[B-Greek] Further Study

Charles Johnson cpj5117 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 14:37:45 EDT 2009


I see what you're getting at. It makes sense. The ideal would be to
participate in a community of native Koine-Greek speakers, where I could
constantly be exposed to Koine Greek and learn and grow through the effort
of composing my own thoughts in Koine. However, there is no such community.
Unless I have constant recourse to native speakers, my own compositions will
be horrendously Anglicized and without correction. Even when I do get an ok
Greek composition, the telltale signs of an English speaker (sub-verb-obj;
adj before noun) are still all too visible. Is there a way through this
impasse?

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Randall Buth, PhD
>>> www.biblicalulpan.org
>>> randallbuth at gmail.com
>>> Biblical Language Center
>>> Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Randall Buth, PhD
> www.biblicalulpan.org
> randallbuth at gmail.com
> Biblical Language Center
> Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life
>
>



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