Reply #12: I assume you mean ancient Greek.

[Lionel Mandrake]

It's not too bad until you get to verbs. Then watch out. The conjugation of a single verb goes on for page after page.

If you do succeed in learning all those endings, you had better do a lot of reading, or you will forget everything (as I did) and have to start all over again.

When I told a gym buddy I was studying Greek, he started talking to me in MODERN Greek. Of course I couldn't understand a word of it.

Not that I ever learned to pronounce the ancient language, either. It had tones. The accents were introduced in Hellenistic times to indicate pitch levels, not loudness. Classics scholars know all this, but most of them do not teach it, because that would make elementary Greek classes even more difficult.