[B-Greek] Need some encouragement

Jeremiah McGowan jeremiahmcgowan at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 23 22:54:21 EDT 2004


JMonte2000 at aol.com wrote:

>Hi guys
>    I started on verbs, Mounce holds off verbs until  you get the noun system 
>down, 15 chapters in he starts the Verbs. I am at  chapter 21 and I'm getting 
>punch drunk, excuse the pun.
>It's like I never heard of these words before this and I'm getting blasted  
>with words like mood voice, aspect, person, middle. Then on to Present active,  
>present passive, present middle, future active, future middle, deponents, 
>Verbal  roots, future middle, liquid future active, liquid future middle, 
>imperfect  active, imperfect middle passive.
>Next week Aorist active and aorist middle. Wow that was a mouth full.
>    Please tell me it will sink in! Or some pointers  wouldn't be too bad at 
>this point.
> 
>Grace and  Peace to You, Jimmy Montesano
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Jimmy,
   Go back to the summary of chapter 6 in Mounce's book. Note what he 
says about "the fog". Especially when you start working on verbs, this 
is incredibly true. (For those who haven't studied Mounce; the fog is 
that uncertain feeling you get when you're trying to learn Greek and you 
can't quite get a handle on something. Once you've gone two or three 
chapters, you look back and realize that you've just gotten the concept, 
but now you're uncertain about the two chapters you've just read, and so 
on...)
   My best encouragement is to keep working on it. Take your time and 
slow it down if you have to, but keep working. Once you've studied a few 
more concepts, you'll look back and realize you understand what you're 
reading now. It's a hard thing to accept, but it's also one of the truest.

Jeremiah McGowan


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