Next Steps After The Hebrew Alphabet

Let's say you have learned the Hebrew Alphabet and Hebrew Vowels, and you are now able to read Hebrew (although you still don't understand Hebrew). What happens now? How do you progress from here? What are the next steps?  Well, you probably have one (or both) of two goals:

If you want to learn Modern Hebrew, most people buy CDs or software to help them. We have a whole range of excellent products in our Amazon Hebrew Store. You might also have considered doing a Hebrew Ulpan in Israel. However, attending an Ulpan is not an option for many people, and learning using self-study Hebrew products is slow and restricted. Instead, if you are serious about learning Modern Hebrew, if you really want to make significant progress, and if you desire to achieve your goal of understanding Hebrew, we highly recommend the following option:

We have a whole page dedicated to explaining in detail what this is, how it works, and why this approach should be at the top of your list. A trial lesson is available!
 
 

If you want to learn Biblical Hebrew, you can do what most people do: buy a Biblical Hebrew Grammar book and start learning Hebrew grammar, as a first step to studying the Tanakh. Other people might be able to supplement this with Hebrew classes in their area, such as via a synagogue or university. If you study Hebrew for long enough with these approaches, and if you can find classes getting progressively more difficult over a period of years, you will eventually succeed (after many years, if you stick at it). However, two options are available which are much easier and more productive, and where you are likely to make much faster progress:

Using either, or both, of these methods, you will make progress much faster than other approaches. Without the cost of travelling to Israel and doing a Hebrew Ulpan, without the disruption of spending years studying Hebrew at college, you will be immersed in the Hebrew language and will rapidly work towards your goal of understanding Hebrew. Unless you are truly on a shoe-string budget, studying Hebrew via these methods will give you the best possible chance of truly understanding the Tanakh in Hebrew. Imagine how you will feel when you open the pages of the Tanakh, and truly understand it in the original Hebrew. It is the most exciting and exhilarating feeling in the world. You will never again depend on an English translation, or have to rely on what others are saying. Better still, trial lessons are available. What have you got to lose? Click the links above for further information.


 

A Personal Appeal
As a native English speaker, the owner of this web site has spent more than two decades learning both Modern Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew through every possible method – learning Hebrew using home-study tapes and CDs, Hebrew Linguaphone, a six-month intensive Ulpan in Israel (Ulpan Akiva in Netanya), more than four years working and living in Israel, months living in kibbutzim across Israel, intensively studying every word, every verse, every chapter in the Tanakh - YEARS to get to the level of being able to speak Modern Hebrew fluently and thoroughly understand all the Hebrew in the Tanakh.

When I learned Hebrew, the Internet was not available, and the above methods could not be used. The Internet has opened up new technologies and made the study of Hebrew using videos and virtual classes a breeze. The Hebrew courses above are like attending an Ulpan in Israel, or having a personal Hebrew tutor at your side – all from your own home, at your own time, at your own pace. If you are serious about studying Hebrew, you owe it to yourself to try these methods. By all means buy a Hebrew grammar or Hebrew language CDs, but those alone will not take you to the point where you can speak Hebrew fluently, or understand the Hebrew in the Tanakh on your own. The new methods above, however, provide a complete holistic approach – all the way from the beginner's level where you are now, where you can understand the Hebrew Alphabet, all the way to the highest level where you can converse fluently in Modern Hebrew and understand the Tanakh.

So please read the pages below explaining how these new approaches work:

Don't give up after struggling with a Hebrew grammar for months, or trying a few Hebrew language CDs on your own. Better methods are available using the Internet. And don't think that attending a Hebrew Ulpan in Israel or doing a college degree is the only way to make real progress in Hebrew. It isn't.

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