Atehnaze Group?

[CanadianGirl]

O.K. I am completely disorganized , as usual. I have lesson I ready, where & how do we post it? Thanks!

[klewlis]

@CanadianGirl

O.K. I am completely disorganized , as usual. I have lesson I ready, where & how do we post it? Thanks!

Post it in the other thread (the one with “Week 1, Lesson 1”).

I’ll be posting mine tonight… have just had a crazy busy week!

[CanadianGirl]

O.K. -Thanks-I thought I was behind everybody else (it happens).

[jaihare]

@klewlis

I’m going to go ahead and start it then. We’ll start Sunday as week 1.

I’ll post a thread each week. We can start with 2 lessons per week but if it gets to be too much (I hear that it gets intense later on) we can slow it to one lesson at a time.

Now I see… This is well-stated.

I didn’t find this group before because the title of the thread is Atehnaze instead of Athenaze. I searched the forum for Athenaze and got specific threads, but I didn’t find this one until now, when I searched the pages of this specific forum (Learning Greek) for “Group”. Could you change the title of the thread to reflect the title of the book? It will help with search engine results.

I’ll read through the thread now.

Thanks,
Jason

[jaihare]

@CanadianGirl

This Sunday? July 27-? If so, I might be 24 hours late-just had unexpected company. Also I would prefer to do one lesson per week, but I’m not going to complain if everybody wants to do two. Thanks again.

I think one lesson per week is more reasonable for several reasons. (1) Digestion of the material. (2) Chance to read and re-read the stories. (3) Opportunity to drill the forms and review. (4) Time to absorb and reflect.

[jaihare]

@akhnaten

I’m little over 100 pages into Mastronarde now. As long as the grammar and morphology is introduced first in Mastronarde, I think I should be fine–sadly, that won’t always be the case. I cannot make sense at all of the presentation in Athenaze on some topics. When I didn’t know the alphabet, Athenaze was impossible. I came back after a week, and had other problems. Like introducing only singular forms of pres.act.ind. ‘to be’ (chapter 2 section 1), and postponing the plural (chapter 3 section 1). The introduction of the imperative (chapter 2 section 3) is a travesty. It does not give me the picture of the language that I like to see, if this makes sense. I rely heavily on the use of flashcards in learning a language. With Athenaze, it was a struggle for me to make flashcards based upon presentation in the text.
And these last comments hold true for any textbook…I worry about authorial choices when I see vocabulary like “water jar” early in a text (chapter 3 or 4), or when a foreign prepositions receive single word English definitions (if only it was that simple!).

Athenaze is more inductive in its approach. It’s built on better principles of language learning. Giving specific forms now and saving others for later is a good practice. First, you introduce students to what language is easy to grasp and feel confident, then you give a more complete picture of the language. If you give the text a chance, you will learn much better than through, say, Mastronarde (if I may be so bold). It’s a philosophical difference. We do not really learn through tables. We learn through exposure and repetition, and Athenaze is perfect for this.

[jaihare]

@akhnaten

Thanks for taking this initiative.
I will follow along for at least 4 weeks. I have worked through the first 4 chapters of Athenaze in early June, but found it hard going. I found the JACT/Athenaze textbooks were nice for presenting reading material (absent at early stages of Mastronarde and Hanson&Quinn), but it was hard for me to get a comprehensive perspective of the materials it presented in comparison to the other texts. So, I may drop out, but it will be a reflection of the textbook not the group.

I’m doing Hansen & Quinn now together with Athenaze (as a review). Why not supplement, as Klewlis stated?