[b-greek] RE: Teach Yourself's "New Testament Greek", by D. F. Hu dson

From: Erik Westwig (ewestwig@palisade.com)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 14:49:31 EST


Dear Kathy (and all other b-Greekers, as well)

I've been teaching myself greek since the beginning of this year. My 4-year
old son, who is a unusually advanced reader for his age, has expressed a
great deal of interest in Greek, and is begging me to teach him to read it
too. This presents a big challenge to me, since I'm struggling through
Greek myself. I've taught him several dozen nouns (glossing over inflected
forms, gender, and the like). Words like QEOS, IHSOUS, ICQUS, etc. He
picks these up really fast, and loves substituting them in his English
sentences, but I haven't tried teaching him noun paradigms and verb forms.
I'm worried I might extinguish his wonderful enthusiasm with that sort of
thing.

The point of all this rambling is to make a simple request. Kathy, if you
or anyone else on the b-Greek list have any suggestions or general advice on
how to proceed with teaching a young child Greek, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks so much,
ERIK

Erik Westwig
Software Engineer
Palisade Corporation
westwig@palisade.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathleen Borsari [SMTP:Borsarifamily@juno.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:49 PM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [b-greek] Teach Yourself's "New Testament Greek", by D. F.
> Hudson
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Kathy. I am a homeschooling mom. My 13 year old son and I are
> trying to teach ourselves Greek.
>
> Our favorite book is "New Testament Greek" by D.F. Hudson. This book makes
> the most sense to us because it approaches the learning of a language the
> same way that we learned Latin. The only problem is that this book is
> quite lean in practise exercises. We have been making up our own exercises
> and supplementing with other books and websites, but this is slow going.
>
> Is there someone who is using this book with a class, that would be
> willing to share some of their support materials?
>
> Kathleen Borsari
>
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