![]() ![]() The symbolic presentation uses symbols to prompt for things like definite articles, 1/2/3 rd person pronouns, and the like, which would not be obvious from the videos alone. Again you are prompted with a video or image, and with a symbolic presentation. Grammar in each lesson takes the vocabulary you have learnt, and puts it into sentences, with one or at most two new grammar elements per unit. The Hebrew/Image presentation is a good improvement over bilingual flashcards, but we are still mostly being presented with isolated vocabulary items. But it still seems to me a rather limited treatment of active recall. I’m not quite convinced that simply entering vocabulary by typing it out quite counts as ‘active knowledge’. I had no problems when testing out the Greek side. I did notice that even when I had entered the Hebrew correctly, I was sometimes told to ‘watch my spelling’, perhaps because of a mismatch in coding between the Hebrew keyboard I was using and what the app expected. retype), though the retype is not compulsory. ![]() Similar to, say, duolingo, it doesn’t penalise you for minor misspellings, such as accents, but offers a gentle reminder and a chance to ‘practice’ (i.e. Partly this was some technical issues with my own Hebrew keyboard layout, but the app would benefit greatly from some kind of typing tutorial mini-app. Generally, I found the typing frustrating. Vocabulary proceeds through several stages: presentation, then passive knowledge (selecting the right answer from multiple choices), and ‘active’ knowledge – inputting the correct word(s) by either typing or using a word bank. There’s no telephones and where is the bibliothèque here. The images and videos are high quality, and tied to an imagined biblical world, that is you will see people in biblical settings, with biblical type clothing, doing biblical type things. This did leave me unsure about exactly what some verbs were portraying, but my presumption is that I’ll figure that out as I progress. You can click for an english language gloss, but I did not use that feature, preferring to associate image directly with word/phrase. Vocabulary begins by offering you 6ish new vocabulary items, each presented with a short video or an image, with an audio track. I can’t say if the format and organisation changes in the more advanced units, as I haven’t gotten there. Each lesson consists of a sequence of Vocabulary, Grammar, and ‘Final Act’ or application. This starts off as all locked, and you need to do and complete lessons in sequence, with 3 levels, a total of 26 units across them, and 4 sub-lessons per unit. The core of the engine at present appears to be the Language Learning module. You also have a range of choices for pronunciation in each language. Those video lessons are high quality presentations, but there are no exercises to familiarise you with using the alphabet. You are given some short pop-up intro videos to get you oriented, and if you don’t know the alphabet at all, there are a number of video lessons to get you acquainted with it. The user interface is very pleasant, and generally easy to navigate. Beyond that, one needs a subscription, for either or both languages. ![]() It gives you access to the four current ‘modules’ – Language Learning, Flashcards, Alphabet, and Bible Reading. You can sign up for a 10-day free trial of Biblingo at present, and that’s what I did. I have off and on considered taking some communicative courses to get some Hebrew back in a more robust and active mode, but it is relatively low down my everyday priority list of languages. I did teach a course on the exegesis of Amos in Hebrew (in Mongolian), but my ability to read Hebrew now is very weak. I didn’t succeed very well in keeping Hebrew up, and so my Hebrew slowly atrophied. I studied Hebrew at Seminary for 3 years, doing quite well along a traditional grammar-translation track. I became aware of Biblingo some time ago, and followed some of their pre-launch promotional material, but more recently decided to test it out with a 10-day free trial.įirstly, a little background. Biblingo is an app developed for learning the biblical languages (very specifically, New Testament Koine Greek, Biblical Hebrew), through a (semi-)communicative approach. ![]()
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