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Stian Håklev · Hamar
In five years, you'll be five years older no matter what! Wouldn't it be cool to be five years older, and also read ancient Greek?
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How an Iraqi Play About Cain and Abel Led Me to Build My Own DuolingoTesting twenty years of ideas about language learning, finally building the ultimate app for myself2026-03-31 ↗Alif: Technical Deep DiveA single-user Arabic learning system built with spaced repetition, Arabic NLP, and LLMs2026-03-31 ↗
This is the Babel fish we've been waiting forHow AI lets us find, follow and join conversations in languages we don’t speak2026-08-21 ↗Latin og gresk
100% inputSince I started learning Latin 7 months ago, I've literally never produced anything. I haven't written down a single Latin word or phrase, and I haven't spoken a single Latin phrase.
The language learning holy grailParallel texts, Anki verses, the New Testament in Greek, and a method for reading in another language.
Reading Plato where it happenedThirty days in Athens in the summer of 2025: an 1872 Plato from an auction, a bookbinder, Elektra and Oedipus in Epidaurus, and the dialogues read on the spots where they are set.Fortsatt ateistMatteus på gresk i påsken, Bondestudentar uten forkunnskaper, Wergelands «Mennesket», og planen for Det gamle testamentet. Bibelen som litteratur, for en som meldte seg ut som sekstenåring.Hvordan
Learning effectively with podcastsI am now walking round after round around this beautiful, calm lake, with these incredible stars above me. I have time. I am learning incredibly interesting things.
The high school education I never gotFrom «never too late» in June 2020 to «in five years, you'll be five years older no matter what» in 2025: threads about starting late and building the education I never got.