[B-Greek] Greek refresher
Eric Weiss
eweiss at gte.net
Sat Dec 20 15:59:29 EST 2003
Because I'm curious about helps for my Greek class/students,
I wrote Ted Hildebrandt (e-mail) with questions about his new
program (which you are thinking of buying) versus the old Greek
Tutor (I have Hebrew Tutor). The following is from his replies.
Since the box does not go into enough detail about the
course/materials contents, I asked him directly:
Eweiss,
Basically the Mastering NT Greek has the old Gk Tutor program built into
it. There are also 4 printable books developed to coordinate with the
28 chapters of the Gk Tutor interactive program (textbook, 350 pp;
workbook 250 pp, a complete simple lexicon (every word in the NT) 100
pages, Vocab builder down to 9x 70 pages) these are all printable in
*.pdf format. I've also added an interactive 1 John 1-5 easy reader and
John 1-5 easy reader, a vocabulary builder down to the words used 9x in
the NT (1200 words) in the supplement. Thus it is a complete package
having all the textbooks and interactive materials you need to learn
first year Greek. My students were getting clobbered with high textbook
costs and this solves that problem.
Eric,
Probably the grammar Mastering NT Greek is closest to is Machen's. Not
sure how it fits with the other grammars. I used Mounce for a couple
years and hated leaving the verbs until after chapter 15. In Mastering
the Present verbs are introduced right away so sentences can be built
rather than working with a noun only approach. Not sure about Greek to
me. The chapters in Mastering are
1) Alphabet; 2) accents/syllables, 3) Present Active Indicative
Verbs, 4) Second Declension nouns, 5) First Declension nouns, 6)
Prepositions, 7) Adjectives; 8) Personal pronouns, 9) Middle/passive
verbs, 10) Future verbs;
11) Demonstrative Pronouns, 12) Imperfect Verbs; 13) Third Declension
nouns;
14) Second Aorist Verbs; 15) First Aorist Verbs; 16) Aorist & Future
Passives; 17) Contract Verbs; 18) Perfect Verbs; 19) Present
Participles;
20) Aorist Participles; 21) Perfect Participles; 22) Infinitives; 23)
Subjunctive Verbs; 24) Imperative Verbs; 25) Mi Verbs; 26) Numbers and
Interrogatives; 27) Clause types; and 28) Case Revisited (genitive and
dative case options in a deeper way);
Not sure how this synch's up with "Greek to me" The benefit of the
interactive program is the computer talks to you showing you how the
words are pronounced and can be clicked repeatedly until it is mastered.
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Eric S. Weiss
eweiss at gte.net
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