[Biblical-languages] Languages

James Ernest jdemail at charter.net
Thu Feb 24 10:20:01 EST 2005


For self-tutoring in classical and modern Hebrew and classical Latin, check
out RosettaStone. I haven't used them myself, but it looks like a good
system, solidly grounded in state-of-the art pedagogical theory and making
effective use of the multimedia capabilities of your computer.

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James D. Ernest
j.d.ernest at bc.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Jack Kilmon
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 4:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Biblical-languages] Languages
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> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Malinchak" <micadoc at hotmail.com>
> To: <biblical-languages at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 1:04 PM
> Subject: [Biblical-languages] Languages
> 
> 
> > Please send me information on self tutoring programs for 
> > Hebrew(Biblical
> > and modern), Aramaic, Ecclesiastical Greek, Ecclesiastical 
> Latin and 
> > Coptic languages.
> 
> 
> If I were to advise you, I would suggest Biblical Hebrew 
> first which will 
> give you a foundation for Classical Aramaic (not Syriac).  I 
> would forget 
> the "Ecclesiastical" stuff and take Koine Greek and Latin.  
> "Ecclesiastical" 
> Latin is no more than pronouncing Latin like Italian instead 
> of Latin.  Once 
> you have facility in Greek, I think Middle Egyptian is 
> necessary to go on to 
> Coptic.  OK, so that takes care of the next 20 years.
> 
> Jack 
> 
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