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- February 4th, 2020, 8:45 am
- Forum: Alphabet and Pronunciation
- Topic: Restored Koine Pronunciation - Web resources for learners
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19847
Restored Koine Pronunciation - Web resources for learners
Links checked 04 Feb 2020 Biblical Language Center, Notes on the pronunciation system of Koine Greek, Randall Buth. https://www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/koine-greek-pronunciation/ Biblical Language Center, Sample Greek audio. https://www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/greek-mp3-samples/ Ben Kantor - v...
- January 30th, 2020, 2:49 pm
- Forum: The Verb in Koine Greek
- Topic: Aorist indicative with future temporal reference
- Replies: 88
- Views: 117070
Re: Aorist indicative with future temporal reference
I'm afraid I have not taken the time to read this whole thread. Bad form, I know. The approach to this looks like it is intellectually above my pay grade. Nevertheless, I'll be bold to weigh in because I'm so excited about my layman's discovery. About a week ago, I was talking to my colleague in Gre...
- January 13th, 2020, 6:42 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: The term "grammar-translation method"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14888
Re: The term "grammar-translation method"
On the 4%, I'm not sure that such exist. I think some do exist, with the qualification I mentioned. ...so that when they then engage in the "communication" of reading intensively, they attain to a degree of genuine comprehension of a language. The main point is that while very few learner...
- January 13th, 2020, 5:49 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: The term "grammar-translation method"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14888
Re: The term "grammar-translation method"
GT "works" when the student finally gets many a month to use the language in a communicative context. I'd like to expand a bit on what ὁ ΜΔ Buth says. I agree with him, but there's more to say. There are those who the Latinist CLT teachers call the " four percenters ." I've neve...
- January 12th, 2020, 11:05 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: The term "grammar-translation method"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14888
Re: The term "grammar-translation method"
"Grammar-Translation method" is used widely outside of Biblical Studies. The method had its birth with Latin and Greek instruction, but widely was applied to other languages. E.g., Larsen-Freeman and Anderson's book on living language learning describes the "Grammar-Translation method...
- January 12th, 2020, 10:14 am
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Colors in Ancient Greek
- Replies: 37
- Views: 54814
Re: Colors in Ancient Greek
I've just been reading a fascinating account of color in Guy Deutscher's Through the Language Glass. He contradicts the anti-Whorf crowd with a sensible view of the influence of language on thought. His gives a 95 page history of a debate on color and language (beginning with Gladstone's study of Ho...
- December 18th, 2019, 6:30 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: θύρα in Acts 3:2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4829
Re: θύρα in Acts 3:2
But that could equally well serve as the central meaning of πύλη Maybe the prototype θύρα would need more description - a close-able opening in a house (smaller structure), more of a hole with four sides. I'm not sure if the prototype would focus on the hole or the closing. When we say "door&q...
- December 15th, 2019, 1:55 am
- Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
- Topic: Audio of Philemon in Koine
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12903
Re: Audio of Philemon in Koine
Mark, That is a wonderful reading of Philemon. Your fluency and accuracy is great. Very easy to listen to and understand. I think my African students wouldn't have any problem distinguishing between THETA as an aspirated T and TAU as unaspirated. For those of us (English 1st language) who did not gr...
- December 15th, 2019, 1:25 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: KOINE PHRASEBOOK
- Replies: 39
- Views: 85460
Re: KOINE PHRASEBOOK
Communicative Koine Resources spreadsheet:
1) Vocabulary
2) Phrasebook
3) Verb list
LINK (copy/paste):
drive.google.com/open?id=11VWNbleyHdmQ2ajFxiwySbc_PZSG5DUI&authuser=pnitz@seelsorger.org&usp=drive_fs
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1) Vocabulary
2) Phrasebook
3) Verb list
LINK (copy/paste):
drive.google.com/open?id=11VWNbleyHdmQ2ajFxiwySbc_PZSG5DUI&authuser=pnitz@seelsorger.org&usp=drive_fs
Not working? Add the prefix https://
- December 14th, 2019, 10:43 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: θύρα in Acts 3:2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4829
Re: θύρα in Acts 3:2
I've just been learning more about the prototype theory and its application to lexicology. The idea is that a word has a prototypical meaning from which other meaning radiate. Some of the senses radiating out from that central meaning may have only a family resemblance. Connection to the center beco...