[B-Greek] Online teaching tools
Sarah Madden
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 08:45:37 EST 2007
Andres --
I googled Dr. Louis Tyler, and found a sample of his TERRIFIC recording
on this site: http://hebrewgreekaudiobible.com/Hebrew.html
What a treasure. And the CDs are reasonable ($30 for the entire Greek
NT). I'll share this with students I tutor/mentor.
Sarah
On Dec 11, 2007 7:41 AM, Suttles, Andrew <andrew.suttles at analexcleveland.com>
wrote:
> If a precise Erasmian pronunciation, but with authentic accenting is the
> goal, perhaps the recordings by Dr. Louis Tyler would be helpful. I
> ordered a set of MP3s from him a while back and have enjoyed them. If I
> remember right, he used the modern greek pronunciation for many years
> before returning an "Erasmian type" pronunciation for the pronunciation
> precision several have mentioned here. The recordings are
> understandable to someone with an "Erasmian ear", however, there is a
> distinctly "greekish" accent to them that is missing from several sort
> of "Americanized" bgreek recording I've heard.
>
> I'd be curious if any one else has given him a listen and could post
> your impression.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Suttles
>
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> --
>
> Eric --
> I'm glad you reminded us of the reason we are studying NT Greek in the
> first
> place: to better understand the Greek text. With that said, whenever I
> read aloud, I attempt to be aware of the meaning of the sentence, and
> the phrases that hang together, and the lilt of the voice at the end of
> a question -- just as one does with English. When reading Greek aloud, I
> believe it also helps to be consistent in stressing the accented
> syllables -- in fact, a Greek immigrant recently told me that speaking
> Greek well is "all in the accents." I don't intentionally set out to
> memorize the accents on most words (except, of course, accents, relative
> pronouns, easily confused small words, and such), but I make it a habit
> to stress the accented syllable whenever I read it. Then it really does
> come alive like a living language to me.
>
> Sarah
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