Watch your Biblical language

Today’s mis­sion is to learn the (bib­li­cal) Hebrew Alpha­bet. It looks a lit­tle some­thing like this (from right to left as is its wont):

I’m told this web­site is pretty help­ful.

I have already learned the (bib­li­cal) Greek Alpha­bet. Which looks a lit­tle some­thing like this.

I have a feel­ing that my learn­ing style is blogging.

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    Mem­o­rise Psalm 119 — it’s an acros­tic, so you’ll know all the let­ters then.
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    Nathan,

    If you’re a mac per­son, you can do bet­ter than that. (I assume you are, given the fre­quency of mac-related posts).

    To make the remain­der of this com­ment seem a lit­tle less like self-promotion, I’ve just fin­ished a 4-year BD at Moore The­o­log­i­cal Col­lege in Syd­ney, and the stuff I’ve put together was to aid my lan­guage learn­ing since there weren’t rea­son­able alternatives.

    For vocab, Provoc. (www.arizona-software.ch/provoc/)
    It’s not main­tained any­more, but it’s still the best flash­card pro­gram for the mac, hands down.
    I’ve put together some vocab resources for it. Some are MTC related, some are gen­eral. http://fishpiper.freney.org/downloads/

    For gram­mar, Par­a­dig­matic. (http://paradigmatic.freney.org/)
    You won’t need this for a few months of your course, but when you do, I like this pro­gram. Unsur­pris­ingly, since I wrote it. It’s all the par­a­digms for Greek & Hebrew laid out, and some test­ing things in there too.

    Finally: do 15 min­utes a day. Every day. You won’t do it, but come the end of the year—or the end of your degree—you’ll wish you had.

    Hope that helps.

    Sam.


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    Anika Q

    I have a feel­ing that my learn­ing style is blogging.”

    Heaven help us when you get to polity.


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    Nathan Campbell

    Hi Sam — I cer­tainly am a Mac per­son. I actu­ally read about your fourth year project some­where (I recog­nise the avatar). I can’t remem­ber who linked to it… per­haps it was at davidould.net? Any­way. Thanks for commenting.

    These will no doubt prove very useful.

    Thanks for stop­ping by.


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    …And I was gonna say, “Don’t waste too much time on lan­guages. You’ll get to a cou­ple of years out of col­lege and regret that you spent all that time on some­thing you never used, and missed the oppor­tu­nity to read some really life-changing stuff.”

    But then I see Sam got here first and gain­said me.


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    Do it while you have struc­ture — I am doing Hebrew with friends this year and I am wish­ing i had got it all down while i was in a struc­tured envi­ron­ment — my ger­man is much bet­ter for that! Sam do the pro­grams you men­tion also work in a PC envi­ron­ment?
    My recent post I’ve got so much to tell you!


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    Yeah, that was me ;-)
    My recent post Media Mal­prac­tice at 2010 March for Life


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    Yeah, that was me ;-)
    My recent post Media Mal­prac­tice at 2010 March for Life


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