By Charles Halton on Thursday, 9 October 2008 at 7:04 pm

I prepared a one-page guide that I pass out to my first semester biblical Hebrew classes entitled “How to Learn Hebrew.”  A friend of mine suggested that I make it available on the blog, so here it is.  If it is helpful to you feel free to use it or adapt it.

How to Learn Hebrew.pdf

Update: Tim Bulkeley pointed me to a very helpful and free electronic resource for learning biblical Hebrew vocabulary.


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Comment by Tim Bulkeley

Made Thursday, 9 of October , 2008 at 7:58 pm

Charles,

For the vocab learning (which you stress) perhaps the richer medium of http://cfdl.auckland.ac.nz/hebrew/ דָּבָר Biblical Hebrew Vocabularies might help students, it is not hard to generate the vocab lists you need for particular weeks of the course you are using…

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Comment by Charles Halton

Made Thursday, 9 of October , 2008 at 8:42 pm

Thanks Tim, I was not familiar with this resource but it will be very helpful.

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Comment by Tim Bulkeley

Made Friday, 10 of October , 2008 at 1:10 am

You need to get a login (free and nearly instant) to select and download vocabularies for your class. Then you can put them on a web server or CD or memory stick… or download the “flashcard” format to print and fold so students can test thenselves after learning the words.

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