[B-Greek] Vocab retention methodology (Drs Buth and Conrad)

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 20 08:56:27 EDT 2008


This is kind of a follow up and I think better
communicates one of the issues I'm finding hard to
understand.

The reason for my hesitancy for using index cards
WITHOUT CONTEXT is because there are so many nuances
to some words. If I wanted to learn the word ARCH, and
I put it with EN ARCHi HN hO LOGOS, I might miss all
the other nuances of ARCH and learn the usage for this
use only. In other words, I'd really be interested in
hearing from Drs Buth and Conrad (alphabetical order)
on this nuance issue (semantic domain) and vocab
memorization.

To Drs Buth and Conrad: when you were first learning a
Greek word, did you write down all its nuances? I
mean, LOGOS has numerous nuances; so, did you write
ALL the nuances down or did you write down, in context
form, each nuance on separate index cards? Using ARCH
above, how would you go about learning that ARCH means
several different things depending on its usage in a
context. I am really just wanting to go about
memorizing more and more the best or most effective
way. And it is obvious to me that you two have
attained a level that few can. I mean no disrespect to
others. There are others out here that have attained a
very high level also, but these two come immediately
to mind.

Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas


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