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"Keep Your Greek" By Constantine R. Campbell

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Constantine R. Campbell, Keep Your Greek: Strategies for Busy People . Zondervan, 2010, 96 pages.  Thanks to Koinonia for providing this book on the blog tour. This handy little volume is a book full of tips on how to keep up your skills in the Greek language after you leave college/seminary for a busy life of (insert any job/life description here). It includes 10 short chapters, 9 of which contain tips (or a set of tips) on how to maintain you abilities in Greek (or any other language that you only care about reading and not speaking). These tips range from the simple ("Read Every Day") to the unique ("Burn your Interlinear") to the interesting ("Use Your Sense"). The motive behind this book is the belief that being able to read and understand the Greek of the New Testament will aid you in understanding, teaching, and preaching it.  Short book, short review. This was a great little book. Well written, to the point, funny, and practical. Speaking as ...