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These two CDs with booklet enable a person who is taking biblical Greek to work on, by ear as well as through the eyes, all vocabulary words that occur in the New Testament ten times or more.
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Students of biblical Greek will learn all New Testament Greek vocabulary words that occur ten times or more in the New Testament by interacting with this audio CD. Jonathan Pennington speaks all New Testament Greek words in descending order of frequency. Different tracks enable students to concentrate on different word groupings. After each citation is an opportunity for the user to give the gloss meaning of the word; then Pennington gives the gloss, confirming whether or not the user had it correctly. An accompanying printed guide supplements the learning process.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The vocabulary introduced is useful and ordered effectively on the CD. The recording quality is excellent. The handbook provided with the text is clear and easy to read: the Greek font is of appropriate size and clear. The major draw back is the accent of the speaker: he is from North America, and presents the vocabulary in an American-Erasmian accent that differs from the pronuniciation used in most English universities. For instance the definite article hO (o() is said as "har".
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Helpful vocabulary acquisition tool
30 Jun 2002
Format:Audio CD
First of all, this is NOT an "abridged" edition, with a 24-page booklet. Zondervan confirmed for me that they make only one edition of this CD set, it's not abridged, and it has a 48-page booklet.
This is a useful tool for learning vocabulary. The pronunciation is clear, though the recording volume could be a bit higher/louder, I think. It's the best, if not the only, of its kind of thing out there.
I would have liked to have had him give aorist and/or future forms of verbs where the stem differs from the indicative - e.g.: "ERCOMAI - I come, I go; future: ELEUSOMAI; aorist: HLQON". This is the reason I do not give it four or five stars.
My suggestion for a follow-up CD set would include alphabetically reciting verbs with all their principal parts as found in the New Testament, and if he's really adventuresome, reciting the complete verb conjugation paradigms (regular, liquid, contract, MI verbs, etc.) and noun declension paradigms, and maybe even lists of words related by roots.
Still, despite my personal quibbles with this set, I would recommend that any first-year or second-year NT Greek student get it. Having finished my second year a few years ago, I already had most of these words memorized.
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Greek for the Ears
19 Feb 2003
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
As an intermediate Greek student who struggles with remembering vocabulary, I am very grateful to Jonathan Pennington and Zondervan for producing this tool. There are two CD's in this set, which cover all the words in the New Testament that occur 10 times or more. The accompanying booklet lists those words and their definitions in the order in which they are spoken. The purpose of this tool is to help the Greek student learn the vocabulary of the New Testament.
The benefits of having Greek vocabulary in audio format are generally obvious. First, it is portable and the student is able to take it wherever he goes. In fact the Greek student should never be without his vocabulary and this tool helps greatly to that end. Secondly, it involves more of the senses, which helps in the learning process. For those who learn well through audible learning methods this will be invaluable. Thirdly, the booklet makes this all the more useful for the beginner to read along with the pronunciation. As well it further engages another sense as the vocabulary is listened to.
There are a few disadvantages to this tool, which hopefully would be remedied, in a latter edition. First, the glosses, or definitions, are the bare bones. You only receive about one or two options for a definition. One understands the need to do so with this medium, but it leads to the impression that there is not too much flexibility with the definitions when in actuality there are. It may be helpful to beef up the definitions at least a little bit. Secondly, it would have been more helpful if the definitions followed exactly those given in either Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek or Trenchard's Complete Vocabulary Guide. There is some inconsistency here which if fixed would make this set all the more useful. Lastly, the individual tracks should have been further broken down into approximately 15-20 words instead of 30-40 words. Shorter tracks would allow for quicker repetition and therefore easier memorization.
Overall this is an extremely helpful tool that every beginning and intermediate Greek student should utilize. I only wish I discovered it earlier.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Very helpful, small quibble on pronunciation
8 Feb 2005
Format:Audio CD
I find the CDs very helpful, especially when driving. The pauses between words are just long enough to give me time to think of the meaning, but no so long that I feel like I am waiting for the next one.
I am hardly the person to criticize his pronunciation, but I have a lot of trouble distinguishing a from o the way he pronounces them. They both sound like "a" in father most of the time. It would be easier to distinguish of "o" was closer to "off" (like aww instead of ahh) Because of this, I have trouble visualizing the spelling while I am driving.
I am hardly the person to criticize his pronunciation, but I have a lot of trouble distinguishing a from o the way he pronounces them. They both sound like "a" in father most of the time. It would be easier to distinguish of "o" was closer to "off" (like aww instead of ahh) Because of this, I have trouble visualizing the spelling while I am driving.
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