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Here is a PDF of the Syntax Synthesis worksheet I made based on Pete’s, but a little more spacious. :)

Just a quick post to get this class audio up. We finished up on articles. Eighteen wonderful ways to say “the”. OK, not exactly, but kinda. Our 1 Thessalonians work was a bit of a struggle. Our vocabulary isn’t there yet. Well, at least mine’s not. I didn’t ace the test, but almost. And I did [...]

All of them. They piled into the minivan for their various Wednesday night church activities. I offered my benedictions and walked into the house, letting out a cheer that made Helen and Kenny and Bunny the bunny all jump. The whole house to myself. The plan is to finish my Greek study. That’s always been the habit [...]

No, you didn’t miss anything; I’m not posting on class two. I was in Phoenix for a trade show and couldn’t arrange getting it recorded. But I’m back on track. I was a little despondent over the last few days knowing how little time my recent life has afforded my Greek studies, but I decided [...]

The new class started last Thursday. Nice to see everyone again. I’m too busy to comment on it right now, but it was really an intro to what we’ll be learning and how we’ll be going about it. Pete sounds like he has a good, deliberate plan worked out. I’m both looking forward to it and [...]

Another great class. Pete took us through an overview of “all” the verbal moods (well, the major four plus infinitive) to help us settle in on what the subjunctive mood was about. Good stuff. I’ll probably turn some of it into a PDF soon. (Done. See “update” below.) I tore right through my first reading/translation verse [...]

Yep, 15th! Wow, it’s been a while since I blogged on the class. Been to busy simply trying to do the work. We finished verbs and just tonight finished participles. Had a nice eureka moment: the “noun part” of the participle is only necessary to identify the antecedent, and can be ignored after it’s served [...]

Ugh. Second aorist. Sure, I get it, but all those verbal roots! I’m having a hard enough time with vocab, and now I find out I should have been memorizing not only the lexical form (1st person singular, present active indicative), but the roots, too! Oh well… I’ll get it. First aorist looks easier. We’ll see. Vocab [...]

It’s been a while since I blogged on my Greek class. I’ve been too busy to even do a thorough job on the homework let alone blog on it! The travel, the (thankfully now past) illness, and now this month I’m teaching Old Testament book overviews… lots going on.

Another good class. Concepts are settling down well in my head, I think, but vocab is getting me. I could tell that I didn’t have me vocab cards with me as much last week. We read more of 1 John 2. A little tougher going for all of us. I well understand the idea that [...]