Firstly, to find out just how useful a linguistic ancestor is to learning a modern-day, spoken language. My goal here is to share some advice and hopefully ease some of your pain as you begin your studies. I look forward to your updates. Just read your grammar and decide what makes sense for you. . Culture Notes provide a backdrop to learning material and let the Koine Greek culture come alive, setting you up to forge deeper connections with Koine Greek culture and make a positive impression. But I’m committed to being more adventurous this year. You don’t need to understand every grammatical nuance, but strive for general comprehension. I am wondering how it is going, learning both koine and modern Greek. I look forward to your review about MT Greek for sure. And lastly, you can say "τα λέμε" for chat soon! Learning the 'Tatăl Nostru' in Romanian, on the other hand, took me only a couple of hours, even though I'm only at beginner level in that language. Just as importantly, you need to become intimately familiar with the sounds the letters make. This site focused on giving glory to Jesus and teaching the truth about historical, biblical Christianity.

Koine (Κοινὴ – ‘common’) Greek was the global lingua franca (similar to the way that English is now) from the time of Alexander the Great to a few hundred years after Christ. If you want to learn to read your New Testament in its original language, Koine Greek, this post is for you. How do you go from knowing practically nothing, to being able to read the New Testament in Greek? I can’t even find a edictionary that includes noun gender, let alone a decent textbook that doesn’t cost a fortune. It’s an older edition but I may purchase the newer edition soon that has an audio component. And so it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle. I didn’t do much of this in college because it was widely regarded as unnecessary (why translate into a language that nobody speaks anymore?) With lots of tentative travel plans to share with you soon. Have you had any success using Modern or Koine as a surrogate for the other? Focus on memorizing small increments, let’s say ten at a time. Spread in part by the conquests of Alexander the Great, Koine Greek sprung up as a common language among troops of the prolific conqueror and was spoken in the many countries they conquered, all the way from Egypt to India. I did find a site Kypros.org with lessons in both classical and modern Greek.

And let us know how you find the Duff/Wenham book; I'm thinking of using that myself one day, if I ever do get around to learning Koine Greek! 11, 59), Luther’s friends (who were once mine also). Steve Kaufman just took up Greek too. Try to get to at least one chapter per day. Every day open up your Greek NT and read something. I too would love to see his response to this.

But trends seem to be changing fairly quickly. There are four absolute must-haves if you want to learn to read the New Testament in Greek.

Although I’ve experimented a little bit here and there with podcasting and video, being the absolute contrarian that I am I’ve tended to stick with what I like and what I’m good at despite what everyone else is doing. We'll see how you get on with MT this time. How much koine did you remember from your college days before you embarked on this plan?