Top Tips for Learning Latin: A Guide for Adult Learners
Are you thinking about learning Latin, or have you recently started? Here's some advice to help you get the most out of your studies.
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Over the millennia, the language of ancient Egypt was written in different scripts: hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic and Coptic. Coptic was the final stage of ancient Egyptian, and used the Greek alphabet (plus some additional signs) to record the language spoken by Egyptians in the late Roman, Byzantine and early Arab periods. Coptic continues to be used in the liturgy of the Egyptian Christian Church. Many surviving Coptic texts reflect the milieu of Egyptian and early eastern Christianity: these include Biblical works, hagiographies, monastic works and apocryphal gospels of the type preserved in the Nag Hammadi codices. Texts such as personal and business letters, spells and legal contracts tell us about the day-to-day life of the ordinary Egyptian.
I offer online Coptic lessons and activities for learners of all levels. You do not need any prior knowledge of Egyptian or Greek to learn Coptic.
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