[B-Greek] Re: Defining Terms
Skip Tyler
tylers12 at adelphia.net
Wed Feb 23 11:25:05 EST 2005
I am relatively new to Greek as I am just about to finish Mounce's
book. I would like to echo what Steve said about "a chance for your
mind to work it out". I didn't make much progress until I put my
interlinear away and started to struggle with the text. The more I
struggled the easier it became. I do use a diglot but discipline myself
not to look. I try to parse every word in sentence and then do a
translation. Then I check myself. When I first starting studying Greek
I thought an interlinear was good thing, but the folks on this list and
now my own experience had convinced me otherwise.
Skip Tyler,
Spotsylvania, VA
Steve Puluka wrote:
> Matt Gumm wrote:
>
>> What is the difference (if any) between an
>> "interlinear" text and a "parallel" text? I've seen
>> many statements (both on this list and elsewhere on
>> the web) discouraging the use of interlinear texts by
>> those trying to learn Greek. Are these two terms the
>> same, or is there some difference?
>
>
> Matt,
>
> An interlinear has the original language text with an English gloss
> under each word. The parallel text has multiple columns with the
> original language in one and translation(s) in the others for
> reference. There are also books that do both, have an interlinear
> gloss with a parallel translation too.
>
> An interlinear is not recomended because this makes learning
> vocabulary much harder. You see the English word right there with the
> Greek and don't have a chance for your mind to work it out. With a
> parallel text it is easier to cover or block out the English until you
> really need the help. The basic idea is for your reading to reinforce
> your memorization of words by giving you a chance to recognize the
> forms first then check your work.
>
> You can acheive the same result using a real Greek text and your own
> Bible almost as easily.
>
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