Learn to read Hebrew in one day? Interesting that you ask this question! Can it be done? Well, after having taught a special course that teaches adults who are interested in learning to read Hebrew for over 10 years; I can say unequivocally that it does work. This course that my father taught me helps […]
Reading Hebrew
Read Hebrew
Reflecting on what I wrote in my last post, about teaching children to learn to read Hebrew, got me thinking about my time teaching year 12 olds Hebrew reading at a Hebrew and Religion school. The class was divided into a few groups. Group 1: the children who knew how to read Hebrew fast; group […]
How do you read Hebrew
Just looking back on my post from last week, how I learnt to read Hebrew fast at my primary school, it was very different to learning to read Hebrew online. In the classroom the teachers’ job is to teach the children to learn how to read Hebrew; which is wonderful if all the children are […]
Learning To Read Hebrew
All along I have spoken about how I was raised with reading Hebrew at home. But I haven’t shared my Hebrew reading journey in primary school. I immigrated to Australia from South African when I was 7 years old and went to a regular primary school. A year later, I begged my parents to send […]
Read Hebrew Online
I am currently coming back on the train from picking up a special certificate for a Barmitzvah pupil of mine. I taught him Hebrew reading for about 6 months. For him, learning to read Hebrew was a challenge as it wasn’t part of his life until he started preparing for his Barmitzvah. The certificate I […]
Easy Hebrew Reading
Reflecting on my last post, it seemed like I was complaining about being the daughter of a Rabbi. That wasn’t how I wanted it to come across; it was just a different upbringing to my friends. After all, which of my friends started to learn to how to read Hebrew from a young age? How […]
Learn To Read Hebrew Online
Life as a daughter of a Rabbi was anything but “normal” (well, at least in my opinion!) We weren’t allowed to watch television on Friday evenings or Saturdays, because it was the Jewish Sabbath (Shabbat). Every Friday evening I had to accompany my father to the Synagogue, where everything was read in Hebrew! I suppose […]
Learn To Read Hebrew
As I mentioned before, my Hebrew reading journey started from day 1! I mentioned that I was born on Sukkot, and once I came home from the hospital, I can only imagine that we would have had quite a few visitors to wish my parents well. It is very common amongst Jewish people to use […]
Learn To Read Hebrew
I really have no memory of my life as a baby and as a young child, but what I do know, with my father working as Rabbi, he didn’t leave his work at the office; it was brought home with him every night. Of course, being a rabbi, Hebrew was integral to his work. He […]
Learn To Read Hebrew
I made mention of God in my last post. It is interesting, because there is not a name for God in Hebrew. In fact, when one starts to read Hebrew, it is not obvious how to pronounce God’s name. Reading Hebrew is relatively straight forward (once you know the how to read Hebrew, consonants, vowels […]