Greek Language Learning Software
Posted: February 24th, 2016, 12:59 pm
I'm working on writing a program similar to that of Duolingo for teaching languages (namely for teaching Koine Greek). I've only completed the text printing and input systems but I'm making steady progress. If y'all have never heard of Duolingo you should definitely check it out and tell me what you think it lacks or what could make my program a better version of it. I'm writing it solo so it could take a while (it already has for the small amount I've done), but hopefully that will provide me the time to get better at Koine. I've got a basic battle plan I'm going to use to teach Koine that should work fairly well (at least if the learning learns like I do). (btw this is not really designed for a second language, more like 3rd)
After very very very much internal debate I've finally become pretty settled on modern pronunciation because I discovered that if you know Koine really well (spoken) then you will be able to understand quite a bit of modern spoken Greek which you wouldn't really be able to do without the iotism.
My hope is to divide it up into different courses.
Maybe course one would include mastering the four noun forms, three compound present tense verb forms and an introduction to aorist.
Maybe course two would include mastering the middle/passive voice and the aorist tense plus learning odd noun forms like -ma and -eus.
Maybe course three would include mastering participles and an introduction to the more uncommon tenses.
Maybe course four would mostly focus on mastering all these areas and expanding vocabulary.
I'm not planning to focus much on "conversational" Koine because as of know there's practically no-one with whom to converse, so I'm planning to focus more on actually phrases and sentences. My goal isn't to get people's feet wet in Greek but actually get them proficient and very comfortable in the language.
Maybe in the future I'll include Buth's pronunciation and the Reconstructed later on but I'm definitely not settled on it.
Well, that's basically my plan, I've wanted to do this for a long time, but I'm finally really starting to work on it. If y'all have any suggestions I would greatly appreciate them!
After very very very much internal debate I've finally become pretty settled on modern pronunciation because I discovered that if you know Koine really well (spoken) then you will be able to understand quite a bit of modern spoken Greek which you wouldn't really be able to do without the iotism.
My hope is to divide it up into different courses.
Maybe course one would include mastering the four noun forms, three compound present tense verb forms and an introduction to aorist.
Maybe course two would include mastering the middle/passive voice and the aorist tense plus learning odd noun forms like -ma and -eus.
Maybe course three would include mastering participles and an introduction to the more uncommon tenses.
Maybe course four would mostly focus on mastering all these areas and expanding vocabulary.
I'm not planning to focus much on "conversational" Koine because as of know there's practically no-one with whom to converse, so I'm planning to focus more on actually phrases and sentences. My goal isn't to get people's feet wet in Greek but actually get them proficient and very comfortable in the language.
Maybe in the future I'll include Buth's pronunciation and the Reconstructed later on but I'm definitely not settled on it.
Well, that's basically my plan, I've wanted to do this for a long time, but I'm finally really starting to work on it. If y'all have any suggestions I would greatly appreciate them!