[Biblical-languages] Right-brained language learning
Norbert Rennert
norbert_rennert at sil.org
Thu Nov 27 19:21:45 EST 2003
Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:
> I'll take a look at your page later. My initial reaction is that your
> ability to accomplish this is dependent upon your knowledge of the
> language and your ability to devise algorithms to implement a correct
> syntactical usage of the vocabulary. One criticism of some texts
> written by some who are knowledgable in the field of Greek (also
> Hebrew) is that they contain "made up" sentences. I think this is
> basically what this would amount to. I'm not one to criticize these
> "made up" sentences unless the result is that the constructions are
> not anywhere attested in the literature, but the danger exists.
>
> You might try www.greeklatinaudio.com <http://www.greeklatinaudio.com>
> for a reading of the GNT (Westcott & Hort). Perhaps you will find
> that helpful in that you can then hear the reading as well as see it.
> Thus far he has Revelation, Matthew and part of Mark finished.
>
> gfsomsel
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I appreciate your concern about the computer making up constructions
which are unnatural. While I do not rule this possibility out, I'd like
to clarify that in my approach, I do not manipulate syntax. I leave the
order of the words as they are given. What my script does is change
things like tense, person, plurality etc. I am trying to provide a
method to learn Greek morphology not syntax. My greatest challenge was
learning the paradigms. I think being able to recycle a story into many
different forms will have an advantage because once the base vocabulary
has been learned, the semantics of the story remain largely stable. So,
assuming the student has learned the vocabulary used in a given lesson,
as they re-read the story from a new perspective and come across a new
form, they would know two things: 1) they would already know the root
meaning, and 2) they would know what the new form represented
grammatically because they selected that from the controls offered on
the page. My hope is that this will be a quicker and more enjoyable way
to learn the Greek endings.
Norbert Rennert
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