Learn Hebrew

In sifting among the options, think about your goals, your level of self-discipline and how much time you are able to commit to the endeavor. Are you looking simply to decode so you can follow along in the prayer book? Do you want to study the Bible in its original? Seeking to learn a few phrases to use on a vacation in Israel? Or are you hoping to become fluent in conversational Hebrew?

Below is a sampling of online courses and resources organized by category and alphabetically. Did we miss something important? Have you tried some of the programs below and had positive or negative experiences? Do you see something that needs to be updated? Let us know by emailing community@myjewishlearning.org.

Learn Hebrew

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LearnHebrewPod.com

Can sample online Hebrew learning tools, including audio lessons, games and quizzes, for free before you buy it. Accessible on computers and mobile devices. In addition to conversational Hebrew lessons, offers a separate reading class, as well as a prayers class. Beginners can try out one month for free.

Hebrew Homepage (also available for children)

Weekly 30-minute one-on-one sessions with tutor using a webinar platform. Curriculums include learning the Aleph Bet, navigating prayer book Hebrew and modern conversational Hebrew.

Start your Hebrew-learning journey with certified teachers, a supportive community, and rich educational content. Connect to live, online classrooms from anywhere in the world, and enjoy interacting with your teacher and classmates in real time.

Join students around the world in live, interactive, online video courses, and start learning Modern Hebrew from the top language instructors in Israel. Discover the rich and beautiful language of Modern Hebrew and deepen your understanding of Israeli culture and people.

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Thats basicly it? Are there good free resources to learn hebrew without paying money for an app or somesuch? If not, are there good books to buy/what are the best ways to learn the language?

My broke ass is fluent in german, english and russian.

The Easy Learn Hebrew program is the 'Learn To Read Hebrew In One Day' classroom course 'online', however offering much more in terms of being able to revise the 'classroom' content online repeatedly via the videos, take the online quizzes and being able to print out the associated hard copy learning materials as required.

Learn Hebrew Online with Hebrew Audio and PodcastsListening comprehension is often a challenge for language learners, which is why I recommend getting lots of listening practice. But where do you find good quality audio lessons in Hebrew?

This book had given me so much. I did want my children to learn Hebrew. I wanted them to learn Hebrew and celebrate the holidays and feel connected to their heritage. I know their experience will be very different than mine but I could still give them some foundation. Because yes, of course it mattered. I left Orthodoxy, but Judaism was deeply a part of me, as deep as the face of the abyss before God created light.

Without hesitation I think Hebrew is more difficult. The verb structure of the language is very different from western languages (including Greek). The ways that words can combine with pronouns and prepositions can also make it confusing. For those two reasons alone Hebrew is difficult to learn, and IMHO more difficult to learn than Greek.

My conversations with others suggest that Greek is easier than Hebrew - it is closer to English (alphabet, grammar, vocabulary, etc) than Hebrew. But with the right instructors, either can be a joy to learn.

In part, the answer will always come down to the amount of vocab that one learns. I was fortunate (! ?) enough to have to learn the top 1000 Hebrew words for an exam at the end of my second year of Hebrew. As a result, there are not too many words which I need to look up when reading the narrative sections of the OT.

Greek was easier for me, although that may be because I had much more of it. Greek was my minor in college so that gave me an advantage going into seminary (an advantage I desperately needed!). I did have a couple of years of Hebrew, but just never really grasped it as well. Hebrew grammar is simpler, but the morphology was strange to me. I also probably saw greater need for Greek in exegesis than I did Hebrew. Language studies still help in narratives, but not as much as other literature, and a great deal of the OT is narrative. That said, I wish I had focused on my Hebrew more back then and am now trying to regain some of what I have lost in the last 25-30 years as well as learn things I never really got down well.

I am very much in the process of learning both Ronald. I haven't taken an formal classes as such and so the learning process for me is a much longer and tougher road. I rely upon the Grammars in Logos along with some Hard Copy grammars and some good websites I have found that make extensive use of some of these grammars along with some video course avaialbe on iTunes University or as Podcasts on iTunes.

