some might be interested in seeing James Tauber’s talk at the 2010 Bible Tech Conference on his ideas about improving language learning acquisition and the New Testament Greek. It’s an hour long.
A New Kind of Graded Reader from James Tauber on Vimeo.
Seems to me like this could be good approach – making it text based and gradually bringing people into reading the text in the original. Being able to read the text in context always helps in comprehension and language acquisition. Isn’t it how we do it in English with our kids? We don’t give them a bunch of vocab cards and make them learn a bunch of words and verb paradigms before they can read do we? No, we just read to them and they begin to pick it up, one word or phrase at a time – so why do we do this with foreign language learning?! 
I could totally be in support of a graded reader that lets people learn language the natural way and not completely by rote memorization.
What say you?
HT: Michael Palmer, via Jeff.
Thanks for the mention. At first I didn’t know why I was given any credit. I hadn’t seen this video and want to watch it now. Thanks.
Jeff