[B-Greek] Mounce vs. Croy

Refe Tuma refetuma at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 11:43:24 EDT 2011


I just happened to come across Textkit yesterday and have been spending some
time with the composition textbooks you mentioned. These should be a big
help, thanks. (It also helps that they are free... ;)

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Alexander Jech <awjjech at gmail.com> wrote:

> Textkit includes free pdf versions of several Greek composition textbooks
> as well as their answer keys. See http://www.textkit.com/greek_grammar.php.
> North and Hillard seem to be keyed to Xenophon's Anabasis, so you'll have
> lots of military vocabulary, and the exercises consist of individual
> sentences. I don't know which texts Sidgwick has drawn his chosen vocabulary
> from, but it seems significantly different from North and Hillard's--perhaps
> there is more Herodotus in there? I'm not quite sure--and he focuses upon
> writing short narratives or paragraphs rather than sentences.
>
> Alexander Jech
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Refe Tuma <refetuma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I learned Greek outside of the classroom with the Mounce textbook. One
>> area
>> where I feel completely deficient is writing or speaking in Koine. I am
>> finding that even though my reading comprehension and vocabulary is high
>> enough to read through the NT without too much difficulty, I can't even
>> form
>> the simplest of sentences on my own. Aside from purchasing a grammar that
>> has English to Greek exercises like Croy seems to have, does anyone know
>> of
>> any online resources that would help with this?
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>
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> Alexander Jech
> University of Virginia
> Program in Political Philosophy, Policy & Law
>



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