two models?

Glendon M. Gross gross at xinetd.ath.cx
Fri Oct 25 10:32:41 EDT 2002


Another example of this DA/linguistics approach is Edward W. Goodrick's 
  "DO IT YOURSELF HEBREW AND GREEK"  [Multinomah Press.]  The student is 
encouraged to read along with a tape the first 47 verses of the Gospel 
of John, reproduced in large print in the book.  Then after the student 
is able to follow along with his eyes, he is then encouraged to read 
along with the tape.  The reading on the tape starts very slowly and 
gradually accelerates to the end.

The above reference was the springboard that enabled me to read
the Gospel of John after dropping out of a Greek class in college.
It helped me make the association between the sounds and the words
without having to know the grammar, and then led to me associating
the entire word with its meaning.   Although I am sure there are
deficiencies with this approach,  I can't help thinking that this method 
is similar to the way in which children learn a language.   How many 
four year old children can parse a sentence and tell you what is the 
subject and what is the predicate?  Yet many four year old children
understand how to talk in complete sentences.

Regards,

Glendon M. Gross
Amateur Greek Student

Eric Weiss wrote:
> 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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