Even with modern languages, the only way to become really fluent in another language is to immerse oneself in that language. Academic studies can carry one only so far.
My experience with Randall Buth is that he made factual errors in Biblical Hebrew where just quoting verses would show the error. This is not just a disagreement in opinion.One that comes to mind was his claim that “today” HYWM never precedes its verb. Yet even a quick electronic search brought up a few times where it does. As an emphatic. In prose. Would he have made that mistake had he read Tanakh 20 times through instead of only twice decades ago? Much less likely. And that was not the only error.
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