[B-Greek] Review of vocab

Ken Penner pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Thu Sep 30 15:27:58 EDT 2004


 > As 
> you  guys amass so much vocab do you all still review on a 
> reg. schedule or 
> just  read? 

My own practice is to just read, except when I am studying a particular
passage in more depth. Then I use Flash! Pro to extract ALL the vocabulary
words in that passage and test myself on those words before reading the
passage. If you prefer books to software, Kubo's _Reader's Lexicon_ works
for this purpose, too. Then as I read the words in context, they become
better fixed I my memory (i.e., I confirm what Carl said about reading the
LOGOI in the context of the LOGOS). Still, even at my best, I doubt I knew
many more than 2000 Greek words (there are about 2300 words occurring more
than once in the NT).

> Or do both? If you don't at what point do you 
> stop, after your through  with first year? 

I made the transition from learning vocabulary lists based on frequency to
lists based on passages after 2 or 3 years of Greek.

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A. (Hebrew Poetry)
Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster University
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Flash! Pro vocabulary software: http://s91279732.onlinehome.us/flash or
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flash_pro/join




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