[B-Greek] Learning Greek, Experiences, and Thoughts

McCarthy, Brian S UTCHQ mccartbs at utrc.utc.com
Thu Mar 31 16:32:29 EST 2005


     "Languages, fully and properly learned, are learned on and with both
sides of the brain." 

I got a "Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine" a few months ago, and I'm
reading a page or a chapter in Greek, then the same passage in Latin.  I
find I'm understanding the Greek *better* than the Latin, but understanding
the Latin *more easily* than the Greek.

I'm sure that what's happening is that the Latin, which I've never formally
studied other than sitting in on the beginnings of my children's tutoring,
is being processed in my brain as some sort of bizarro-Spanish, while the
Greek is on its own.  

It's an odd experience;  I can almost *feel* different neural pathways being
activated by the two partially-learned languages.  

     "it will be a long time before funds would be gathered, and possibly
more before good actors/voices would be able to produce natural sounding
Greek at movie quality."

Would there be a Greek counterpart of Shakespearean actors, maybe in an
academic setting in Greece, who could do it without having to teach people
Erasmian-or-whatever from scratch?

Brian McCarthy
mccartbs at utrc.utc.com 



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