Creating Your Account
Welcome to Biblical Mastery Academy, and welcome to BMA Tutor, our Biblical Greek vocabulary learning platform. In this short video, I’ll show you how to get started with learning Biblical Greek online—even if you don’t yet have a user account. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, just under the Continue button, you’ll see the option: Don’t have a membership? Enter your email and sign up to learn Greek vocab. This allows you to begin studying Biblical Greek vocabulary immediately, simply by entering your email address—no existing account required. Once you enter your email and click continue, you’ll be taken into the onboarding process. Click Next, and you’ll be asked about your experience level—whether you’re a complete beginner or already have some background in Biblical Greek grammar and vocabulary. Next, you’ll choose where you want to start your Greek language learning journey. If you’ve never learned the Greek alphabet or pronunciation, or if you’d like a refresher, you can select Start from scratch. If you’re already comfortable with pronunciation, you can jump straight into the Biblical Greek grammar basics. And if you’ve studied Greek before—perhaps through a seminary course, Bible college, or previous study—you can choose Let me choose where to start and select the specific Greek vocabulary or grammar exercises you’d like to begin with. In this example, I’ll start from scratch. Finally, you’ll be asked to choose a plan—either monthly or annual. Select the option that suits you, set up your account by entering your details, and then click the Pay button at the bottom to complete your signup and begin mastering Biblical Greek with Biblical Mastery Academy
Orientation — How to Use Greek Tutor
Complete the initial setup When you first log into BMA Tutor, you will be asked to provide some basic information about your experience level. This information is used only to configure your learning path within Biblical Mastery Academy Greek Tutor, ensuring you begin at the appropriate level. Choose your starting level Select whether you are a complete beginner or partway through beginning Biblical Greek. You will then choose where to start: Start from scratch if you have not learned the Greek alphabet or pronunciation. Grammar basics if you are comfortable with pronunciation and want to begin Biblical Greek grammar (approximately lesson four). Choose a lesson if you have prior experience and want to start at a specific point. Review your learning path After selecting your starting point, Tutor automatically places you into the appropriate lesson and displays a brief walkthrough explaining the interface. Understand levels and lessons The green circles represent your progress path. You begin in Level One, and there are 18 levels in total. As you advance, your current level updates automatically. Lessons are accessed from this screen. Selecting a lesson takes you directly to the exercises for that lesson. Learn required vocabulary Each lesson includes a set of Biblical Greek vocabulary words. Progression in BMA Tutor is vocabulary-driven. Even if all exercises are completed, you cannot advance to the next lesson until the required vocabulary has been learned. Track lesson progress Lesson progress is shown as a percentage from 0% to 100%. As vocabulary words are mastered, this percentage increases. When it reaches 100%, the next lesson becomes available. Begin vocabulary study Tap the green circle to open the vocabulary screen. New words appear in the green circle. Due review words appear in the blue circle. Each word is presented with an image, the Greek form, audio pronunciation, and an English gloss. Review and mark words A word is considered learned after three correct recalls in a row. During review, mark each word as: Correct Incorrect Know well (immediately marks the word as learned) Audio playback and keyboard shortcuts are available to assist review. Review word details After completing a set, you can view a summary of reviewed words. Selecting a word opens a detailed view showing pronunciation, example usage, review statistics, and spaced-repetition timing. Advance through lessons Vocabulary is scheduled using a spaced repetition system. Lesson advancement is based on the average review interval of the words in that lesson. As intervals increase, progress advances until the next lesson is unlocked. This step-by-step process ensures effective retention and steady progress while learning Biblical Greek vocabulary with BMA Tutor.
Exercises — How to Learn Greek
Access your current lesson Select the Lessons button to view the lesson you are currently working on. This screen shows your current level and lesson within Biblical Mastery Academy Greek Tutor. Each lesson is associated with a specific reading, often drawn directly from the Greek New Testament. Selecting the lesson allows you to read and review the assigned text. Navigate to other levels and lessons To view a different lesson, use the level and lesson selector at the top of the screen. Choose the level you want, then select a lesson and click View Lesson. This opens the lesson content for that specific point in the curriculum. Read the lesson explanation Each lesson begins with a grammar explanation, presented in a structured, textbook-style format with diagrams and examples. This material corresponds to the Beginning Greek in Small Steps grammar. At the end of each explanation, there is a What to Remember and Practice section summarizing the key concepts for the lesson. Complete the concept quiz After marking the lesson explanation as complete, the Concept Quiz becomes available. This quiz tests the core ideas listed in the What to Remember section. Each question provides immediate feedback, including the correct answer and a reference to the relevant grammar section. Selecting the reference opens the grammar text for review. A Review Mode is also available, which draws questions from all previous lessons and presents them in random order. Review paradigms Lessons include paradigms (such as noun or verb endings) that are hidden by default. Select a paradigm to reveal it and check your recall. Paradigms learned to date are grouped together, including master charts that summarize forms introduced across lessons. Identify forms The Identify Forms exercise trains recognition of grammatical forms introduced in the current lesson. You are asked to locate and identify specific forms in Greek text and select the correct lexical and grammatical details. Exercises are presented in small sets and may include audio. Parse forms Parsing exercises require you to identify the grammatical features of a word step by step (part of speech, tense, voice, person, number, etc.). Feedback is provided immediately, including alternative correct answers where applicable. A review mode is available to mix current and previous material. Practice translation Translation exercises move from Greek to English and then from English to Greek. Feedback is provided on submitted translations, including references to relevant grammar sections when needed. These exercises are limited to material already introduced in the lesson. Complete final translations Final translation exercises involve short Greek texts, often drawn from the New Testament. Some exercises include guiding questions before translation. Multiple attempts are allowed, and translations can be reviewed later. Additional tools are available depending on membership level. Advance to the next lesson Progression to the next lesson requires vocabulary mastery. Once lesson vocabulary is fully learned, the progression indicator reaches 100%, and a Next Lesson button becomes available. This structured lesson workflow is designed to move from explanation, to recognition, to application, ensuring steady progress in Biblical Greek. