Gratitude: 1 Good Habit for More Effective and Efficient Studies

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@ProfASAr 9 ай бұрын

I will be offering many new classes and sessions in my virtual academy as of January 2024, so if you enjoy learning from my videos, please explore these: www.alexanderarguelles.com/academy/ And keep up-to-date by subscribing to my monthly newsletter: www.alexanderarguelles.com/newsletter

@phoenixknight8837 9 ай бұрын

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@j.burgess4459 9 ай бұрын

The cat is back! Happy New Year!

@ProfASAr 9 ай бұрын

He never went anywhere! Likewise to you!

@vyhexe 9 ай бұрын

Happy New Year professor!

@ProfASAr 9 ай бұрын

Thank you and the same to you!

@ignacionavarrete4314 8 ай бұрын

Buenos dias gracias por enseñar.Bendiciones.

@ProfASAr 8 ай бұрын

De nada

@namstee 9 ай бұрын

Happy New Year professor and Merlin!

@ProfASAr 9 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly and likewise.

@Christopher_Stead 9 ай бұрын

Very much looking forward to the Koine Greek circle, and I’m especially grateful that it’s at a time I can commit to. Shadowing as a practice is both intimidating and extremely frustrating for me (and I’m still in awe at that 6-language, back-to-back shadowing video you recorded some time ago), so perhaps 2024 will be the year I succeed in making use of this technique which you have written and spoken about so much over the years.

@ProfASAr 9 ай бұрын

Hello Chris! I am indeed envisioning this course as being more than "just" Koine Greek but rather a workshop in how to learn older / classical / sacred languages by planting them as living voices inside of yourself. So yes, this should help you get your shadowing down.

@GandalfTheWise0002 8 ай бұрын

Due to an HTLAL post by Professor Arguelles many years ago about letting a language have a voice in your head, I started using audio for Koine (and later Hebrew) while following with an interlinear. I used Audacity software to make it easy to loop sections (usually a few sentences to a short passage level) and listen/speak along until they started to become familiar. As a beginner, I found that *repetitive* listening and speaking of a passage caused the language to move from gibberish to increasing familiarity until it started to "feel" familiar. My brain started to react directly to the language without having to mentally analyze it while thinking in English. In the years since, I've read through the Septuagint twice and the Greek NT a handful of times and started going through a few classics such as Xenophon's Anabasis. I can comprehend narrative genre material enough to enjoy reading it. I still struggle with more nuanced prose but am improving yet. I use parallel texts as necessary so I can do quick looks at English for problematic sections and vocabulary. I find this is a minimal disruption from reading Greek compared to using dictionaries to look up critical words I don't understand in a passage. I started learning Hebrew using this approach with Genesis and a few Psalms. I can read the first handful of chapters in Genesis and a few Psalms w/ decent comprehension and have been using the Assimil modern Hebrew course in parallel with that. I went from having spent close to 30 years memorizing and re-memorizing tables and word lists and struggling to translate a sentence or so per evening to enjoyably being able to read significant parts of the LXX and NT in Greek with decent comprehension and have about an hour of Hebrew reading material in Genesis and Psalms I can enjoyably comprehend. I've started looking through Hebrew grammar materials looking for the high points and general explanations. Had I done this 30 years ago, I'd have been memorizing the 20 to 30 pages worth of rules about what vowels and consonants are used in what situations rather than realizing that most of the rules are merely describing what I was hearing in the audio. I encourage you to hang in there with this and make this an enjoyable part of your daily routine. I'd also note that many people learning and teaching Koine Greek and Hebrew have a very much traditional view of using kill and drill approaches to learning. Some actively oppose methods like this that lean on listening and assimilating a language through input rather than starting with memorizing tables and rules. I think the main objection is that they want to achieve "perfect" understanding of a passage and be able to analyze and discuss it in English immediately rather than seeing good reading comprehension as a skill that improves over time as you practice it. I just wanted to warn you that as you get excited about being able to comprehend and read Koine that not everyone will share your excitement and enthusiasm. At least that was my experience that some actively disparage this approach as not really learning a language.

@dustsettles6099 9 ай бұрын

Happy New Year Professor, good health and prosperity to you and your family in 2024.

@ProfASAr 9 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly and all the same to you!

@chadprivett1143 9 ай бұрын

I am very grateful to you, Professor Arguelles, and to everyone who has helped start the academy and keep it running. It is a great resource for people like me who developed a passion for the humanities later in life but are precluded from attending a traditional brick-and-mortar university for work and family responsibilities. I look forward to being a student in your academy in 2024 and beyond.

@ProfASAr 9 ай бұрын

Hello Chad and Happy New Year! There are many reasons why I have wanted to found my own academy rather than remain in a "normal" institution, and being able to work with people like you is right at the top of the list. I wish there were more Chads in this world!