1 Learn principles. Language preceded grammar, and the
latter is at best a generalization of the former.
2 Learn words. Acquire a vocabulary. The first step is
to know words and, further, to know them in their Greek
dress.
3 Read aloud. The ear lends efficient help to the eye.
There is an indefinable swing even to Greek prose that
facilitates study.
4 Commit passages—however brief—to memory. Better than
rules is a fund of actual examples, stored up in the memory,
of Greek as it was spoken and written.
5 With this outline the text of the forth Gospel should
be used from the start (see notice on next page) for study,
reading aloud, and for memorizing.
6 Remember that in the end all methods avail little.
The way to do a thing is to do it.