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, just under the Continue button, you’ll see the option: Don’t have a membership? Enter your email and sign up to learn Greek vocab. This allows you to begin studying Biblical Greek vocabulary immediately, simply by entering your email address—no existing account required. Once you enter your email and click continue, you’ll be taken into the onboarding process. Click Next, and you’ll be asked about your experience level—whether you’re a complete beginner or already have some background in Biblical Greek grammar and vocabulary. Next, you’ll choose where you want to start your Greek language learning journey. If you’ve never learned the Greek alphabet or pronunciation, or if you’d like a refresher, you can select Start from scratch. If you’re already comfortable with pronunciation, you can jump straight into the Biblical Greek grammar basics. And if you’ve studied Greek before—perhaps through a seminary course, Bible college, or previous study—you can choose Let me choose where to start and select the specific Greek vocabulary or grammar exercises you’d like to begin with. In this example, I’ll start from scratch. Finally, you’ll be asked to choose a plan—either monthly or annual. Select the option that suits you, set up your account by entering your details, and then click the Pay button at the bottom to complete your signup and begin mastering Biblical Greek with Biblical Mastery Academy
Settings — Vocabulary
Open settings After using BMA Tutor for a short time, open the Settings menu by tapping the cog icon in the top-right corner of the screen. This opens the configuration options for your account. Select a display mode In the Appearance settings, you can choose how Tutor is displayed: Light mode forces a light theme. Dark mode forces a dark theme. System default follows your device’s operating system theme and switches automatically as your system changes. Enable left-handed mode (optional) If you are left-handed, enable Left-handed buttons. This reverses the placement of buttons on the vocabulary review screen. When enabled, the Correct and Incorrect buttons are flipped, making reviews more comfortable for left-handed users. Adjust dictionary display order By default, the dictionary displays vocabulary words in alphabetical order. You can change this by enabling Dictionary display by lesson. Off (default): Words are listed alphabetically across all lessons. On: Words are grouped first by level and lesson, and then alphabetically within each lesson. When this option is enabled, earlier lessons appear first, followed by later lessons as you scroll down. This is useful if you prefer to review vocabulary in the order it was introduced. Apply and explore settings Changes made in the Appearance settings are applied immediately. You can switch between options at any time to find the configuration that best supports your study workflow. These appearance options are designed to give you flexibility and improve usability as you continue learning Biblical Greek with BMA Tutor.
Settings — Flashcards
Configuring Vocabulary Loading Settings in BMA Tutor The Vocabulary Settings allow you to control how quickly new words are introduced and how large your daily review load becomes. These settings are designed to prevent vocabulary overload while supporting steady progress in Biblical Greek. Vocabulary Settings are divided into three sections: Vocabulary Loading Review Experience Difficult Word Settings This section explains Vocabulary Loading. Understand the purpose of vocabulary loading As lessons progress, vocabulary accumulates quickly. Without limits, this can result in hundreds of words becoming due each day. Vocabulary Loading settings allow you to control the pace at which new words are added and reviewed. Set the progression threshold The Progression Threshold determines how well vocabulary in the current lesson must be learned before new words are added and the next lesson is unlocked. This setting is based on the average review interval of vocabulary words in the lesson. Early lessons default to shorter thresholds (for example, 12 hours). You can reduce this to progress faster or increase it to slow progression. Monitor lesson progress Progress toward the threshold is shown by the purple progression indicator. Tapping and holding this indicator displays all vocabulary in the current lesson, including: Individual review intervals Whether each word has reached the threshold Overall lesson average Words shown in green have reached the threshold; words in red have not yet been mastered. Control how quickly new words are added Increasing the progression threshold (for example, from 3 days to 7 days) slows the introduction of new vocabulary and reduces daily review volume. Decreasing the threshold accelerates progression but increases the number of words added per lesson. This is especially important in later levels, where lessons may introduce 30 new words at a time. Adjust the maximum words due limit The Max Words Due setting limits how many vocabulary words appear for review at once. If more words are due than this limit, Tutor will prompt you to either: Review all due words, or Push excess words back to a later review time This prevents large, unmanageable review sessions after missed study days. You can set this limit anywhere from lower values (e.g. 50–60 words) up to higher values (e.g. 200 words), depending on your capacity. Use vocabulary loading to manage workload Increasing the progression threshold and limiting maximum words due helps prevent overload. Decreasing these values allows faster progression but requires more daily review time. These settings give you direct control over vocabulary pacing, helping you maintain consistency and long-term retention while studying Biblical Greek with BMA Tutor.
