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Fluency Workshop: Day 7
Sunday is a day off for everyone. I slept in and am reading Blaine Ray’s Fluency Through TPR Storytelling, which is a foundational book for the methods they’re using here. I was hanging out with Michael Halcomb, and he made an interesting comment. He said, “When I was a kid, I went to soccer camp; […]
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Fluency Workshop: Day 4
July 26, 2012
I flew in to Fresno Sunday evening and caught a cab to Fresno Pacific University, where the training was being held. I had missed dinner and the orientation, but my fellow students assured me I hadn’t missed anything important. I got my room (on campus) and unpacked my bag, going to sleep pretty soon after. […]
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Where I am and Where I’m Going
July 21, 2012
This past semester, I’ve been writing for publication and preparing my application (last-second) to a Ph.D. program. Despite the hectic pace, I did manage to work through Randall Buth’s Living Koine Greek, part 1 and some of part 2-A. I was accepted to the Ph.D. program, and now, having just finished the first set of […]
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Second Language Acquisition and the Grammar-Translation Method
June 15, 2012
Since I started my first Masters degree, I had really attempted to learn four languages (French, Anglo-Saxon, Koine Greek, Biblical Hebrew), but had fallen far short of my desires and expectations. All of them I had tried to learn the exact same way: memorize charts and tables of verb conjugations and noun declensions, memorize morphological […]
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Languages – Where I’ve Been
June 8, 2012
I don’t have a strong track record in learning languages. I took French for two years in high school. By the time I graduated, the only thing I remembered was a children’s song and the curious fact that “cabbage” was considered a term of endearment. I took Spanish for two years in college. I crammed […]
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What This Is
November 21, 2011
I am a student of ancient Greek. This blog is to record my progress and highlight resources for other independent learners of ancient Greek.
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Study Greek 
July 29, 2012
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