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At Home with Hebrew - Read and Pronounce Hebrew Letters
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At Home with Hebrew - Read and Pronounce Hebrew Letters

Learn Hebrew Alphabet/Letters Pronunciation
Created byNeal Walters
Last updated 1/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to correctly read aloud any Hebrew text
  • Overcome obstacles with current reading/pronouncing abilities
  • Learn all the Nikudot - the vowels, dots, symbols above and below the letters
  • Prepares you for Modern or Biblical Hebrew Courses

Course content

14 sections • 22 lectures • 6h 45m total length

  • Course Introduction18:34

    Learn to read and pronounce Hebrew letters over fourteen lessons, with two letters per lesson, exploring vowels, niqqud, cantillation, fonts from book style to Ash'arite, and transliteration concepts.

  • Introduction to Hebrew and PDF Download0:04
  • Introduction to the Jewish Side of Hebrew21:22

    Discover the Jewish side of Hebrew by exploring letter numerals, the tetragrammaton, and how Torah scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzah are written, stored, and read in synagogues.

  • Reading Lesson 1 - Alef and Bet4:51

    Learn aleph and bet, where bet sounds b or v with or without a dagesh dot, while aleph stays silent. Study basic vowels patak and segol and read right-to-left.

  • Reading Lesson 1 - Alef and Bet

Requirements

  • None, this starts you out at the very beginner level.

Description

13 Lessons take you from Aleph to Tav (A to Z).  Each lesson is roughly 20 minutes.

After that, I take you through three Biblical passages for practice.


Do you want to learn to read Biblical or Modern Hebrew?  The first step is learning the how to pronounce the letters.  Hebrew has 22 letters, of which 5 have two forms.    This course teaches you just two letters per lesson over a series of 13 lessons.   I have taught this course one-on-one for many years, and now I made a video version of the course.  You get the PDF file to download and print if you desire to study or review off-line.


Idea for: 
   1) Jews or Christians who want to learn Hebrew from the very beginning

   2)  Bar Mitzvah Students

   3) College students taking a Hebrew college course where they expect you to know the entire alphabet the first week


In the videos, after a new letter or concept is taught, then you are given time to practice a line of Hebrew, then that line is read to you, so you can check yourself.   You only learn if you try to do it on your own first. 

The first lesson is so easy, only two letters and one of them is silent.  Then lesson two adds two more lessons, and so on.  The vowel sounds are introduced in the first 3 lessons.  After that, you learn just two more consonants. 

Be sure and TRY Lesson 1 (the letters ALEF and BET) in the FREE PREVIEW!

NOTE: This course only teaches pronunciation, so there is no vocabulary to learn.  We will save that for a future course, once you can pronounce the letters.

Most courses don't have the number of drills or practices that this course has.   We will spend about 20 to 30 minutes together on each pair of letters, making sure that you master them. 

After learning all the letters, the course shows three Biblical passages from the traditional "Shema" (Hear Oh Israel, the Lord Your God, The Lord is One).   We also look at Genesis 22, Genesis 1, and show online resources to help you with your future studies.


Expert teacher, taught by Neal Walters, Master of Arts in Jewish Studies from Hebrew College (Boston) in 2013, and student of Web Yeshiva.

The course includes a lesson on how Hebrew is used in Judaism, including mezuzot, tefillin (phylacteries) and Torah scrolls.




Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to know how to read and pronounce any Hebrew text.

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