two models?
Eric Weiss
eweiss at gte.net
Fri Oct 25 09:56:57 EDT 2002
Two presently available approaches that might give newbies a more
intuitive grasp of the language than learning by rote all the paradigms,
morphology categories, etc., would be:
John Dobson's LEARN NEW TESTAMENT GREEK. Students learn to pronounce,
then read, without first learning the "rules." Rules come later, after
students are familiar with the way the language actually "works." Plus,
Dobson seems to teach some DA/linguistic info along the way. His Hebrew
grammar developed along the same lines is published by SIL, which is a
clue that he writes from a DA/linguistics approach.
Randall Buth's CDs on Living Koine Greek. Only the beginning lessons are
on CD (the rest will follow in the Spring, he tells me), but students
start at a REALLY elementary level here. They look at pictures while
listening to a verbal description of the picture. This is even before
they learn the alphabet. They learn to "think" in the language before
being taught the rules.
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Eric S. Weiss
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S.D.G.
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