How to Make Progress in the App!
How Lesson Progression Works in BMA Tutor Progression in BMA Tutor is based on vocabulary mastery, not just completing lessons or exercises. This is different from most Greek apps. You cannot move to the next lesson until you have learned the vocabulary for your current lesson. Grammar knowledge alone is not enough—vocabulary retention is required. The Progression Indicator Your progress toward the next lesson is shown by the purple progression indicator. This shows how ready you are to advance based on how well you know your vocabulary. What Progression Measures When you review a word, Tutor increases the time before you see that word again. This time gap is called the review interval. Longer intervals indicate stronger memory. Tutor looks at the review intervals for all the words in your current lesson and calculates an average interval. That average is compared to your progression threshold. Progression Threshold The progression threshold is the average interval required to unlock the next lesson. Early lessons use shorter thresholds (about 12 hours by default). Later lessons require longer intervals. You can adjust this value in Vocabulary Settings. For example, if your threshold is set to 7 days, the average interval of all words in the lesson must reach 7 days before you can progress. Checking Your Progress Tap the purple indicator to see an explanation of progression. Tap and hold it to see the words in your current lesson and their review intervals. Unlocking the Next Lesson Once the progression indicator reaches 100%, an Add New Words button appears. Clicking it unlocks the next lesson and adds its vocabulary. Key Idea Progression is about retention over time, not speed. Slower progression reduces daily review load. Faster progression increases it. This system ensures that when you move forward, your vocabulary is strong enough to support real reading in Biblical Greek.
App Support — Where to Go
BMA Greek Tutor includes built-in support so you can easily get help when you need it. Open support requests To access support, open Settings using the cog icon in the top-right corner. Select Support Requests to view any requests you have already submitted or to create a new one. Submit a new support request Click New Request to open a support form. Choose the type of request and clearly describe the issue or question you have. Once submitted, your request enters the support queue and will be reviewed by the team. Track request status All submitted requests remain visible in the Support Requests screen. You can see their current status (open, completed, or closed) and review any responses or updates. Common support request options You can use support requests for several purposes, including: Reporting app issues (e.g. incorrect audio, vocabulary errors, or unexpected behavior) Asking how to use a feature Requesting a change of level or lesson Upgrading or downgrading your membership Requesting a payment holiday (available after 12 months of membership) Cancelling your membership (feedback is requested) Requesting a level or lesson change If you want to move to a different level or lesson, select the appropriate request type and specify the level and lesson you want to move to. The request will be reviewed and processed, and progress can be tracked from the same screen. Support philosophy Support requests are handled by real people. Responses may not be immediate, but every request is reviewed and addressed. Feedback is welcomed and helps improve the platform. If you have questions, encounter problems, or need help managing your account, submit a support request and let us know how we can assist you.
Reviewing New Testament Greek Vocab
Vocabulary reviews in BMA Tutor are designed to reinforce long-term memory through repeated, spaced recall. Open your due reviews When words are ready for review, they appear in the blue circle. Tap the blue circle to begin reviewing your due words. Understand the review screen On the review screen, you will see: How many due words you have Whether any difficult words are included Which type of review you are currently doing (due, new, or difficult) Tap any section to see when upcoming words will be due. Review a word Each word appears on a review card. Tap anywhere on the card to move through the sides (Greek word, context, meaning, etc.). Use the context to check whether you recognize the word in real usage. You can also tap and hold to preview context without revealing the meaning. Mark your recall After attempting to recall the word, choose one of the review buttons: Correct (✓): You recalled the word correctly. This slightly increases the time before the next review. Know well (✓✓): You know the word very well. This increases the interval more aggressively. Incorrect (✕): You did not recall the word. This shortens the interval so you see it again sooner. You can also play audio pronunciation using the speaker button. Complete the review set Continue reviewing until all due words in the set are completed. A summary screen shows how each word was marked and when it will next be reviewed. Finish daily reviews Once you reach zero words due for the day, your vocabulary reviews are complete. Completing daily reviews contributes to mastery progress. Key idea Review decisions directly affect how often words return. Words you know well appear less often; words you struggle with appear more often. This system ensures efficient, long-term retention of Biblical Greek vocabulary.
Your Mastery Point Streaks
How you earn a mastery point You earn one mastery point per day by reviewing all vocabulary that is due. When your due words count reaches zero, a mastery point is awarded automatically. Viewing your mastery points Tap the Mastery Point indicator to view your progress. This screen shows: Your total mastery points Your current streak (consecutive days completed) How many mastery points you’ve earned this month Monthly progress indicators Next to your monthly total, you may see: No icon: You have missed at least one day this month Orange icon: You have completed every day so far, except today Green icon: You are on track to complete every day this month Monthly crowns (Stefanos Menos) Completing all due vocabulary every day for a full calendar month earns a monthly crown (Stefanos Menos). Each crown represents one full month of perfect consistency. You can view: Your current month’s progress Previous monthly crowns you’ve earned Daily review details Selecting any day in the calendar shows: How many review sessions you completed Total words reviewed Review accuracy Whether you finished the day with zero words due The calendar always starts with the first day of the month, not the weekday order. Why mastery points matter Mastery Points are not about speed or volume. They reward consistency—showing up each day and clearing your reviews. Key idea Reviewing all due vocabulary once per day keeps your workload manageable and supports long-term retention. Mastery Points exist to help you build that habit.
