[B-Greek] A Conversational Koine Phrasebook? + Sydney AU Group?

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 20 21:13:29 EDT 2010


Hi, again, Nigel,

Something like you propose was started by Donald Cobb and Patrick Narkinsky and
Louis Sorenson over on Schole.


http://schole.ning.com/page/lhexeis-ka-phrhaseis
but I don't think they ever completed it.  Maybe you could take over what they started and organize it
better.  

A guy named H. W. Auden did something similar


http://www.amazon.com/Greek-Phrase-Book-Paperduck-Auden/dp/0715614681/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277081329&sr=1-1

This is a pretty good book but it is more literary than conversational and includes
lots of phrases that you would not need for real communication and does not have
words like "video store" and "bathroom."  Also, N.B. that this guy is not to be confused with the
poet W. H. Auden ("You shall love your crooked neighbor with your crooked heart.")

Christophe Rico has many helpful phrases in his book Polis, but again not organized the way 
you propose.

I bet there is more stuff out there on line somewhere. 

I had the idea of finding a foreign language phrase book, say French-English, with pictures
and contemporary terms and crossing out the French and writing in the Koine.  Of course, a Modern
Greek would be good because a few of the terms are pretty close if not the same.  If any one knows
of a phrase book, in any language, with good pictures and room to write stuff in, let me know.

What you propose would only be of use to me if it could be printed out into booklet form.
Portability is the mother's milk of Koine fluency.  (Of course, if like you, one is more of
a computer guy, you could probably do what you propose on some sort of e-book reader
that might work.)

As far as a Conversational group goes, I live in Colorado.  Perhaps we could meet halfway?  :)


 Mark L



FWSFOROS MARKOS




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From: Nigel Chapman <nigel at chapman.id.au>
To: B Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sun, June 20, 2010 5:33:45 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] A Conversational Koine Phrasebook? + Sydney AU Group?

Hi,

I'm seeing a lot of material (mostly through B-Greek) on immersive,
living-language methods for Koine. This interests me as a way to better
internalize my own low-to-intermediate knowledge of the language (I
learned at a college where grammatical instruction stopped after a year,
unfortunately). So I'm refreshing on everything via North & Hillard's text
on composition, and on the side, trying to translate some 'conversational
English' books into Koine. Curious if anyone's ever seen something like a
basic tourist phrasebook treated in this way? With a URL?

I'm thinking a 'cheatsheet' of this kind could be a good way to kick-start
a conversation group. I know a few others with similar interests here in
Sydney Australi, so if you're in this area and might be interested, please
drop me a line off-list.

(I'm hoping this isn't getting off-topic for BGreek -- Let me know if it is!)

Thanks,

Nigel.

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