[B-Greek] Different aproach to learn Greek

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jan 20 19:47:15 EST 2004


At 7:28 PM -0500 1/20/04, <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>  WarrenFulton at telering.at  wrote; (under the subject "Nouns first, later
>Verbs")
>
> ...Most language courses today, instead of marshaling
>> content around broad chapter banners like \"nouns\" and \"verbs\" or
>> even \"a-declension nouns\" and \"present indicative verbs,\" tend to use
>> the sentence itself as a showcase to roll out new forms as they are
>> needed.
>
>I read recently about a strategy to learn Greek that uses the sentence as
>basis for learning languages rather than individual words. It requires one
>to memorize sections of text, and then start substituting words with
>others of a different tense or case. Once these become familiar, do some
>more substituting, etc.
>
>Does anyone have any experience with this?
>Do you think that it would be worth the effort or would my time be better
>spend going through lessons as they are presented in grammars?

That's an approach I would definitely recommend; it's the one employed in
the exercises of the method from which I taught classical Attic Greek for
several years (the JACT textbook, _Reading Greek_).
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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