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seumasjeltzz / LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata

LGPSI: An open, expansive Greek-reading composition project
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Long paragraphs #15

Closed ldutra closed 5 years ago

ldutra commented 5 years ago

Would it be interesting to have shorter paragraphs? Specially when one is not fluent in the alphabet, parsing the initial paragraph, for instance, is quite painful.

seumasjeltzz commented 5 years ago

I wonder, and have often wondered, if the solution, such as it is, is to create lessons that sit between 0 and 1. Because there's a different alphabet, and because students who are starting from absolutely zero need to come to terms with that before they can begin to read, a "unit zero" strikes me as a desideratum.

ldutra commented 5 years ago

Granted. But that creates other issues such as pronounciation, as most of us aren’t skilled in IPA, many not even native English speakers if one uses English as a base for denoting pronounciation. Duolingo works with either voice recordings or speech synthesis, but that jumps from a simple, nice text document to a fully automated course.

I would split the issue of learning the alphabet (and diacrictics) in another issue, and keep this about paragraph length. I have been doing modern Greek Duolingo for months now, so I am fairly confident in the alphabet (but not in κοινή or αρχαία prounciation), but still shorter paragraphs would help a lot.

ldutra commented 5 years ago

Just generated a new lgpsi.epub from current source, thanks a lot for the paragraph breaks!