Label your room with Koine Greek

I find this quite interesting to do. This enhances my memory of these words, and even reminds me of the circumstances where they are used in the Bible! I feel more conscious of the Holy Word in my daily life. You'll certainly be more creative in labeling your things with Greek words of the world of Jesus and His first apostles.

Body part words in Greek--Exercise

Now try and see whether you've remember the words!

Body parts in Koine Greek

These are all words found in the New Testament. They are arranged around a picture of an advertisement model of an airline.
Can you recall where in the NT are foreheads, arms, cheeks etc. mentioned?

清新自然的學習

為甚麼我喜歡看教小朋友學新約希臘文的書呢？因為清新自然得多。教大人的書怎樣不自然？比如每個生詞後都用括號告訴你，那個詞在新約聖經出現了多少次。

Poetry in the Greek New Testament

"Man cannot live without a song"--I read a sentence somewhat like this in Our Father Abraham by Marvin Wilson, but now I'm too lazy to find the exact quote and the page number. Anyway, recently I feel deeply that a person really cannot live without songs. Singing is different from speaking. We need songs. In seeking to immerse myself in NT Greek / Koine Greek, I really need songs--songs of praise and prayers. The NT contains no book of psalms. So I start excerpting and learning the Psalms quotations in the NT, together with other verses written in the genre of poetry, such as quotations of the OT prophets. Exclamations, crying out to the Lord, expressing wonder and amazement, pouring out one's heart to the Lord with words of biblical songs, singing--is essential. Life is not prosaic.

Unfortunately I am not good at composing tunes. So for the time being I read them aloud as poems with feeling. I hope that someone can turn these NT Greek poetic lines into songs with tunes. If you have done so, please tell me! Actually I'd like to try to make music with these words, but I do not have a guitar or a piano here when I'm sojourning in another city!

1. What is Man

Heb 2:6-8=Psa 8:4-6

τί ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος ὅτι μιμνῄσκῃ αὐτοῦ, [ind. pres. mid.]

ἢ υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου ὅτι ἐπισκέπτῃ αὐτόν;

Please correct me if you know Koine Greek!

Please correct me if you know Koine Greek!

The following is written in Koine Greek--well, at least I'm trying to write in Koine Greek.
I know that the only way to make the words and grammar rules really stay in my head is to use the words and the rules. So I'm trying to write something. No one has checked what I’ve written so I do not know how many errors I have made.

I'm trying to write something with vocabularies from 1 Timothy chapter 3.

Ὀρεγομαι μαθειν την διαλεκτον της Καινης Διαθηκης. Ὀρεγομαι ἀναγνωσκειν την Καινην Διαθηκην καλως.

Some study aids which I recently came across

Sing and Learn New Testament Greek (CD)

Mainly this CD puts noun endings and verb endings etc. into familiar tunes. Frequently the lyrics are not make up of words, but of endings. Well this kind of songs is not to my taste. It sounds so meaningless and awkward. I don't think I can memorize the endings like that. I prefer the endings to be rehearsed together with real words in memorable and meaningful (and fun) contexts.

Song School Greek, by Michelle Hahne

(Children's book with CD which has songs)
This is pretty cool.