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**Retapleapse** · 03-02-2009, 07:36 PM

DW--I guess there is nothing child friendly about this one, but "Essentials of New Testament Greek" by Ray Summers, revised by Thomas Sawyer is a book that you might consider for him. This could be a good one for you to work from with him in the sense that it is very easy to pull what you need from this book to make flash cards and practice sentences and actually have him translating simple sentences in three weeks.

I'm not sure if you (or he) is familiar with the protestant song, "Onward Christian Soliders;" but, if so this one lends itself to learning the Greek alphabet pretty quickly:

Onward---Christian---soliders----marching---- as to war . . .

Alpha . . . . beta,. . . .gamma . . ., delta . . . . . epsilon . . .

I guess one consideration would be how to pronounce the words. I learned the Erasmian system which is used by protestants academics and even some Orthodox academics (like Zizioulas for example), but I think most of the Greeks that I have met in a Greek church think I sound like a barbarian.

It occurs to me that Effie G. might have some good input for you with here background.

And, for that matter, for your boy, the Hebrew alphabet lends itself very well to "Yankee Doodle"

The book mentioned above is published by Broiadman & Holman; ISBN# 0-8054-1001-5. There is a workbook that goes with this as well that may be helpful.

03-02-2009, 07:36 PM	#3
Retapleapse Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 480 Senior Member	DW--I guess there is nothing child friendly about this one, but "Essentials of New Testament Greek" by Ray Summers, revised by Thomas Sawyer is a book that you might consider for him. This could be a good one for you to work from with him in the sense that it is very easy to pull what you need from this book to make flash cards and practice sentences and actually have him translating simple sentences in three weeks. I'm not sure if you (or he) is familiar with the protestant song, "Onward Christian Soliders;" but, if so this one lends itself to learning the Greek alphabet pretty quickly: Onward---Christian---soliders----marching---- as to war . . . Alpha . . . . beta,. . . .gamma . . ., delta . . . . . epsilon . . . I guess one consideration would be how to pronounce the words. I learned the Erasmian system which is used by protestants academics and even some Orthodox academics (like Zizioulas for example), but I think most of the Greeks that I have met in a Greek church think I sound like a barbarian. It occurs to me that Effie G. might have some good input for you with here background. And, for that matter, for your boy, the Hebrew alphabet lends itself very well to "Yankee Doodle" The book mentioned above is published by Broiadman & Holman; ISBN# 0-8054-1001-5. There is a workbook that goes with this as well that may be helpful.
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