I am just starting chapter one of the Pimsleur Method Hebrew, a gift from my Mother. Below questions I have is the "conversation" I wish to be evaluated. Thanks for the look-over in advance.
I did the first 30 minute track 3 times and I want to make sure I am learning correctly before I start committing what I have learned into long term memory. I am moving to the second 30 minute track tonight.
Is there a person I could look up on youtube who has a GOOD Israeli accent? I learned Spanish in a way so I sound like the guy from the TV station "Telemundo", which amuses people, but I do not want to speak Hebrew this way. I like to speak English like the Zohan for fun when I serve up hummus, but I don't want to learn with Adam Sandler's accent in my head [unless his accent is good, I have no criterion to judge by. With no arguments, his accent is better than
mine.]
Is it true that Rabbi Kahane lived on a Kibbutz just to learn how to speak "street slang cool flowing Hebrew" in addition to his formal Hebrew that he know from being a serious Torah/Talmud scholar?
I can safely assume Rabbi Kahane's accent is one to emmulate?
How about Chaim ben Pesach?
I want to sound "hip and cool", but I do not want to sound unschooled.
I would like to see a few people who have skilled Hebrew down so I do not sound "just" like anyone. I want my Hebrew voice to be as unique as my english voice.
My Latina room-mate says I have got my Spanish rrrrrr's down, I know how to roll the R well. Is this something I can transfer to Hebrew? Evrrreet?
Sometimes Hebrew speakers sound French almost. Should I avoid this, or is it good [regional?] Hebrew?
I want to be living in "East" Jerusalem within two years of three days ago [the next two years of my life are "mission years"]. I hope a then 33 year old guy is not too old for the IDF, I'd also like to be a Magen David Adom EMT paramedic after 3 years in the IDF. I DEFIANTLY need good Hebrew to be a paramedic, so many situations! I may start medical classes here in California if I can figure out a way to pay for it.
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This would be me talking to an Israeli woman.I am trying to ask her if she knows english, she says she does not know english, I ask if she knows Hebrew after this, and she says yes that she knows Hebrew and she is an Israeli. I say I understand, I am American, I know english, and I know a little bit of Hebrew.
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[I say to a gorgeous olive skinned woman]
"Sleecha, shalom, at meiveenah Angleet?"
[she then says]
"Lo. Ani lo meiveenah Angleet."
[I speak back to this woman]
"At meiveenah Evreet?"
[she says]
"Ken. Ani meiveenah Evreet; Ani Yisraeli."
[I say]
"Ani meiveen. Ani Ameriki. Ani meiveen Angleet. Ani meiveen ketset Evreet."
-thanks.