GREK 1110
Greek I - Beginning Greek
Videos
Each Module contains several short Greek videos to watch and listen to. The purpose of the videos is to give you examples of Greek from a variety of speakers. Some of the videos also feature translation of passages of Scripture from Greek to English, and will discuss points of grammar and style. Some of the speakers are seminary professors, others are native Greek-speaking teachers - you will probably begin to notice that different people speak with different accents. I advise that you model your own own pronunciation on that of Maria, who is a native Greek teacher with excellent diction.
The Daily Dose of Greek is run by professors from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. They also produce the Daily Dose of Hebrew, and the Daily Dose of Latin. These are free services which send out daily 2-minute videos in which teachers read and discuss Biblical texts.
The website for the Daily Dose of Greek is at
https://dailydoseofgreek.com/
Their YouTube page is at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRSbS2XhqOhnSUzWfGHUkLg
The Daily Dose Greek videos come up at first with lots of colored markings, then as the video starts the markings clear off, leaving just the clear Greek text. Stop the video at that point and read the text aloud for yourself. Then re-start the video, listen to the pronunciation, the translation, and the grammar notes that follow.
When using the DD Videos, it is useful to know some of the general terms used in the presentations :
3ms refers to the Third Person Masculine Singular (i.e. he)
3fs refers to the Third Person Feminine Singular (i.e. she)
Aorist refers to a simple past tense (eg. they went)
Imperfect refers to a past tense implying a repeated or continuous action in the past (eg. we used to go, you were going)
Perfect refers to a past tense which usually implies that something happened in the past, and is still in operation at the time of speaking (eg "I have done my homework" - and here it is)
The Subjunctive Mood is used for statements which have an element of doubt (eg. it might rain). The Subjunctive is usually signalled by broadening of the vowels in the Personal endings of the verb
The Passive Voice is used when the Subject receives the action of the verb, rather than performing it (eg. the cat is being chased by the dog). Passive verb forms often contain a theta - Thee a Theta, think Pathive
An augment is an epsilon which is added to the front of a verb-stem to make a past tense (similar to the English -ed at the end of a verb, I talk, I talked)
μι- verbs are a small group of verbs which have endings older than the usual -ω endings. The μι- endings have dropped out of modern Greek
The Daily Dose gives the declensions in a slightly different case-order : Nominative-Genitive-Dative-Accusative (derived from German grammars) rather than the order we use, Nominative-Accusative-Genitive-Dative (derived from English grammars).
Reading the Bible with Maria is a series of readings of the Greek text of Matthew. Maria (she does not give a last name) is a native Greek speaker - listen to the precision and clarity of her diction, and the smoothness of her delivery, and try to imitate them. Her videos are in Greek only - there are no English translations.
Her YouTube page is at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvniRDLv6PYeNB9DQCajGQQ/
Ross Mckerras is a Bible translator and teacher. Most of his videos are in Greek only - there are no English translations.
His YouTube page is at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNfZzB_dUUnJwYppD7aENbA/videos
Jonathan Rehfleldt is a missionary in Uruguay
He translates the Greek text into English, but does not read all of the Greek text aloud
His YouTube page is at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCawtH6bODRBCxoMMG0KLDrg/videos
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