Greek to Me: Learning New Testament Greek Through Memory Visualization

I used this text in 1st year Greek at seminary. Phenomenal method that simply works. I can still picture the "absurd" (author's words) diagrams and that's the reason this was a fantastic tool for learning a difficult language. Now in my Greek studies, I keep having "Greek to Me" flashbacks of the diagrams.My only concern - I'm almost embarassed to show my friends what I used to study Greek because it looks like a text for Mrs. Johnson's 2nd graders.Ah well, it works.

It has been about a year since I read it and I can still remember every single cartoon and thus each of the 21 different endings and most all the tenses. It seems to me that this book is conducive to very high retention. I would like to see it brought back to print as well.

I have studied greek twice. The first time was unbearibly hard for me. I have dyslexia, and learning a langauge with so many strange and confusable endings was very difficult to me. I quickly forgot much of what I crammed into my head. The second time was with this wonderful book. I did not have to memorize the strange endings by looking at them. Story's helpful cartoon gave me the pegs I needed to hang the language on. Wonderful, wonderful book. The publishers must bring this book back into print!

This text is a must for the visual learner! Memory visualization--because it works on the familiar--helps eliminate the usual dread associated with learning ancient languages. They should do one for Hebrew.

Greek to Me: Learning Biblical Greek through Memory Visualization by J.Lyle Story and Cullen I.K. Story was a wonderful way to learn Koine Greek. When in seminary, I studied Koine Greek in the acedemic year 1990-91. A great many of the memory aids have stuck with me to this day. Visualizing the cartoon drawings of both the individual vocabulary words (available in a separate set of memory cards which contains the 600 vocabulary words used 25 or more times in the Greek New Testament) and for all the endings in the language of never-ending endings made the actual rote memorization so much simpler. Even now, when I have a question as to the case of a noun or the declension of a verb, I simply turn to the appropriate diagram in the book and I have my answer right away. I strongly recommend this text for anyone interested in either learning or teaching Koine Greek.