By Donald Fairbairn
Why do scholars at the present time locate Greek and Latin so tricky and challenging to benefit? might be the first barrier fighting us from studying one other language effectively is that we frequently subconsciously think that English is the normal for a way languages needs to exhibit rules, and for that reason we unwittingly attempt to healthy the recent language into the constitution of English.
This e-book seeks to wreck scholars out of "English mode" once attainable, on the very starting of research. instead of consistently concerning Greek and Latin to English, the publication begins with a big-picture dialogue of what any language needs to do with a view to facilitate verbal exchange. It then explains how Indo-European languages usually accomplish the initiatives of verbal exchange, and the way Greek and Latin specifically do so.
Understanding Language comprises significant sections at the noun and verb platforms of the classical languages. In either situations, the e-book offers first with functionality (what nouns and verbs needs to do) after which explains how the varieties of Greek and Latin in attaining the wanted services. for this reason, the ebook is helping to make the difficult initiatives of memorizing kinds and studying syntax more uncomplicated and extra relaxing. scholars achieve a vast realizing of how the classical languages paintings earlier than they start the details.
This e-book offers scholars the various conceptual merits of learning heavily comparable languages, no matter if they're learning just one of them. scholars shouldn't have to be learning either Latin and Greek (or even to understand the Greek alphabet) so that it will make the most of this e-book. academics may possibly decide to have scholars learn the full e-book at the start in their learn or to learn sections at quite a few issues within the first year.
About the Author:
Donald Fairbairn is the Robert E. Cooley Professor of Early Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. he's the writer of existence within the Trinity: An creation to Theology with assistance from the Church Fathers, Grace and Christology within the Early Church, and japanese Orthodoxy via Western Eyes.
