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csjc Tetraglot Newbie IcelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5601 days ago 20 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Dutch Studies: Norwegian, French, Japanese
| Message 9 of 10 18 June 2012 at 9:21am | IP Logged |
I find Hebrew much easier to read (well, no surprise since I learnt to read/write it when I was 5 years old) but having
not grown up in Israel I still find handwritten Hebrew rather difficult to decipher.
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| lecavaleur Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4778 days ago 146 posts - 295 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 10 of 10 23 June 2012 at 1:51am | IP Logged |
I would like to better my Hebrew one day to get to a point where I can participate in a
conversation. I haven't ever actually stopped studying it, but my reading is very slow
even with nikud. The only things I can read without sounding like a barely literate child
sounding out words are the most common prayers read in shul. I can read the Sh'ma with
Ve'ahavtah, Adon Olam, the basic birkhot for various things (handwashing, candlelighting,
hamotzi, etc.) without any trouble because I kind of already know the words anyway. But
anything else, I need nikkud and it's sssslllloooowwww.
I think that coupled with the fact that, outside of a religious context, I don't have any
contact with Hebrew are the main discouraging factors for me. These challenges are
greater than the difficulties of the language itself.
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