Greek is easier. It has its own exceptions, but Hebrew is like english - exception to every rule, and exceptions to the exceptions. :) Lots of stuff to learn and remember. But in some ways this makes Hebrew more interesting.

I would say Hebrew is very difficult to begin with. We were told it is a very regular language without many exceptions, and decades of reading the Bible partly in Hebrew have not led me to disagree with that. The OT is full of puns which are not translatable, so in the original Hebrew I get much more out of reading the OT than in even the best translation. I would not necessarily advise everyone to invest the time and energy to learn Hebrew, but if you have the chance and the time, go for it! I imagine this new Logos software would be a big help.

If the comparison is limited to Biblical Hebrew and the (Koine) Greek of the New Testament, I would be inclined to say that Greek is easier to learn. On the other hand, I agree with Kevin Becker that it also depends on how good your teacher/book is and how much effort you are willing to put into it. If you enjoy learning languages, then Hebrew is definitely not a difficult language to learn.

I agree that Greek is easier than Hebrew, but am coming at the question from a different angle. I've taken Greek in seminary and found that the rote memorizationof vocab and paradigms was not one that worked well for me. I got anA in the class, but did not like it. I'm fluent in German, so learning languages is not a problem for me, but that is not a good way for me to learn. Too much boring work for to little payoff. I was much more excited by theidea of Logos and their "Learn to Use Biblical Greek and Hebrew"DVD which proposes that with Logos software you can get much faster to the rewards of translation using the tools they have.

Greek is more complex than biblical Hebrew. It is clear from aGreek sentence for example which words are nominative or accusative. Thisis not true with Hebrew (or English) and on top of that Hebrew willoften times not even have the verb in a sentence. This madetranslating the poetry of Psalms quite hard. Not that Romans is easyto translate, but Greek is quite precise, and so you just need tolearn the complex rules. Logos has lots of tools to do that. For theHebrew I had to purchase extra books that were not included (the BDBand TWOT) since the lexicons it comes with are substandard, and I also needed to refer to a selection of criticalcommentaries (in addition to the NET, my favorites were Alter andWBC). So one problem is that the tools in Logos for Hebrew are notdeveloped as well as they are for Greek. There is for example nocritical commentary for the OT (unless you want to shell out some big$$), and there are a lot of errors in both the AFAT and BHSthat Logos has. This is not the case with Greek which vary rarely has errors in the Logos program, and comes with critical commentary and a nice set of lexicons.

With platforms like Memrise or Anki, you can create your own flashcard decks, and list only the items you want to learn. Pick words that appeared in your textbooks, those you noted down in conversation classes, or learned from texts.

By only learning what we like or what we find easy, we only advance in those selected areas. In order to be able to say we learned a language we need to cover all its aspects, at least to basic degree.

This is what happened to me as I was learning with a private teacher, and at university. Not knowing how important it was to use Hebrew outside of class, the only thing my mind associated the language with was obligation.

I was slowly on a path to becoming observant. I picked up resources online from study materials for kids to advanced college level hebrew. In the end, what determines the success of being able to know the language, is really a combination of passion, curiosity, personal attachment of and to the language. I have been studying Hebrew for the past 2 years on my own, I can read fluently and get the gist of whats written, but to be a pure native fluency is taking alot of time. I think its really important to be able to use hebrew in everything - I setup my default languages in my phone to hebrew, same for facebook, youtube, email accounts etc. I started to watch alot of Hebrew shows as well - all I can say is that its working and has a positive impact in terms of my fluency.

I didn't have the opportunity growing up to learn Hebrew. My goal is to be able to sight-read the Hebrew in Torah. I have taken several classes in grammar and syntax, and my vocabulary is moderate. What is the best way to take what I've learned and actually learn to sight-read? Any approach will involve much practice and devotion, obviously. That said, what is the best approach?

First, learning Hebrew vocabulary and grammar is certainly a good and important start. But, you should also learn Biblical Hebrew, as its grammar is markedly different from "Modern" Hebrew. Most notably, the Torah uses "Vav Hahipuch" which is a method of adding a vav to the beginning of a verb that "flips" a future verb to past and past tense to future. This is one of a few examples where Biblical grammar may be different from modern Hebrew. e24fc04721