[B-Greek] Difficulties of Learning Greek

James Spinti JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Mon Oct 30 17:12:05 EST 2006


If you are looking for a good companion for learning English so you can
learn Greek, try this:

"Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek:
Learning Biblical Greek Grammatical Concepts through English Grammar"
by Gary A. Long
Hendrickson Publishers, 2006
239 pages, English, Paper
ISBN: 1565634063
List Price: $19.95 (cheaper online)

It was recently reviewed (favorably) here:
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5227 

Gary also wrote a similar one for Biblical Hebrew. 

HTH,
James


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> George F Somsel
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 4:31 PM
> To: bendersa at earthlink.net; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Difficulties of Learning Greek
> 
> 
> I'm sure that Randall has a good point in emphasizing the 
> need to use an approach which involves all of the senses in 
> learning a language, but I'm very far from thinking that 
> lacking certain elements makes for difficult learning.  What 
> I have generally found in cases where someone complains about 
> the difficulty of something is simply that they are unwilling 
> to make the effort required, not that it is supremely 
> difficult.  Learning a language -- any language whether 
> ancient or modern -- is not accomplished without effort.  You 
> cannot go sit under the tree of learning and expect the fruit 
> thereof to  simply fall into your lap.  As regards being 
> confronted with words like " mood voice, aspect, person, 
> middle" I would suggest reading the text of any grammar you 
> happen to choose.  These will generally define them for you.  
> Learn them as you would the definition of any English word.
>  
> george
> gfsomsel
> _________
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Amos Bender <bendersa at earthlink.net>
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 2:28:00 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] Difficulties of Learning Greek
> 
> 
> Amos Bender
> bendersa at earthlink.net
> EarthLink Revolves Around You.
> 
> Difficulties of Learning Koine Greek,
<snip> 
> Hi guys
> "I started on verbs, Mounce holds off verbs until  you get 
> the noun system down, 15 chapters in he starts the Verbs. I 
> am at  chapter 21 and I'm getting punch drunk, excuse the pun
> It's like I never heard of these words before this and I'm 
> getting blasted with words like mood voice, aspect, person, 
> middle. Then on to Present active, present passive, present 
> middle, future active, future middle, deponents, Verbal  
> roots, future middle, liquid future active, liquid future 
> middle, imperfect active, imperfect middle passive.
> Next week Aorist active and aorist middle. Wow that was a 
> mouth full.     Please tell me it will sink in! Or some 
> pointers wouldn't be too bad at this point."  End of quote.
<snip> 



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