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Tue May 3 10:41:24 EDT 2011


popular or, some would say, realistic.  It takes time to read; alot of time
to read alot - at least for most students of a language not their own.  Its
hard enough to get young students of Greek to read enough to be comfortable
with the New Testament.  Nowadays its hard enough to get students interested
in taking up ancient Greek!  Still, I'm not convinced that its the wrong
approach.  The real challenge is to facilitate reading of the texts so
students will not quit before they get some sense of mastery and confidence
and satisfaction.  I like the Perseus Project.  In the early to mid 80's I
tried a prototype of something like that at the University of Minnesota.
The goal was a series of computer generated texts that had hyperlinks to LSJ
and to various Greek grammars or other tools, depending on the level of the
class and the focus of the instruction.  My prototype was done on a
Macintosh and used some texts of Aesop.  It was successful enough to
convince me of the usefulness of it but due to lack of financial support for
it and Dept faculty interest, (I was only a lowly Grad Student at the time)
we never followed up.  Now I see the same or similar concept being used in
place as, e.g., the Perseus project.  I think it can be improved upon, as
I'm sure they do, but everything takes time, money and allies to develop.

Sorry if i drifted off subject for this list serve.

Allen Jacobson

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