[B-Greek] Sing and Learn New Testament Greek
Louis Sorenson
llsorenson at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 1 01:48:42 EDT 2009
I just downloaded the audio "Sing and Learn New Testament Greek". I chose the download immediately from Audible.com. The product cost me ca. $6. The price is a little more than a cup of fancy coffee. After going through installing Audible I was able to access and listen to the eleven (11) minutes of Greek singing of paradigms, prepositions, and conjugations. There are several songs which I think are 'catchy', but overall, the audio is nothing other than singing the endings of paradigms. Nothing is used in context - there are no passages of Greek text, just extrapolated paradigms and conjugations, and then, just the endings, not the endings attached to entire words. The εἰμί EIMI song does have the full word for each of the forms (accents for EIMI are another thing - I just went through that section in DA Carson's book on accents). Some sayings stick in your head, such as 'σα is the sign of the aorist middle'.
Overall, I would say that this CD is of minimal value to those who are looking to internalize Koine Greek. It can help one memorize a paradigm or conjugation chart, but the quickness and out of context words/endings does not help one understand what a certain sound, e.g. 'eis', means. The songs are very quick. Maybe 5 seconds for all the forms of the article, which read a paradigm from left to right, starting with the nominative masculine, then feminine, then neuter and then going through all the cases, ending with the accusative, as is the sequence ὁ ἡ τὸ τοῦ τῆς του τῷ τῇ τῷ τὸν τὴν τὸ,
I just don't get trying to learn words and forms apart from their meaning in a passage which has contextual meaning. A sound means nothing without a context. The $10 I just paid to get a CD of Randall Buth's reading of the Gospel of John is worth 10-fold the price I paid for 'Sing and Learn New Testament Greek'. Shipping is free in the US for Buth's CD of John (I think Buth's product is underpriced in comparison).
Louis Sorenson
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