Teaching and Learning Greek for Beginners

In the initial stages of learning Greek, it is essential to employ strategies that lead as soon as possible to the text, first adapted from the original, then original, in order to prevent motivation from weakening after the first phase of enthusiasm for a new subject. It is therefore necessary to select morphological and syntactic topics: the teacher illustrates noun and verb in their essential features and presents some syntactic aspects (values of particles such as μέν, δέ, γάρ, ἀλλά) as soon as possible. The mnemonic effort required of the class group should be directed to the knowledge of frequent and productive lexical roots and to the knowledge of elements of noun formation: in fact, the goal is to bring the student to a global understanding of the text even before its translation. This process will enable the student to master the sentence of simple syntax in a short time.