How to CONQUER Difficult Words
Using Difficult Words in BMA Tutor Difficult Words help you focus extra attention on vocabulary that you struggle to recall consistently. View difficult words The Difficult Words indicator shows how many words are currently marked as difficult. Tap and hold the indicator to see: Which words are marked as difficult Their current accuracy percentage When each word is next due for review How words become “difficult” Words are marked as difficult automatically based on your review history. You do not mark them manually. By default, a word is marked as difficult when: It has been reviewed 10 times or more, and Its accuracy drops below 85% Accuracy reflects how often you recall the word correctly across all reviews. Adjust difficult word thresholds You can customize these settings in Settings → Vocabulary → Difficult Words: Change the accuracy threshold (for example, 80%, 85%, or 90%) Change the minimum number of reviews required (for example, 5, 10, or 15) Increasing sensitivity flags more words as difficult; decreasing it flags fewer. Reduce review intervals for difficult words A key option is Reduce interval on difficult word review (off by default). When enabled: Reviewing a difficult word shortens its review interval The word reappears sooner—sometimes as quickly as 2 hours This forces frequent review until accuracy improves This treats difficult words more like new vocabulary and helps relearn them faster. Return to normal review As accuracy improves, difficult words stop meeting the threshold and return to normal review scheduling.
Difficult Words Settings
Vocab Anti-Overwhelm Settings
Vocabulary Loading Settings in BMA Tutor The Vocabulary Loading settings control how quickly new words are added and help prevent vocabulary overload as you progress. Purpose of vocabulary loading As lessons advance, vocabulary accumulates quickly. Without limits, this can result in very large daily review sessions. Vocabulary Loading allows you to control the pace at which new words are introduced. Progression threshold The key setting is the Progression Threshold. This determines how well you must know the vocabulary in your current lesson before new words are added and the next lesson is unlocked. The threshold is measured using the average review interval of the words in the current lesson. Early lessons use shorter thresholds (around 12 hours by default). Later lessons use longer thresholds. You can increase or decrease this value depending on how fast you want to progress. How progression is measured The purple progression indicator shows how close you are to meeting the threshold. Tap and hold the indicator to see all vocabulary in the current lesson. Each word shows its individual review interval. Words shown in green have reached the threshold; others are still developing. Progression is based on the average of all words, not individual words. Controlling your workload Lower thresholds unlock lessons faster but increase daily reviews. Higher thresholds slow progression but reduce review volume. Increasing the threshold is recommended if you feel overwhelmed. Decreasing it is useful if you want to move faster and can handle more reviews. Max words due limit The Max Words Due setting limits how many words appear for review at once. If more words are due than this limit, Tutor asks whether you want to review them all or push some back. This prevents very large review sessions after missed days. You can set this limit anywhere from lower values (e.g. 50–60) to higher values (up to 200). Key idea Vocabulary Loading settings give you direct control over pace and workload. Adjust them to maintain consistency without burnout.
Review Settings
Configuring Review Experience Settings in BMA Tutor The Review Experience settings allow you to control how vocabulary reviews are presented and how each review session functions. These options help tailor the review process to your learning preferences. Set words per review set You can control how many words appear in each review set. Minimum: 3 words Maximum: 25 words Default: 10 words Adjusting this setting allows you to create shorter or longer review sessions depending on your available time and focus. Customize word card layout Each vocabulary word can be reviewed across up to four sides. You can choose what information appears on each side, including: Lexeme (Greek word) Gloss (English meaning) Context (example sentence or verse reference) Image (when available) You can arrange these elements in any order. For example: Lexeme → Image → Context → Gloss Image → Lexeme → Context → Gloss This flexibility allows you to emphasize recall from images, Greek forms, or context before revealing the English meaning. Enable or disable images Images can be shown: On their own review side, or Alongside the lexeme on the same side You may also disable images entirely if you prefer text-only reviews. Image availability varies by word, with more images added over time. Adjust vocabulary text size You can increase or decrease the size of vocabulary text to improve readability. This setting applies across all vocabulary review screens. Enable audio autoplay When Autoplay Audio is enabled, pronunciation audio plays automatically during reviews. All vocabulary words include audio, using modern Greek pronunciation. This supports listening-based recall and reinforces correct pronunciation. Manage drill sets Drill sets are normally cleared automatically when you unlock a new lesson. You can change this behavior by: Preventing automatic clearing when progressing to the next lesson, or Manually clearing the drill set at any time using the Clear Drill Set option Apply and refine settings All Review Experience settings take effect immediately. You can adjust them at any time to better match your study habits and learning preferences. These options allow you to shape how vocabulary reviews function, helping you study Biblical Greek more efficiently and comfortably within BMA Tutor. