As you can see in the “Want to be a Pharr guide anyone?” thread, Chad has offered to help with the English to Greek exercises and I am willing to do the Greek to English assignments.
All we need now is a number of members.
Anyone who wants to join a Pharr group please “apply” here.
oo! I would like to join, please. 
Well. That was fast.
Bert,
I know you just finished a Pharr group. What can you tell me about the pace that it went (too fast, too slow, etc) and what kind of weekly time commitment did it require? I’m interested, but I need to decide if I can devote enough time to it right now.
Thanks
Cool!
I would also like to join!
Thank you very much for the opportunity and for your time.
We did 2 lessons per week for the first while with occasional review weeks. After a while we did 1 lesson per week.
When I started, I had concerns about the pace.
I had worked through some of Pharr on my own before the group started so that made those lessons a bit easier. Homeric Greek was a new thing for me but I did have a bit of a (fragile) background in Koine.
It is my opinion that those who have not had any Greek before, will find 2 lessons per week to much. 1/wk is was quite managable and enjoyable. If every one in this group has had some Greek before, we can start with 2/wk, but as soon as someone lets us know that it is to much, we can slow down. I have not talked to Chad about this but I don’t think he is very hard to get along with. I think it is more important to do some work on it every day and get very familiar with the material, than to rush through the book.
As to the time commitment: I spend approx. 1-2 hrs per day.
I think I am of average intelligence (what ever that is) so if someone has an above average intelligence, less than that may be fine.
Hello,
I can attest that 2 lessons per week would be a bit fast for me, not due to time commitment, but simply due to not having enough time to cement the concepts. I worked through the first ten chapters on my own and I did them in one week installments. I spent about 1-2 hours a day with memorization drills and writing.This gave me enough time to memorize all of the vocabulary and have about a 90% concept absorbtion rate. The thing that thre me off kilter was the accenting rules, which I didn’t understand properly. I have a better idea now, but man, the URL that people point you to is pretty damned confusing. In the end I understood it, but that document sure takes the long way around…
Of course, if I’m severely in the minority, I’ll do 2 lessons per week.
One thing though, I very much prefer having a compositional ability in homeric greek and would like to not take pharr’s suggestion to cut out the english to greek excersizes.
Thanks.
Hi Psilord, I agree with Bert and you that 1 lesson a week is the best option. We will also definitely do all the English to Greek exercises
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I’m in.
I agree with the above posters. For me 1/wk would work best because of my irratic work/school schedule. It would just give me a little more breathing room. But if 2/wk is decided on I’ll manage I suppose.
Does anyone know when we’ll be starting? I need time to learn betacode…
-andy
It’ll be a few weeks. Some people behind the scene have a fair bit of work to do. (Considering that they are doing it free-labour we can’t very well initiate disciplinary action for not getting it done within the next working day.)
Jeff, the Textkit administrator, and William, the Textkit’s Study Group Coordinator need some time to set up for this group. Paul, the brains behind the GTSS program that we will be using, has to enter quite a few of the lessons into the program yet.
So… you’ll have a bit of time to get familiar with Betacode. BTW, if you are using SPIonic, Betacode will be a breeze.
That GTSS thingy is usable from firefox running on a linux machine, right?
I’ve not run it from Linux, but firefox on Solaris and OSX does work.
I’m certainly in!
I’m curious to know which edition will be standard: the original, or the Wright revision. Is there much of a difference?
I think I’ll give it a try again. Now I feel much more relaxed and with time.
I have the Wright revision. According to Wright the changes are slight.
(Some traditional grammatical terminology has been explained, and Pharr’s notes on the Iliad have been shortened.) so I’m confident that either one will work just fine.
Some of Pharr’s more extended notes are fairly tangential. Wright trimmed those.
Congrats for the new Pharr group!
Is it going to be named pharr-c group and referred a “farsi” group? I’m just curious. 
Two lessons in a week is a rather mild pace in general. But I’m not doing well with it due to my varying rate of time I can reserve for the study. Sometimes there’s plenty and sometimes not a minuite. But it’s better to be in one, however it is hard to keep up with, than not doing it at all.
Good luck to all of you joining the new group!
Count me in as well!
Augusto Ornellas
Brasilia - Brazil
ornellas _ a AT terra . com . br
Excellent, I think we have enough pharr-c members now.
Could you each please PM your names and email addresses to Paul so that he can assign you user IDs for the software we use, thanks v much.