First Year Greek
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L
IVING
KOINE GREEK
Part 1 with mp3 CD
Dr Randall Buth
(Jerusalem: Biblical Language Center, 2002)
This is a unique introduction to Koine Greek. The student enters a world
of Koine Greek and begins to interact with the language directly,
without the mediation of a second language. Living Koine Greek Part 1
includes a book and an mp3 CD. The book includes 1000 pictures
without captions. It also includes a 'discovery' introduction to the
alphabet and then written transcripts of all the audio material so that
writing, spelling and grammar are included, but only on top of a basis
of listening comprehension. For a mini-demo of the system, see "Greek
Demo Lesson" on this website under "courses."
Dr.
Randall Buth
Biblical Ulpan
POB 82340
90805 Mevasseret Zion
ISRAEL
(Please send a confirming email to:
info@biblicalulpan.org Air Mail typically arrives in a week, but may
take up to four weeks.)
When a person wants to use "living
language" methods to learn a language, one is required to make some choices
about what kind of pronunciation system to use. As long as students only
need to write Greek or to look at Greek on a printed page, the pronunciation
system is not a very important issue. The problem, of course, is that such
an approach to language learning almost guarantees that the learner will
never develop any kind of fluency or ability to think with the language and
in the language. As soon as students set their sights on a higher goal and
want to include language learning methodologies that will lead to a fluent
control of the language, they must come to grips with the need to include
audio and oral material in a program. And audio material for an ancient
language means that decisions must be made about the kind of pronunciation
system to be used ....
Resources for Basics of Biblical Greek
from Mounce's website:
You will need to use
Stuffit
(for Macintosh) or a zip utility (for Windows, such as
Stuffit
or WinZip) to
decompress these files. All documents are in Microsoft Word format using
Times (for English) and
TekniaGreek.
Textbook
Description of the textbook (download
Table of
Contents,
Chapter 10, and the Discussion of the
Track Two
exercises that allow you to start verbs earlier, viewed with Adobe's
free
Acrobat Reader).
Description of the workbook (download the
Introduction and
Chapter 10,
viewed with Adobe's free
Acrobat Reader)
Microsoft Word file listing the basic
differences between the first and second editions (Macintosh
or
Windows).
A 35 page
summary
of chapters 1-25 of Basics of Biblical Greek, good for review.
When you have learned the alphabet, here are some fun things to do
Lectures
Summary lectures (8-10 minutes) over
each chapter are available at
www.BiblicalTraining.org and are included on the CD-ROM with the
textbook.
Audio
lecture series. 33 lectures of an entire two
semester beginning Greek course.
A
single
tape /
audio CD that includes the pronunciation of the alphabet,
the reading exercise in chapter 4, and all the vocabulary.
Also from Zondervan (for purchase)
Vocabulary
flash cards. 1000 words occurring 10 times or more in the
New Testament
Summary sheets.
2 pages (4 sides) in laminated plastic summarizing the Basics of
Biblical Greek
Teacher's Packet (free stuff)
Errata
A Word document listing all the
corrections made to the second edition of BBG and the workbook
A Word document listing the basic
differences between the first and second editions of BBG
Answers
Answers to the exercises in the workbook are
available in a basic (just the basic parsings and translations, 105
pages,
Adobe Acrobat /
Word), and a full format (with most words parsed, 205 pages,
Adobe Acrobat /
Word). Thanks to John Beckman who worked feverishly to get them
done. Please report any errors using the
contact
page. The answer sheets can also be
purchased.
Overheads
Click
here to
download some basic overheads you can use for your Greek class. You
need the free
Adobe Acrobat reader to view and print them.
Slides
Chapters 4-14 of the workbook available as
Keynote,
PowerPoint (Mac
/
Windows), and PDF (Mac
/ Windows).
Students can translate from them in class and not look at their
homework. The remaining chapters will be completed soon.
Paradigms
Paradigms to help you learn Greek (Word
or pdf)
Additional
reading
When your students are done with the textbook, it is
encouraging for them to realize how much they do know. Here are
three passages that are laid out in the format of the Graded Reader
that are easy to read. There is nothing new to learn here, just
enjoy. 2
John;
Mark 1-2;
Romans
16:25-27 (which introduces them to phrasing)
Computer stuff (more free stuff)
Greek
font for Macintosh and Windows.
Teknia Language Tools. Language
Learning software for
Macintosh and
Windows.
