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by Paul-Nitz
February 4th, 2020, 8:45 am
Forum: Alphabet and Pronunciation
Topic: Restored Koine Pronunciation - Web resources for learners
Replies: 6
Views: 8218

Restored Koine Pronunciation - Web resources for learners

Links checked 04 Feb 2020 Biblical Language Center, Notes on the pronunciation system of Koine Greek, Randall Buth. https://www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/koine-greek-pronunciation/ Biblical Language Center, Sample Greek audio. https://www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/greek-mp3-samples/ Ben Kantor - v...
by Paul-Nitz
January 30th, 2020, 2:49 pm
Forum: The Verb in Koine Greek
Topic: Aorist indicative with future temporal reference
Replies: 88
Views: 87686

Re: Aorist indicative with future temporal reference

I'm afraid I have not taken the time to read this whole thread. Bad form, I know. The approach to this looks like it is intellectually above my pay grade. Nevertheless, I'll be bold to weigh in because I'm so excited about my layman's discovery. About a week ago, I was talking to my colleague in Gre...
by Paul-Nitz
January 13th, 2020, 6:42 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: The term "grammar-translation method"
Replies: 8
Views: 7524

Re: The term "grammar-translation method"

On the 4%, I'm not sure that such exist. I think some do exist, with the qualification I mentioned. ...so that when they then engage in the "communication" of reading intensively, they attain to a degree of genuine comprehension of a language. The main point is that while very few learner...
by Paul-Nitz
January 13th, 2020, 5:49 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: The term "grammar-translation method"
Replies: 8
Views: 7524

Re: The term "grammar-translation method"

GT "works" when the student finally gets many a month to use the language in a communicative context. I'd like to expand a bit on what ὁ ΜΔ Buth says. I agree with him, but there's more to say. There are those who the Latinist CLT teachers call the " four percenters ." I've neve...
by Paul-Nitz
January 12th, 2020, 11:05 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: The term "grammar-translation method"
Replies: 8
Views: 7524

Re: The term "grammar-translation method"

"Grammar-Translation method" is used widely outside of Biblical Studies. The method had its birth with Latin and Greek instruction, but widely was applied to other languages. E.g., Larsen-Freeman and Anderson's book on living language learning describes the "Grammar-Translation method...
by Paul-Nitz
January 12th, 2020, 10:14 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Colors in Ancient Greek
Replies: 37
Views: 30424

Re: Colors in Ancient Greek

I've just been reading a fascinating account of color in Guy Deutscher's Through the Language Glass. He contradicts the anti-Whorf crowd with a sensible view of the influence of language on thought. His gives a 95 page history of a debate on color and language (beginning with Gladstone's study of Ho...
by Paul-Nitz
December 18th, 2019, 6:30 am
Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
Topic: θύρα in Acts 3:2
Replies: 10
Views: 4128

Re: θύρα in Acts 3:2

But that could equally well serve as the central meaning of πύλη Maybe the prototype θύρα would need more description - a close-able opening in a house (smaller structure), more of a hole with four sides. I'm not sure if the prototype would focus on the hole or the closing. When we say "door&q...
by Paul-Nitz
December 15th, 2019, 1:55 am
Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
Topic: Audio of Philemon in Koine
Replies: 3
Views: 5875

Re: Audio of Philemon in Koine

Mark, That is a wonderful reading of Philemon. Your fluency and accuracy is great. Very easy to listen to and understand. I think my African students wouldn't have any problem distinguishing between THETA as an aspirated T and TAU as unaspirated. For those of us (English 1st language) who did not gr...
by Paul-Nitz
December 15th, 2019, 1:25 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: KOINE PHRASEBOOK
Replies: 39
Views: 64168

Re: KOINE PHRASEBOOK

Communicative Koine Resources spreadsheet:
1) Vocabulary
2) Phrasebook
3) Verb list

LINK (copy/paste):
drive.google.com/open?id=11VWNbleyHdmQ2ajFxiwySbc_PZSG5DUI&authuser=pnitz@seelsorger.org&usp=drive_fs
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by Paul-Nitz
December 14th, 2019, 10:43 am
Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
Topic: θύρα in Acts 3:2
Replies: 10
Views: 4128

Re: θύρα in Acts 3:2

I've just been learning more about the prototype theory and its application to lexicology. The idea is that a word has a prototypical meaning from which other meaning radiate. Some of the senses radiating out from that central meaning may have only a family resemblance. Connection to the center beco...

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