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, just under the Continue button, you’ll see the option: Don’t have a membership? Enter your email and sign up to learn Greek vocab. This allows you to begin studying Biblical Greek vocabulary immediately, simply by entering your email address—no existing account required. Once you enter your email and click continue, you’ll be taken into the onboarding process. Click Next, and you’ll be asked about your experience level—whether you’re a complete beginner or already have some background in Biblical Greek grammar and vocabulary. Next, you’ll choose where you want to start your Greek language learning journey. If you’ve never learned the Greek alphabet or pronunciation, or if you’d like a refresher, you can select Start from scratch. If you’re already comfortable with pronunciation, you can jump straight into the Biblical Greek grammar basics. And if you’ve studied Greek before—perhaps through a seminary course, Bible college, or previous study—you can choose Let me choose where to start and select the specific Greek vocabulary or grammar exercises you’d like to begin with. In this example, I’ll start from scratch. Finally, you’ll be asked to choose a plan—either monthly or annual. Select the option that suits you, set up your account by entering your details, and then click the Pay button at the bottom to complete your signup and begin mastering Biblical Greek with Biblical Mastery Academy
How to use Tutor 🎓
Vocabulary
Transcript
Now, in terms of learning Greek, one of the most critical things to know is that vocabulary is the foundation. Okay? Vocabulary needs to become a habit. So I can't emphasize this enough and I know you guys are all kind of on the same page here, but if you don't know the vocabulary, you can't make progress. So vocabulary acquisition is a result or is the thing that's going to lead you to progressing through the entire, you know, that whole success path that I put you, I put before you just before. The truth is that most people who learn Greek can't read. Like I said, when I went to seminary, I learned Greek in seminary. I did seven semesters in my master's degree in Greek. And at the end of it, they didn't teach us how to learn to read. And the reason for that was they didn't teach us the vocabulary. So the reason that most people who learn Greek can't read Greek is because. Because they don't learn their vocabulary. So vocabulary needs to become a habit. Small consistent steps with vocabulary will result in you being able to read the entire Greek New Testament and much more than that. And this is the starting point. This is the core of Greek Tutor. Greek Tutor is designed not just to learn the vocabulary for beginning Greek, it's designed for long term vocabulary acquisition. This is critical. And what we do then inside of Greek Tutor is we actually tie your progress to vocabulary. You'll see the little purple progression indicator there. We call this a progression indicator. What this does is it tells us, based on the number of words in your current lesson, how many of those you know, what percentage are you toward mastery of those words in your current lesson. Once you get to 100%, you can go to the next lesson. But until you get to 100%, you need to keep working on mastery of those words. Okay? And so that's kind of how we do this. So inside a Greek Tutor, progress is tied to vocabulary. Now, when you look at this little circle here and you can feel free again, drop questions into the chat and I'll answer them. But when you, you can actually tap on this. So if you tap it, you can get. It'll give you an explanation of how to make progress. If you tap and hold it, you get the detail. So you can see here, this is my currently. So I took this as a screenshot this morning. I'm on lesson level 18, lesson 2. I've actually been through everything before, obviously, but when I started building tutor, I started myself at like level 15 or something like that. And I've Just been working my way through it again and learning, you know, reviewing my vocabulary as I go because I stopped reviewing vocabulary a few years ago and I'm actually quite enjoying it again now. Anyway, you can see here I am 2% of the way through this lesson or this lesson that I'm working on and if I tap and hold, here's the explanation of what I'm doing. So as I go through, I'm about, I've got about a two hour interval on the words in the current lesson. There are 30 words in the current lesson. Some of them have got a longer interval, some of them have got just a 2 hour, 24 minute interval. That interval is the key to mastery. So I need to get all of the words in my current lesson. Well, at least 90% of the words in my current lesson to in my case, I've set it to seven days all or more. Okay. So the average interval needs to be seven days or more for me. For you at the moment it's probably 12 or 24 hours depending on what your setting is for the progression threshold. And I can talk about that in a moment. Alright, so that's a little bit on vocabulary. And just so you know, we have tied progress in tutor to your vocabulary mastery. Okay? So mastery of your current vocabulary and your current lesson is going to lead to you moving on to the next lesson.
