/koine

Koine learning resources

Alphabet

Pronunciation

Terms

  • Fricatives
  • Aspiration
  • Phonemes

Punctuation and Syllabification

Characater Meaning
θεός, comma
θεός. period
θεός· semicolon
θεός; question mark

Nouns

Nominative and Accusative; Definite Article

Genitive and Dative

Prepositions

εἰμί

Person Number Form Meaning
1st sg εἰμί I am
2nd sg εἶ You are
3rd sg ἐστίν He/she/it is
1st pl ἐσμέν We are
2nd pl ἐστέ Y'all are
3rd pl εἰσίν They are

Adjectives

Third Declension

First and Second Person Personal Pronouns

αὐτός

Demonstrative Pronouns/Adjectives

Relative Pronoun

Introduction to Verbs

Present Active Indicative

Contract Verbs

Present Middle/Passive Indicative

Future Active and Middle Indicative

Verbal Roots (Patterns 2 – 4)

Imperfect Active Indicative


Accenting rules

Conversation

Self-paced courses

Communicative

"Particularly in the early stages, pragmatic communication skills are regularly prioritized over grammatical analysis. Students are not only able to comprehend more than they can produce, but they are also able to use language that they cannot analyze yet." (The Polis Method)

Communicative schools

YouTube channels

Online learning platforms

Misc

Audio


Questions

  • What are the various meanings of "long" and "short" vowels?
    • "short" can either refer to closed/open, or to whether lengthened?
  • What are the American idiosyncracies of Erasmian?
  • What are the differences between different constructed pronunciations (say, between Polis Institute and Biblical Language Center)?
  • Are there audible examples (i.e. on YouTube) of classic Greek pitch accents instead of stress accents?

Web sites

Unsorted

Memorization, retaining knowledge

People

Divinity studies

  • Bill Mounce
  • N. Clayton Croy
  • David Alan Black
  • Rodney Decker

Koine reconstruction

  • Christophe Rico
  • Randall Buth
    • Benjamin Kantor
    • Michael Halcomb
  • Luke Ranieri
  • Seumas Macdonald

Textual Criticism