[B-Greek] online Greek textbook and classes - help and advice sought

M Brandl marmarbrandl2 at iprimus.com.au
Tue Apr 12 17:28:55 EDT 2011


Shirley Rollinson:

I am not an established scholar or teacher of Ancient Greek of any era, but in my senior years I am determined to be able to read the best of that language before I pass on. And, as a scholar and a teacher of other topics including other languages, and a sometime writer of teaching material (not much online), I am always keen to see any help for Ancient Greek in the way of learning material and especially online - now that publishing hard copy texts in this subject is diminishing as you say.

Enough of my credentials to dare to comment in any way in this fine forum on your text...

I am truly excited by what I have read of your text. Thank you for sharing your approach and for inviting comments and input from others. It is a textbook for our times. 

Congratulations and I send you my hopes that you have the energy, and receive the encouragement and feedback, you might need to complete the task. I look forward to any news updates on your project.

Maria Brandl
Australia

Shirley <rollinsondr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Next semester I'm due to give an online section of the Beginning Greek course I teach.
> I've had such problems finding a textbook that is in print and which emphasises reading and understanding, but which also includes enough grammar, that I've started to write my own.
> I have a question which maybe some of you can help with - up until now I've used SPIonic as my greek font of choice, but I suppose I should update to a unicode polytonic font.
> I'd be most grateful for advice as to how to do this, what fonts have a nice clear typeface, and how one types both English and Greek with the same keyboard.
> Thank you all so much.
> 
> I'd also be grateful for advice and feedback on what I've written so far - a very tentative beginning of the book is at 
> http://www.drshirley.org/greek/textbook/contents.html 
> 
> thank you
> Shirley Rollinson
> ENMU
> Portales, 
> New Mexico
> 
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> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:46:30 -0700 (PDT)
> From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] online Greek texbook and classes - help and
> 	advice	sought
> To: Shirley Rollinson <rollinsondr at yahoo.com>,
> 	b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
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> There are a number of fonts which can be used.? I'll leave it to you to?Google 
> them:? Cardo, Titus Cyberbit Basic, Gentium, New Athena.? I think these are all 
> free.? Did I mention that they're free?? Free,?FREE.? I?use KadmosU, but I think 
> there is a charge for that -- It came with my Logos program as well as 
> BibliaLS.? You should already have Tahoma with Windows.? Of course, the font you 
> choose depends on your own preferences and cost.? 
> 
> 
> I use the Logos Greek Keyboard which is rather intuitive and FREE.? 
> http://www.logos.com/support/downloads/keyboards
> 
> Yes, you should definitely use a unicode font.? Don't leave home without it.
> 
> ?george
> gfsomsel 
> 
> 
> ? search for truth, hear truth, 
> learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth, 
> defend the truth till death.
> 
> 
> - Jan Hus
> _________ 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Shirley Rollinson <rollinsondr at yahoo.com>
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 5:10:21 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] online Greek texbook and classes - help and advice sought
> 
> Next semester I'm due to give an online section of the Beginning Greek course I 
> teach.
> I've had such problems finding a textbook that is in print and which emphasises 
> reading and understanding, but which also includes enough grammar, that I've 
> started to write my own.
> I have a question which maybe some of you can help with - up until now I've used 
> SPIonic as my greek font of choice, but I suppose I should update to a unicode 
> polytonic font.
> I'd be most grateful for advice as to how to do this, what fonts have a nice 
> clear typeface, and how one types both English and Greek with the same keyboard.
> Thank you all so much.
> 
> I'd also be grateful for advice and feedback on what I've written so far - a 
> very tentative beginning of the book is at 
> 
> http://www.drshirley.org/greek/textbook/contents.html 
> 
> thank you
> Shirley Rollinson
> ENMU
> Portales, 
> New Mexico




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