Second Language Acquisition Suggestions

Seumas over at  Complaint (no…) Compilant (not right either…) Compliant Subversity (<- there we go!) has some helpful tips for moving forward toward actually acquiring Greek or Hebrew as a second language (or in D&T’s terms second language learning). Do check it out. http://jeltzz.blogspot.com/2009/06/conversational-dead-languages-vi.html

Reading Greek Polls

So What’s the Main Issue? Part II

Previously, we introduced what seems to be the main issue for Daniel & Tonya: The Sustainability of Communicative Methodology. In our first post, we argued two points. Traditional Methodology post-seminary (or college/university) is not sustainable already so questioning the sustainability of Communicative Methods is a non-issue. In terms of within the classroom, Communicative Methodology is [...]

So What’s the Main Issue? Part I

Daniel & Tonya’s comment on my first post were very helpful in drawing the focus on the main issue. I think that I’m beginning to see where we’re missing each other. I also appreciate their pointing out a mistake of my own. I had not intended to, but I ended up accidentally taking one of [...]

Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek

Another important book that we’ll never be able to afford: Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek Edited by S.J. Bakker and G.C. Wakker Books Forthcoming Expected: September 2009 Series: Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, 16 ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007: 978 90 04 [...]

Putting the Discussion in Context

There are a few of background posts with their comment threads over at Daniel & Tonya’s blog that help put this discussion on language learning in context. The comments, in particular, are helpful in showing where D&T and I are in this discussion and where we have already been: http://hebrewandgreekreader.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/adam-the-artist/ http://hebrewandgreekreader.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/getting-specific-the-problem-of-vocabulary/ I’m pretty sure that [...]

Daniel Streett on Learning Greek

These points originally appeared in a comment on the previous post and Daniel Streett has given me permission to promote them to guest post status. Eventually, in the next day or so, I’ll be providing some follow up of my own. 1) Since I started teaching communicatively, I have probably heard every single argument against [...]

Speaking of Latin…

Here are my thoughts on Second Language Acquisition as it relates to learning “dead” languages. I’ve written much more than I intended and don’t know if I’ll have the energy or time to do any more – even in the comments. The title? Well, patience, it will at least make some sense. Its partially related [...]

New Greek Grammar!

I picked up a new Greek Grammar recently: New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin by Andrew L. Sihler 720 pages of Oxford published of comparative grammatical delight! Its not bound well – glue injection – but even still, there a whole lot of amazing information in here on both Greek and Latin morphology as [...]

Feeling Better

I’m doing better now (thanks, Nick), though I’m not completely up to par just yet. Even still, I’ve lost a good two days of work from this that I now need to work on catching up, so blogging will continue to be on hold. The next couple days will consist of putting extra time into [...]