Thank You for 100,000 Subscribers!
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We’re thrilled to reach 100,000 subscribers! Thank you to all you who are joining us and making this possible.
We also wanted to mention a few dreams for the future. Some of these may never materialize, but we’d like to invite you to dream with us anyway. First, for a while now we’ve wanted to develop an app with a team of volunteers which would help guide people through the learning process with our videos and other resources. It would also enable people in areas with limited internet access to easily download the videos onto their device and then watch them without a connection. Second, we’d like to facilitate the growth of apps like the BART Bible app into languages other than English. For example, we’d like to see a free interlinear Hebrew Bible be made available for all the major languages of the world so that beginners can have something to help them start reading passages where they might not know all the vocabulary yet. Third, we want to find creative and innovative ways to make free, digital Hebrew lexicons available in all the world’s major languages, so that users can easily tap a word and see a lexical entry for that word in their language of wider communication.
Finally, we’d love to build a highly realistic, three dimensional, immersive world of ancient Israel in Unreal Engine, and use Unreal Engine to tell Bible stories with high quality animation. We realize this is ambitious, but we’re taking a course to explore the potential of the program, and we’re looking for volunteers who know Unreal Engine and might want to collaborate! We really want to increase the quality of what we’re providing so that learning Hebrew can be more of a joy and less of a chore.
Visit https://freehebrew.online/resources to read lesson scripts, find grammar explanations, take fun quizzes, download a vocabulary list, learning schedule, and much more.
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Listen to the audio of these lessons on our podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alephwithbeth
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- Hi everyone! We are so thrilled. Thank you so much for 100 ,000 subscribers. Hold on, we forgot someone
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- I think they would want to see and make this video a little more interesting. Oh, really?
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- Yeah. Let's do this. Oh, hi! This is so much better.
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- Hey! You're welcome. We're so excited for 10 ,000 subscribers and we want to say thank you to all you who are joining us and making this possible.
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- I confess that in the beginning I didn't really imagine us ever hitting this milestone, but I guess
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- God had other things in mind because here we are only two and a half years later. Your encouraging comments are so appreciated.
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- We absolutely love hearing your stories and testimonies, so thank you so much to those of you who take the time to write to us, to share your stories.
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- We try our best to reply to everyone, but sometimes messages can fall through the cracks by accident. It takes a lot of time just to communicate with you all and stay on top of all the mail that we get.
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- We want to especially extend a huge thank you to all of you who are giving to help support this project.
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- Naomi says thanks too. You are helping us to be able to live and create without worrying about finances, helping us to upgrade our equipment and access new tools and materials.
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- So you're not only blessing us personally, but you're also blessing so many people around the world.
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- We've learned a lot technically in this past year. We're always trying to improve our production quality little by little and we're always striving to stay creative for you guys and to bring you something new, not get too stuck in a rut.
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- One of the latest things we're adding is to take advantage of recent developments in AI image generation. So we've been experimenting with artwork generated by engines like Mid Journey and Dolly 2.
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- So you may have already noticed that we're starting to include some of those images in our recent lessons. Also, many of you already know that this was a big year for us as a family because back in February, God blessed us with a beautiful baby girl who you already saw.
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- And sometimes it seems like every week of her life has a different rhythm. So we're figuring out as we go how to take care of her and still keep the
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- Hebrew lessons coming. We're also coming up on another milestone, which is 100 lessons, but there's still so much left to teach.
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- So slow and steady, we will press on by God's grace. Some of the top countries where we've been getting the most views lately are the
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- United States, Brazil, Mexico, India, Israel, and Colombia.
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- But we know that many of you are also from other countries. So greetings to all of you wherever you are.
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- This really is a worldwide learning journey, and we always love getting comments in different languages.
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- So please leave us a comment below. Let us know what country you're from and what your mother tongue is.
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- We're really curious. So at this point, we now have lesson transcripts and grammar explanations all the way up to lesson 80.
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- Isn't that exciting? This has been a ton of work, but we hope it serves you. Now, also, our resource page on our website keeps growing with more free, useful things.
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- So make sure to check that out if you haven't recently. Now, we'd also like to make sure to express our gratitude for our volunteers.
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- We don't have a team of editors or camera people or anything like that, but we do have wonderful volunteers from all over the world who help make all of this possible.
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- For example, we have a few people checking each video draft for typos, accuracy, and understandability before it's released.
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- And then we have someone else who's coordinating the translation of our written resources and web page into different languages.
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- Then we've got someone who faithfully uploads the audio of each video to our podcast.
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- And then someone who hosts the torrents of our videos on his server for those who want to download our videos for offline use.
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- There's also someone who has been doing a tremendous amount of artwork to help with future visual storytelling, and someone who does an amazing job creating quizzes on the
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- BibleLink platform. And then there are those who have helped actually translate various things into Portuguese and Spanish and other languages.
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- And these are just a few examples. And we're so thankful for their willingness to partner with us and sacrifice their time and energy to make
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- Hebrew free forever for everyone. It's just so amazing to see how
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- God has provided generous people to come alongside us and help us in so many great ways.
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- We have so much to be thankful for. Can you say shalom to our friends?