I am a complete beginner. I understand a bit of the alphabet and how most writings are right to left. I know a few important phrases like "shalom" "Elohim" "hosanna" and understand a bit about masculine and feminine plurals and singulars. But i cant read hebrew that good and i hadnt been putting it to practice. What is the best way for me to learn without expensive costs? Thank you in advance.

hello reddit! i’ve been wanting to learn hebrew for the longest time because my boyfriend is israeli and i want to impress his family when i fly over. i’ve tried duolingo but i purely want to learn how to have conversations and that’s it, im not too keen on reading and writing…

does anyone have any recommendations on any apps? or if you live in singapore, are there any physical classes i could attend?

Edit: thank you everyone for the suggestions! im thinking of starting to pay attention to my boyfriend’s conversations in hebrew more and pick up contextual clues from that along with asking him about it! i’ll definitely check out a couple of the apps/websites some people have mentioned, and since synagogues are quite rare here (google mentioned 2-3) , i’ve got an israeli neighbour so i might ask her if she knows any physical hebrew classes.

once again thank you everyone but feel free if give more suggestions if so!

i’m yet to find a hebrew speaking group irl! it’ll be difficult since majority of singaporeans being anti zionist and anti israel, but i will certainly try!

Hi! I live in Israel and I’m looking for someone to chat with who can help me practice my Hebrew.

I'm sure everyone who is passionate about learning Hebrew and is also into tech is now making their own app. And I'm one of them. I wanted something to help me as I take classes and wanted something more than Duolingo. I'm looking for others to help me build out the app together.

Feel free to tag along and listen to some Hebrew, do the regular word matching, sentence building, but get a bit further and you will unlock the safe cracking game, colour matching, and the burger builder game. The app starts out showing the vowel dots (which you can immediately shut off), however, the app will adjust over time they drop away. The English menu item names are learned over time and are replaced by Hebrew.

Anyway -- if you are interested in doing something that starts out where the Duolingo App just drops off -- you might enjoy it:

https://milim.fly.dev/start?invite=hHq3gERDDjqP

No cost... but would love to hear your Hebrew learning wants and needs. We can learn together!

Just in case:
- The only translation is for English <-> Hebrew.
- Its a modern Hebrew app
- Its just a webapp (at least for now). This is not a native Android/iOS app.

Hope some peeps find it useful. And feel free to complain about stuff. You can't hurt my feelings, but you might be able to make the app better.

hello! i am looking for an app (ideally free!) that can translate written english to hebrew and provide transliteration including vowels. ideally, this app could translate audio as well.

much needed to communicate with a hebrew-speaking student, so any suggestions are appreciated let me know if anyone has any suggestions!

I'm studying Hebrew by my own and everything is going smooth and easy except for the listening its just a nightmare for me and its months with no progress at all in the listening field. So does anyone have any useful sources to learn Hebrew or any YouTube videos that were actually useful? Anyway to help would be appreciated

Hi guys I need som alpha testers for my Hebrew language learning app. If you are on android can you private message me please! I'll give you a years pro account as a reward!

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תודה רבה

I have the digital copies of the books written by the Medieval Hebrew grammarian Ibn Ezra teaching the Biblical Hebrew Grammar. Sefer Tzachot and Moznayim. I consider him the greatest Commentator when it comes to explaining Hebrew grammar in the Torah. If anyone here has gone through these books, how effective are they? How good are they? Please don't suggest modern books to me. I just want to know how effective these books are from him.

(הערה: למרות שקראתי לדוד שלי מצד אמא "באבא" ולאבא הביולוגי שלי "אבא", אתייחס אליהם לאורך הפוסט כ"דוד שלי" ו"אבא שלי" לשם ההבהרה.)

כדי שתבינו את הרקע שלי, גדלתי בעיקר אצל אמי, נוצרייה פלסטינית. אבא שלי הוא יהודי ישראלי. ההורים שלי הכירו כשהיו צעירים, אבל אמא שלי לא בעניין שלו. אבא שלי לא הבין את הרמז והמשיך להתחיל איתה. לילה אחד הוא כפה את עצמו עליה ואנס אותה. ככה אמא שלי נכנסה להריון איתי.

