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Its OK. It is not easy as one might suspect, but if you study it diligently, you will learn. However, you need to be able to read and write hebrew before you start.
This book is very popular with the Hebrew students. Amazing how our classes have been looking for a book like this and finally the Third Edition was printed. It is moderately easy and comprehensible and with the deepest of one's heart desire we are studying the Hebrew Prayers. Hopefully, someone is working on BOOK TWO, let's go deeper into the study of the Hebrew prayer.
I am using this book in a classroom setting, so it makes it easier with a teachers instruction. I find it very benificial. I like that it has an answer key in the back, so you can check the exercise parts, and a glossery at the end with the sing, and plur. forms.Highly recommended for classroom use.
After you have a cursory understanding of the Hebrew alphabet and language, this book takes the motivated student a step further in to the world of Hebrew prayer. A wonderful resource, great material.
If you do a search, you should be able to find a few of these.I also agree with the other reviewer that this book could be better if there were some cassette tapes or CD's to go with it. This book does not use cumbersome latin terminology for parts of speech and grammar, and this book does not assume any previous knowledge of Hebrew, with the exception of undestanding the Hebrew alphabet, pointed vowels, and their associated pronunciations. This is a good book to begin your study of Biblical/Poetic Hebrew. Part of learning a language is hearing a language spoken, as well as trying to speak it yourself. Thus, this book is easy to use for anyone who knows the Hebrew alphabet, and can pronounce Hebrew words, but doesn't know what those words mean. If you do not know the Hebrew alphabet with the associated vowels, then I recommend learning them from an online website that gives free tutorials and lessons in the Hebrew Alphabet. They don't call a language a "tongue" for nothing.
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