but on the teaching too. Since I'm a math teacher, and there is a ton of great literature on mathematics education, I became curious to know if there is also scholarly literature that a language teacher could benefit from reading.
Thanks in advance.