Valid point. So the teacher just needs a well grounded understanding of the middle.
Thanks! I'm not trying to teach Greek but in the future I hope to. Where can I learn more about the specifics and nuances of the middle?
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- October 16th, 2015, 9:57 am
- Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
- Topic: Teaching meaning of middle voice
- Replies: 9
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- October 15th, 2015, 11:55 am
- Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
- Topic: Teaching meaning of middle voice
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Re: Teaching meaning of middle voice
Essentially the problem is here: it is best for Greek verbs to be translated very loosely and to show the student the facets of each tense voice and mood. So, a verb like ποιοῦμαι in some places may be translated "I do/make for myself" but in others "I am made". Maybe the solutio...
- October 14th, 2015, 4:49 pm
- Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
- Topic: Teaching meaning of middle voice
- Replies: 9
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Re: Teaching meaning of middle voice
One method of teaching languages is to translate sentences over and over and practice by trial and error (the highly successful Duolingo uses this method). So, were this method combined with some explanations about the vowel compounding and some other things, this method might be good for Koine. Th...
- October 14th, 2015, 11:21 am
- Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
- Topic: Teaching meaning of middle voice
- Replies: 9
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Teaching meaning of middle voice
One method of teaching languages is to translate sentences over and over and practice by trial and error (the highly successful Duolingo uses this method). So, were this method combined with some explanations about the vowel compounding and some other things, this method might be good for Koine. The...
- September 17th, 2015, 12:19 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: χαίρειν! Καινός τῇ Ἔλληνικᾷ
- Replies: 5
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Re: χαίρειν! Καινός τῇ Ἔλληνικᾷ
I'm sorry I only understand part of this, can you write it in english?Paul-Nitz wrote:χαίρε Πέτρε, καινός εἶ ὧδε καὶ θέλεις γράφειν Ἑλληνικͅῃ. ἠκουσας ὅτι δεῖ σε γράψαι τι εν Introductions. συ δὲ ἐγραψας. καὶ καλῶς ἔγραψας. εἰ θέλεις γραφείν πολλά, πορεύθητι καὶ πρὸς τὴν Σχόλην.
http://www.schole.ning.com
- September 16th, 2015, 3:56 pm
- Forum: Learning Paradigms
- Topic: Poiein Indicative Paradigm
- Replies: 13
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Re: Poiein Indicative Paradigm
I will try to paste a page from the morphologia book that has two tables, ποιεῖν to be doing (active) and ποιεῖσθαι to be doing (middle). I will try to paste from a PDF in order to preserve formatting. . . . --that didn't work. So I'm trying a JPG, though unsure of the resolution in the final resul...
- September 16th, 2015, 3:49 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: Hellenistic Greek for the Modern World
- Replies: 32
- Views: 27833
Re: Hellenistic Greek for the Modern World
I think the cause to raise Koine as a modern usable language won't ever work until there is a standardized full dictionary of everyday words, standardized pronunciation, and some people who are really REALLY good at Koine and can write let's say devotionals or newsletters in it. If there could be ma...
- September 16th, 2015, 10:29 am
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: Hellenistic Greek for the Modern World
- Replies: 32
- Views: 27833
Re: Hellenistic Greek for the Modern World
So can anybody here have a full conversation in Koine about either doctrines or maybe everyday life (I think the first would probably be easier because of vocabulary)?
It is my dream to one day be able to debate in koine... not sure with whom... but it would be so awesome
It is my dream to one day be able to debate in koine... not sure with whom... but it would be so awesome
- September 16th, 2015, 10:11 am
- Forum: Learning Paradigms
- Topic: Poiein Indicative Paradigm
- Replies: 13
- Views: 65348
Re: Poiein Indicative Paradigm
Thank y'all a lot. I'm having a little bit of trouble trying to understand these charts, but I'll try to work on it. Memorizing whole paradigms is not the road to fluency, although with fluency you will be able to generate the paradigm, at least as far as the language is internalized. Totally agreed...
- September 15th, 2015, 10:01 pm
- Forum: Learning Paradigms
- Topic: Poiein Indicative Paradigm
- Replies: 13
- Views: 65348
Poiein Indicative Paradigm
I just finished the indicative today and spent A LOT of time on this please tell me where I'm wrong: http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/PRGMSTR/Pic_poiein%20indicative_zpsldzt8sa8.png I am assuming that if a verb has the II Aor it has II everything else. Thanks a lot! (The dark spots are things ...