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Offline Mifletzet

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Where did Chaim learn his Hebrew?
« on: May 28, 2008, 06:43:41 PM »
Where did Chaim learn his Hebrew? Kibbutz ulpan?
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Re: Where did Chaim learn his Hebrew?
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2008, 06:47:29 PM »
He's self-taught, amazing ain't it?  He's said before that he wouldn't advise this method to anyone because it's so tough, but that's the way he learned. 
"The Jews will eventually have to face up to what you're dealing with here.  The arabs will never love you for what good you've brought them.  They don't know how to really love.  But hate!  Oh, G-d, can they hate!  And they have a deep, deep, deep resentment because you have jolted them from their delusions of grandeur and shown them for what they are-a decadent, savage people controlled by a religion that has stripped them of all human ambition . . . except for the few cruel enough and arrogant enough to command them as one commands a mob of sheep.  You are dealing with a mad society and you'd better learn how to control it."

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Re: Where did Chaim learn his Hebrew?
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2008, 06:47:52 PM »
He said, that he could understand Hebrew because of his family and started to learn to speak when rabbi Kahane preached how import Hebrew is for a Jew.

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Re: Where did Chaim learn his Hebrew?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2008, 06:50:11 PM »
He's self-taught, amazing ain't it?  He's said before that he wouldn't advise this method to anyone because it's so tough, but that's the way he learned. 

Then what is Chaims first language

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Re: Where did Chaim learn his Hebrew?
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2008, 06:51:01 PM »
I think he talked about this in the 11.29.2006 broadcast.
But I'm not sure. If heard so many of his shows lately.

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Re: Where did Chaim learn his Hebrew?
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2008, 06:56:12 PM »
The quickest way to learn spoken Hebrew is to be stuck among Israelis who can't speak any English. I was stuck in a yeshivah for 3 months in a room with two Israeli baal teshuvahs who couldn't speak a word of English. I came out with a real "Israeli" accent and had all the right tshachtshach epithets & swear words down to perfection r"l!

Were any of Chaim's cellmates Israelis, when he was inside?

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Re: Where did Chaim learn his Hebrew?
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2008, 07:10:00 PM »
The subtitled videos by DanbenNoah and Zelhar are a great change to learn. Perhaps this is our change, like Chaim had his with the speaches of Rabbi Kahane.  :)

I think it will go easier with this in addition to books.  O0
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Re: Where did Chaim learn his Hebrew?
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2008, 07:36:41 PM »
I think israelis learn english watching american films with subtitles!