Funk's (Notorious) B.I.G. (was: Beginning Greek Grammar)

B. D. Colt babc2 at attbi.com
Mon Jul 15 21:37:53 EDT 2002


On 15 Jul 2002 at 11:45, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> I think there's almost always a problem when one practices what
> one is learning on made-up Greek sentences rather than original (even
> if adapted) connected Greek paragraphs. -- 
> 
One textbook I tried for a time drove me crazy that way.  The author 
had made up the sentences in the exercises (at least in the early 
part of the book).  I would translate them very carefully and come up 
with something that didn't make sense in English.  Well, that 
couldn't be right, so I'd go back and try again, more carefully.  I 
got the same answer, and it still didn't make sense.  So back and be 
sure to think about every word, every ending, everything.  Still the 
same answer and still it doesn't make sense.  So I would give up and 
look at the teacher's book of answers (which I had bought with the 
book for self-study) and find that the right answer was just what I 
had, and it *still* didn't make sense.

Not my favorite textbook!

  Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at attbi.com
St John the Evangelist, San Francisco





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