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I went to my Greek prof's office hours today for the obligatory sad eyes and sniffling that tends to come early on in any semester of Greek. She was helpful, but did not spend a lot of time on reassurance; the gist of her response was that yes, Greek is amazingly difficult, yes, some people have better memories than others, and one simply must learn to put in the time and work in order to cope.
She did suggest those tiny index card sets that go on key rings, and studying them often but briefly rather than spending two hours on vocab the day of the test. Which made sense. So I bought a bunch of little card-bearing rings, and am working on sticking all my vocab onto them.
She also decided to just not count the first vocab quiz entirely, since...well, she didn't get into specifics, but apparently the majority of the class didn't get a single word correct, and the high scorers were still in the sub-60% range. And then she gave us another vocab quiz today, but I think I did better this time; I was more prepared for the Context What Context approach. (We got a bit of a lecture on that, too: that it's all very well to use context to help figure out a word, but if we depended entirely on context we'd only be learning to recognize these words in this play, and by third year Greek we should be learning these words to recognize them elsewhere, too. Which is fair.) So. Called off the post-class ritual suicide that would have been demanded if I'd gotten 0% twice in a row.
Anyway. Have some more Euripides! In which our proto-goth gets to have a chat with a valley girl.
( You think I'm kidding, but really, I'm not. Also, meet the singing-and-dancing friends! )
She did suggest those tiny index card sets that go on key rings, and studying them often but briefly rather than spending two hours on vocab the day of the test. Which made sense. So I bought a bunch of little card-bearing rings, and am working on sticking all my vocab onto them.
She also decided to just not count the first vocab quiz entirely, since...well, she didn't get into specifics, but apparently the majority of the class didn't get a single word correct, and the high scorers were still in the sub-60% range. And then she gave us another vocab quiz today, but I think I did better this time; I was more prepared for the Context What Context approach. (We got a bit of a lecture on that, too: that it's all very well to use context to help figure out a word, but if we depended entirely on context we'd only be learning to recognize these words in this play, and by third year Greek we should be learning these words to recognize them elsewhere, too. Which is fair.) So. Called off the post-class ritual suicide that would have been demanded if I'd gotten 0% twice in a row.
Anyway. Have some more Euripides! In which our proto-goth gets to have a chat with a valley girl.
( You think I'm kidding, but really, I'm not. Also, meet the singing-and-dancing friends! )