[B-Greek] Greek audio sample

TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com
Fri Sep 16 14:24:33 EDT 2005


 
 
 
Thanks, but I figured out what the problem is.
 
WOW, Mark 2 is quite different in the Textus Receptus than from the Wescott  
Hort!! I knew I wasn't quite THAT stupid about changing a few  vowels :-0
 
I'm printing out your notes though and will study them! They are quite  
helpful :-)
 
Kat Doe
 
In a message dated 9/16/2005 11:24:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com writes:

> I  downloaded the sample of Mark 2. What verse is it starting with. If  
it's  
> verse one I'm in big trouble :-0

Yep, it begins with 2:1  (after he says "Chapter 2").

Give yourself about 3 weeks of listening  to Zodhiates before giving up. He 
starts out slowly in a 
book, and then  increases his speed as he gets further along in the book. MAKE
 SURE YOU  
ARE READING ALONG with the text, at least initially.

The harder  things to get used to, after being accustomed to Erasmian:

I, EI, U,  OI, H all being pronounced as "ee"
NT being pronounced as "nd" - e.g.,  PANTA is pronounced like "pahn-da" or 
"puhn-da"
O and W being pronounced  the same
NO ROUGH BREATHING PRONOUNCED

Other things:

AI being  pronounced as E
The guttural and "y"-sound given to G
B as "v" and D as  "th" (as in "these")



Also, Greek does not generally contract  syllables in terms of their length. 
The accented 
syllables are stressed,  but this does not result in the unaccented syllables 
being shortened as 
we  do in English.

I bought the Zodhiates tapes a few years ago, and then  "graduated" to the 
CDs (available for 
half price at the Evangelical  Theological Society meeting - which this year 
(November) will be in 
Valley  Forge, PA - great book deals!!!). I'm tempted to buy a new iPOD Nano 
and put  them on 
it. It's hard to make the switch, but once made, it's hard to go  back to 
Erasmian.


Eric S.  Weiss






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