From helmadik@midway.uchicago.edu Fri Mar 10 22:37:16 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id WAA28888 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:37:14 -0800 Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id WAA17189 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:37:13 -0800 Received: from harper.uchicago.edu (root@harper.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.7]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA06247 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:37:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from [128.135.183.45] (classics3.uchicago.edu [128.135.183.45]) by harper.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01557 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:37:10 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: helmadik@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <38C98511.D051D0DC@mail.montclair.edu> References: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:27:12 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Helma Dik Subject: Re: Audiotapes -- and other technologies Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" >While the idea of making audio tapes is fine, as would be a CD ROM, the >technology exists to store sound files easily on web pages. For example, at > >http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgreek/ancient_greek_start.html > >there is pronunciation guide to Greek, associated with Dr. >Mastronarde's Greek >primer, which includes audio files of dozens of words, spoken both by men and >women. Absolutely. But beyond learning the alphabet, it's not a help for memorization. It would be great if even more were available in audio. Aren't some of the Reading Greek texts available on tape as well? >As many of you know, I'm ever so gradually trying to improve my >Javascripts for >Learning Greek page (belated thanks to Helma Dik for pointing out an error in >accent which I've not had time to correct.), and to creating more internet >resources for Greek. As another compiler of internet resources for learning Greek points out, most on-line resources are riddled with typos (the all-too-recessive accents on those participles) or worse (http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~p3481184/greekg.htm#IntroductoryCourse s). But as long as students are not graded on these exercises, and then would be penalized for giving the right answers ("luete is not you are loosening. It's *we* are loosening. Try again?" :: ?!?!), I suppose it's not too harmful to see material presented in various different ways. [I think the only exception is the Mastronarde page, but shouldn't really be complaining about errors and lack of proofreading because I'm not doing anything like this (I have now put my verb review sheets on my homepage, though, for those of you who are as frustrated as I am with the lack of one-page overviews and generally, decent layout of textbooks)]. HD Helma Dik Department of Classics University of Chicago helmadik@midway.uchicago.edu http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classics/ .