Greek recap

[Stephen Jones]

Dear Greek students,

 

We had a fascinating class last Tuesday. Chris & Catherine “The Scorpion Hunters”  shared about their latest adventures in Nevada. We also tried pronouncing the French number one, which proved to be much harder that it looked. After about 20 tries, I think I got it. Here’s how Wikiepedia shows it: One: un/une /œ̃/ or /ɛ̃/ . Personally, I’ve decided to stick with Greek.

 

We read through all of Chapter 10,  introducing third declension nouns and the “Square of Stops” -  how our lips, teeth, alveolar ridge, palate, and vocal chords cooperate to produce different letters, and what happens when we add the Greek letter sigma at the end.  Important behavior we saw for the first time is that nu and tau drop out when followed by sigma, and tau cannot stand at the end of a word but drops out instead.

 

Homework for next week:

 

Review Chapter 10 grammar and add the new Vocab to your memorization list

 

Workbook Exercise 10

Write out the master paradigm of all case endings

Parsing #1-3

Warm-up a & b

Translation #1

 

If you feel comfortable enough, I’d love to move on to chapter 11 next week, so work hard, do your best, and we’ll decide on Tuesday if we need more time or if we can press on.

 

Thanks,

Pastor Stephen