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| gary24 Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6882 days ago 42 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English*, German | Message 1 of 37 20 January 2006 at 9:47am | IP Logged |
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I lived in Israel for 2 years and came back with a very high level of speaking ability. I knew all the core vocab plus much of the wider vocab.
If anyone wants to learn an easy language take Hebrew because there is so few tenses and so many words have dual meanings. Any other Hebrew learners on this site. The reason i am asking is since i arrived back from Israel 6 months ago i feel that my hebrew is sinking away and i need new techniques to improve. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 37 20 January 2006 at 10:32am | IP Logged |
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The different alphabet might discourage some people. I notice that you mentioned your speaking ability but not your reading or writing. How does this compare to your oral and aural abilities?
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| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7033 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 37 20 January 2006 at 4:05pm | IP Logged |
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What a coincidence! I was just about to ask something about Hebrew :-) I'm learning Spanish so I don't really have time for a second language. But I am very interested in Hebrew. Maybe I'll pick it up after Spanish.
Tonight I thought about doing it in between now and then, just for fun, a quick course from Pimsleur for instance. But I gues that's just not wise since I'm studying Spanish now. But it's good to hear that it's not so difficult when it comes to grammar. The writting is a different matter indeed :-) If I one day pick it up I'll use Pimsleur and then only listen this time. I do already know 1 sentence in Hebrew from the Bible :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| gary24 Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6882 days ago 42 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English*, German | Message 4 of 37 20 January 2006 at 8:03pm | IP Logged |
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Basically the speaking of Hebrew is very simple. For example there are not 10-15 tences like in English/Spanish/French.
Just 4 or 5. I pikced up the core of the language after 6months of living in israel and became fluent after 1.5 years. However the reading has always puzzled me. The way it works in hebrew is if you dont know the word when u read it u wont know how to prononce it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7220 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 5 of 37 21 January 2006 at 6:06am | IP Logged |
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Is there a community that is willing to help out? I have met people of different cultures and they offered to help for free. It is usually conversational practice than learning the technical parts of a language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dadafeig Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6985 days ago 82 posts - 83 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Dutch | Message 6 of 37 21 January 2006 at 12:55pm | IP Logged |
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I have always been a little interested in Hebrew just because of the different writing style. So it's nice to know that it has so few tenses and is pretty easy to learn, just that the alphabet is difficult. I would probaly enjoy learning it because I have learned different writing alphabets before.
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| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7033 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 37 21 January 2006 at 5:20pm | IP Logged |
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Appart from the special characters in Hebrew, do they also use our alfabet? I mean, I have often read in christian literature words/names like "Baruch, Adonai, Yeshua, Elohim, Ruach" and "Baruch Haba, B’Shem Adonai". Is that a western way of writing and beeing able to speak it? Or is this also a legitimate way of writing?
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| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7187 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 8 of 37 21 January 2006 at 5:44pm | IP Logged |
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That's just transliterated Hebrew so that the non-Hebrew speakers can read the text.
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