B-Greek appears to be the most active NT Greek forum on the internet. But they want you to use your real name, which I find very odd. The question is why? When a moderator contacted me I was told I had to change my username to reflect my "real" name or I couldn't post anything. I said fine then, I'll take my interests elsewhere. Maybe B-Greek wants your real name for conspiracy reasons or the fact that professors and scholars post there. I'm not either of those.

I did ask one of my questions on a Catholic forum but didn't get very good answers. I suppose I could ask on Christianforums (as there are people there who can read NT Greek, but there are very few posters there) regarding the material, but I doubt most people are familiar with John Dobson's or Ian McNair's teaching methods.

Since you're here maybe I can ask one of them: how necessary is it to learn all the Greek accents (not referring to smooth/rough breathing accents) on the words? I never really paid attention to the different accents because Dobson and McNair don't print the accents on their words (besides smooth/rough) and barely talk about them. I've heard that the different accents really don't do anything for pronounciation but can help you identify different meanings in some cases. Dobson apparently included the accents in the 3rd edition of his book, which I bought and am waiting to see how it differs from the earlier editions of his book. I'm not exactly sure what's added in the extra 100 pages of Dobson's 3rd edition (his 1st edition one is only 300 pages!) because I don't have it in my hands yet.

I know this is unrelated to your response, but I did not know John H. Dobson (the author of "Learn New Testament Greek") has been dead now for 8 years. This is depressing, I was hoping to meet him in person (somehow, I don't know how) and thank him for his inductive teaching methods. He wanted to make biblical languages (Greek, Hebrew) known to all and he shows so much enthusiasm in his books for teaching these languages. I could imagine how fired-up a professor he would be if he taught one of my classes; most professors I have had generally could care less about their students or teaching their subject matter (I would only nominate 2 of the professors I've had in my undergrad years as "teacher of the year" awards). I would think J.H. Dobson had such a passion for teaching, because most don't, and he sounds devoted to his subject matter.

If only all teachers employed inductive learning methods to master foreign languages, and make them enjoyable to learn at the same time our friend J.H. Dobson does.

R.I.P J.H. Dobson

1. I am somewhat wondering how you are learning your parsings.  As it goes, if you learn this chart you will be absolutely golden for translating verbs. I recommend making individual index cards with each word, starting first with Present Active Indicative and slowly working your way through.  It's also a good thing to get a rhythm going in your head as far as these go. For instance, for Present Active Indicative, I learned o, eis, ei, omen, eti, ousi in that order which helps me identify that verb.  The same goes for the rest of the charts, just remember what distinguishes them. For example, Future Active Indicative verbs as a sigma to the Presant Active Indicative. As such, all you need to remember is root+s+PAI ending=FAI

2. This website will be your friend when you actually translate: Scripture4all.org

The site has all of the verb tenses already parsed but I do very much recommend that you figure out how to do it yourself. Otherwise you end up using this as a crutch and you do not learn.

3. I ended up getting a Bible with all of the verbs parsed. Common verbs are in the back of the book and uncommon are on the bottom of each page. However, the above resources are free.