[B-Greek] Interlinear Greek-English NT

Ken Wilson KWILSON at mbakercorp.com
Tue Dec 27 14:33:53 EST 2005


Thanks, Glen and Jim, for your input.  My learning style and my time constraints are best suited to an interlinear.  I hope that after a year or two of reading from it every day, I'll be able to transition to a non-interlinear with only limited need to look up the meaning of words.  That's my hope and goal.

Ken Wilson
Zelienople, PA

>>> Glenden Riddle <glendenpriddle at yahoo.com> 12/27/05 2:23 PM >>>
I beg to disagree with Jim. What's the difference in learning vocabulary in isolation from a vocabulary in context? The big difference depends on how an individual learns most easily. Some folks love the deductive method and are good at memorizing paradigms, lists, rules--then going to the text and applying what they have commited to memory. Others are very much inductive learners and can see things in context and absorb meaning of words as well as syntactical relationships by repetition. The inductive learner actually has a big jump on the deductive learner because they learn both word meanings and contextual indicators and syntax all at the same swipe.
  glen riddle
  albuquerque, NM

Jim West <jwest at highland.net> wrote:
  

Ken Wilson wrote:
> I have taken one year of NT Greek (about 20 years ago), and I want to learn how to read the entire NT in its original Greek. It seems to me that an interlinear Greek-English New Testament would be a valuable tool for such a beginner as me. But I want to get the best version available.
> 

Don't get an interlinear- it will only cripple you. Do the hard work, 
memorize the words that occur more than 100 times, memorize paradigms, 
and learn the grammar. It takes time but it can be done.

The use of an interlinear will not help you because you will constantly 
find yourself "cheating".

Anecdotally, when someone asked in our elementary Greek course years ago 
about using one, the Prof nearly blew a gasket- denouncing them in the 
strongest terms as the refuge of the lazy and listless.

The hours you put into actually learning the language will reward you 
far more than a crutch will.

Best

Jim

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