A Sample Lesson from our "Living Biblical Hebrew" Course
Below is a condensed sample lesson to show how the system of "Living Biblical Hebrew" is able to work, using Biblical Hebrew itself to teach Hebrew.
You
will need a sound card and RealMedia Basic or RealMedia
Player installed to listen to the sample lesson below. To test whether
you your computer is already capable of playing the sound files you can
click on our friend to the right.
If your computer is currently sufficiently configured you will hear a
the Hebrew word for "man". If not, you can download a free copy
of RealMedia Basic by clicking this link and following the instructions:
download
Real Media
Please note: This mini-demo is provided at a lower quality than
the actual CDs used with Volume one. Earphones and CDs are much clearer.
Also, the condensed format does not provide for the easy development that
takes place in the full lessons. However, it would seem good to give an
idea over the internet of how this system is able to work so well. Your
feedback through email
on this demo is welcome.
Instructions for the sample lesson:
1.
Click on the pictures below and listen to the Hebrew
description as it is spoken twice.
Just listen without repeating anything.
2.
Assume that the jumble of new sounds is an appropriate statement for the picture.
The picture is refering to "a part"
of the meaning of what is being spoken.
3. You may click the same picture one more time before going on to the next picture. This is an accomodation to the internet to save downloading more pictures and voice descriptions. (In the full course, a picture lesson will run on a continuous audio CD track that does not need interaction and continues for 100-picture lessons.)
4.
Continue through all 15 pictures without stoping to ask questions about
any one picture. You are
not expected to understand every detail at the beginning
but are only expected to perceive an approximate, general
meaning. Words and structures in a language require many pictures and
sayings in different situations before the precise Hebrew
meanings and relationships becomes
clear. The
full program is easy, intuitive and fun, and it comes with CD quality.
The CDs are audio
CDs that will work with any CD player, whether 'walkman'
type, fixed player, or part of a computer
setup. The student listens to the CDs while looking
at the book. With this approach the meanings
are being painted and overlayed inside a student so
that they begin to experience what it means to
relate to the world in Hebrew. Telling you about this
in English cannot substitute for the
Hebrew experience itself.
(This picture system
was developed by Harris Winitz for "the Learnables" modern language
series and has been successfully applied followed by students for 25 years.)
The full course of Living Biblical Hebrew, Volume One has three CDs of audio material. It is recommended for anyone, for absolute beginners and even for those who have already learned Biblical Hebrew through reading only.
(For those curious
about the pharyngeal Hebrew sounds, listen especially to demo
examples 10 and 11 and in demo example 16 to numbers "1, 4, 5, 7,
9, 10". The sounds are easy to get used to when hearing them 'live'
throughout the full course.)"
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