[B-Greek] sound and fluency 1Jn1
R Yochanan Bitan Buth
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Wed Apr 14 08:04:37 EDT 2004
XAIRIEIN,
Tying in a couple of threads, on sound and on language 'use',
for those interested in hearing Koine Greek, we have uploaded the first
chapter of 1John.
H PRW'TH EPISTOLH` TOU~ IWA'NNOU, KEFA'LION A'LPHA
www.biblicalulpan.org <http://www.biblicalulpan.org/>
[It is copyrighted 2004, though not yet marked on the website. It may be
downloaded and listed to but cannot be incorporated in other work or
websites without permission.]
PS: (a note to keep apples and oranges separate)
Listening to recorded texts is good and a vital part of a curriculum. It
might be a way of testing aspects of internalization. I am not sure that it
will produce first layers of internalization. It's more or a high second or
third gear in a language program than a first or second gear. I appreciated
Warren Fulton's comments on language learning assumptions and pedagogy. I am
sure that he would agree that "oral language use" entails something more and
different that listening to an audio recording, but would .
The file is an MP3, about 750Mg. Under 2 minutes. It is read at a reasonable
cadence for students though without unnatural delays. The intonation
attempts to keep transitions and prominent items properly demarcated.
Listeners will be pleased to know that all and only accented syllables are
accented,
also A-alpha is clearly distinuished from O-mikron,
EI is clearly distinguished from H
U is clearly distinguished from OU.
It is a reading that is phonemic to the period, so AI=E, W=O, OI=U, and
EI=I.
Data on the Roman period and various pronounciation options are also
downloadable in PDF.
XAIRETE,
Randall Buth
Randall Buth, PhD
Director, Biblical Language Center
www.biblicalulpan.org
and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel
Rothberg International School
Hebrew University
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
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