[B-Greek] Porter Beginning Greek Book

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 2 13:31:38 EDT 2009


Dr. Buth:

Keep in mind that some students of Greek are not interested in "internalizing" Greek. I even have a hard time with English, my native language. I just don't have the interest, time, or intellect to internalize Greek (or English). I'm looking for an approach that allows me to learn Greek without the concept of internalizing it. I think your approach is the way to go for those with the mental and intuitive capacities to internalize Greek, but I need another way. I like Wallace's grammar because it is broken down into the small components of the parts of speech. When I study the Greek text, I generally am researching a particular word or phrase. That's about as far as I can go. I accept my limitations and try to work around my lack of mental aptitude in learning Greek. Any ideas? 

Eddie Mishoe
Pastor


--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Porter Beginning Greek Book
> To: "B Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 12:50 PM
> >Does anyone know anything about
> this book?
> >Is this just another grammar or does Porter bring a new
> spin or approach to learning.
> 
> Well, one might imagine that it will be presented as a "new
> approach"
> to learning,
> because it will be 'timeless'. And there will probably be
> quite a bit
> of fuel for
> interesting discussion in a footnote or sidebar, or two.
> However, from brief discussions,
> none in that circle have been positive to the questions
> involved in
> internalizing Greek.
> So one might guess that it will stay within the bounds of
> what is known
> in the SLA guild as 'grammar-translation'.
> (To quote Tommie Smothers: 'Thank you very much.
> Dickie Smothers: That was not a complement.
> Tommie: It sounded like a complement to me.)
> 
> we'll need to see the item before knowing what it will be.
> 
> ERRWSQE
> IWANHS
> 
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