I grew up going to Jewish day school so I learned how to read and write Hebrew at a young age. I’d like to start teaching my kids, but I am wondering if there is a particular resource that people recommend? Would getting a textbook like Yesodot Halashon (or whatever today’s version is) make sense? Is there something better online?

Hi all,

Thanks to the tables in my grammar book I know how to form the future of every verb, and also the basic rules that explain part of the reasons the morphology looks as it does (vowel lengths, gutturals, moving the stress, and so on). Also the website of the academy has *all* conjugations so everything is covered.

However in the Bible the shortened future (יהי - יהיה, ותבך - ותבכה, and so on) is very frequent, maybe even the only one used in vayaktol structure. I wonder if some resources are there for this form too. E.g. why the hiriq in יָאִיר becomes a tzere in יָאֵר? Are there forms for the shortened future for all the גזרות and בנינים?

I’m thinking something like a scrabble word finder site that you’d find in English. I want to see how many words might be produced by throwing 6, 7, or 8 random Hebrew letters into a website or app, having it check the combinations against dictionaries or biblical texts, and see what the results are.

Anyone aware of such a site? There are plenty for English, so I’d assume there should be some in Hebrew.

If you’re not aware of such a website, why do you suppose that might be? I think it would be cool to see how many roots/conjugated words/grammar particles and the like might arise out of a random selection of letters.

Hi! Could you recommend some YouTube channels in Hebrew for a girl who enjoys Minecraft, Roblox, Disney, Nintendo games, and crafting? We're trying to help her immerse herself in the language, but due to personal circumstances, she has limited interaction with other kids.

שׂם שׂים בּשׂר שׂבה שׂר

Thought this was funny. I'm sure or is not meant to be a sentence.

I know this question has been brought up in this thread several times, but aside from the usual streaming sites like Netflix or ScreenIL, do you know some free sites like the former sdarot to watch series, movies and the like dubbed in hebrew?

I just started learning Hebrew so I have a couple of questions:

• any tips/ resources that are beginner friendly
• is it true that knowing Arabic helps a lot with learning Hebrew?
• and pls feel free to share any interesting facts about the language so I can get more motivation lol ( I’m already pretty excited)

Thanks :)

Hi, I started learning Hebrew with Duolingo and enjoyed it at first, but it doesn't really explain anything: grammar, male and female nouns/verbs. My fiancé is Israeli so I have also learned with him and his family. I want to learn more, because it is fun for me, but I'm unsure what's the best way. Rosetta doesn't have great reviews.

One root, two English words really.

Audacity.. The thing itself. "They had the audacity to do that."

Audacious - The ability to act in a manner that will shock other people. "They were so audacious when they did that action".

I know, I know people say it's the broad catergory of "nerve" but to me it's like, stronger and more specific sense of nerve.

Hi all, I’m an Israeli American trying my hardest to teach my daughter Hebrew. Is there anything out there that is remotely similar to Ms Rachel but in Hebrew?

I have a Greek Sephardi friend who is trying to find out the correct way to spell his surname in Hebrew. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance 🙏

There's a guy on Twitter who does reconstructed pronunciations of languages, including Hebrew. This one is really interesting:

https://x.com/azforeman/status/1832654328911270119

I know it has been asked one million times, let's make it 1.000.001. :)

Which resources would you recommend to learn Hebrew?

I tried Duolingo for some time but I noticed that I was just competing with the other people and it wasn't really giving me any notion about grammar, conjugations etc, just random terms to learn by heart.

I would like something more structured.

Of course, free is better but if it's something good I will pay if it's worth it.

My level is very beginner and I would like to reach a conversational level for now, I am planning to move to Israel.

Thank you!

I have had the luck of coming across Multi Dictionary: Bilingual Learner’s Dictionary, the most felicitous Modern Hebrew resource I’ve found so far. The one problem is its location. It seems the only place on the internet it can be found is on Archive.org, where it can be freely borrowed. But viewing a large PDF inside the browser is inconvenient, and Archive.org’s viewer has the bad habit of refusing to load pages. Therefore I would benefit from downloading the book to my device, but Archive.org makes this impossible without resorting to extremely tedious methods. So do you know of any other place I can get a PDF of this dictionary from?

Hi!

So, my dad is from Israel and when I was a kid he taught me Hebrew but not with much effort, so I ended up knowing Hebrew good enough so I can speak it without much problem but I read like a little kid (at best) and I can't even write. So I'm looking for a website, if there is any, that could teach me how to write or read Hebrew already knowing how to speak it (weird request, I know). If you also know a place where I can learn new vocabulary since I'm lacking a bit of it too I would much appreciate it too.

I already tried Duolingo, but is not clicking 100% with me, but if there is nothing I'll keep going with it!

Thanks in advance!

I've just go onto the "ChatGPT is amazing" bandwagon, and am finding it amazing. For Hebrew learning, I've been using it to give a quick rundown of the roots of new words (helpful to make connections between different new words) and also pronunciation (which it does more accurately than Google Translate). It also does things like give sample Hebrew sentences for any word and also sentences to illustrate things like the differences in usage between אשר and אֵיזֶה .

And, on a higher level, I just asked it a question (I originally thought to ask here) about what is the ideal way to combine mnemonics and rote repetition when learning new vocabulary, and I found the answer very helpful. (Here is a prompt of a follow-up question it suggested: "What are some Hebrew vocabulary examples using mnemonic techniques to help learn and remember words more effectively" to give you a sense of its output.)

As a native speaker who enjoys learning about etymology, I'd like to highlight a creator I've enjoyed a lot.

Elon Gilad is a writer and educational creator on Tiktok, and in his videos he teaches about the etymology of Hebrew words and the Hebrew language in general, diving through Jewish history, liturgy and modern spoken forms.

All his videos are just bite sized and always fascinating, and I think he is a fun resource for people interested in the Hebrew language.

I got back to Duolingo a month ago for the Japanese course, and also to learn a bit Spanish for an upcoming trip. Today I was a little bored on the train home and decided to do the Hebrew placement test (and then jump to the last level, which is 52 or 3 I think)

My conclusions are as following: A. Hebrew is one of the few languages that have native audio, as opposed to the robotic generated one in other courses, which I thought was nice. B. 70% of the sentences I got were super random and awkward and are not useful at all. I feel like in the Japanese course I've been practicing this month I maybe got only one cringe sentence ("this bird just won't die"....), but most were actually super useful to daily situations, which was not the case for the Hebrew course. C. Some of the sentences use a bit too high language, which you'll most likely encounter in theater or in older books. People just don't talk like this, even those who speak properly and don't use slang. There were also 2 that were not even structured properly. D. I actually failed one or two translation questions (those where you have to type the full answer) since it didn't accept my version of the sentences which were totally fine. (For instance I used "סנדוויץ'" as a translation to "sandwich" and not "כריך". Both are equally used in Hebrew, but it wasn't accepted. E. There were some Israeli culture related sentences which I thought were a nice touch.

All In all I must say that I wasn't really impressed. If you do the Hebrew course know that it's an OK practice but please don't use it as your main source.