Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

Why not have a conversation in Classical Hebrew via email? Then we can all
see how this would work and we lose the pronunciation problem.

James Christian

On 3 September 2010 15:31, Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com> wrote:

> > In short, with the understanding of Biblical Hebrew still so uncertain,
> is
> > it not hubris to claim that we can make an immersion method to learn the
> > language and have it be accurate?
>
> I like short.
> You are welcome to stay in your own world, even though language is
> normally a team sport.
> Your words, always in English, also seem mutually contradictory.
> You say "BH is so uncertain", yet you present yourself as thinking in it.
> In debate, someone could quip, "Oh, 'uncertain thinking'." But that
> is distasteful by not getting to the real issues.
> That's one problem with discussing this in English.
> One doesn't get to see or hear whatever someone is really talking about.
> Anyone can say, "I know BH", and judge it by who knows what
> standard.
> From everything that I know about psycholinguistics, and language
> learning, and acquisition testing, one cannot expect any real
> internalization if they only read. It's anyone's choice.
>
>
> > Incidentally, my general impression of sentences you wrote in another
> > message sounded stilted, like translations by students from English to
> > Hebrew.
>
> I'll take that as a complement. Go right ahead and fix them up.
>
> A parable:
> Two brothers were playing catch. The one brother asked the college
> pitcher to throw a curve ball. The other brother obliged and threw a
> nice slow curve. It dipped below the other's mitt and rolled to the
> backstop. On retrieving he said, "Hey, that wasn't a curve ball, it was
> a sinker." With a friendly shrug, the other said,  "Whatever."
>
> Have a good year.
>
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