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| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 57 of 194 14 March 2010 at 7:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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I haven't been writing because it's just been business as usual: Hebrew audiobook & text, Russian Pimsleur and Michel Thomas.
I had to repeat lesson 20 of level 2 three times today, which was excruciating. Yep I'm getting to the point where I'm thoroughly tired of Pimsleur. After I finish level 2 I may just take a break and go directly to the Princeton course. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 58 of 194 16 March 2010 at 2:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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I ordered the Penguin course from Amazon and a couple of Biblical Hebrew books. I also just ordered another Hebrew book that may be of interest to learners: Hebrew Talk: 101 roots and the stories they tell. I'm hoping this book is going to offer interesting stories about different roots and keep me entertained simulateously. Yeah I'm part of the MTV generation and I need to be constantly entertained or I zone out. I'm working on it.
I'm also really wanting Pimsleur Hebrew III. I really really want it, but not enough to buy it. Why? I'm not sure I would benefit much from it and I'm cheap. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 59 of 194 16 March 2010 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My tenative plan with Russian:
Finish Pimsleur 1,2,3 Finish the Advanced Michel Thomas Course Use the Penguin and/or Princeton Course Move on to Vis Ed cards and Frequency Dictionary use as many native materials as possible to get comfortable with reading and listening. I'm starting to miss studying Spanish, but I just may hold off for a couple of months until I can get a real footing in Russian and spend more time improving my Classical Hebrew 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 60 of 194 19 March 2010 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My instincts (or rather, the amazon.com reviews) were correct: Hebrew Talk is an excellent book and I highly recommend it to all Hebrew learners at all stages.
I also bought this comic book, og the rasha, and read it last night. It is a comic book in Biblical Hebrew aimed for children. It was way too easy for me, but definitely cute and I'll re-gift it to some kid at my synagogue. I noticed that these books, as well as "Prayerbook Hebrew the Easy Way" and "The First Hebrew Reader" are all published by EKS. Everything I've purchased from EKS publishing has been of top quality and I highly recommend their products to Hebrew learners...no I don't work for them. I acquired "Vocabulearn Russian" from uztranslations and I was thinking of making something similar for Hebrew. I've got to learn a minimum of 4,000 additional words and having a friend read the Hebrew word, and maybe use it in a sentence, and put some Bach in the background for flavor, would be cool. I just need to figure out how to do this on a low budget and in a low-tech way. Pimsleur Russian is sort of getting challenging again, which is good. I have to repeat each lesson once or twice. I love Russian! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lemanensis Bilingual Pentaglot Groupie Switzerland hebrew.ecott.ch Joined 5915 days ago 73 posts - 77 votes Speaks: French*, English*, German, Spanish, Swedish Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 61 of 194 20 March 2010 at 10:32am | IP Logged | |||||
Vocabulearn exists for Hebrew already... and there are two levels. http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/search?searchTerm=Vocabulear n+Hebrew&search=search 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 62 of 194 21 March 2010 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for letting me know!! I'm still thinking of doing a home-made version though because I need to learn a lot of specialized vocabularly and the Russian version seems to be helping me a lot. As for Biblical Hebrew, I've been using this book, "The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew" by Van Pelt and Pratico. I like it so far, as it lists all words in the Tanakh in order of frequency that occur more than ten times. Another feature that I like is that it lists all words according to root in a subsequent chapter. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I already know many of these words, but I haven't studied words according to roots or binyanim and I'd like to do so. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 63 of 194 23 March 2010 at 6:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm starting to understand some words in the Russian podcasts I've been listening to, which is tremendously motivating and almost makes the drudgery of Pimsleur worth it.
Actually, Pimsleur has been helpful and I'm being dramatic. I suffer from a disorder called "Language Textbook Anxiety", and Pimsleur helps me circumvent that to some degree. I'm driving up to L.A. tomorrow night and will be hitting up the Hebrew bookstores again. What I'd really like to find are some language courses with a Hebrew base and maybe some novels. I did some calculations and found that I could spend four hours a day learning languages. I typically spend only about an hour and a half per day studying, and I think I need to step it up a bit. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 64 of 194 27 March 2010 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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LA was fun...my friend and I went to Aroma a couple of times and I gathered up the courage to speak Hebrew with the waitstaff. I didn't make it to the Hebrew bookstore this time, but I can always order online.
What I'm really excited about is this book I received from Amazon: Modern Hebrew Prose and Poetry It is a reader broken up into 45 different units of short stories and poems. It says that it's designed for second and third year students, and it defines some more complicated vocabulary in the footnotes. I've been trying to figure out a way to more easily engage with Modern Hebrew literature, so I'm going to be working with this book intensively. From this Saturday to next Saturday my goals are: Re-do Michel Thomas Advanced Russian Complete Pimsleur Russian 2 and be working on 3 two selections per day of Modern Hebrew Prose and Poetry one film or TV episode per day spend a bit of time with Hebrew Talk Gather more resources for Russian TV, films and music. I'm also going to try to do things with languages for four hours per day. Even if 3/4 of the time is passive, I will consider it a success. edit: Hag Pesach Semeach! Edited by nogoodnik on 27 March 2010 at 10:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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