How Do You Read Hebrew? For any non-Israeli, Hebrew can be a tricky language. The consonants and vowels are unique to Hebrew, there is nothing else like it in any other written language, except of course, Yiddish. Yiddish, being a combination of German and Hebrew, uses the Hebrew characters in the text. However, a common […]
How to Read Hebrew
Easy Hebrew reading
Easy Hebrew reading – can it be done? In order to understand the above phrase, I want to deconstruct what the word “easy” actually means. According to the website www.dictionary.com, the definition of “easy” is not hard or difficulty; requiring no great labour or effort. Reading this definition makes me wonder if the above phrase […]
Easy Hebrew reading – can it be done?
In order to understand the above phrase, I want to deconstruct what the word “easy” actually means. According to the website www.dictionary.com, the definition of “easy” is not hard or difficulty; requiring no great labour or effort. Reading this definition makes me wonder if the above phrase “easy Hebrew reading” is a misnomer. However, through […]
How is Hebrew read
One of the many questions I get asked as a Hebrew teacher is “how is Hebrew read”. it is not as simple as answering: from right to left, the Hebrew reading needs to know every consonant and vowel; and that is just a starting point! When confronted with Hebrew text, for the non-native reader, it […]
My Hebrew reading journey
Early Childhood I have had an interesting journey in learning to read Hebrew and my Hebrew reading journey in general. It pretty much started when I was born! My father is a rabbi, so Hebrew is pretty much his lifeblood. So I grew up surrounded by Hebrew through the blessings, hearing him practice reading the […]
Hebrew reading pronunciation
Hebrew Reading Pronunciation. As I finished in my last post, the students learn to sing the Hebrew Aleph Bet. However, before we start, I have to warn them that they need to leave their inhibitions outside of the classroom. I explain to them that learning to read Hebrew is not a time to hold onto […]
Learn Hebrew – The Journey: Part 1
One thing I really enjoy doing is teaching absolute beginners how to learn to read Hebrew. I call it my “spiritual income”. I consider myself so fortunate to have a niche skill that brings in an income. I first started teaching Hebrew when I was approximately 15 years old. I was put in charge of […]
Purim
There is one person in the family who thoroughly embraces Purim, and that is my 8 year old boy. He always relishes the idea of getting dressed up. This year he is drawing on his experiences of his time in Israel. He wants to get dressed up as a religious rabbi and carry his new […]
How do you read Hebrew
Travelling through Israel with my family was fun; once they started grasping the Hebrew letters, and stopped asking how do you read Hebrew, life became a lot easier. Occasionally they would ask in really bad English to learn Hebrew alphabet! I always had to correct by saying, it is not “learn Hebrew alphabet” but “learn […]
Learn Hebrew
The longer we stayed in Israel unsurprisingly we all became more comfortable with the Hebrew letters and sounds . just being there, one is forced to read in Hebrew as not every sign is in English. Although it certainly helps if one makes the effort to learn Hebrew alphabet before arriving in the country , […]