[B-Greek] Learn Nouns first, later Verbs

bgreek at ntresources.com bgreek at ntresources.com
Mon Jan 19 10:27:39 EST 2004


> How many purely nominal sentences do you normally encounter?

I'm not so sure that's a fair way to analyze Mounce's approach. Even though
the student doesn't formally learn verbal forms until after the nouns, they
see plenty of them early--all translated, and many with explanatory notes,
etc., so that the student can "read" normal sentences. By the time they get
to verbs, they already have a fairly good "feel" for how verbs work. I
didn't learn it this way, but having taught this system for 10 years now, I
like it. It certainly is not "worse" than the traditional approach, and IMHO
perhaps better--at least for my teaching style (and that's often a key in
deciding such things!). It has enough blend of inductive with the deductive
framework to also add some of the strengths of that approach. But Mounce's
approach has been hashed over quite a bit in the past on this list; do a
search in the archives on "Mounce" and you'll have plenty of opinions!

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