Open Persian

Sunoikisis Digital Classics Spring/Summer 2018

Session 9. Teaching Greek to Persian Speakers with Treebanking and Alignment

Thursday June 14, 2018, 17h00-18h15 CEST

Convenors: Arash Keramati (Tehran), Farnoosh Shamsian (University of Tehran), Maryam Foradi (University of Leipzig)

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yzg4W0XvQ

Description

In the first part we report about a 3-session workshop conducted in Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran, Iran, in October 2017 to test the treebanking method in translating Greek texts into New Persian. The students participating in the workshop were beginners in classical Greek, as their extra course, and almost without any good knowledge of the language. I had to explain two treebanks designed in Digital Classics Club hosted at Tufts of a paragraph of Plato (Sym.: 210e-211a). The link to the treebanking could be found here

In the second part of the session, available translations from Ancient Greek to Persian will be outlined. Then following the introduction of Perses (an online Ancient Greek course for Persian speakers), complications of Teaching and learning Ancient Greek in Persian with their possible solutions will be discussed.

Outline:

Discussing the workshop results held in October 2017
Presenting available translations from Ancient Greek to Persian
Introducing Perses, an online Ancient Greek course for Persian speakers
Discussing complications of Teaching and learning Ancient Greek in Persian
Employing alignment for teaching Ancient Greek to Persian speakers
Introducing the direct translation of the first sentence in Herodotus into New Persian