[B-Greek] Re: Greek Pronunciation (To Curtis)

moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr
Sat Apr 10 20:48:48 EDT 2004


Dear Curtis,
I would appreciate if you make the MP3 files avaailable in the internet.

Sincerely
Moon Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, KOrea
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Erasmian is an artificial pronunciation, basically it's just Greek
pronounced badly in whatever the local accent is, so it actually sounds
different in the USA than in the UK and in Mexico (I have heard for myself.)

I would suggest you study and use the Modern Greek pronunciation. It is the
only pronunciation with a historical connection with ancient Greek, and is
virtually identical to the Byzantine pronunciation. I have the Greek New
Testament in MP3 read by a native Greek speaker, let me know if you want it
and I'll set it up on FTP. There is a growing trend in biblical scholarship
to use the modern pronunciation. I think one way this is helpful is you
should never have to run through a square of stops again to understand why a
vowel contract happens -- it's very obvious in the way the word is
pronounced!

I am entering my eighth semester of Greek. Like you I began teaching myself
Greek from an old grammar during high school. May the Lord bless you
studies.

Bless the Name
Curtis


Moon R. Jung
Associate Professor
Dept of Media Technology
Graduate School of Media Comm
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea





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