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I assumed that to be the case. However, I have heard numerous horror stories from seminary students who say that they made a mistake by taking those classes online rather than in person, mentioning that it is much harder to learn on your own.
Odd question: do you know of any phone apps/websites/etc. that are good for starting to learn in your free time?
I am not sure about Hebrew, but BiblicalTraining.org has a class for learning biblical Greek. If you have an Apple mobile device, I would also look into downloading the app "iTunes U." It is a free resource available on which there is a treasure trove of recorded college classes, oftentimes with downloadable texts to work through. Fuller, RTS, and Gordon Conwell all have several classes on there, and I believe you can learn both Greek and Hebrew from one of them.
The biggest mistake that people do when they try to learn koine Greek is that they focus too much on the grammar. There are so many rules and exceptions, so people try to learn all these rules, they get frustrated and then they give up..
If you decide to start learning koine Greek focus on the vocabulary!
Free Greek and Hebrew Lessons!
http://www.chrisengelsma.com
I believe he is the registrar at Puritan Seminary.
How hard is it to learn biblical languages online or otherwise on your own? i.e. through TNARS or by simply purchasing a textbook and some other materials supplemented with video lectures and the help of an educated pastor or other mentor.
At the age of sixteen John Brown, of Haddington, startled a bookseller by asking for a copy of the Greek Testament. He was barefooted and clad in ragged homespun clothes. He was a shepherd boy from the hills of Scotland. “What would you do with that book?” a professor scornfully asked. “I’ll try to read it,” the lad replied, and proceeded to read off a passage in the Gospel of John. He went off in triumph with the coveted prize, but the story spread that he was a wizard and had learned Greek by the black art. He was actually arraigned for witchcraft, but in 1746 the elders and deacons at Abernethy gave him a vote of acquittal, though the minister would not sign it. His letter of defence, Sir W. Robertson Nicoll says (The British Weekly, Oct. 3, 1918), “deserves to be reckoned among the memorable letters of the world.” John Brown became a divinity student and finally professor of divinity. In the chapel at Mansfield College, Oxford, Brown’s figure ranks with those of Doddridge, Fry, Chalmers, Vinet, Schleiermacher. He had taught himself Greek while herding his sheep, and he did it without a grammar. Surely young John Brown of Haddington should forever put to shame those theological students and busy pastors who neglect the Greek Testament, though teacher, grammar, lexicon are at their disposal.
That Quizlet looks really cool Psyche
I play around with Memrise which also has Mounce's Basic's in it among other things.
http://www.memrise.com/course/51095/basics-of-biblical-greek/
I went all the way through the Latin course (took about two weeks, a little each day)
Almost forgotten everything now, I guess you have to keep at it to make it stick.
http://www.memrise.com/course/133130/learn-latin-no-typing/