[B-Greek] grammar-translation
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 13:39:23 EDT 2011
I just saw an earlier post thank to Nikolaos' response:
>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 <http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek>> 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 Randall Buth'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
*>>* Randall! 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
*
I suppose that your comment about being 'outside the academic comfort
zone' does apply here. You will notice that most b-greek discussions
proceed along traditional lines, despite occasional notices from language
learning studies warning that we shouldn't be going in these directions.
But discussions usually proceed as if the warnings didn't exist.
Someone said the following on a list (here?) relatively recently:
"If you like fresh, ripe peaches with juice that runs down your chin
when you bite into them, try “Living Koine Greek” by Randall Buth,
available to order from http://www.biblicallanguagecenter. Start with the
first volume and go on from there. You will learn faster, have more fun,
and remember it longer. (Full disclosure: I have no relationship
to http://www.biblicallanguagecenter <http://biblicalulpan.org/> except that
of satisfied customer.)"
[website updated--RB]
For comments from others and profs, see:
http://www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/what-people-are-saying/
We'll want to add some more after the summer Greek Workshop.
ERRWSQE
IWANHS
--
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicallanguagecenter.com
Biblical Language Center
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