Navigation
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Let me give you a brief overview of just how to get around what you're looking at when you look at the main screen. This is the main screen, obviously. There's a couple of things that I just want to draw to your attention here. First of all, the main screen. On the main screen, you can view the success path. So if you tap on these red, in this case, they're red, but they might be green for you. They will be green for you, these green circles. You can actually open this screen, which gives you your success path. And you can see at the bottom, you've got the progress indicator there. So I've tried to include the progress indicator in three different places on the main screen. It's on the success path, so you know where you are in your current lesson. And it's also on the vocab screen, which I'll show you in a little bit. So the green across the top is stage one. So the first five of those is beginning Greek. Stage two is once you've gone out of beginning Greek and you finished reading first, second and third John, that's the next level. And then stage three is the next stage beyond that. And by the time you finish stage three, you would have read the entire Greek New Testament. The entire New Testament in Greek. If you tap on any of the circles, it will then show you the lessons for that circle. So you can see here, this is level two. So this is the second green bubble along, or green circle along. If you tap on that, you can see it's got 12 lessons numbered from 13 to 24. And if you tap on, I think I've tapped on lesson 15 here, you'll see a blue view lesson button. Now, you won't see this yet. This will show you. This is a way you can go back to previous lessons. You can explore the entire success path, see what every lesson is going to have in it. But you can only navigate. Go click on the View lesson button for lessons you've already completed. Okay. You'll also be able to view your current lesson just by tapping that blue circle on the home screen as well. So if you want to jump directly to your current lesson, tap that blue level lesson button there. And that will take you directly to the lesson page for that lesson. And you can see here the lesson page, this is for lesson 14, has got a couple of things on it. First of all, you can see lesson explanation. It tells you the top root variations. That's the name of this lesson, Vocabulary. You've got five new words to learn for this. That are built into tutor lesson explanation. This is beginning, Greek and small steps. So if you tap on the beginning Greek and small steps, it will show you the grammar for beginning Greek and small steps for this lesson. Okay, so you can go through and read that in detail. You can change the size of the font. So if the font's too small, you can make it a little bit larger. It should save that for your current device. Once you've read that and you finished it, you'll see the little mark complete button here. You want to mark it complete. Once you do that, then you will see the practice exercises underneath. Okay? And so for the practice exercises, you'll see all the exercises available for the current lesson. And it varies a little bit from lesson to lesson. Lesson one, for instance, will only have the Alphabet Explorer. Lesson two will have the Alphabet Explorer and the Pronunciation Tool. Lesson three will have both of those. Lesson four will add concept quizzes and a few other bits and pieces. And then from lesson five or six onwards, we drop the pronunciation one. So you won't see them anymore. You can still go back to them by navigating back to those early lessons, but they will no longer be in your practice exercises. You can use the blue button here to review your vocabulary. On the vocabulary launch screen, you'll see the same blue button. Tap on that and it will show you the vocabulary, the word that you can for you to review now, on the screen here, you'll see first of all that you've got the word itself. Dear Pleo. In this case, if you tap anywhere on the card above that line at the bottom, you can turn it over and you will see the gloss for that word. Just tap it to turn it over. So it's a little bit like a flashcard, you know, if you get a piece of card, you write the meaning on one side, you'd flip it to turn it over and see the meaning on the back, the word on one side, the meaning on the back. That's kind of how this works. The other thing we do have, though, is we also have what's called a context or the verse that you first find this word in. And so this means then that as you learn the words, you can actually go look at just by tapping the word again, the verse that this word appears in or a text that this word appears in. Now, during beginning Greek, because you don't know all of the Greek words yet, sometimes it will be a mix of English and Greek. Okay. Once you get out of beginning Greek, it will be all Greek and you will know all the words in that context because you're learning the vocabulary either for it or ahead of it. So reviewing vocabulary is a core part of this. Down the bottom there, you'll see the four little circles. The one on the right, the green one on the right just means mark this correct, I know this word. So if you look at the word and you say, dear, pleo means to sail through, there it is. I got it correct. Tap that right hand button. If you look at the word the first time and you're like, I'm sick of seeing this word. I know it. I don't have to keep looking at it so often, then tap the double tick, and that will increase the time between when you see this word again by a factor of two. Okay? So if you're seeing this word every two days and you want to say, I want to see this less often, tap that double tick button and it will make it four days for you. And tap it again next time. Make it eight days for you. And it'll just make it bigger and bigger. The one on the left, the red one, that is the button to say, I don't know this word or I don't recognize it. In this particular instance, if you mark it incorrect, it will reduce the time between when you see it again so that you can learn it better. So this is using what's called spaced repetition. Lots of vocab apps use spaced repetition. The green tick on the right will increase the time between reviews marginally. The red tick on the red X on the left will reduce the time by about half, and the double tick will double the time between when you review it again. So you got quite a bit of flexibility over how often you see words. You can see at the bottom there. It tells you the streak, how many times in a row you've got this correct and the current interval on this word, how long until you're likely to see this word again, given your current progress with it. The blue button there, of course, is the play, which means that you can play the audio for this word as well. And so you can turn it on actually, and I recommend you do this, go into the settings, vocabulary settings, and you can have autoplay audio. This is what I do. And then it automatically will play the word every time you see it without you having to tap that button. All right, so that's vocabulary. At the end of the vocabulary review, you get the summary screen. So this tells you how many many words you just saw, how many you got correct, how many you got incorrect. And you can see the words that you've just reviewed. You can actually tap on any of these words to view more details on it. That will give you the number of times you reviewed it. It'll show you the image for it, and so on and so forth. If there is an image, finally, from the front screen here. The other key thing I want to introduce you to is the dictionary. This allows you to review vocabulary you've already learned. Just tap it and you'll see a list of all the words in alphabetical Greek, alphabetical order, and you can just browse your way through them. You can search for words. There's a little search bar at the top. You can just type in either the gloss that you want. Like, if you're looking for Gnosco and you want to remember, you know, don't have Greek keyboard. You can just type in know because you know it means to know. And that's in the gloss. And you should see it pop up. You can also type in G, I, N, O in English. And it should find. It should transliterate that and find it as well. The transliteration is not perfect, but it's pretty good. So anyway, it's a nice, easy way to go through and see all the words you've learned and review them and look at more details on them and so on.
