r/LearnHebrew • • 12h ago

How to learn Hebrew language with books and videos?

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Hello to everybody, i wanted to ask you about how how to learn hebrew language with hebrew content. As it os written from right to left, i asked myself if it would be better to write the word for word decodings (birkenbihl decodings) in the same order. For example instead and-to-you we may write you-to-and. Or is this then more confusing..... what do you think as hebrew learners?

By the way this is the way i like to learn languages. The app on the picture i build for myself. Its name is flowlingua. Its based on some studies about cognitive load and other topics....

Seeing forward to your comments and suggestions.


r/LearnHebrew • • 17h ago

Etymology of אממה

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Is there anyone here who can find the etymology of the slangy word אממה, in the sense of "however"?

The Hebrew Wiktionary says that it's Arabic and even gives the specific words, and it may be true, but I'd love ot read it in a more reliable source. I searched for "أَمَّا مَا", which it suggests, and couldn't find anything clear. Maybe I didn't search well.

milononline.net also says "Arabic", but doesn't give any details.

It's quite possible that Rosenthal's Slang Dictionary includes it, but I don't have it where I am now.

If anyone has another reliable source, I'd be happy to learn it.

Thanks!


r/LearnHebrew • • 21h ago

AITA for gaslighting my entire political campaign into thinking l'natzeach et ha-bechirot is peak alpha synergy?

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r/LearnHebrew • • 1d ago

Samsung Keyboard Hebrew

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I have a Samsung S25 Fe and just updated my UI to 9.0.

After the update my Hebrew characters changed style to the point where I can barely distinguish certain letters like חת. Mim now looks like this מּ. I've been learning Duolingo Hebrew for 2 years, lol.

Anyway to get the standard style of Hebrew letters back?

I have attached a photo of my keyboard.

תודה


r/LearnHebrew • • 1d ago

Hebrew Teach Yourself Collection (nine books one PDF)

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Collection of classics Hebrew language learning including old Hebrew 9 books merged in one PDF. Public domain.


r/LearnHebrew • • 2d ago

Milim - Two Weeks Later

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Two weeks ago I shared Milim, a free app for picking up Hebrew where Duolingo leaves off. I'm a learner too, and this is my way of giving something back: no ads, no paywall, just Hebrew.

If you like to be critical and tell me what you like or don't -- I literally make the changes to hopefully satisfy the comment. So by having more people join along I get to improve my own learning. Currently its a web app that you can use on your computer or on your phone through a browser.

Here's what's new:

- Scenes. Master a story and watch a stylized video of two characters acting part of it out in Hebrew. Then you answer five questions about what they said and what you can see. You can't guess; you have to understand it.

- 29 stories now, all voiced: ordering at a cafe, the seasons, game day, moving day, a whole story about את, and more.

- New games built from the words you're learning: a crossword, a birthday-cake age game, the classic listen to a sentence and rebuild it from a selection of words, identify nouns spoken, written, or as pictures.

- A path you can see: every story and game is a little picture, and the app's own buttons turn into Hebrew as you learn them. I've added some trophies to earn and surprise unlocks.

- No invite needed, and every game has a quick "Show me" tutorial.

I'm trying to make it better every day and think I'm getting closer to now organizing the layout and a bit more -- and soon will hopefully be able to balance the difficulty level. You can tap a flag on any screen to make a report and I'll see exactly what you saw. I read every report, and if yours changes the app, you get a trophy for it.

Tried it before? There's lots new. Haven't yet? I'd love it if you gave it a try.

https://milim.fly.dev/start


r/LearnHebrew • • 2d ago

Cheat sheet: the Hebrew present tense is just four endings

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The present tense is simpler than it looks. Every verb has four forms, and the one you use depends on who's doing the action, not on the pronoun:

  • masculine singular: medaber (speaks, is speaking)
  • feminine singular: medaberet
  • masculine or mixed plural: medabrim
  • feminine plural: medabrot

So ani medaber is "I speak" said by a man, ani medaberet said by a woman, and anachnu medabrim is "we speak."

The same pattern covers most everyday verbs:

  • lomed / lomedet / lomdim / lomdot (learn)
  • rotze / rotza / rotzim / rotzot (want)
  • holech / holechet / holchim / holchot (go)
  • yodea / yoda'at / yod'im / yod'ot (know)

Learn these and you can already say a lot. If there's a verb you keep mixing up, drop it below.


r/LearnHebrew • • 5d ago

any recommended Hebrew courses in Zurich ?

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r/LearnHebrew • • 6d ago

Identify hebrew words (or song title)

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Ive been trying to figure out which words in hebrew this song is singing, - any help? (eventually want to find the song) https://www.instagram.com/reels/audio/28286886677663821/
(shazam, AI, etc no help)


r/LearnHebrew • • 7d ago

Question

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Hi my first in hebrew. Can you read what I've written?


r/LearnHebrew • • 7d ago

Unpopular opinion: Duolingo is completely useless if you actually want to speak a language.

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r/LearnHebrew • • 8d ago

חברה מספרת לכם שהיא בהיריון - איך תענו לה בעברית?

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r/LearnHebrew • • 11d ago

Can I take the official Ulpan final exam early without completing the full course?

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r/LearnHebrew • • 12d ago

Hi! Thanks for reaching out. I am a native speaker and an experienced Amharic and Ge'ez tutor. I customize my lessons based on your goals—whether you want to practice conversational Amharic, read/write the script, or study ancient Ge'ez texts. We can do a quick

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r/LearnHebrew • • 13d ago

Is there a way i can learn hebrew to understand the old testament?

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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.


r/LearnHebrew • • 14d ago

i want to learn conversational hebrew but i don’t know where to start

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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!


r/LearnHebrew • • 15d ago

Can someone that reads Hebrew verify what this says? Not using Ai.

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r/LearnHebrew • • 16d ago

Offering: Russian Native, English, German | Seeking: Hebrew

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


r/LearnHebrew • • 16d ago

Milim - Another Hebrew Learning App

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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.


r/LearnHebrew • • 17d ago

english to hebrew translation app that includes simple transliteration?

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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!


r/LearnHebrew • • 17d ago

Adom

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r/LearnHebrew • • 19d ago

Fun fact: Ancient Hebrew didn’t have spaces or punctuation. People just read continuous walls of consonants.

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r/LearnHebrew • • 19d ago

A struggle in studying hebrew

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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


r/LearnHebrew • • 19d ago

Alpha testers for new app needed! (reward below 😉)

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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!

It's already out as a website at learnlilmod.com if you want to try it out already!

תודה רבה


r/LearnHebrew • • 19d ago

Ibn Ezra and Biblical Hebrew

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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.