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Cross-platform version copyright 2000 Christopher W. Blackwell
Gramma 4 is a set
of handy drills for those studying the Greek language. Peter Burian and
Christopher Blackwell first developed this program for their students
at Duke University, USA. Blackwell, now a professor at Furman Univ.,
has recently rewritten it completely in order to create identical Mac
and Windows versions with an integrated single-menu interface. It is
pre-loaded with vocabulary from Athenaze (Oxford University Press),
Reading Greek (Cambridge University Press), A New Introduction to Greek
(Harvard University Press), Groton's From Alpha to Omega (Focus), and
Hansen & Quinn's Greek: An Intensive Course.
The package includes three sections.
First, there is a vocabulary drill which allows the user to set several useful parameters before starting a drill: the word list range, number of items per drill, percentage of items presented in English or Greek. If drilling English to Greek, you can request that the program note missing diacriticals . When working from Greek to English, if the answer is not an exact match, the program will present the full definition and allow the user credit if the answer is close enough. A running record is kept so that future drilling can concentrate on demonstrated weaknesses.
The second section drills virtually all the inflected forms of nouns,pronouns, and adjectives. The main option is whether to parse forms that are presented or create forms that fit a set of given, grammatical specifications. The vocabulary can be chosen either by chapter (for Athenaze users) or by checking off individual words (from the complete Athenaze list).
The third section works much the same way for verbs.
Gramma can be used on Mac or PC. It has to be installed on your system prior to use.
System requirements:
Mac VERSION : 32
mb RAM, 14" colour monitor, CD drive. (Mac OS X native update now
available - please ask for details.)
PC VERSION :
Multimedia PC, Windows 95 or higher.
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