Tuesday, August 08, 2006

You Can Do Hebrew

I don't think I've mentioned it yet, but I am taking a Hebrew class starting in September. I am, to tell the truth, a little frightened. I just got my books today and, well, I can't even read them. It reminds me of my first overseas language class.

It doesn't help that the syllabus has statements like: "Remember, lots of people have studied Biblical Hebrew; they weren't all smarter than you" and "Just keep reminding yourself how fortunate you are to learn Biblical Hebrew. Not everyone has that privelege."

Anyway, I went to this site and felt a little better about it. It seemed not-so-hard and some of the insights are really interesting (I particularly liked the section on parallelism and "block logic"). Go kick around and see what you can dig up.

2 comments:

  1. It's been a month since I could visit your blog. Apparently there was a blanket block on several blogs after a terrorist attack last month. But we're back in business today.

    I figured I'd comment on this post since I took Biblical Hebrew in college. I walked into the class the first day and I was the only non-Jewish person there. Worse - they had all had at least 6 years of Hebrew already (Hebrew School) and could read and write it.

    Well, it was a long 4 years of me doing catch up. I try not to think about it.

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  2. You are really giving me a bright ray of sunshiny hope here, Rebecca!

    It is nice to know, however, that my blog is being censored in India and China.

    If I can get it censored in Canada, that would be a real trick.

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