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how to start learning Hebrew? i have no basics in Hebrew at all.

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mynameiszhuli profile picture mynameiszhuliDecember 2012
At first you might need someone to help you if you don't understand the text. After a while maybe some weeks, you can learn all on your own. For me, I studied Ancient Hebrew for a month or so and felt boring and switched to Modern Hebrew. And nobody taught me, I studied all alone.
אני בטוח שאתה יכול ללמוד עברית כמו אני. זה קל מעוד עם עברית מן ההתחלה. ואתה יכול לדבר עם אנשים מישראל וכול העולם בעברית.
mynameiszhuli profile picture mynameiszhuliDecember 2012

Hebrew is a easy foreign language i think. Maybe it's because it is the second foreign language I study. English is my first foreign language.

I suppose that  you want to learn Modern Hebrew. It's almost the same with Ancient Hebrew. And it is far more easier to learn because you could learn it from videos and songs exc.

Get a copy of Hebrew from Scratch, Part I and Part II, with CDs, though a little bit expensive.

I've managed to study Hebrew alone for 9 months, and everything goes ok. I could read easy Hebrew fast and can speak a little.

זה לא קשה. אם אתה רוצה, אתה תצליח ללמוד עברית

AmitBeck profile picture AmitBeckDecember 2012
Hebrew is a hard language.
It's a little like every other language, there has to be 2 things in a sentence - a subject and a verb.
First of all - the alphabet in Hebrew:
א (called Alef) is like A or E (except for few conditions).
ב (called Bet) is like B or V (depends if it has a little dot inside it or not - with the dot it's B, without it it's V).
ג (called Gimmel) is like G, and with a ' after it it's like J.
ד (called Dallet) is like D.
ה (called Hei) is like H.
ו (called Vav) is like O or U, but when written twice it is like V.
ז (called Zain) is like Z.
ח (called Khet, Chet or Het) is like H when you say 'hummus'.
ט (called Tet) is like T.
י (called Yud or Yood) is like Y or I.
כ (called Kaf) is like K or C (when it's not a C like in 'prince' but a C like in 'cup'). It can also be like H in 'hummus' when there's no little dot inside it.
ל (called Lammed) is like L.
מ (called Mem) is like M.
נ (called Nun or Noon) is like N.
ס (called Sammekh, Sammech or Sammeh) is like S.
ע (called Ain) is like A or E, it's pretty much like א (Alef) but when it's in the end of a word with a י (Yud/Yood) or a ו (Vav) before it, it's like 'Uah'.
פ (called Pei) is like P or F. Like ב (Bet) it depends if there's the little dot inside it - if it is inside it's like P, if it's not it's like F.
צ (called Tzadi or Tsadi) is like Tz or Ts (or like Zz in Pizza).
ק (called Kuf) is like K or C in 'cup'.
ר (called Reish) is like R - more R than English but less R than Spanish/Russian/Arabic.
ש (called Shin) is like Sh or S, depends if the dot on top is on the right side (Sh) or the left side (S).
ת (called Tav or Taf) is like T.

Now, in Hebrew, there are 'ending letters'. If כ (Kaf), מ (Mem), נ (Nun), פ (Pei) or צ (Tzadi) are in the ending of a word, they will be written like this:
כ (Kaf) - ך
מ (Mem) - ם
נ (Nun) - ן
פ (Pei) - ף
צ (Tzadi) - ץ

And that's the alphabet!