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Learn a language by reading what lasts.

You don’t have an hour a day for drills. You have a few minutes, and something worth reading.
Read the Gospel in the Greek it was written in, with the sound and the meaning under every word and your own language right below. Tap a word you want to keep, and it comes back before you forget it. One portion a day, on your calendar.
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Augmented word

Read Greek before you can speak a word of it.

This is the first verse of John, the way Kanboombo’s reader shows it. Augmented word puts the sound and the meaning under every word. Support text below puts the same verse in English underneath, so you never lose the thread.
John 1:1 · Greek, word by word · English below
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A portion a day

A lectionary hands you a few verses every day.

A lectionary is a church’s calendar of readings: every day has its passages, the same for everyone who keeps it. Keep one, and a new language arrives a portion at a time, on your calendar.
Today · Thursday 15 October
Maronite
Gospel · Lucas 13:6-9
Roman
Gospel · Luke 11:47-54
Coptic Orthodox
Gospel · John 10:1-16
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What you can read

155 editions in 27 languages, open today.

Every edition below is one you can open right now. Word by word, with the sound and the meaning under each word: Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, English, Spanish, Arabic, Greek and Chinese. The library grows one edition at a time.
  • Hebrew
    word by word
    Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible
  • Biblical Aramaic
    word by word
    OSHB Aramaic Passages
  • English
    word by word
    Tyndale New Testament 1534
    Douay-Rheims 1899
    King James Version
    Berean Standard Bible
    Jowett, third edition 1892
    Shorey, Loeb 1935–1937
    Jowett, third edition 1892
    Lamb, Loeb 1924
    Fowler, Loeb 1914
    Fowler, Loeb 1914
    Fowler, Loeb 1914
    Fowler, Loeb 1914
    Jebb, Cambridge 1891
    The Song Celestial (Edwin Arnold, 1885)
    Kisari Mohan Ganguli, 1883–1896
    The Meaning of the Glorious Qur’an — Pickthall, 1930
    Griffith, second edition 1896
    Motte, American edition 1846
    Sri Guru Granth Sahib — Manmohan Singh, English
    Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji — Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
    The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII (Benziger, 1903)
    Adam Smith — Moral Sentiments (Dublin, 1777)
    Adam Smith — Wealth of Nations (Gutenberg)
    Butler's prose Iliad, 1898
    Butler's prose Odyssey, 1900
    Macaulay, 1890
    First edition, 1859
    Pilkington, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers I.1 (1886)
    Fathers of the English Dominican Province (Benziger, 1947) — Part I
    Dods, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers I.2 (1887)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (English)
    Athenian Society, London 1912
    Athenian Society, London 1912
    Athenian Society, London 1912
    Chase, Everyman's Library (Nicomachean Ethics)
    Butcher, Macmillan (Poetics)
    Ellis, Everyman's Library (Politics)
    Coleridge, Bell 1906
    Coleridge, Bell 1906
    Coleridge, Bell 1906
    Of the Nature of Things, tr. William Ellery Leonard (1916)
    Lamb, Loeb 1925
    Fowler, Loeb 1926
    Fowler, Loeb 1914
    Lamb, Loeb 1924
    Fowler, Loeb 1921
    Lamb, Loeb 1925
    Fowler, Loeb 1921
    Bury, Loeb 1929
    Jebb, Cambridge 1896
    Jebb, Cambridge 1894
    Jebb, Cambridge 1889
    Jebb, Cambridge 1887
    Jebb, Cambridge 1898
    Jebb, Cambridge 1892
    History of the Peloponnesian War, tr. Richard Crawley (1874)
  • Spanish
    word by word
    Reina-Valera 1909
    Torres Amat 1825
    Palabra de Dios para ti
    Versión Biblia Libre
    La Biblia en Español Sencillo
    Qurbono 2005 (Spanish working draft)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón VII–VIII (1872)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón IV (1871)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón I (1871)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón I (1871)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón I (1871)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón V (1871)
    Sri Guru Granth Sahib — traducción de SikhNet
    Texto autógrafo · Ignacio de Loyola
  • Arabic
    word by word
    Van Dyck
    Qurbono 2005 (Arabic)
    Tanzil Uthmani text, version 1.1
  • Greek
    word by word
    Tischendorf Greek New Testament
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera IV)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera III)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Storr, Loeb 1912
    Monro & Allen, Oxford Classical Texts (Homeri Opera I–II)
    Murray, Loeb Classical Library (The Odyssey, Greek text)
    Godley, Loeb Classical Library (Herodotus, Greek text)
    Heiberg, Euclidis Opera Omnia I–V (Teubner, 1883–1888)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (Greek)
    Hall and Geldart, Oxford 1906
    Hall and Geldart, Oxford 1906
    Hall and Geldart, Oxford 1907
    Bywater, Oxford Classical Texts (Ethica Nicomachea)
    Bekker, Oxford 1837 (Aristotelis Opera, vol. 11)
    Murray, Oxford 1902
    Murray, Oxford 1913
    Murray, Oxford 1902
    Murray, Oxford 1902
    Murray, Oxford 1913
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera III)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera II)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera II)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera III)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera II)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera IV)
    Storr, Loeb 1913
    Storr, Loeb 1913
    Storr, Loeb 1912
    Storr, Loeb 1912
    Storr, Loeb 1913
    Storr, Loeb 1913
  • Chinese
    word by word
    Chinese Union Version (Simplified)
    Chinese Union Version (Traditional)
  • German
    Luther Bible 1912
  • Latin
    Vulgata Clementina
    Principia, first edition 1687
    Acta Sanctae Sedis · Acta Apostolicae Sedis, to 1930
    Migne, Patrologia Latina 32 (1841)
    Leonine text, Rome 1888–1889 (Prima Pars)
    Migne, Patrologia Latina 41
  • Russian
    Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
  • French
    Louis Segond 1910
  • Vietnamese
    Kinh Thánh (Cadman, 1925)
  • Italian
    Riveduta (Luzzi, 1927)
  • Marathi
    Indian Revised Version (Marathi)
  • Portuguese
    Bíblia Livre (2018)
  • Bengali
    Indian Revised Version (Bengali)
  • Gujarati
    Indian Revised Version (Gujarati)
  • Hindi
    Indian Revised Version (Hindi)
  • Punjabi
    Indian Revised Version (Punjabi)
    Faridkot Wala Teeka
    Sri Guru Granth Sahib — Manmohan Singh, Punjabi
    Sri Guru Granth Darpan — Prof. Sahib Singh
    Shabadaarth, SGPC
  • Tamil
    Indian Revised Version (Tamil)
  • Telugu
    Indian Revised Version (Telugu)
  • Urdu
    Indian Revised Version (Urdu, Devanagari script)
  • Japanese
    Freedom Bible (Japanese)
  • Thai
    Freedom Bible (Thai)
  • Eastern Armenian
    Eastern Armenian Bible
  • Western Armenian
    Western Armenian Bible
  • Sanskrit
    Śrīmadbhagavadgītā, Sanskrit Wikisource
Why it’s worth it

Three short essays on why a language is worth your time.

Why learn a language when AI can translate everything?
For the same reason you still walk when cars exist.
If you want to keep your brain young, give it something hard to do.
Learn another language.
Give your children a second language.
Then give them a reason to keep it.
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You will always seek connection.

Start where it lasts: one portion today, in the language you know beside the one you are learning.
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