[B-Greek] Free, online Greek paradigms quiz, version
Randall Buth
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Sun Mar 25 11:17:13 EST 2007
>Have you seen how the Rosetta Stone software teaches and tests verb
>inflection? (they don't offer Koine Greek, though)
>
>To teach tense/aspect, they just show photos of, for example, a boy
>about to jump, in the middle of the jump, having just jumped and you
>have to select the sentence with the right verb form to describe the
>situation in the photograph. Or they show a girl about to cut a piece
>of paper, cutting a piece of paper and having cut a piece of paper.
>
>Metalanguage neutral, and, in fact, you never experience a single
>word in a language other than the target language the whole time.
>
>I have started developing a website that implements this sort of
thing.
>
>James>
Very glad to hear of monolingual website quizzes.
Go for it. You will help the 'paradigm' to change (not 'verb
paradigm', but the conception of what Greek learning/teaching is) and
the bar will raise.
ERRWSQE
Randall
On 25/03/2007, at 4:43 AM, Randall Buth wrote:
> I looked at the quiz to see what would come:
> The first question was 'ESTAI and required clicking seven multiple
> choices.
> The response was interesting and returned the following (between **
> below)
> **
> 'ESTAI
> You answered:
> Verb future Middle Indicative 3rd Not spec. Sing. Not spec.
> Answer is not correct
>
> The correct answer is:
> Verb future None Indicative 3rd Not spec. Sing. Not spec.
> **
>
> Two comments:
> First, my answer is correct within a Greek system. (estai has 'none
> [voice]'?! Tell that to a Greek.) Quizzes should be metalanguage
> neutral, which leads to a second point.
>
> Second, I would recommend looking for a way to make the answers
> interactive in Greek, preferably in some kind of context, and only
> requiring one click of an answer.
>
> ERRWSQE
> Randall Buth
Randall Buth
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
randallbuth at gmail.com
www.biblicalulpan.org
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