Why should anyone take the time and effort to learn New Testament Greek?  There are dozens of widely accepted English translations for us to use, and a plethora of commentaries on every part of Scripture.  So why take the time and effort to learn Greek?  more

This short introduction describes the phonemic system, Greek font, course deployment, NTGreek Forum, and the course numerical structure used in NTGreek In Session.  This introduction is the actual introduction to the course work.  more

Lesson One introduces the sight and sounds of the twenty-four Greek alphabetical characters.  These same letters, in combination with one another, are further developed in later lessons.  Learning New Testament Greek begins by correctly pronouncing and writing the Greek characters.  more

The focus of Lesson Two examines the similarities and dissimilarities between the Greek and English alphabetical letters and their phonemes to aid between what is known (English) and what is new (Greek).  more

Lesson Three is the third part of a five-part series that examines Greek phonology.  This lesson lays the foundation for the student's consistent and proper phonetic pronunciation of Greek words.  Phonics is the study between letters and their speech sounds.  It may also be thought as the letter-to-sound relationships in a language.  It is a very helpful method of learning to pronounce the correct sound with the letter or letter combinations they represent.  Phonics is to the letter-to-sound relationship in words as a written musical note is to its corresponding instrumental sound.  more

Lesson Four is the fourth of a five-part series on Greek phonology.  This lesson focuses on the seventeen Greek consonants.  The consonants may be best learned by understanding their relationship to one another in several ways.  Perhaps the most functional phonetic classification is according to what speech organ (throat, teeth and lips) is used in their pronunciation.  In this lesson, the seventeen Greek consonants are studied and divided into two broad categories: the nine stops and the twelve continuants.  These two broad categories are again subdivided according to the nature of the sound and vocal organs used in producing them.  more

Lesson Five concludes an introductory five-part study of Greek phonology.  This lesson focuses on the vowel sounds, including the diphthongs and their phonetic relationship with words beginning with other vowel sounds, and several editorial diacritical phonetic markings associated with vowels and diphthongs.  more

Lesson Six begins a multi-part series exploring the Greek inflected nominal system.  Greek nouns, adjectives, pronouns and pronominal adjectives share inflectional characteristics and patterns, and so constitute the nominal system, as do participles in several respects.  The verbal system will also be introduced in this series of lessons, but not fully developed until later.  It is essential to gain a thorough familiarity with the full range of nominal morphological forms in order to be proficient in NTGreek.  more

Lesson Seven continues the study of the Greek nominal system as it relates to second declension nouns.  Lesson Six laid foundational basics concerning Greek inflection as it pertained to masculine nouns in this declension.  This lesson continues with second declension nouns, examining feminine and neuter nouns.  Because this is the final lesson in second declension nouns, an extensive review is included.  more

We now come to a new declension, the first declension.  Nouns of this declension will also have different paradigms as they inflect for case, gender and number.  However, the pattern of first declension noun endings will differ from those of the second declension.  There are eight paradigms in the first declension.  However, only three of these eight paradigms will be examined in this lesson, with the remaining five to be studied in Lesson Nine.  more

Including proper names, NTGreek contains two hundred and ten masculine nouns that belong to the first declension.  As to be expected, masculine nouns of this declension display different singular case endings than those of feminine nouns in the same declension.  These differences and their paradigms are the primary focus of this lesson.  more

The basis of a word’s accent is regulated by principles of intonation.  Knowledge of accents will consistently help to pronounce a word properly.  In other instances, accents aid to distinguish between words or cases.  To learn NTGreek effectively, the ear and voice need to carry as much of the burden as possible, and not only the eye.  more

The purpose of this lesson is to condense and refine the essential information by the formulation of rules required to understand first and second declension nouns, and summarize fundamental morphology concerning these declensions.  Six of eight noun rules are presented in this lesson.  The last two rules pertain to third declension nouns, and therefore reserved until these nouns are studied.  more

Lessons six through eleven focused on nouns, specifically first and second declension nouns.  Nouns name or designate a person, thing, or quality and form the nominal nucleus of a language.  However, if it was not for another vital part of speech, the adjective, nouns would lack vividness as to definiteness, shape, size, quantity, color, and texture—words that describe nouns that otherwise would be general or bland.  more

The personal pronoun is one of nine classes of pronouns in NTGreek that comprise more than eight percent of all words in NTGreek.  The other eight classes of pronouns are demonstrative, relative, indefinite, interrogative, possessive, reciprocal, reflexive, and negative.  After the article, the personal pronoun paradigms are the most important to memorize.  more

This lesson targets the demonstrative pronouns: Some of "this", and some of "that".  Like personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns are used frequently in NTGreek.  With each new part of speech learned, every vocabulary word mastered, the goal grows increasingly closer.  The big picture is to learn NTGreek; the difficult intermediate step is to become skilled in the Greek nominal inflectional system, of which demonstrative pronouns, like other pronouns, form an integral part of NTGreek.  more

Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, and possessive adjectives bring our formal study of first and second declension inflectional forms to an end.  Although relative pronouns also share these declensional forms, they will not be introduced until dependent clauses are studied.  Other pronouns are patterned after third declension nouns.  These too will be studied in a future lesson after third declension nouns and adjectives are introduced.  more