[B-Greek] Diving into the NT/ What to learn first?

TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com
Mon Jan 17 09:07:05 EST 2005


My son and I started out learning a bit of Koine, switched to Attic last 
fall, and then came to a screeching halt over the holidays. I knew we were in a 
rut and decided to quit or throw myself into Greek for just a bit and see what 
happened.

I know I'm supposed to learn Attic first, but couldn't find anything to throw 
myself into, so I fell back on Koine.

Over the past week of so I downloaded the interactive vocabulary builder 
audios from this site, 
http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/New_Testament_Greek/00-GreekAudioPage.htm used Quickmem Greek, and looked at the Visual 
Greek cartoons and absorbed a huge amount of vocab in a very short time. 

My son burned the audios onto a CD for me and I put them in a walkman. I've 
tried immersing myself in the vocabulary for several hours a day, using many 
different senses. Hearing, speaking, seeing, drilling on the computer, writing, 
etc.

Anyway, it really worked! I picked up my interlinear NT and couldn't believe 
how much of it I can read!

I can't read the verb endings at all, but I 've got a good start on the 
meaning of verbs, the nouns, pronouns and prepositions. I can see I'll be a LONG 
time learning verbs :-(

Now to my question. Is there a website that lists the grammar topics that are 
most important and the easiest to read? A Quick start quide if you know what 
I mean. I once saw one for Homeric Greek.

Something that would do things like explain that if I memorized the 
nominative of most pronouns, I could pretty much guess the other cases by the endings, 
and then just list out the nominatives to memorize. Without realizing it, I 
did that with the the audios.

I was looking through some grammar books last night and verbs seem to take up 
half the books. Then the other stuff is sprinkled in between the verb 
lessons, it seems to me to break them up a bit. I'd kind of like to tackle some of 
those bits all at once in a big gulp and maybe study a few of the most common 
verb ending.

Right now I'm content to be able to understand 1/2 to 3/4 of what I read. I 
figure that by immersion, I'll pick up verbs a bit.

I intend to work through a textbook, but I'm thinking that dry lessons on 
verbs will make more sense if I've previously been immersed in them as I read.

Kat Doe
homeschool mom



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