Hi, I'm Friedrich de Wet
Posted: April 11th, 2019, 10:06 am
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I'm from South Africa and currently busy with an Ma in Koine Greek. I want to study the New Testament better in order to understand God's revelation better. However, I just love reading Greek for the sake of reading Greek as well. I hope to one day be able to read Greek almost as fluently as I read English or my mother tongue.
One of my interests is pedagogical techniques. I lament the poor quality of teaching we get here in South Africa. We are still stuck with the grammar and translation method - and we don't even translate into Greek. Zero productive skills are utilized and the only receptive skill used is reading (if you can call it reading). The result, after even three years of training: pastors can parse and analyze, but if you put the NT text in front of them, they read like children starting school with even less comprehension. I hope that this can oneday be overturned.
My other interest is the debate on verbal aspect and time. At the moment I'm reading up on cognitive linguistics and its contributions to the study of Koine Greek.
I hope to learn a lot from you guys!
Kind regards
Friedrich de Wet
I'm from South Africa and currently busy with an Ma in Koine Greek. I want to study the New Testament better in order to understand God's revelation better. However, I just love reading Greek for the sake of reading Greek as well. I hope to one day be able to read Greek almost as fluently as I read English or my mother tongue.
One of my interests is pedagogical techniques. I lament the poor quality of teaching we get here in South Africa. We are still stuck with the grammar and translation method - and we don't even translate into Greek. Zero productive skills are utilized and the only receptive skill used is reading (if you can call it reading). The result, after even three years of training: pastors can parse and analyze, but if you put the NT text in front of them, they read like children starting school with even less comprehension. I hope that this can oneday be overturned.
My other interest is the debate on verbal aspect and time. At the moment I'm reading up on cognitive linguistics and its contributions to the study of Koine Greek.
I hope to learn a lot from you guys!
Kind regards
Friedrich de Wet