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That is impossible at this point. It is what I went to school for. I'm hoping to read the Greek NT and the Greek LXX without help one day. It's not as hard as you'd think once you memorize the Greek alphabet and the top 200 most commonly used Greek words in the Bible. Well....grammar is hard. Sometimes you just have to flex those thinking muscles.
But if you are not among a Greek culture among the actual people, then that would be like trying to build an airplane on your own by looking at the blueprints just yourself. A school is just telling you to study the materials. They are not putting you into the real life environment of real talking and writing scenarios so as to get by with the locals of Greece. But it is even more than that. Once you understood Modern Greek, then you can start to move on to study Ancient Biblical Greek based on what you know about Modern Greek. In other words, it is like trying to teach a person who is from China in understanding 1600's English just by giving him a book. They need to first understand Late Modern English (i.e. the English we speak today) so as to grasp 1600's English. For the 1600's English is a dead language and is best understood by knowing English that we speak today.
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