[B-Greek] www.JesusspokeGreek.com
Philemon Zachariou
ntgreek at att.net
Sun May 1 13:16:38 EDT 2011
This website introduces a new book that teaches the right pronunciation for Bible Greek.
Check it out,
PZ
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From: "susan at read-the-bible.org" <susan at read-the-bible.org>
To: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] video games and mastering Greek vocabulary
Greetings, b-greekers!
Long ago (not long after the approximate era of such computer/video game
antiques as Pong and the old DOS based "Adventure" - anybody remember
xyzzy?) I seem to recall a vocabulary drill game that involved quick
word recognition with Greek words falling from the sky and the quick
typing of glosses stopping them as they fell. But maybe I was dreaming.
As I write this it seems barely plausible.
Regardless, this NY Times article is about the factors (e.g. use of
sound effects, the word "Achievement" and the competition among
asynchronous players) that make a particular current game attractive. It
made me wonder if anyone out there is using interactive fun-and-games to
drill Greek vocabulary or grammar... if you're developing any such
thing, email me offlist and I'll be more than happy to beta-test... if
you see any reason to test on XP :-)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/fashion/01ANGRY.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26
I'm pretty sure I do remember a certain midwestern seminary that had an
old DOS-based vocabulary drill program that had levels and saved "top
scores" -- both percent correct and time to complete a set of words --
we summer intensive students had quite a competition going. That was a
Hebrew course, but the same school also used the corresponding Greek
vocabulary drill program, I believe. Again, maybe I was dreaming. In
the class I was auditing, every day or two we'd have an actual
paper-and-pencil quiz through whatever level of the computer game vocab
we were supposed to have reached. The game's levels were based on word
frequency in the Hebrew Bible.
Susan Jeffers
end-of-term grading and whatnot almost done :-)
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