# Learn a language by reading what lasts. *Leaders learn languages* **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. ## 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. The verse is read from Kanboombo’s library when this page runs. ## Recall: Tap a word, and it comes back before you forget it. Recall is Kanboombo’s review. Every word you tap becomes a card, and spaced repetition brings it back just before you would forget it: again today, again tomorrow, then further apart each time you know it. Only the words you chose, from what you actually read. ## 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 [See every day on Readings](https://kanboombo.com/readings/) ## 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?](https://kanboombo.com/languages/why-learn-a-language/): For the same reason you still walk when cars exist. - [If you want to keep your brain young, give it something hard to do.](https://kanboombo.com/languages/keep-your-brain-young/): Learn another language. - [Give your children a second language.](https://kanboombo.com/languages/for-your-children/): Then give them a reason to keep it. ## You will always seek connection. Start where it lasts: one portion today, in the language you know beside the one you are learning. Free to read and to sign up.