Great question, webmaster220.blogspot.com, I'm glad you asked.  

It's all well and good to set aside 20 or 30 minutes in the morning for your Greek learning, but how useful is it if you're not sure where to begin? 

In this email I'm going to share with you my 5 KEY TASKS which I consider a top priority for acquisition of the language.  

Ready? 

First, you want to get your hands on a grammar. A good Greek grammar will lay the foundation for you. We're working through Merkle and Plummer's Beginning Greek in the next Beginner's Cohort, so if you feel like you might join us for that, grab your copy now.  

Second, you want to watch videos that explain the concepts taught in the grammar. If you go on YouTube, you'll notice I have a whole playlist for Beginning Greek that will introduce you to some key concepts. This isn't a beginning Greek course, but it will give you an idea of what to expect. 

Or, if you wanted a more systematized approach to beginning Greek, there are hundreds of hours' worth of video content that take you step-by-step through your whole journey from zero to confidently reading Greek, inside the Mastery Membership (which is what you get when you sign up for the next Beginner's Cohort). You get everything laid out for you in order from beginning through to intermediate to mastery, so you don't even have to think about what you might need to learn next.  

Third, you want to engage your motor-memory (that's a thing) by writing out paradigms and key things to remember on paper, and also sound words out as you're writing them. If you're a kinesthetic learner or aural learner this will work great for you! 

Fourth, you want to be practicing your parsing – I highly recommend getting a parsing app for your phone or iPad so you can be practicing the concepts you're learning. 

Fifth – and this is critical – you want to be building your vocabulary, and if you haven't learned the 330 words that occur 50 times or more in the New Testament, then start with those. 

So there you have it, my five key tasks for moving the needle on your Greek learning. 

Now, if that seems like a lot, focus on one or two tasks to start with. The secret here is just not to get bogged down by the amount of work you have to do, and just chip away at it every day. 

And here's a tip for your vocabulary learning - Once you've memorised your first 330 words, you then want to move on to learning words book-by-book, from easiest to hardest, so that you're memorizing, reading and then mastering each book, starting at 1 John.  

When I invented my Greek learning system in Seminary, this is one of the things that I poured hours and hours into doing - ordering the books of the New Testament from easiest to hardest, factoring in the lexical difficulty and the syntactical difficulty.

I then took each of the words for each book that would need to be learned and put them into digital flashcards so that I could learn them and review them throughout my day.

Every time I needed to learn new words for the next book, I had a set of flashcards ready to go - and I simply reviewed words I'd already learned.

When you join the Mastery Membership, these flashcards are part of the package for you, so that you can have the same success I did with reading the books of the New Testament in Greek. The best part is, you won't have to go through the unnecessary effort of learning words twice or learning by occurrence (which involves learning words and then not reading them for weeks or even months).

With my system, you'll be streamlining your learning to see maximum results in minimum time.  

And with the next Beginner's Cohort just around the corner, there's no better time to be joining the Mastery Membership. With your membership, you have immediate access to all the videos and resources of Beginning Greek, plus every other course after that, designed to get you reading the GNT confidently as part of your devotional time.  

And we're going through Beginning Greek together, with LIVE teaching every week for 24 weeks, starting in August. 

But back to my five key steps for a minute.  

Which of these are you going to start integrating into your morning time? 

Hit reply and let me know.  

Blessings! 

Darryl