[B-Greek] The BANE of Biblical Greek Pedagogy

Paul D. Nitz paul.d.nitz at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 01:41:03 EST 2011


Rollinson, Lightman, Dulaney,  και αλλοι,

   Brilliant!
...Shirley, your approach to tapping into the part of our brains that 
actually DOES language.

   Brilliant!
...Mark, your comments on using Greek at every opportunity.  This will be my 
goal.  It is just how I sped forward in learning our Bantu dialect.

   Brilliant!
...Dewaye, the Latin rules to reading.  Is there any copyright issue if I 
try to re-work this with Greek examples and give it to my students?

Thanks much, and keep the "BANE" thread going...

Yours,  PD Nitz



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dewayne Dulaney" <dewayne.dulaney at gmail.com>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>; <paul.d.nitz at gmail.com>; 
<afhaines at tpg.com.au>; <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: The BANE of Biblical Greek Pedagogy


Χαρις υμιν και ειρηνη· CARIS hUMIN KAI EIRHNH

(Sorry if I didn't get the transliteration right: the list style is
very different from what I first learned in Greek classes and on my
own. While using H for Eta makes sense, I'm more used to writing an e
with a line over it! Getting used to using W for Omega and Q for Theta
is weird too.)

I agree whole-heartedly with Hale's approach, although I haven't
personally had an opportunity to use it when teaching Latin (I taught
Exploratory Latin for two years). I feel sure that the same approach
would work for Greek.

Professor Dexter Hoyos, at the University of Sydney, Australia, who
wrote a modern book-length treatment about developing Latin reading
fluency, Latin: How to Read it Fluently, has provided a summary of his
basic rules for reading Latin (and translating, as well) in a free PDF
download  which you can get here:

http://www.latinteach.com/Site/ARTICLES/Entries/2008/10/15_Dexter_Hoyos_-_The_Ten_Basic_Rules_for_Reading_Latin_files/Reading%20%26Translating%20Rules.pdf

Having looked at these, I can see how they would also apply to reading
Greek, and have started using his approach in my own Greek reading. So
far, it seems to be helping me a lot. I encourage you all to take a
look at Hoyos' material and see if you think it would help you in
teaching Greek and reading Greek on your own.

Eρρρωσθε (ERRWSQE),

Δεβένιος Δουλένιος (Dewayne Dulaney) 




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