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  • From: Deborah Millier <deborahmillier AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] organic language learning
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:05:54 -0700 (PDT)

B. Beers wrote:

> I have managed to find one
> set of audio BH online,
> which I downloaded. The
> audio is OK, but it is not
> divided according to
> chapters -only books, and
> then by file size (I think).

Good for you! Maybe you can share the URL with the
list. I for one would like to know how to receive (I
assume) a free audio TaNaKH.

A quick question regarding audio BH and "organic
language learning:" would you really *want* chapter
divisions? In audio?!?! Wouldn't it be more helpful
at this stage to get the sense divisions that the
author(s), or at least the Masoretes, intended for us
to perceive.

> I have yet to find a set
> that I can purchase. Do
> you (or anyone else) have
> any suggestions for where
> to find such resources?

Randall Buth has some resources and links at his web
page (www.biblicalulpan.org). The following excerpted
from his intro kind of sets the tone for his approach:

"The methodology is based on listening comprehension
approaches to language learning and has been
successfully developed and adapted to many modern
languages by Harris Winitz [of "The Learnables"
language series fame-- Michael]."

"[At Buth's Summer program in Israel...] the student
enters a world of Biblical Hebrew and begins to
interact with the language directly without the
mediation of a second language. Through this process,
the new language actually gets 'wired' into the brain
a different way than through a different language.
This forms the basis of new learning approaches that
can be used to get beyond the traditional impasse of
only building a "language monitor". (Monitor is a term
from second language acquisition theorists. A
'monitor' is a system of rules and lists that allow a
person to talk about a language. 'Monitors' are good
and necessary but incomplete and secondary to full
language learning.)"

B'SHALOM,

-- Michael Millier

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