Lesson 9 (First Aorist)

I have redesigned lesson nine (First Aorist) to provide a more complete, yet clearer discussion of the first aorist forms. If you have already read that lesson, I suggest you read the new version to review and to gain a clearer understanding of some of the forms you are seeing in the later lessons.

Topical Index

I am currently designing a topic index for the online grammar. The aim is to make the grammar more useful for review.

While the primary target of the grammar is students in their first year of study, the index will increase the usefulness of the grammar for people who learned Greek some time ago, but need to review in order to improve their reading skill.

The format is rather preliminary for the moment, but I have made the index live so that you can give me feedback as the work progresses. Obviously, the list of topics in the index will increase rapidly as the grammar grows. If you have suggestions for what you would like to see in the index, just let me know. I’ll do my best to accommodate.

You can view what little I’ve done so far on the index here: Topical Index

Lesson 17: Future Tense

Lesson 17 on the future tense is up and running, but I will still add one more exercise over the next few days. The grammatical discussion, vocabulary, and reading and translation exercises are already complete.

Bookmarks

If you have bookmarked anything in Lessons 1—4, you will need to update your bookmarks. I have made changes to the background workings of the grammar that required several filenames to change. Your bookmarks will no longer work unless you update them.

Lesson 16

I revised lesson 16 and the course lexicon several days ago, but have just now uploaded the changes. I’m working from Perú.

Lesson 15: Third Declension Consonant Stem Nouns

I have revised lesson 15 to reduce the size of the vocabulary list and clean up the discussion of third declension nouns. I have entered some revisions for lesson 16 as well, but will complete those over the next few days—long distance, from Peru.

Ad for Online Grammar

I’m working on an ad for the online grammar. I’ve uploaded a preliminary version to the homepage at http://Greek-Language.com and the the Beginning Greek page.

Take a look and tell me what you think.

I’m back

My daughter, Sofia, and I had a wonderful time in the mountains last week, but it’s good to be back. I had no connection to the internet up there, so I couldn’t update this blog.

It’s good to be back.

Temporary Absence

I will be unable to respond to any comments made Sunday—Friday of this week (June 28—July 2). I will look forward to continuing the discussion on Saturday.

Have a wonderful week.

Lesson 15

Yesterday I completed my rewrite of Lesson 15: Third Declension Nouns (Consonant Stems), for the online grammar at Greek-Language.com.

The lesson comes complete with several automated exercises to help you recognize these nouns as well as automated vocabulary flash cards to help you learn fully half of the third declension nouns that appear fifty times or more in the New Testament. (That’s thirty nouns.)

If you are learning Greek, I hope you will like it. If you teach Greek, or are an advanced student, I’d love to have your feedback.