[B-Greek] Fw: B-Greek Digest, The BANE of Greek Pedagogy

Nikolaos Adamou ntgreekreader at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 00:24:08 EST 2011


πρῶτον ἀνάγνωσις ἐντριβὴς κατὰ προσῳδίαν,
δεύτερον ἐξήγησις κατὰ τοὺς ἐνυπάρχοντας ποιητικοὺς τρόπους,
τρίτον γλωσσῶν τε καὶ ἱστορίων πρόχειρος ἀπόδοσις,
τέταρτον ἐτυμολογίας εὕρεσις,
πέμπτον ἀναλογίας ἐκλογισμός,
ἕκτον κρίσις ποιημάτων. ὃ δὴ κάλλιστόν ἐστι πάντων τῶν ἐν τῇ τέχνῃ.

ἡ γραμματικὴ δὲ κατὰ τὸν παλαιὸν ἐν δύο σημαινομένοις ἦν.
τὴν μὲν γὰρ μικρὰν ἐκάλουν,
ἥ τις ἦν τέχνη περὶ τοῦ γράφειν καὶ ἀναγιγνώσκειν τὴν ἐγγράμματον
φωνὴν τούς τε χαρακτῆρας τῶν γραμμάτων εἰδέναι καὶ τὰς συλλήψεις αὐτῶν
ἤγουν τὰς συλλαβάς‧
τὴν δὲ μεγάλην ἐκάλουν τὴν ἐπὶ τοὺς ποιητὰς θεωρίαν,
ἥν τινα νῦν ἐξηγοῦνται οἱ γραμματικοῖ,
καί ἐστιν αὕτη τέχνη θεωρητικὴ τῶν παρὰ ποιηταῖς τε καὶ λογεῦσιν.

from
Libris Grammaticis
by Varro, Marcus Terentius


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Shirley Rollinson
<rollinsondr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What I do with my students is to get them reading a short passage of the NT aloud every day - even if the grammar and vocabulary is a bit beyond their current level.
> One feels like an idiot to begin with, but we just have to speak a language aloud in order to learn it effectively.
> Writing a short passage out, while saying the words aloud, is also a help.
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> After we can read it - then we go over the grammar and vocabulary afterwards - but reading and hearing, even if the pronunciation is not the best, starts to get the ear and the brain receptive to the language.
> Until one can speak and hear the words, translation is an exercise in mental analysis rather than an attempt at communication.
> Yassas
> Shirley Rollinson
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