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Hebrew private lessons

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 :)

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u/Coppercrow — 3 days ago
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How accurate are the following translations?

Could anyone help with assessing the accuracy of Google's AI at Modern Hebrew?

Some links are pasted below with the 3 different versions of their AI, from least to most intelligent.

Thank you.

Gemini Lite results here

Gemini Flash results here

Gemini Pro results here

u/cmredd — 7 days ago
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2 things I'm noticing as my kids move from Hebrew letter recognition to writing

I'm a speech-language pathologist, and right now I have one kid at the "recognizing letters" stage and another at the "trying to write them" stage. They've been playing with the same Hebrew puzzle on the same kitchen table, doing two completely different developmental things on the same set of letters. A couple of patterns worth sharing:

1. The leap from recognition to writing isn't about a pencil. It's about directionality.

My 5-year-old already knows ב from כ. That battle was won a year ago. What he's working on now is the order the strokes go in. Hebrew runs right to left, and that has to be re-taught to a kid who's been writing English left to right at preschool. Tracing letters with a finger in the right stroke order, before holding a pencil, has done more for his Hebrew handwriting than any worksheet.

2. Younger kids learn the shape of ה before they learn its name, and that's fine.

My younger one isn't naming letters yet. She just likes that ה has that little gap in the corner. That's not nothing. That's visual discrimination, which is the actual foundation of reading. Adults rush to "what's this letter?" too fast. The kids who'll read fluently are usually the ones who got to touch the letters first.

I wrote a deeper dive on the blog: graphemic awareness (מודעות גרפמית), pre-writing motor planning, and how to set this up with whatever Hebrew toys you already have at home - https://www.speakyti.com/blogs/resources/why-the-hebrew-wooden-puzzle-grows-with-your-child

What's worked for the parents here who've taken kids from "recognizing letters" to actually "writing them"?

u/HumbleDraw8 — 8 days ago
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Dreamt of a symbol I have never seen.

I dreamt of this symbol, I feel as though it may be hebrew. Can someone help me find out what it is and means please?

u/Intelligent-Base6224 — 8 days ago
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any native hebrew speakers who could help me learn the language?

hi, so i really don’t know if i’m going to get a reply, but i figured i might give it a try. i’m 16, fluent in russian and english, and i follow politics closely (kind of a weird hobby of mine), and i decided i wanted to learn hebrew a couple of months ago because i’m into judaism & israel.

i basically need you to be on any social media so i could hit you up if i had a question, or you could give me some advice. it doesn’t matter whether you’re an israeli or an american / european jew. i just need you to be fluent in hebrew & english to make sure we understand each other, and we could become friends eventually, or not, if you’d choose not to. i could also teach you russian if you wanted to.

i also don’t mind finding someone who’s into the same stuff as me (even if you can’t teach me) because it’s pretty niche among people my age 😭

honestly, i don’t expect much, but i just thought maybe there’s someone out there with a bit of free time and a desire to teach.

so if you’re any of the above, let me know and i’ll contact you. and if not, have a nice day anyway 🥸

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u/Vegetable_Town7672 — 12 days ago
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Keyboard / font / layout

Brand new learner here. I've installed the SBL Biblical Hebrew font with the SIL layout on my Mac. It seems to be working just fine.

Can anyone suggest if you have other opinions for Biblical Hebrew fonts?

One thing that puzzles me is that in my interactions with ChatGPT, it is using a different font than what I have installed. So I'm not sure how ChatGPT is doing that within Safari on my Mac?

Anyway, I think I heard of something called Keyman? Open to suggestions since I'm just starting out.

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u/Marauders-1982 — 14 days ago