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- July 27th, 2019, 11:41 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Why not start with modern Greek?
- Replies: 93
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Re: Why not start with modern Greek?
Finally, linguists generally reject the language vs. dialect distinction as vague and unrigorous; even if the test is mutual intelligibility, koine Greek is not mutually intelligible with modern. You overstate your case here, Stephen. Language v. dialect is a very debated and fuzzy distinction in t...
- July 25th, 2019, 7:52 pm
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Why not start with modern Greek?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 3883817
Re: Why not start with modern Greek?
I am sorry for resuscitating this thread only to be so delinquent in my response! I am grateful for all of your informed feedback. Starting from the top: Jonathan—your testimony represents well what I have discovered in this conversation: those that have had real experience with Modern Greek are con...
- June 28th, 2019, 11:36 pm
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Why not start with modern Greek?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 3883817
Re: Why not start with modern Greek?
Jumping in here with hopes of rekindling this noteworthy conversation. I am new to B-Greek and just joined when I saw this thread. First, a little bit about the angle I am coming from. I spent several years hard nose GT until I discovered some of Buth's stuff. That was revolutionary for me, so ευχαρ...