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I had already taught myself the aleph bet just from various free websites. gotta figure out what will work for you. Some sounds/letters were easier for me to learn than others, so, I would have liked to be able to just repeat those exercises ALONE.For the money, I would have prefered a disk that I insert into my laptop that is interactive; I could press play when I was ready to begin an exercise and the narrator could also begin. and maybe if it had cost me $10, I wouldn't bother to write a review that is essentially complaining, because I don't like using it, so, for me it is ineffective waste of money.
I bought this set hoping that I would begin to READ, not slowly sound out words. But consider this: I bought Rosetta Stone and hated it while many people love it. The speakers are native English speakers and they do enunciate each word clearly. but Pimsleurs was highly effective for me. I can read the English instructions myself. Effective.
Easy to use.It works, but it was WORK to make myself sit there and listen/read through the Lessons with the speakers monotonous voices. So, it was annoying when I wanted to repeat an exercise, but in order to do so, I had to start at the beginning of a lesson, which involved having to re-listen to all the English narratives again and again. I've managed to listen/read through this set in its entirety ONCE - I am STILL slowly sounding out words. Differnt styles. Okay, so you have a little booklet, and you insert your CD and the speaker reads directions in English, then enunciates the Hebrew sounds aloud while you follow along. What I really disliked is that the narrators read every little English instruction, note, etc.
I know that this product has received a lot of good reviews, so obviously most people like the product.
At later times, I would find out that the actual pronunciation of some words were different than how I had thought them to sound while learning them - the point being though, I was now able to make real sense of real letters or words and also to read and write them out. But this is a real start at learning to read and write Hebrew. If I had a word which I wanted to learn presented somewhere, I used to try hard to memorize the "pictures" the word makes, to be able to recognize it later on - and was almost convinced anyone who could actually read the letters of that or any Hebrew word must have been endowed with very extraordinary and special abilities. Barely half-way through, I was able to read and pronounce real Hebrew words. For someone just beginning to learn Hebrew, I most highly recommend it. The book is beautifully done and easy to follow.
After just some chapters in this book, I could already discern various word settings and my overall feel for the language was greatly improved.As presented in this very neat book, I believe anyone can be up and running much more steadily in a short period of time. Amazing little book. Of course, the language vocabulary in itself has to be learned separately. In times past, I used to look at the Hebrew alphabets in despair, wondering how and if I was ever going to understand the language.
The book goes step by step over Hebrew alphabet and presents the exercises in the easy to memorize methodology.Included CDs provided additional but neccessary phonetical material.Very easy to follow instructions make the learning fun.
I have used it as complimentary to audio tapes and have found it very helpful. This book is great for those beginning to learn Hebrew. The book is easy to understand and provides many interactive examples that make learning more effective.
Included in the book and CD set are three audio compact discs covering most of the written material chapter by chapter. Please note that the set is not geared for translating Hebrew or memorizing conversational Hebrew phrases and sentences. Unfortunately, important information is missing. Brief meanings of certain Hebrew words are given at the end of most chapters. However, many Israelis pronounce both vowels in the same way but with different sound lengths.
Each chapter in the booklet has basic information on how to pronounce and write Hebrew letters. For additional information, the back cover foldout organizes in chart form the pronunciations, letter names, and written forms of the consonants and vowels as well as the numeric values associated with each consonant. With a competent tutor, the revised edition of "Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew" Book and CD Set is a recommended resource that enables students to read and write Hebrew without being bogged down with unnecessary technical information. That is why it is advantageous to have a tutor who knows Hebrew to fine tune the material being taught from the booklet and compact disc. A Ukrainian-Jewish scholar is tutoring a small group of English-speaking preteens and adults to read Biblical Hebrew with "Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew" as the required textbook.
Answers are provided for certain exercises in the back of the booklet. For example, in "Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew", the vowels Tsere and Segol are pronounced differently.
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