From the chapter on reading slowly:
While it’s a good thing to practice reading Greek quickly (see the last chapter), it’s very important to balance that with reading slowly. Not because reading slowly is necessarily an inherently good thing, but the point is that you practice reading Greek carefully.
This can be incorporated simply into our daily Greek reading, as can reading quickly. The key is to mix it up so that your daily Greek reading is fast on occasion, and slow at other times.
The irony is that reading slowly and carefully will ultimately enable you to read quickly and easily.
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In “reading slowly” would you go as far as to effectively parse each word? I don’t mean filling out a parsing form like you might for a test, but mentally thinking, “present active indicative, 3rd person singular,” etc? It seems like that would help and force deeper thinking about what is being read. It also makes me realize that I need to periodically review my first year text.
Hi Jason, I suggest parsing practice in another chapter, as a way to reinforce verbal morphology. I think it can really help, until you’re confident that you really know the forms, at least.
Con
Thank you for the tip. Now I need to make time to do this. I have kidded myself by thinking that a lot of reading every day is enough. However, I find myself unsure enough on the forms that I realize that I need to find a way to make this happen.