[B-Greek] English to Greek

Jonathan Bailey baileyjn at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 25 13:11:51 EST 2007


What are you guys doing for English to Greek resources? Right now, pretty much all my memorization is concentrated on recognition of the Greek text as written and is therefore Greek to English (I look at the Greek of a flashcard and try to recall the English, for example). But as I advance, I am noticing my active skills are very, very far behind my passive ones. This is even becoming a pain in theological conversations where Greek comes up, as I will discuss the Greek of a passage, but not be able to recall the actual Greek words, much to my embarrassment at times.
 
I have the idea that I want to try writing Koine Greek. While there are grammars out there that use this method, they usually require a translation into Greek, and the reference to use is a limited vocabulary list provided by the grammar. What I think I really need is a full-fledged English to Greek Koine dictionary. Like BDAG but flipped. Is there such a thing? Online or in print would be cool.
 
I would prefer to be writing to the board asking for pen-pals. I realize, however, that I would quickly stumble and not be able to look for words I need. While I was in Germany I had heard of clubs of individuals that not only write, but have fun SPEAKING ancient Greek to each other, predominantly in the Attic form. I have also seen an English to Attic dictionary. I don't know the first thing about Attic syntax, however, and am really doing all this to advance my understanding of the Greek Bible. So I was wondering if any of you wizards have attempted to tackle this problem. Do any of you PhDs and 50-year Greek learners ever write to each other in Greek? If so, how did you learn to do it? What did you use? Where can I get that stuff?
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