[B-Greek] David Black on learning Greek

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 1 16:23:07 EDT 2010


Au contraire, Pierre.  Greek is not difficult to learn, but it does require 
effort.  That is, special intellectual abilities are not necessary.  Even the 
little children learned to speak Greek (standard joke).  For us, however, it 
does require some perspiration.  If you aren't willing to expend the effort, you 
will not learn it, but if you do expend the effort, even a child can learn 
Greek.
 george
gfsomsel 


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learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth, 
defend the truth till death.


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From: Michael Lawson <dikaiosune_7 at msn.com>
To: James Spinti <JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com>
Cc: b-greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Fri, October 1, 2010 10:57:14 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] David Black on learning Greek

David Black says,

<6. Greek is not difficult to learn. I'll say it again: Greek is not difficult 
to learn. I like to tell my students, "Greek is an easy language; it's us Greek 
teachers who get in the way." The point is that anyone can learn Greek, even a 
poorly-educated surfer from Hawaii. If I can master Greek, anyone can!>

Now, a view from a student of the Greek language.

Greek is difficult to learn. I'll say it again: Greek is difficult to learn. I 
would like to tell those Greek teachers out there, "Greek is a difficult 
language; Greek teachers help sometimes in explaining things if you can find one 
to ask who has the patience but its still difficult." The poorly-educated surfer 
from Hawaii would rather surf than write out a verb conjugation chart for sure. 
But, to be fair to David Black, I believe his point is that any surfer is 
capable of learning a "little Greek"; mastering it requires more than average 
intelligence and more ambition than meets the average surfer who wants to surf 
the big waves. 


Michael Lawson
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  I haven't seen this posted here yet, but David Black has a "13 things
  your Greek teacher won't tell you" posted on his non-blog. Here's the
  link to Rod Decker's quoting of it (so you can find it):
  http://ntresources.com/blog/?p=1020<http://ntresources.com/blog/?p=1020>

  Enjoy,
  James
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