How To Succeed

How To Succeed

Congratulations for the making the choice to begin learning classical Hebrew!

Let me begin by explaining how each unit is organized. Every unit begins with a video lecture in which I lay out the basic material to be covered and I introduce the main concepts.

Then I provide you with screencasts where I walk you through the material, step-by-step. Imagine that I'm writing this on a white board (or chalk board!). The advantage with this format is that you can return to the lesson as many times as you need in order to understand the concepts. The screencast pages also have a place for comments. This is where you can ask questions, make observations, or provide suggestions for improvement. If you prefer, you can also email me directly with a question.

Following the screencasts, I will provide mini-quizzes, vocabulary lists with video walk-through's of the new words, exercises that are downloadable and answer keys or answer walk-through's.

Finally, at the end of each unit, we will look at a bit of text to see how the concept plays out in the text.

As we get deeper into the material, the text study will get more robust.

Good luck!

Classical Hebrew Level One

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Introduction

  • How To Succeed
  • Tell Me About Yourself!

I. Nouns: No Gender Ambiguity Here!

  • Nouns: Looking for Gender Fluidity? Forget about It!
  • Screencast: Feminine Nouns in Singular and Plural
  • Screencast: Masculine Nouns in Singular and Plural
  • Vocabulary List
  • Exercise Walk-Through
  • Text Study: When Gendered Nouns Can be Interesting

2. Vowels

  • Why Knowing the Vowels Makes Hebrew More Fun
  • Screencast: What Are the Vowels and How Do They Work (I)
  • Screencast: What Are the Vowels and How Do They Work (II)
  • Screencast: What Are the Vowels and How Do They Work (III)
  • Vocabulary List
  • Exercises
  • Exercise Walk Through
  • Text Study: Vowels in Action
  • Resource: Vowel Chart

3. "The" "In" "To" "As" "And"

  • English vs Hebrew: Attachment or Non-Attachment
  • Screencast: "The," or the Definite Article
  • Screencast: Direct Object What?!?
  • Screencast: The Prepositions "In" "To" and "As"
  • Vocabulary List
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk-Through

4. Where the Action Is! Verbs

  • Video: Introducing Verbs!!
  • Screencast: Hebrew Roots
  • Screencast: How to Form the Basic Present Tense
  • Adding Pronouns to the Mix
  • Vocabulary List
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk-Through
  • Text Study: Finding the Participles

5. The Dots in the Letters: Dagesh

  • The Almighty Dot!
  • Power to the Dot!
  • Other Little Things
  • Vocabulary List
  • Exercises
  • Exercise Walk-Through
  • Text Study: When the dagesh is important

6. Finishing Up Sentences

  • Video: What's an Adjective?
  • Screencast: Adjectives
  • Vocabulary List
  • Exercises
  • Exercises Walk-Through

7. And On the Seventh Lesson, We Review

  • Vocabulary List
  • Ideas for Building Your Vocabulary
  • Cumulative Course Vocabulary
  • Supplemental Exercises
  • Supplemental Exercises Walk-Through
  • An Optional Final Assessment
  • Course Evaluation
  • Where To Go From Here