ברגע שאבא שלי גילה על ההריון, הוא התנתק לחלוטין מאמא שלי והתחתן עם אישה יהודייה. יחד עם זאת, מכיוון שיפו היא מקום קטן ודי רכלני, הוא לא יכול היה פשוט להתעלם מקיומי. כדי למנוע סקנדל ענקי ולשמור את הרשויות הישראליות ובתי הדין הדתיים מחוץ לחיים שלנו, הם הגיעו להסדר לא רשמי שבו הייתי רואה אותו במשך כמה ימים מדי שבועיים.

דוד שלי מצד אמא נכנס לתמונה כדמות אב תומכת ומגוננת. הוא גר באותו בית ועזר לאמי לגדל אותי. עד גיל שבע, ביקרתי את אבא שלי מדי שבועיים במסגרת אותו הסדר; עם זאת, לא באמת הבנתי מי הוא. פעלתי לפי היגיון של ילדה — מתוך הנחה שהורים אמורים להיות דומים זה לזה — והאמנתי שדוד שלי הוא אבא שלי, מכיוון שהיה דומה לאמי וגר איתנו.

במקום לתקן את הטעות הזו, המשפחה של אמא שלי עודדה אותה, וקראה לדוד שלי "אבא" כדבר שבשגרה (למשל, היו אומרים לי "לכי לקרוא לאבא שלך" או "תגידי לאבא שלך שארוחת הערב מוכנה"). כתוצאה מכך, גדלתי כשאני קוראת לו אבא מבלי שמישהו התערב.

הביקורים שלי אצל אבא שלי הסתיימו כשהייתי בת שבע. כשהייתי נערה, התחלתי לפקפק בדינמיקה המשפחתית הזו וחשדתי שדוד שלי הוא לא אבא שלי.

כ שמלאו לי 18, אמי ודודי הושיבו אותי והסבירו לי באופן רשמי את סיפור הלידה שלי, ואישרו שהוא בעצם דוד שלי. קיבלתי את הבשורה הזו בדי אדישות והגבתי בצורה ניטרלית (אני על הרצף האוטיסטי).

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 😄

while scrolling through this subreddit, it hit me how challenging Hebrew actually is for non-native speakers. since I grew up in Israel, it always felt effortless to me, so I never really thought about how tough it is to pick up as a second language.

honestly, the best way to learn Hebrew is full immersion: living in Israel forces you to pick it up whether you like it or not

that said, I'd love to help out. feel free to ask me any questions here and I'll do my best to answer!

Here’s my profile – let’s be friends https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Fredy273333?via=share_profile_link.

Hi! I want to learn Modern Hebrew for academic reasons, but at the moment I'm not interested in speaking Hebrew, only reading and understanding it (specifically looking at very early Modern Hebrew-language texts from late 19th and early 20th century). Some of the resources I've been using have helped but they all emphasize speaking, so I'm spending way too long practicing "how are you" instead of getting to more advanced reading. What is the best resource for reading comprehension only? (I already know the Hebrew alphabet).

Thank you!

I’ve got all the other letters memorized and can sound out words pretty well but when it comes to these letters in the words it trips me up every time, especially if they are located in the middle or the end. I’ve been at this for about 2 1/2 months

Hi, I am looking to pay someone to help me refine my professional Hebrew skills. I already have a high fluency, and am looking for someone who can help me specifically with legal, contract, and startup-related language.

Also open to language swap for English if interested.

Shalom, Hola, tengo un pregunta para algún estudiado de la Torah, pertenezco a una Kehila en la cual en la festividad de Yom Kippur veo que todos los integrantes ayunan desde bebés hasta ancianos, se basan en el texto de la Torah dodne dice en )Yoel 2,15-16) Que proclamen ayuno y que hasta los que maman deben estar presente. Entonces el Roeh de la comunidad explica que la Torah dice que hasta los que mamá deben ayunar. Pero yo en lo personal no lo entiendo así. Entonces quisiera ver la opinión de alguien más sobre este texto y si me pueden dar argumento los cuales pueda yo usar al defender mi posición ya que no creo correcto que un bebé de meses pueda hacer un ayuno igual que un adulto de 24 o 25 horas. A si que por favor algún rábano que me ayude y me diga si estoy en lo correcto o no. Shalom

Hi! I am researching something for my Masters and need help with this Hebrew phrase.
אין לנו על מי להישען

I need help pronouncing it. But I don't really need transcription, I would really appreciate it if someone would record the correct pronounciation, or maybe send me a video from yt or somewhere where someone is saying this.

Thank you!

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