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| jpazzz Groupie United States Joined 4827 days ago 54 posts - 76 votes  Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 28 13 April 2014 at 9:36am | IP Logged |
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Hello all, Have any of you used the Linguaphone Modern Hebrew course? In general I like Linguaphone offerings, but I'm puzzled by the fact that the Linguaphone Hebrew course does not include a translation/transliteration book such as is found in the Linguapone Arabic course. Of course, such a book is not necessary. There are other courses with non-Roman scripts/alphabets that don't have translation/transliterations.
In any case, I'd like to hear about any experiences with this course, even secondhand experiences...I hope the fact that the course is no longer offered isn't because it wasn't satisfactory. Thanks, John Edited by jpazzz on 15 April 2014 at 4:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SnowManR1 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5270 days ago 53 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 2 of 28 28 April 2014 at 10:23pm | IP Logged |
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You don't have a translation or transliteration?
This course is pretty hard to come by. How many books did you receive? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5381 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 3 of 28 28 April 2014 at 11:02pm | IP Logged |
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There is a Handbook (Explanatory Notes / Vocabularies) with translations of the lessons but I have seen no transliteration.
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| jpazzz Groupie United States Joined 4827 days ago 54 posts - 76 votes Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 28 10 May 2014 at 8:44am | IP Logged |
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Hello, Thanks for taking the time to respond to my rather vague query. I've since looked more carefully at the course and concluded that it's really quite good. I believe that one of the things that puzzled me is that both the Linguaphone Hebrew and Arabic courses were written by the same man, Menahem Mansoor (one of the grand old men of America Semitic scholarship). There is a separate Translation/Transliteration book with the Arabic course (in addition, of course, to the Handbook), but not with the Hebrew. As an elderly academic who in his time wrote some texts, I know that publishers often make decisions that astound authors, and it may be that that's the case here. But it may also be that Mansoor didn't think that Hebrew needed a Translation/Transliteration book, while Arabic did.
And I'm also curious about why Linguaphone discontinued Hebrew. Given what one finds on Amazon, it appears as if Hebrew is quite a popular language among a wide variety of people. "It is a puzzlement!" 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5347 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 5 of 28 10 May 2014 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
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It seems that Linguaphone is a much reduced company that has gone through many buy-outs
and restructures since its publishing heyday - and its main business is in language schools. Consequently, it has rolled back much of its publishing activities. Edited by Elexi on 10 May 2014 at 8:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4489 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 6 of 28 11 May 2014 at 7:51pm | IP Logged |
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A shame since Hebrew could do with a good
textbook. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SnowManR1 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5270 days ago 53 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 7 of 28 13 May 2014 at 10:06pm | IP Logged |
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I wrote Linguaphone about 3 months ago asking if they were going to produce a Beginners to Advanced series for Modern Hebrew, but they said they wasn’t. I then asked about the old version and whether they could find or sell me one from their old stock, but that also wasn’t an option.
Jpazzz: I sent you a PM in regards to Linguaphones old course material. As Cabaire said, there is no transliteration, but there is a translation. Is the course you have the 30 lessoned course? Also if you can't read Hebrew I know of an awesome book that can teach you in no time and costs very little. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 6928 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 8 of 28 17 May 2014 at 3:47am | IP Logged |
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What is the book?
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