[B-Greek] some audio-visual stuff from Athenaze on You Tube

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 25 14:39:01 EDT 2010


Somebody on Textkit found this and passed it along.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igLMzKYcVqI&feature=related
 
To encourage more of this stuff, to NOT discourage it, I almost
think a rule should be passed never to criticize these types of efforts.
I would break the rule only to note that the blessed dog barks so
loud it sometimes drowns out the Greek, but other than that, I
like this a lot.
 
I come to neither praise nor bury the accent, but only to
note one of my ad nauseums.  No accent is ever a "pure"
anything.  Here it appears to be Modern Greek with two 
exceptions--the beta is still "B," not "V," and at times
omicron in closed syllables is pretty short, almost closer
to alpha than to omega.  If you are going to benefit from the
still very limited audio-visual stuff out there, you have to 
be prepared to accept any and all accents.
 
To me, one value of stuff like this is that if you are too tired
to read or even listen to Greek, you can just watch a video
and veg out, but still learn a little Greek.
 
Here's hoping we see more of this none too soon.

Mark L
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