Hebrew

This course offers an additional conversational component to the Modern Hebrew: Aleph, Intermediate Level Hebrew course. For an additional 2 hours a week the class meets and discusses, debates, and practices conversational skills in Hebrew. This course is at level Aleph, the first and elementary level out of six levels of Modern Hebrew language instruction at the Hebrew University. In this course, students acquire the foundations of the language. Hebrew classes in level Aleph are generally subdivided into Aleph Beginners (for absolute beginners), Aleph Intermediate Beginners, and Aleph Advanced Beginners (for students with basic knowledge, including the alphabet and a limited vocabulary).

This course introduces students to adapted literature and scientific works, and increases their vocabulary (with an additional 800 words), in particular with regard to the daily use of Hebrew as well as the understanding of articles written in easy Hebrew from the press and scientific journals. Students gain command of the fundamental structures of Hebrew and its basic grammatical forms. The class also consolidates and broadens the grammatical structures and vocabulary studied in level Aleph. By the end of this course, the student is familiar with the basic structure of the Hebrew language, including: comprehension: listening to the news, recorded radio programs, and lectures in easy Hebrew; conversation: conversations, discussions, and short lectures based on the passages read and heard; informal meetings with Israelis, reported on afterwards in class; reading: passages from stories and texts adapted into easy Hebrew and short newspaper articles in easy Hebrew; writing: writing structured compositions and short passages on the topics studied; and grammatical skills: syntactic consolidation and elaboration of basic structures, inflection of the strong verbs in the future tense, and frequent weak verbs.

This course is a study in intermediate practical Hebrew. It emphasizes communication, oral skills, and listening comprehension. 

This course is the first elementary level out of six levels of Modern Hebrew language instruction at the Hebrew University. In this course, students acquire the foundations of the language. Hebrew classes in level Aleph are generally subdivided into Aleph Beginners (for absolute beginners), Aleph Intermediate Beginners, and Aleph Advanced Beginners (for students with basic knowledge, including the alphabet and a limited vocabulary).

This course is intended for students with a good command of Hebrew and concentrates on the written language, in particular literature and the press. Students read the popular Israeli daily newspapers as well as Israeli literature at the appropriate level. They expand their knowledge of synonyms and the subtle differences between words, as well as of idiomatic Hebrew. Vocabularies are substantially increased, and the students can now use a Hebrew dictionary without translation into their native languages. Students view Israeli films and videotapes without subtitles. By the end of the course, the students have a good command of most verbal and syntactical structures, including exceptions to the rules.

This course is an introduction to the Hebrew language, and following the communicative approach, it make extensive use of the four language skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Likewise, it puts an emphasis on the cultural aspects of Hebrew and mainly on basic every day conversation. Topics include an introduction to Hebrew writing and pronunciation; basic conversational skills; gender and number: singular and plural feminine suffixes; verbs: conjugation, present tense, masculine and feminine, singular, plural, infinitive; sentence structure: forming a question; forming a simple sentence, using a plural verb without a pronoun, impersonal form; adjectives: singular and plural, masculine and feminine; pronouns: personal, singular, and plural demonstrative; the definite article; agreement of nouns and adjectives; telling time; negation in the present tense; and vocabulary.

This course is a study in advanced practical Hebrew. It emphasizes communication, oral skills, and listening comprehension. 

This beginning Hebrew course is designed to impart basic vocabulary and grammar for communication in a variety of essential daily-life situations in Israel. Focus is placed on comprehension: listening to short stories and recorded conversations from everyday life; conversation: simple dialogues and stories from everyday life; reading: dialogues and texts in easy Hebrew on various topics; writing: short dialogues and passages on the topics taught in class; and grammatical skills: elementary grammatical structures, inflection of the strong verb in the past and present tenses, and frequent weak verbs.