[B-Greek] English-Greek Dictionary--Desideratum
Vasile Stancu
stancu at mail.dnttm.ro
Mon Dec 8 22:38:12 EST 2008
Unfortunately, right now I have just a few "entries" like that. In fact, my
purpose is not to make such lists; this is a "colateral" result of the
process of reading that I do for myself.
One of the methods of study that I employ is like this:
(1) I take a word - LOGOS, for instance;
(2) then I search for verses where each form of it is found - say, LOGOU. I
stop at each verse where I find it and read the whole verse.
(3) After having understood the meaning of all the words in that verse, I
read it again and again until I am satisfied with my fluency (see for
example http://1Ioan.xhost.ro/1In0101audio-en.htm ).
(4) I record the reference. (The time needed for recording each reference is
much shorter than the time I spend on understanding the verse and reading it
several times; so I thought it was worth doing it).
(5) When all the forms have been checked, I go again through all of the
references and pick up phrases/expressions which refer to the respective
word and add them to the respective reference. (This is an interesting
process: what is worth recording from among the multitude of possibilities?
I have decided that some phrases are mainly explanatory to that word so I
record them. But what about phrases that are not really of particular
interest from this point of view? And, by the way, such a list should not be
of enormous length... I am using another criteria, i.e. I record whatever I
consider to be "memorable" phrases related to that word).
Looked at from a certain point of view, such a method is a waste of time,
since one can have access to very good and exhaustive computer programs and
books, but I find it useful as a systematic way of regular reading. I never
hear around me anyone reading or speaking Koine, so I am trying to fill up
this gap by such methods as described above.
Vasile
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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Oun Kwon
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] English-Greek Dictionary--Desideratum
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:46 PM, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think I wish that it was all Greek to me. Then I might have a chance of
understanding it. :-)
>
> Seriously, I can't say a thing regarding it. Hopefully it's useful.
> george
Why! It's Greek-Greek concordance to me, a novice. Only if I could
read it and understand easily.
Oun.
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