[B-Greek] Criteria for evaluating NT Greek Intro Grammars

Patrick Narkinsky patrick at narkinsky.com
Thu Feb 19 14:26:51 EST 2004


On Feb 19, 2004, at 1:27 PM, Kenneth Litwak wrote:

>  I'm surprised about the comments I've seen on
> Greek to English and English to Greek exercises.  When
> one is learning a language, asking one to go from
> English to the unknown language seems to me to verge
> on the absurd.  How could one possibly know how a
> native speaker would express the English???  When we
> can't even be sure of a good English rendering from
> points in Greek, trying to go the other way seems to
> me a pedagogical problem.  Furthermore, as someone
> elsepointed out, it's going to be a problem trying to
> come up with simple sentences from the Greek NT, even
> dumbed down, to help students with basic points.

{patrick}

As an amateur, I suppose the difference comes in over whether you are 
trying to develop a "formal" approach to the language - that is, to 
insure accurate interpretation according to rigid grammatical rules - 
or an "informal" approach - which would focus more on fluency.  I have 
come to think that the formal may be a white rabbit, and so I've 
concentrated on the latter.  In doing this, I've found composition very 
helpful as a way to help me internalize the structures of the language.

Patrick

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