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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2018-07-16, 20:14

I decided to do the exercises. I'll include the solution surrounded by spoil tags in case anyone else is interested in trying them out later or something. I'm skipping Exercise 3 because I have no idea what they're looking for there.
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eskandar wrote:For example, it teaches me'áyin atah? "where are you from?" which is appropriate for writing, but in speech people say me-éyfo instead.

Well, it does at least mention the latter, too, but I was wondering what the difference was. Now I know! Thanks! :D
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby Antea » 2018-07-26, 13:19

Lesson 47. I am going very slowly. I don’t know what to do to make the language more alive for me. :hmm:
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby Luís » 2018-07-26, 18:13

I'm on "summer mode", haven't really done much lately... :para:
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby księżycowy » 2018-07-26, 18:16

I think that's the general mode of the forum. :P
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby Luís » 2018-07-26, 18:17

Not if you live in the southern hemisphere, I guess... :P
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby księżycowy » 2018-07-26, 18:20

Very true.

I'd hate to make assumptions, but I get the general impression that aside from our few Brazilian and Australian friends, the vast majority of us don't.
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby Antea » 2018-07-26, 19:16

Obviously, not understanding a lot (just a couple of words, here and there), but trying :roll:
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2018-07-31, 4:58

księżycowy wrote:I think that's the general mode of the forum. :P

I'm not on summer mode or anything; I just got sidetracked last week.

So should I (try to) keep doing this thing I've been doing of posting one chapter a week each of Biblical and Modern Hebrew? Does anybody find this helpful?
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby Antea » 2018-07-31, 6:21

I don't know. I am still following the book, but I am not doing the exercises. I am just trying to remember the vocabulary, which is already quite difficult :hmm:
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2018-07-31, 6:42

In that case, maybe it might be more productive to talk about what specific vocabulary you're having trouble learning, and then maybe I can see whether I can try to help you with that? :)
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby Antea » 2018-07-31, 7:35

It’s more an internal process, you know. Because I am still at a beginner level I need some time to acquire and recognise the words when I listen to them. For the moment I am learning the grammar basis and some basic vocabulary. But the biggest work is actually trying to understand the language when I listen to it. I suppose it’s still too early :hmm:
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby Luís » 2018-07-31, 7:54

I've been adding all the words in the book to an Anki deck. I have around 1,300 cards at the moment. But I've been going through the lessons at a much slower place than you, so memorization isn't that hard.The most difficult thing about Hebrew for me is the verb system.
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby Antea » 2018-07-31, 8:30

For me, conjugation of verbs is kind of alike to Arabic. To remember the different tenses I say: Present tense is the radical with the terminations, past tense is similar to Arabic past tense, and futur is similar to Arabic present tense.
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby Luís » 2018-07-31, 20:46

Only one lesson left... :yeah!:
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2018-08-02, 0:36

Congratulations! :)

Antea, do you by any chance find it helpful to look up the etymologies of words? Or maybe it's just a matter of going slower; I noticed that Chapter 2 of Colloquial Hebrew doesn't include all that much vocabulary I'm unfamiliar with, so that's helpful. :P
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2018-08-06, 20:48

I decided to go ahead and do Chapter 3 of Colloquial Hebrew, too (I haven't checked my answers too carefully):
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby Antea » 2018-08-07, 14:56

Lesson 51, every time more difficult.
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby eskandar » 2018-08-09, 19:49

Halfway through Pimsleur Hebrew III! It seems to teach a lot of things that turn out to be outdated (or sometimes even just incorrect) but I'm sticking with it since it's also really good for getting pronunciation and intonation right.
Please correct my mistakes in any language.
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby Luís » 2018-08-11, 12:54

I finished Assimil Hebrew, at last! :yeah!:

Next step: Colloquial Hebrew
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Re: Modern Hebrew Study Group

Postby vijayjohn » 2018-08-14, 5:19

Congratulations! :)

OK, at this point, I don't think I'm even going to bother checking my answers for the exercises anymore. I'm finding that I keep making too many minor mistakes with Hebrew, and checking them later takes way too much time. The same goes for the Biblical Hebrew exercises I've been doing.

Anyway, here are my answers for Chapter 4:
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