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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