[B-Greek] Free, online Greek paradigms quiz, version

Randall Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Sun Mar 25 12:17:13 EDT 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






More information about the B-Greek mailing list