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Obviously, vocabulary on its own is not sufficient. It is necessary, but it's not sufficient because Greek is a language, right, which means you need to be exposed to how the language works. So Greek Tutor also includes comprehensive exercise. I'm going to take you through the different kinds of exercises that are built into Greek Tutor. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to talk about the main screen, how the. To sort of get around the beginning points of Tutor, and. And then I'm going to talk about what we're going to do over the next two weeks and what exercises you'll need to use. Okay, so we've got comprehensive exercises inside of Greek Tutor. We have pronunciation helps. First of all, this is what we call the Alphabet Explorer. We used to ask you to memorise the Alphabet. We don't do that now, really. The main and most important thing is that you can pronounce the letters and their sounds. And there are not just the sounds of the individual letters, but there are also clusters of sounds. So you get. There's a number of those in here as well. And you can scroll through the Alphabet Explorer, get to these clusters, which are the red ones, and you'll be able to sound those out, hear how they are sounded as well, and get a sample word for that. So my recommendation with this, and I'll talk about this in a minute, is that you actually just sound. You know, play the sound, you know, click the button to play the sound and then repeat it back so that you can start to get used to the way the sounds are made. Okay, Once you've done that, in lesson two, we then have some verses from the New Testament and we've broken them into clauses. So you can see here, this is one John, sorry, John, Chapter one, verse one, nrk, analogous. So you can click on that first line there and click Play selection. And it will play it out loud. You can slow the speed down. You can see underneath here you've actually got a progression. Not a progression, a speed. Indicators. You can move that to the left to slow it right down so you can hear it pronounced a little bit slower. It's not perfect, but it helps a little bit. And every time you click on a new one of these lines, it will sound that line out for you. And my encouragement again with this, is that you, as you hear it sounded out, you repeat it back just one little bit at a time. So click on kyologos and hear it sounded out and then repeat it as best you can afterwards, just slow yourself down until you can do it with a little bit of confidence and just repeat that. There's a number of different texts you can choose up here, John. One is fairly easy because fairly short clauses, as you can see, but some of the others are a little bit more challenging. There's also a pangram in there, which is a verse that includes every letter of the Greek Alphabet. Not every sound in the Alphabet, but every letter. Well, not every sound in the Greek language, but every sound of the Greek Alphabet anyway, the individual words, and you can see them all in there. So have a play with that over the next little bit. That's going to help you significantly with pronunciation. And yes, we use modern pronunciation, for what it's worth, in our program. The reason for that is that it's very, very close to how Greek was pronounced back in the first century. There is some minor changes about four sound changes that are different between the way it may have been pronounced back then and the way it's pronounced in modern Greek, but very, very minor. And modern Greek means that we've got loads more resources we can draw on to help us with pronunciation. So that's what we've done here. We also have a concept quiz for every chapter and not so much for lessons one to three, but once you get into lesson four and onwards, at the end of every lesson, we have a what to Remember and Practice section at the end of each lesson, inside of Beginning Greek and Small steps. And what I've done is I've turned those what to Remember and practise exercises into concept quizzes. So in other words, the what to Remember and practise is if you remember nothing about what's written in this text, here are the things you want to remember. And then I've turned that into a quiz to help you to remember it. You get it wrong, it'll tell you the correct answer. You get it right, it's just going to say, well done. Correct. Move on. So this allows you to practice those questions and, you know, basically question and answer until you get those concepts right. Okay, so that's an exercise we've got. We've also got paradigms built into Tutor as well. These coincide with the paradigms in Beginning Greek and Small steps. You can ignore these entirely. I know some people hate paradigms, but many of our members actually, and I put this in here because members really wanted it, many of our members find paradigms helpful. They will write them out from memory. We've provided tools for that inside of the Greek Mastery membership, But inside of Tutor, you can actually do it using that as well. They come concealed, as you can see, and you can just tap on each of the different placeholders to reveal what you would see at that point, or tap in the little eyeball in the top right corner to show them all at once. And you can then quickly look things up if you want to. We also have an exercise called Identify forms. This is a really important one, as you start to see different forms. So this is from chapter lesson 15, I think it is. So this is asking you to identify the aorist active indicative verb. So what you're doing in lesson 15 is you're working with second aorist. So in this case, you're going to be looking for what's the aorist word in this particular verse. And you know, you can translate this if you want to, but really you're looking for the form. So in this lesson, you know, the aorist often has an augment. You'll know the word that you're looking for. You've learned that in your vocabulary. So you kind of. And you probably would have seen something about it in the lesson as well. And so in this case, egg, no, san, that second word there, that's the word you're looking for. You'd click on that and it will tell you, yes, that's correct. And it's going to ask you what's the lexical form for this? You've also got audio for this as well. So you can have it. It'll. Well, you can set it so that it will play back the Greek that you hear here. Again, just to help you internalize the sounds of the language, we have passing exercises. This will present you from different forms of words you've learned, of forms that you've learned in the Greek New Testament, and ask you to identify the person, whatever it happens to be that you need to identify. So here's a verb. This is a second aorist verb. And you can just move the sliders or click on the location you want to move the slider to. And very quickly. And it means that you can very quickly get feedback on that. If you get it wrong, it will tell you what the correct answer was. If it's correct, it will give you the correct answer. Obviously, you can see down here and all the other possible answers. We also have translation exercises to English. So this is where we give you some Greek text. Normally, they're quite short. This is quite a long one. The idea of these is just to sort of give you something very small that you can sort of, based on the current lesson, you're working on that you can easily translate. And then when you click the submit button, it will actually give you a little bit of feedback on your translation and also tell you where in beginning Greek and small steps to look for more info. And we've also got some translation to Greek exercises in this as well, where you can actually type a Greek translation using your keyboard. You know, most operating systems provide you with a Greek keyboard. You can just type it directly or just click on these words here in the Word Cloud to assemble the Greek form of whatever the sentence is at the top here. And then, of course, we also have vocabulary for the entire Greek New Testament. Every word in the New Testament is included, and you can learn those as you go through each book. And then, of course, finally, we have our final translation. This is something I just added last week, and this allows you to actually go through our translation exercises that we do on our call. And you can write your translation in there. You can see here, if you mouse over a word that you don't already know will give you something to help you with that. So that's our final translation. And of course, we also have beginning Greek and small steps built into all of. Into the gram into Greek Tutor as well. Okay, so there we go. That's kind of what we've got inside of Greek Tutor. The idea is that everything is in one app.
