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Posted: December 23rd, 2014, 11:02 am
Hello everyone,
My name is Emma Ehrhardt. My language background includes a couple of years of Greek and Hebrew language study in undergrad. Over the past six months I've felt compelled to pick back up intentional study of Greek so I can do more than pick out a few words while reading along during lessons at church.
I thought to do a refresher by going through my elementary texts again, but those exercises are already filled out, and they're pretty redundant initially. Yet I needed more thorough review than is provided by intermediate readers. I picked up the JACT readers, and found encouragement there in the vocabulary repetition in the readings, and particularly in the grammar exercises which gave me practice in manipulating various forms. That was a nice change from the various 1st year books I had seen or used, whose exercises generally consist of: 1) parse this word, and 2) translate this long sentence, which depending on the book is either gibberish sentences with known vocab, or real NT sentences with too many OOV items.
So I began looking to make my own worksheets of grammar exercises (not just 'parse this'), and finding ways to get practice with known phrases pulled from the GNT. I've made some interesting progress with this, and at some point hope to share the results of that work more widely.
-Emma
My name is Emma Ehrhardt. My language background includes a couple of years of Greek and Hebrew language study in undergrad. Over the past six months I've felt compelled to pick back up intentional study of Greek so I can do more than pick out a few words while reading along during lessons at church.
I thought to do a refresher by going through my elementary texts again, but those exercises are already filled out, and they're pretty redundant initially. Yet I needed more thorough review than is provided by intermediate readers. I picked up the JACT readers, and found encouragement there in the vocabulary repetition in the readings, and particularly in the grammar exercises which gave me practice in manipulating various forms. That was a nice change from the various 1st year books I had seen or used, whose exercises generally consist of: 1) parse this word, and 2) translate this long sentence, which depending on the book is either gibberish sentences with known vocab, or real NT sentences with too many OOV items.
So I began looking to make my own worksheets of grammar exercises (not just 'parse this'), and finding ways to get practice with known phrases pulled from the GNT. I've made some interesting progress with this, and at some point hope to share the results of that work more widely.
-Emma