Description
Randall Buth
Introduction Part One (also available as an online course)
Part One starts at an absolute beginning level and leads a student into thinking in the language right from the start. It uses 1000 pictures with accompanying audio tracks to provide an immersion environment for learning Koine Greek. The pictures are described in Koine Greek beginning with simple words, before progressing to phrases, full sentences, and eventually short story sequences, all in the language. In this way, the student is exposed to the breadth of the language (including singular and plural nouns, adjectives and articles, masculine, feminine, neuter concord, present and aorist tenses, imperatives. number and person concord, 235 lexical items and 700 forms).
Note: Part One is highly recommended both for beginning students in any program as a complement to whatever curriculum they are using, and also for more advanced students, even instructors, who have never experienced or practiced thinking directly in the language.
Part One also teaches the alphabet through listening discovery, introduces the writing system, and has a section summarizing the grammar. All the descriptions of the 1000 pictures are transcribed in a separate section in fully accented Greek so that a student learns to correctly spell what they have already learned to understand.
Introduction Part One is the recommended prerequisite to Living Koine Greek, Introduction Part 2a and 2b.
For a mini-demo of the Part One picture system, see Greek Demo Lesson.
Read more about Koine pronunciation.
Please note that the downloadable files are registered to a single-user for personal use and are not for distribution.