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Welcome to Greek Tutor — Getting Started Guide Hi there, and welcome to Greek Tutor! This short guide will help you get up and running, understand how the app works, and know what to do if something doesn’t go quite to plan. Don’t worry — you can’t break anything, and we’re always here to help. ________________________________________ 1. Logging In Go to tutor.biblicalmastery.academy on your laptop or on your phone’s browser. You’ll be asked for your email address (the one you used when you joined). Normally, the system sends you a magic link by email. Clicking that link logs you in automatically. If the magic link doesn’t arrive within a minute or two: • Check your Spam, Junk, or Promotions folder. • If it still hasn’t come through, please email support [at] biblicalmastery.academy and I’ll send you a password you can use instead. (It will be a nasty-looking one, so please type carefully!) ________________________________________ 2. Setting Your Password Once you’re logged in, go to your Profile (top left corner) and set your own password. This makes it easier to log in next time — and it’s essential if you want to install the app on your phone. ________________________________________ 3. Installing Greek Tutor as an App Greek Tutor is a progressive web app, which means it works just like a normal app once you’ve added it to your home screen. On your phone: 1. Open tutor.biblicalmastery.academy in your browser. 2. Log in using your email and the password you created. 3. Tap your browser menu (on iPhone: the share button; on Android: the three dots). 4. Choose “Add to Home Screen.” You’ll now have a Greek Tutor icon on your phone. It will remember your login and behave exactly like a native app. ________________________________________ 4. Choosing Your Level If you’re just starting, stay at Level 1 Lesson 1. If you already know some Greek, there will be a short series of questions to help you set your level. You can also ask us to set your level for you. We can move you to any point in the course — and if you later decide it’s too easy or too hard, just let us know and we’ll adjust it again. Every level has 12 lessons. Levels 1–5 make up Beginning Greek — 60 lessons in total, with about 405 words before you move into John’s letters in Level 6. ________________________________________ 5. Finding and Learning New Words On the first main screen, you’ll see large circles: • Purple: your % Lesson Mastery • Blue: Words Due Click the blue circle to review or learn words. Click the purple circle for an explanation of how lesson progress works. Fill this to 100% to move on. You’ll also see small circles for your level and lesson: • Click the small blue circle to enter your current lesson. • Click the small red circle to enter the Success Path, where you can revisit previous lessons. Lessons above where you currently are remain locked until you progress by learning words. After clicking on the large blue Words Due circle, you’ll reach a second screen: • Blue: words due for review • Green: new words to learn (tap to learn new words and move them into Words Due) • Purple: your % Lesson Mastery again • Orange: your streaks (awarded for clearing Words Due daily) Tap the green circle to begin learning new words. When you click Words Due, you’ll see a Greek word and its meaning. You need to get each new word correct three times before it moves into the regular review cycle. When you’re reviewing words due, use: • ✓ for “correct” • ✓✓ for “I really know this one” — this moves it ahead faster. Each correct review increases the time before you see the word again. The more you get right, the less often it appears. Click a Greek word to see the meaning (gloss). Click again to see a verse that the word occurs in. ________________________________________ 6. Progressing to the Next Lesson Your purple Progress Indicator shows how close you are to moving forward. You’ll progress once it reaches 100%, which happens when 90% of your current words have an average review interval above your “progress threshold.” By default, the threshold is 12 hours, but as your vocabulary grows it’s wise to raise it — otherwise you’ll end up with too many daily reviews. You can change it in Settings → Vocabulary Settings → Review Configuration. The app also shows a recommended threshold based on how many words you’ve learned. When the progress indicator reaches 100%, a button will appear to add new words and move on to the next lesson. ________________________________________ 7. Keeping in Touch If you get stuck, don’t wrestle with it alone. Just message support [ at ] biblicalmastery.academy or contact us in the community and I’ll help you get sorted. Sometimes email providers block system messages, so if you’re waiting for something that hasn’t arrived, please check your spam folder first — but don’t hesitate to reach out if needed. 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