Greek
Well, I have pretty much wrapped this series of posts up, though I won’t rule out adding some future interviews to it. I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on some things from the Interviews. Although my interviews included some ‘clusters’, e.g. those involved or trained
Theology Thursday
Today I want to talk a little bit about educational models, ‘distance ed’, the 1/8th second barrier, etc., etc.. One of the mainstays of tertiary education for a good two hundred years has been the model of a single professor presenting information via a lecture to a group of
Language
Why bother doing anything but the best types of language acquisition activities? I’m a firm believer in Comprehensible Input, and fairly sold on Krashen et al., that CI is the key to language acquisition. I don’t quite buy Krashen’s “strong” version that nothing but CI is necessary,
Language
Q: Patrologist, why do you talk so endlessly about language acquisition? A: Because our field is so broken. In no other field do so many people who know their target language so poorly talk with such authority. I honestly wish it wasn’t necessary, that we rather lived in a
Greek
Fridays are generally for specific language posts: Greek and Latin. Maybe some others thrown in from time to time. One of the things it can be hard to learn in a language is things like ‘days of the week’. Actually, if you are using the language daily in communication, these
Language
1. Like most places, Classics and Biblical studies are dominated by teachers who didn't train in language teaching, know little about language acquisition, and never acquired an active ability in their chosen languages. 2. The population is comparatively small. 3. Modern language teaching in Australia does not have
Philology
I don't really like Copyright. No, let me rephrase it. I think copyright is often immoral, is rarely in authors' interests, and is primarily used to protect vested interests, not creators' rights or interests. There are multifaceted and complex reasons for this, which I do not
Theology Thursday
First, let me welcome you to Theology Thursdays. Posts on Thursdays will generally deal with issues of Theology, and/or Biblical Studies. Today I want to think a little bit about Paul. Here's a caricature of a common interpretive strategy: "Look, here's Paul's
Language
I've written on this topic a few times previously, on my former blog, notably here and here. Today I want to explore a different side of this question. I’ve previously suggested that to get to a level of ‘fluency’ in Ancient Greek or Latin, we might estimate
Language
Quite a few people were waiting to hear from Randall Buth in this series of interviews. Today I present Buth's answers to my interview questions! Thanks very much to Randall for taking the time to respond to this interview. You can read the earlier seven interviews here: Sebastian
Updates
This past month has been a little more productive. This current month I am relocating 10,000km so that will be a little disruptive. Greek Natural Reader Last month I wrote chapter 3 and recording chapter 1. This month I hope to write chapter 4, and review and record chapter
Language
It's a common question, "Are you fluent?" or "How many languages are you fluent in?" But it's not a very helpful question, because 'fluency' is a very difficult to define concept. Many people have the idea that you 'learn