[B-Greek] Casualties of the Beginning Greek class

Timothy S. Nelson wayland at wayland.id.au
Thu Feb 4 19:01:48 EST 2010


On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, John Barach wrote:

> We made up rhymes and catch phases etc. to explain Greek rules.
> We played a version of hangman to learn vocabulary.
...
> I even used English words with Greek endings like carOS, carOU, carW, carON.
> I admit I butchered both Greek and English, but not a single student
> ever failed.

 	Have you ever considered writing some kind of textbook?  I'm not 
thinking so much of a grammar or a lexicon, but maybe something like "Word 
Play in Ancient Greek (for English speakers)"?  I could see a well-done book 
like this taking a similar place to Metzger's Lexical Aids, in that it's not 
an immediately obvious book to buy, but yet one that has become indispensible 
to so many.

 	:)


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