How to use Tutor 🎓

Obviously, vocabulary on its own is not sufficient. It is necessary, but it's not sufficient because Greek is a language, right, which means you need to be exposed to how the language works. So Greek Tutor also includes comprehensive exercise. I'm going to take you through the different kinds of exercises that are built into Greek Tutor. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to talk about the main screen, how the. To sort of get around the beginning points of Tutor, and. And then I'm going to talk about what we're going to do over the next two weeks and what exercises you'll need to use. Okay, so we've got comprehensive exercises inside of Greek Tutor. We have pronunciation helps. First of all, this is what we call the Alphabet Explorer. We used to ask you to memorise the Alphabet. We don't do that now, really. The main and most important thing is that you can pronounce the letters and their sounds. And there are not just the sounds of the individual letters, but there are also clusters of sounds. So you get. There's a number of those in here as well. And you can scroll through the Alphabet Explorer, get to these clusters, which are the red ones, and you'll be able to sound those out, hear how they are sounded as well, and get a sample word for that. So my recommendation with this, and I'll talk about this in a minute, is that you actually just sound. You know, play the sound, you know, click the button to play the sound and then repeat it back so that you can start to get used to the way the sounds are made. Okay, Once you've done that, in lesson two, we then have some verses from the New Testament and we've broken them into clauses. So you can see here, this is one John, sorry, John, Chapter one, verse one, nrk, analogous. So you can click on that first line there and click Play selection. And it will play it out loud. You can slow the speed down. You can see underneath here you've actually got a progression. Not a progression, a speed. Indicators. You can move that to the left to slow it right down so you can hear it pronounced a little bit slower. It's not perfect, but it helps a little bit. And every time you click on a new one of these lines, it will sound that line out for you. And my encouragement again with this, is that you, as you hear it sounded out, you repeat it back just one little bit at a time. So click on kyologos and hear it sounded out and then repeat it as best you can afterwards, just slow yourself down until you can do it with a little bit of confidence and just repeat that. There's a number of different texts you can choose up here, John. One is fairly easy because fairly short clauses, as you can see, but some of the others are a little bit more challenging. There's also a pangram in there, which is a verse that includes every letter of the Greek Alphabet. Not every sound in the Alphabet, but every letter. Well, not every sound in the Greek language, but every sound of the Greek Alphabet anyway, the individual words, and you can see them all in there. So have a play with that over the next little bit. That's going to help you significantly with pronunciation. And yes, we use modern pronunciation, for what it's worth, in our program. The reason for that is that it's very, very close to how Greek was pronounced back in the first century. There is some minor changes about four sound changes that are different between the way it may have been pronounced back then and the way it's pronounced in modern Greek, but very, very minor. And modern Greek means that we've got loads more resources we can draw on to help us with pronunciation. So that's what we've done here. We also have a concept quiz for every chapter and not so much for lessons one to three, but once you get into lesson four and onwards, at the end of every lesson, we have a what to Remember and Practice section at the end of each lesson, inside of Beginning Greek and Small steps. And what I've done is I've turned those what to Remember and practise exercises into concept quizzes. So in other words, the what to Remember and practise is if you remember nothing about what's written in this text, here are the things you want to remember. And then I've turned that into a quiz to help you to remember it. You get it wrong, it'll tell you the correct answer. You get it right, it's just going to say, well done. Correct. Move on. So this allows you to practice those questions and, you know, basically question and answer until you get those concepts right. Okay, so that's an exercise we've got. We've also got paradigms built into Tutor as well. These coincide with the paradigms in Beginning Greek and Small steps. You can ignore these entirely. I know some people hate paradigms, but many of our members actually, and I put this in here because members really wanted it, many of our members find paradigms helpful. They will write them out from memory. We've provided tools for that inside of the Greek Mastery membership, But inside of Tutor, you can actually do it using that as well. They come concealed, as you can see, and you can just tap on each of the different placeholders to reveal what you would see at that point, or tap in the little eyeball in the top right corner to show them all at once. And you can then quickly look things up if you want to. We also have an exercise called Identify forms. This is a really important one, as you start to see different forms. So this is from chapter lesson 15, I think it is. So this is asking you to identify the aorist active indicative verb. So what you're doing in lesson 15 is you're working with second aorist. So in this case, you're going to be looking for what's the aorist word in this particular verse. And you know, you can translate this if you want to, but really you're looking for the form. So in this lesson, you know, the aorist often has an augment. You'll know the word that you're looking for. You've learned that in your vocabulary. So you kind of. And you probably would have seen something about it in the lesson as well. And so in this case, egg, no, san, that second word there, that's the word you're looking for. You'd click on that and it will tell you, yes, that's correct. And it's going to ask you what's the lexical form for this? You've also got audio for this as well. So you can have it. It'll. Well, you can set it so that it will play back the Greek that you hear here. Again, just to help you internalize the sounds of the language, we have passing exercises. This will present you from different forms of words you've learned, of forms that you've learned in the Greek New Testament, and ask you to identify the person, whatever it happens to be that you need to identify. So here's a verb. This is a second aorist verb. And you can just move the sliders or click on the location you want to move the slider to. And very quickly. And it means that you can very quickly get feedback on that. If you get it wrong, it will tell you what the correct answer was. If it's correct, it will give you the correct answer. Obviously, you can see down here and all the other possible answers. We also have translation exercises to English. So this is where we give you some Greek text. Normally, they're quite short. This is quite a long one. The idea of these is just to sort of give you something very small that you can sort of, based on the current lesson, you're working on that you can easily translate. And then when you click the submit button, it will actually give you a little bit of feedback on your translation and also tell you where in beginning Greek and small steps to look for more info. And we've also got some translation to Greek exercises in this as well, where you can actually type a Greek translation using your keyboard. You know, most operating systems provide you with a Greek keyboard. You can just type it directly or just click on these words here in the Word Cloud to assemble the Greek form of whatever the sentence is at the top here. And then, of course, we also have vocabulary for the entire Greek New Testament. Every word in the New Testament is included, and you can learn those as you go through each book. And then, of course, finally, we have our final translation. This is something I just added last week, and this allows you to actually go through our translation exercises that we do on our call. And you can write your translation in there. You can see here, if you mouse over a word that you don't already know will give you something to help you with that. So that's our final translation. And of course, we also have beginning Greek and small steps built into all of. Into the gram into Greek Tutor as well. Okay, so there we go. That's kind of what we've got inside of Greek Tutor. The idea is that everything is in one app.