JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 5932 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian
| Message 1 of 8 15 June 2010 at 7:39pm | IP Logged |
Does anyone have any suggestions for resources for learning spoken Hebrew?
If there is already a thread on this, someone please point me to it.
thanks
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nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5379 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French
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I have heard that the French-based Assimil Hebrew course is good. You could just focus on the spoken aspect and not push the reading.
Pimsleur Hebrew is a good introduction, but it is quite boring and expensive.
Edited by nogoodnik on 15 June 2010 at 8:57pm
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endation Triglot Newbie United States mattgrabermusic.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6109 days ago 28 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew, Spanish Studies: French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin
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I would check out http://www.hebrewpodcasts.com
You have to pay for a membership to use all their resources, but some of their podcasts are free on ITunes and are well done.
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JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 5932 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian
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nogoodnik wrote:
I have heard that the French-based Assimil Hebrew course is good. |
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I like this suggestion. It will have the added benefit of functional use of my French...
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JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 5932 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian
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endation wrote:
I would check out http://www.hebrewpodcasts.com
You have to pay for a membership to use all their resources, but some of their podcasts are free on ITunes and are well done. |
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Thanks, I also looked at learnhebrewpod.com which I think is a similar concept.
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Louis Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5540 days ago 92 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish
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JW, what do you use to deal with the written aspect? I'd like to start Hebrew for a bit just to see how much my knowledge of Arabic carries over.
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JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 5932 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian
| Message 7 of 8 16 June 2010 at 1:48pm | IP Logged |
Louis wrote:
JW, what do you use to deal with the written aspect? I'd like to start Hebrew for a bit just to see how much my knowledge of Arabic carries over. |
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I am using this:
http://www.amazon.com/Biblical-Hebrew-Step/dp/0801060419
Great book but, if you use it, don't get overwhelmed by the first five chapters. You need to keep coming back to these as they present an overwhelming amount of information. The pace is more appropriate starting with chapter 6.
I would imagine Hebrew would not be difficult for you if you have Arabic. You would just have to learn the script which is not difficult.
Edited by JW on 16 June 2010 at 3:47pm
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nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5379 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French
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JW wrote:
endation wrote:
I would check out http://www.hebrewpodcasts.com
You have to pay for a membership to use all their resources, but some of their podcasts are free on ITunes and are well done. |
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Thanks, I also looked at learnhebrewpod.com which I think is a similar concept. |
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learnhebrewpod is also a great resource. If you like the format of the free podcasts, the paid subscription offers two additional podcasts (if I remember correctly) plus written dialogues and games and all of the other bells and whistles. The topics are interesting and the language is modern and colloquial with a few grammar lessons thrown in here and there. If you sign up for a free subscription at their website, I think They'll send you a code for 20 percent off at some point.
The downside of learnhebrewpod is that there is WAY too much English used in the recordings, which I feel wastes valuable Hebrew time. It's still a good program though that I'd recommend to anyone.
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