[B-Greek] Re: Greek & Hebrew brush-up" tools

bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca
Thu Feb 26 18:37:37 EST 2004


  Polycarp66 at aol.com  wrote on 
  Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:36:59 EST
 > 
> In a message dated 2/25/2004 7:47:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> nebarry at verizon.net writes:
> When teaching Greek and Latin, my students would occasionally ask for tips and
> tricks (such as rhymes or neat acronyms) for learning the language.  I told 
> them
> "I have a trick which will absolutely assure you of learning all your 
> paradigms
> and vocab: hard work and memorization."
> 
> My students hated me...  :)
> ____
> 
> I agree with you.  I think when one uses a trick to remember something he 
> creates extra work for himself.  Now he not  only has to remember what it was he 
> wanted to learn but the trick as well.  That sounds like too much work to me.
 

I borrowed a book once that was meant to make memorization easier. I can't remember the name of the book but it had all sorts of absurd mnemonics for endings that correspond to moods and tenses etc. My memory was not good enough to be able to use these "memory aids". (About all I remember of this book was that the picture for the subjunctive was a 'junk sub'marine.)

Bert de Haan.




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