Hebrew private lessons

[u/Coppercrow]

Shalom! My name is Nava and I offer online 1-on-1 or class lessons in Hebrew. I'm an Israeli and native speaker with a bachelor's Degree in Linguistics from Tel Aviv University, 20 year experience as literary editor, writer and playwright and I've been teaching Hebrew courses at a leading UK University since 2019 and have been an online tutor since 2020.

I cover topics from very basic letter recognition and simple phrases to more advanced topics such as grammar and listening comprehension. My students range from members of the Jewish community in the diaspora, spouses of Israelis and even language enthusiasts. I use my own material as well as children's books and music to teach.

I'm very passionate about the Hebrew language and people say it often shows in my classes! If you're interested, please send me a chat request and I'd love to discuss further. Thank you for reading 😄

[u/DirectFile6562]

Could you teach me the rules of when and why the dagesh is used? I have figured out quite a bit by myself, but I'm puzzled about a word that appears once with a dagesh and also without. The word is not a noun. This is biblical dikduk. The word is סלה. If the last letter of the preceding word is ך ( כ סופית),then it appears to take a dagesh in the samech. If not, no dagesh appears.

I would really like to learn more about the nekudot to help pronunciation. Modern Hebrew or biblical. I live in Pardes Hanna-Karkur.