[B-Greek] Grammar-translation
Nikolaos Adamou
ntgreekreader at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 11:14:55 EDT 2011
I will rephrase the biblical "come and see" to 'try and see' - as
there is a great difference between life and death, so the distance
between a usage of a dead language and a living language is
significant, make the linguistic resurrection of yours as soon as
possible.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Refe Tuma <refetuma at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am one of those self-learners who used Mounce to learn Greek. Or, I should
> probably say to learn to read the New Testament in Greek. I don't have a
> Bachelor's Degree to get into Seminary, and with a family and a job it will
> likely take 6 years or so to get there, so I am using the tools available to
> me now so I can take advantage of my youthful brain while it lasts! I have
> developed the reading comprehension and vocabulary to read through the
> entire NT without helps, but I couldn't formulate a sentence - whether
> verbally or through pen and paper - if my life truly depended on it. I could
> certainly translate without that ability, and get by in exegesis, but could
> I call myself fluent? And, could I really claim to understand the language
> without the ability to use it myself to communicate?
>
> I am somewhat familiar with Randal Bluth's Living Koine materials, but have
> so far shied away due to the price tag, as well as perhaps a bit of
> skepticism that they can deliver what they promise (no offense intended
> Randal! I just haven't heard much in the way of endorsement - perhaps that
> is simply because they are too far outside of the comfortable traditions of
> academia?) Can anyone shed some light on what the options are for developing
> English-to-Greek capabilities?
>
> Thanks and God bless,
>
> Refe
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