[B-Greek] Should someone learning ancient Greek do Rosetta Stone Modern?

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 19 21:43:22 EDT 2010


Hi, Louis.

You bet they should, assuming that time and money is not a factor for them.  
Otherwise, it would make more sense to spend one's time and money on Randall 
Buth's Living Koine:

http://www.biblicalulpan.org/
 

Mark L



FWSFOROS MARKOS




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From: Louis Sorenson <llsorenson at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Sun, September 19, 2010 7:04:29 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Should someone learning ancient Greek do Rosetta Stone 
Modern?


Hello all,

Someone in my class today asked me a question. "Should I go through Rosetta 
Stone's modern Greek program at the same time I am learning Koine Greek?"  I've 
read that about 60% of NT words occur in modern Greek. So would doing Rosetta 
Stone concurrently hurt/help. Would it confuse? 


I've read statements that say there was more change from Homeric Greek to Attic 
than there is from Koine to Modern Demotic. Do we tell people learn either Attic 
| Koine | Homeric then learn the other dialects? (That seems to me the best 
approach. I know of no book that teaches different dialects side-by-side for the 
beginner - but it also seems to me that there is a lot in Modern Greek which can 
be used by the Koine student. There is no Koine version of Rosetta Stone. So 
what should I say / have said?

Louis Sorenson
                          
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