Biblical Greek 01
Available in English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, and Spanish
Working knowledge of Biblical Greek is critical to understanding and translating the New Testament. Whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced learner, lessons 1-15 of this certificate program can help you become a fluent reader of biblical Greek by providing the resources, system, and motivation you need to learn efficiently, retain effectively, and develop fluency during every stage of the language learning process. The goal is not to just learn and retain Greek, but to be able to actually use it!
Price
$950
Content Type
Full Certificate
Certificate Learning Objectives
VOCABULARY
- Words learned – 360 content words (excluding grammatical words)
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Reading proficiency: Be able to read simple sentences and stories without the aid of a dictionary and with a fair degree of fluency (about 100 words per minute).
- Writing proficiency: Can construct simple sentences and manipulate stories based on varying grammatical features.
- Listening proficiency: Can listen to and understand simple sentences and stories without the aid of a dictionary.
- Speaking proficiency: Can construct simple sentences and manipulate stories based on varying grammatical features.
GRAMMAR KNOWLEDGE
- Morphology: Form and parse nouns in 1st and 2nd declension, regular verbs in present, aorist, imperfect, and future, some common prepositions, and basic question words.
- Syntax: Working knowledge of when word order changes in certain sentence types; ability to produce some of the non-standard sentence types (simple questions, non-verbal clauses, medio-passive verbs, etc.).
- Semantics: Basic knowledge of the semantics of verbal categories such as tense and aspect; basic knowledge of the semantics of cases and nominal functions; basic knowledge of the functions of determiners, particles, prepositions, and conjunctions.
Note: These skills will vary from student to student depending on whether they concentrate on speaking, writing, listening, or reading. There are opportunities to practice all of these skills within the application, but it is up to the student to focus on what he or she deems to be most necessary.