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Spot on.

For when the fancy QWERTY keyboard options seem a little over the top for quickly knocking out a couple of words, John Dyer’s keyboard is pretty fancy. Have a go:

<<<Unicode Keyboard>>>

If this site for a Hebrew keyboard too ;-)

Sorry for the lack of postage of late, but I have been putting my energy into learning some basic motorbike maintenance :-)

Whilst lamenting the demise of the re:Greek project I stumbled across John Dyer’s excellent Reader’s Version of Greek and Hebrew Bible. Apparently it’s been up and running for at least a month but I haven’t noticed it ’till now.

The text is highly customisable with the ability to:

• colour-code nouns / adjectives / prepositions etc
• Pop-up definitions of words
• Generate morphology, frequency and other words helps for words that appear x number of times in the text
• Change the font and text size

What’s more, it’s free! Due to licensing restrictions, the text is stuck to the Tischendorf Greek New Testament rather than one of the UBS iterations – I can’t comment on the Hebrew ;-)…

Thanks John!

Sadly, it looks like Re:Greek has had to be taken offline tonight, probably for good. Zack Hubert’s site has been for me one of the most helpful NT language resources that I have used and it will be sorely missed…

It looks like this is because of licensing problems with it’s underlying MorphGNT has has copyright issues with the German Bible Society. To read more see this thread. God speed its successor…

I was fascinated to stumble across this project today by James Tauber. The basic idea seems to be to invert the process of learning such that instead of introducing graded reading of texts once a given corpus of grammar and vocabulary has been learnt, the student is introduced to texts first, which are then used as the primary way of learning vocabulary and grammar.

James has started a mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/graded-reader and is making his code available at http://code.google.com/p/graded-reader/. Whilst it looks like these resources have not been updated for a couple of months, I very much hope his fascinating work continues.

Has anyone had any experience of this kind of inductive study method for language learning?