[B-Greek] Learning Greek (back to basics)
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 17 18:16:58 EDT 2008
I went through Rosetta Stone Modern Greek CD 1 and 2. If I was allowed to READ the word/phrase/sentence, I was 90% likely to get it. If I LISTENED only, I got it about 3% (including guesses!). I could not understand the most basic words in Greek by just listening. If this is a revolutionary method, all that tells me is the previous methods were flops.
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
--- On Thu, 7/17/08, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Learning Greek (back to basics)
> To: "greek B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 3:54 PM
> EGRAPSA Alexandros:
> >We teach children to read by teaching them to
> "cipher" (or "decode", as we say
> in education) the letters and words, but then we make them
> practice
> reading, because it is only by practicing that they master
> it. The
> same goes for Greek.>
>
> Actually, we teach children to read a language
> that they already speak.
> And yes, I would agree that the same should go for Greek.
>
> While reading is a wonderful language learning tool,
> indespensable,
> I'm not much of a believer in language learning thru
> reading-only,
> nor do I think that reading can be the first foundation or
> core of a
> truly efficient pedagogy.
>
> ERRWSQE
>
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