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Hi DBN..

what is your story of how you learnt hebrew..

methods you used e.t.c.

Vito:
probably has Israeli friends, that how I learned it  O0 I'm not Jewish either..

q_q_:
I guess pastors would be learning biblical hebrew rather than modern hebrew. I know they are similar.. But of course modern hebrew would introduce a whole load of new vocabulary that isn't necessary to reading the tenach.

I heard it boils down to vocabulary memorization, and practice(e.g. reading).

There is some material put out by Christians - Miles Van Pelt - for example, that has biblical hebrew vocabulary ordered by frequency. 1000 words.   Looks like a great way to learn vocabulary.

But the only reading material I find is tenach, but it is the most advanced, since it has all the vocabulary in it.  And isn't written for the sake of learning the vocabulary..   Like, practicing the 20 words just learnt!
I'm just going to keep memorising these cards.  He has a book with 2000 words.  Mostly just roots!

It used to be that in all jewish schools, rabbis taught hebrew , and it was serious, people learnt a bit but not really enough to read tenach. But things have worsened. The less religious schools now get any old israelis to teach it.
And since many young israelis are leaving, they have many israeli students to "teach", so it's all a bit of a joke. The schools get their A*s of course.

What level is "college"?

In britain, we have GCSEs - that's at 16.
A levels - 18
Then University.

I know many people just go to Ulpan in israel, and learn modern hebrew there.  (there don't seem to be biblical hebrew classes at all - except in religious high schools) .  or  known good modern hebrew classes.

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--- Quote from: Dan Ben Noah on July 03, 2008, 07:39:54 PM ---I am much more familiar with Modern Hebrew than Biblical Hebrew.  I can read the Tanach, but it's kind of like reading Shakespeare because the grammar is different so I often don't understand what's going on.  I get totally lost in the Aramaic parts in Daniel and Ezra.  But quite a bit of the ancient Hebrew vocabulary is the same as that of Modern Hebrew, except for what has been added over the years.  However, if you want to speak everyday Hebrew, it would be important to study Modern Hebrew grammar because you would sound antiquated if you spoke like the Tanach reads.  And listening to it is also essential if you want to speak it.  I think the hardest part for me was learning to read Hebrew at a normal pace just because the alphabet looks nothing like English.  I still am a bit slow when it comes to reading.  It also took me a few years to build up my ear to the point where I could understand everything that was being said even if I knew all the vocabulary being spoken.  That process is much quicker for people who live in Israel.  The grammar and root system are actually very logical and I enjoyed studying it.  Hebrew would be harder to learn than Spanish or German, but would be easier to learn than Chinese or Arabic.  For us, people are in college 4 years, usually ages 18-21 or 22.

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hmm.. i just realised, in britain, A levels are 16-18. So university/degree would be like 18-22.

so you did a degree in hebrew?  was that the subject of the whole degree?

makes sense, since it would take years to learn. (I can read it already, jews learn to read hebrew from all the prayers - understanding them is the problem!)

Shamgar:
I have thought about getting the Rosetta Stone learning system for Hebrew. Has anyone used this before?

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