[B-Greek] Further Study
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 14:24:20 EDT 2009
you've just taken the first step. knowing that there is somewhere to go is
step one.
step two is tricky. language learning seems to take place at right angles to
what
some might expect. a clue: if you had done 27 units of German would you be
able
to express a few thoughts? would you have more of an idea about how to go
about
it? the biggest paradox of all is that you learn a language by using a
language, but
the learner always asks how one can use what they don't know.
Randall Buth
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Charles Johnson <cpj5117 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Terry, thank you for the bibliography. When I say I can read, I mean that I
> can without too much difficulty take Greek and make English out of it. There
> are many times, though, when I do not comprehend the "why" behind the
> "what." I cannot always explain why a particular voice, tense, or mood was
> chosen, or why a certain word ordering. In fact, my classes focused very
> little on word order.
>
> Dr. Buth, I tried. It didn't go so well. I have done very limited
> composition (especially oral). I also have no background in Classical Greek,
> a detriment I'm sure. It was a useful exercise in showing me I have a long
> way to go. It strikes me, though, that I have to improve my skill at
> understanding what's really going on in the Greek language before I can
> replicate it myself. Any suggestions?
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> >I am looking for recommendations for further study
>> resources/programs/readings. I am a seminarian who has completed about 27
>> credit hours of Biblical Greek. I am comfortable reading in almost all of
>> the NT (Hebrews is still hard) and have a grammatical understanding at
>> about
>> the level of Wallace's *Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics*. I am
>> particularly
>> interested in resources that will help me apprehend the grammar more
>> precisely.
>> Thanks for all the wisdom,
>> Charlie Johnson>
>>
>> It is important to discovrer what one doesn't know so that it gets filled
>> in.
>> Try speaking your next three thoughts to yourself in Koine Greek, and see
>> if you don't discover something.
>> Randall Buth
>>
>>
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>> Randall Buth, PhD
>> www.biblicalulpan.org
>> randallbuth at gmail.com
>> Biblical Language Center
>> Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life
>>
>
>
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randallbuth at gmail.com
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