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10/14/2026

Many people give up on Greek, Hebrew, and Latin because they never learn how to learn.

Learn how to learn at the link in the comments.

10/12/2026

"Oh! This is different. I like this. Because even though I can only form baby sentences, I can form sentences! I understand how to read. And that makes a huge difference in terms of motivation.

You absolutely have the ability to enjoy the fruits of your labor even fairly early on."

10/06/2026

Anyone who gets serious about Bible study will quickly run into true-sounding misconceptions about the biblical languages. Here are 5 of the most common:

myth no. 1 - There are secret messages encoded in Hebrew letters

myth no. 2 - The past perfective tense signals a “once for all completed action”

myth no. 3 - You can derive a word’s meaning from its etymology

myth no. 4 - The “literal” meaning is always the right one

myth no. 5 - The biblical languages are “special” and should be treated differently than other languages

Full breakdown of each myth in the comments.

10/05/2026

Gone are the days of installing clunky third-party keyboard apps to type Greek and Hebrew in Biblingo.

Biblingo now has its own native keyboard on mobile and web.

10/02/2026

Many people assume that learning a language is 25% perspiration (hard work) and 75% inspiration (being naturally good at languages).

In reality, it’s 25% perspiration and 75% *strategy.*

Everyone is capable of learning languages (just look at the one you’re reading now!), though it certainly comes more easily to some. But most don’t understand the mechanics of how to learn a language. They just start doing vocab flashcards and ploughing through a grammar textbook – hoping their hard work will pay off.

But it probably won’t.

Forgetting the eggs when baking a cake makes a dense, doughy mess. So goes it for language learning. If you don’t have the right mix of ingredients in your learning process, you likely won’t get fluent (or it will take a lot more time and struggle.)

Enter, the "four strands" of language learning.

This is a framework developed by Paul Nation, a leading scholar in the field of second language acquisition.

The four strands are:

1. Meaning-focused input
When reading or listening to your target language, you should not be thinking about the language. You should be thinking about the meaning that’s being communicated. This means you should know 95-98% of the words in the text or audio you’re consuming. It must be comprehensible - and you shouldn’t have to constantly look up words.

2. Meaning-focused output
Passive consumption of language material can only get you so far. Actively using the language through speaking and writing requires greater depth of processing, so engaging in this skill commits the language to long-term memory more efficiently.

3. Language-focused learning
This is where you focus on learning particular features of the language. Any activity where you are focused on the language itself rather than the meaning being communicated by the language falls into this bucket. Many language courses over-emphasize this strand at the expense of the others.

4. Fluency development
Developing fluency is all about going fast, so fluency drills should always involve texts where you know 100% of the vocabulary and are comfortable with the grammatical constructions. That way, you can push yourself to comprehend the material quicker and quicker on each run-through until your brain is able to use the language quickly and automatically.
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These are the four key ingredients – the four types of language-learning activities – that are essential to developing fluency.

Activities in each strand should take up about one-fourth of the total time spent in learning a language. The amount of time given to each strand may vary depending on the goal of the student, but the more time you put into each strand, the better you will be at that strand.

09/30/2026

Biblingo is now on Substack.

Subscribe for nerdy deep dives on the biblical languages and second language acquisition.

Our most recent article explores the importance of reading aloud for language acquisition.

Save it to read later on Substack! Link in comments.

09/29/2026

All translations are interpretations.

Necessarily, even if the translator is doing word for word, they have to decide that this particular Greek word matches this particular English word best, and that means interpreting the original Greek word. You can't get around this.

Some translations do this better and some don't do it as well. But you are reading through the translator's lens, and that lens is going to color the text. The key is to be aware of *how* it's coloring the text.

This is why, when you are studing a passage, it's important to look at multiple translations with different translation philosophies.

Take a more word-for-word translation, like the ESV. Take a freer translation, like the NLT. And take one in the middle, like the NIV. Read them together and see what the differences are.

From there, you can think about how the different translators are understanding the passage and reflecting that in their translation. Through this comparision, you can come to a better understanding of the text and pick a translation you think is best in that particular passage.

There is no single most accurate translation. It's all dependent upon how they take particular passages and how they interpret them, because every single one of them is doing interpretation.

09/25/2026

Introducing Progress History on Biblingo

You can now see weekly XP, words learned, time spent, words per minute, and % of the Bible's vocab known - measured across various time frames from 4 weeks to 1 year.

Download Biblingo version 2.7.5 or check it out at http://app.biblingo.com.

09/25/2026

Introducing a new Biblingo feature:

~ Words You Know ~

You can now browse, search, and sort every word you've learned, see when each is due for review, and add or remove it from your rotation. Practice any word individually, or up to 20 at a time, from the list.

Download Biblingo version 2.7.5 or check it out at http://app.biblingo.com.

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