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Mentors - lisarose - 11-12-2015 Hello My Name is Lisa Rose. I have been trying to learn Aramaic for about a year and have made some progress. I was wondering if the is a person that be able to answer questions about certain letters and grammar. I am really interested in reading and writing the language. I have been on other web sites and it is hard to get a consistent answer. Thank you Lisa Rose RE: Mentors - sbibeau - 11-13-2015 (11-12-2015, 01:44 PM)lisarose Wrote: Hello My Name is Lisa Rose. I have been trying to learn Aramaic for about a year and have made some progress. I was wondering if the is a person that be able to answer questions about certain letters and grammar. I am really interested in reading and writing the language. I have been on other web sites and it is hard to get a consistent answer. Greetings Lisa. Are you interested in Syriac, Biblical Aramaic? Also, which script, Ashuri, Estrangelo, Serto, Eastern? Please give more detail. Thanks. All the best with your studies. RE: Mentors - lisarose - 11-14-2015 Hello, Thank you for getting back to me. I been driving myself a little crazy trying to find info. I am interested in biblical Aramaic. As far as the script, I was thinking should it be square? This is where I start getting confused. I want to be able to read biblical text. Can you guide me? Lisa Rose RE: Mentors - sbibeau - 11-14-2015 (11-14-2015, 02:26 AM)lisarose Wrote: Hello, Thank you for getting back to me. I been driving myself a little crazy trying to find info. I am interested in biblical Aramaic. As far as the script, I was thinking should it be square? This is where I start getting confused. I want to be able to read biblical text. Can you guide me? Greetings Lisa Rose, A few suggestions: 1. jesusspokearamaic.com - a subscription site where Ewan MacLeod provides beginner Aramaic/Syriac, excellent introduction, especially to the scripts - site is regularly updated 2. eTeacher, for a cost, has Biblical Aramaic classes online with native speaking teachers and students around the globe. Excellent but pricey. 3. Check out Amazon.com if books work for you - Miles Van Pelt (Zondervan) has a Biblical Aramaic book with videos available. Caution, he goes fast and expects you not to continue without mastering each chapter. I don't think he is a native speaker. 4. Michael Heiser occasionally offers an online Beginning Biblical Aramaic course with some excellent videos. 5. Memrise.com is a free place to go to practice vocabulary (many languages) via flash cards. Some have audio! Search under Aramaic and you will find several. 5. I need to hear things, so I prefer to listen as well as read. - www.aoal.org has all chapters read by a native speaker. Such a worthy pursuit. All the best to you, Shlama Shelley RE: Mentors - lisarose - 11-14-2015 (11-14-2015, 03:43 PM)sbibeau Wrote:Thank you Shelley for all the information. I will check out each item that you helped me with. Eteacher said I have to know how to speak basic Hebrew. Well that leaves me out. I wish I lived by a temple, because the Rabbi said he would help me. But it is far. But for all your help, I can't say enough thanks. I believe that the people that want to learn this and more are driven by God.(11-14-2015, 02:26 AM)lisarose Wrote: Hello, Thank you for getting back to me. I been driving myself a little crazy trying to find info. I am interested in biblical Aramaic. As far as the script, I was thinking should it be square? This is where I start getting confused. I want to be able to read biblical text. Can you guide me? Lisa Rose ![]() RE: Mentors - Doug Bell - 11-15-2015 (11-12-2015, 01:44 PM)lisarose Wrote: Hello My Name is Lisa Rose. I have been trying to learn Aramaic for about a year and have made some progress...Lisa, I would suggest the following books to get you started: A Short Grammar of Biblical Aramaic, by Alger F. Johns An Introduction to Aramaic, by Frederick E. Greenspahn A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic, by Franz Rosenthal All three books and many other resources are available at: http://www.learnassyrian.com/assyrianlibrary/assyrianbooks/language/ You can view them online or download them to your computer by right clicking and choosing 'save as'. Note Rosenthal's book does not presuppose a working knowledge of Hebrew. RE: Mentors - lisarose - 11-19-2015 Thank you so much for your help. I am looking into everything you suggested right now. Bless you Lisa Rose ![]() |