I've set a goal of learning John 3:16 in at least one language from every language family. This blog will follow my attempts to do so, with explanations of what's going on in each language, as I understand it.
I've already made progress: I know the verse in English of course, in Spanish and French, which are my second languages, in Turkish because I lived in Turkey for a year, and in Czech because I've visited the Czech Republic three times. Most recently, I learned it in Arabic, which is my first language that has no other reason than for the sheer fun of it.
With those five languages, we have three major language families represented, and three subfamilies of Indo-European.
Indo-European: English, French, Spanish, Czech
-Germanic: English
-Romance: French, Spanish
-Slavic: Czech
Turkic: Turkish
Semitic: Arabic
I have a New Testament in Farsi, which is Indo-European, of the Indo-Iranian branch, so that will probably be the next project.
