[B-Greek] Greek for Tokyo subways :-)
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Feb 19 10:07:26 EST 2004
At 8:16 AM -0500 2/19/04, Katb4now at aol.com wrote:
>Raymond,
>
>I'm obviously no expert, but I REALLY like the little paperback "Teach
>Yourself New Testamant Greek" by D F Hudson. It doesn't use accents which
>you might
>not like :-(
>
>It presents grammar right up front, no holds barred, unlike some of the other
>smaller, accent free, inexpensive paperbacks.
>
>It is a book to be memorized rather than providing LOTS of exercises. It
>would be too hard to write on the subway, I'd think anyway :-)
>
>It's $14.95 and has an answer key in the back.
>
>ISBN# 0-8442-3789-2
>
>It was written as an attempt to provide a textbook easier for students who
>spoke English as a second language. The KJV grammar was too hard for them to
>master along with Greek, I guess :-)
>
>It's my favorite Greek book, but it just doesn't have enough exercises for us
>:-(
I've seen this and I too think it's a good starting place for
self-teaching. This is part of a series originally called, I think,
"British Universities Teach-Yourself Books." There's a comparable one for
classical Attic by Gavin Betts and Henry Alan. But one will need to go
beyond these books, however helpful they may be as starters.
As for doing Greek on the Tokyo subway, I certainly don't have any such
experience, but I remember my first year of Greek (Tulane, 1952--ages ago),
our teacher suggested that the best place to memorize principal parts of
verbs was the St. Charles Avenue streetcar (which makes or used to make, a
complete circuit of uptown and downtown New Orleans). For doing Greek on
subway or public transport I'd recommend a NA or UBS GNT; although I don't
think the Barclay Newman dictionary that accompanies the UBS GNT is really
very good for serious study, it's adequate for someone doing continuous
reading in the GNT--exploring a new book in the Greek text for the first
time.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
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