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[Jaya]

שלום רוברט. נעים להכיר
כמה זמן אתה לומד עברית?


by the way, only ysterday i said that i hope that rockets will not land on my house, and this morning i woke up to the sounds of rockets landing on my house murphi laws always work...

about 55 rockets landed in this area. people died

but people here have high spirit and i don't detact extrime fear or something like that. for me it's like one big flash back to "good old" golf war {that was in 92'} *hahahahahaha*

i hope tomorrow morning i'll wake up to the sound or my clock allarm and not to the sounds of rockets!

[Luís]

but people here have high spirit and i don't detact extrime fear or something like that.

Yes, Israeli women are very brave...

[Jaya]

Yes, Israeli women are very brave...

Luis, please stop drooling, thanks you.
and in hebrew:
Luis, tafsik leha'zil rir, toda lecha.
לואיס, תפסיק להזיל ריר, תודה לך

[Nero]

[rp]שלום Jaya. שמי רוברט.[/rp]
[rp]גם אני לומד עברית.[/rp]

[rp]
גמ אני, רוברת
אני אוהב תמונה שלך
[/rp]

(By picture I mean avatar, if that was unclear)

[MiOB]

It's רוברט, btw.
And: אני אוהב את התמונה שלך.
*את is used when the object is definite.

Also, thomas, do you know that your name is derived from Hebrew?

jaya, are you a native? tell a bit about yourself. I just know you live in Israel.

[Alcadras]

I've got a question.
How long does it take to learn alphabet,nearly?
every hebrew letters look similar,like the same to my eyes

[Nero]

It's רוברט, btw.
And: אני אוהב את התמונה שלך.
*את is used when the object is definite.

Also, thomas, do you know that your name is derived from Hebrew?

Ah, thank you Omri. I forget the "Et" alot (probably because it wouldn't seem right to my english ears to say, "I like the your picture" - a small linguistic barrier )

I've got a question.
How long does it take to learn alphabet,nearly?
every hebrew letters look similar,like the same to my eyes

נוט לונג

[MiOB]

Yep, it's certainly because of that matter. I had similar difficulties when I first started to learn german.

And stupid me! I wrote about your name, but didn't detailed.
Anyway, it's derived from the Hebrew word "תאומים" (Te'omim / tɛʔɔˈmim ), which means "Twins". So, from now on, I'll be calling you Twins.

[Nero]

[rp]
תודה עמרי. אני יודע, ביוונית שמי
"Didymus"
גם המלה "תאומ", אבל בלשונ שונה
[/rp]
[rp]
האהאהא, יש לך ב' כתיבות - אז יש לך הציון של החיה
[/rp]

By writings, I mean "forum posts" - a word that my dictionary doesn't have

[M@!]

I've got a question.
How long does it take to learn alphabet,nearly?
every hebrew letters look similar,like the same to my eyes

Depends on you! Do you want to memorize all letters first? Or learn them at the same time as you learn some basic vocabulary?
It personally took me some 4 weeks, if not more, to memorize letters, and I am not where I want to be yet. And I must confess that I don't practice my Hebrew on a daily basis, so..
In matter of hours, and to encourage you to give it a shot, I'd say 20 hours are enough to make you familiar with them, and start writing a bit. So take it as 2 hours a day, for 10 days, and see if you'll not memorize them even before. :--)

And for the rest of you, for the sake of learning Hebrew: Write bilingually, and transliterate if possible! Gee! You frustrate me sometimes!
Enough showing off!

[Alcadras]

Thanks Mariam.
I didn't understand if you encouraged me or not

Teşekkürler Mariam.
Beni cesaretlendirdin mi yoksa aksine mi anlamadım

[M@!]

Glad I explicited it then.

[Nero]

And for the rest of you, for the sake of learning Hebrew: Write bilingually, and transliterate if possible! Gee! You frustrate me sometimes!
Enough showing off! [/color]

heheh, alrighty - This was my last post

[rp]
תודה עמרי. אני יודע, ביוונית שמי
"Didymus"
גם המלה "תאומ", אבל בלשונ שונה

האהאהא, יש לך ב' כתיבות - אז יש לך הציון של החיה
[/rp]

Translation:
Thank you, Omri. I know, in Greek my name is "Didymus" - also the word "Twin", but in a different language.

Hahahaha, you have two posts, and then you have the mark of the beast (As Omri is now at 664 posts)

[Luís]

Hahahaha, you have two posts, and then you have the mark of the beast (As Omri is now at 664 posts)

Considering he's a Jew, I guess he's not very worried about such Christian superstitions

666 = 50 + 200 + 6 + 50 + 100 + 60 + 200

If we replace the numbers by the Hebrew letters of the same value we get:

נרון קסר

Nrwn Qsr = Nero Caesar =

[M@!]

heheh, alrighty - This was my last post

Todah! Now that was way better. Transliteration would also be very appreciated. I am not asking for much, am I?
And 'hahaha' in Hebrew is hilarious. I suggest that you replace it with 'nnnnnnn'.

By the way, we need to write in a bigger size when in Hebrew.

[yossi]

Just a little advice... I'm not so sure it's a good idea to transliterate words in hebrew when learning them. Wouldn't it be better to use niqqud for that purpose? Even if you don't write the exact niqqud, very few israelis can write the right niqqud of every single word. We won't be asking that from you. But transliterating would make it all more difficult since you're used to the latin script, you'll have a hard time to remember if words are written with ע א, ת ט, ש ס

This is just an opinion

Mariam, would you suggest arabic learners to use transliteration?

[Luís]

Just a little advice... I'm not so sure it's a good idea to transliterate words in hebrew when learning them. Wouldn't it be better to use niqqud for that purpose?

No!

While knowing niqqud is very useful (e.g. when you're using a dictionary), I think the transliteration-based approach is much better. It speeds up reading and will enable you to read/learn undotted Hebrew much easily and faster.

[yossi]

Okay, okay, tiraga I don't know where's the sense in reading a language or learning it in a different alphabet. It sounds a bit ridiculous to me, I don't know... But take it easy Luís, you're too aggressive lately

[Nero]

I don't have too much problem learning Hebrew using the latin alphabet, instead of having to learn a whole new set of marks (the niqqud)

[Nero]

A small question, anyone seen Omri lately?