[B-Greek] re: Online Courses
R Yochanan Bitan Buth
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Thu Aug 26 01:14:43 EDT 2004
>I am new to this group, and I hope someone can assist me with my question.
I would like to learn New Testament Greek, but I do not live in an area that
offers these courses. I have been looking at a few colleges that offer Greek
through distance education (e.g. Moody Bible Institute). I would like some
opinions on whether or not a person can learn the language adequately
without interaction with a professor. Also, can anyone recommend colleges
that offer Greek courses? I prefer a US college/university accredited by one
of the six regional accrediting agencies.
Thanks.
Bill>
XAIRE Bill,
Studying a language, whether online, self-study, or even in class, needs a
heavy dose of commonsense. It helps to have learned a second language as an
adult to a level of fluency so that a comparison measure of progress is
available. The good news is that languages are learnable. The bad news is
that it is possible to 'study' a language for 5 or twenty years and not
learn it. One piece of commonsense is to look at the end result of a
process. Does the road lead to the goal? Does the process involve the new
language or is it mostly in an old language?
ERRWSO
Randall Buth
Randall Buth, PhD
Director, Biblical Language Center
www.biblicalulpan.org
and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel
Hebrew University, Rothberg International School
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
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