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 No.1007

The language of the Tenakh, Mishnah, and many other scrolls of historical note. Of great use for Christians, academics, and Jews alike. Can't stand the Bible? Read the first two thirds of it in the original language and realize that your awful translations are awful. Discussion of Hebrew and its texts is more than welcome. Extra resources especially so.

Good news! Classical Hebrew has ~4000 words in its vocabulary compared to English's ~800,000 and counting. You can learn more than enough to be fluent and read old texts fairly quickly and just look up the words when you have trouble because it's a dead language and no one really "speaks" it anymore.

Biblical versus Modern

This Israeli puts it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFNZ4aojgv8

That youtube channel as a whole is an okay resource for learning Modern Hebrew, but that's not what we're here for.

The Alefbet

""The Basics:"" The Alefbet is the Hebrew Alphabet, and it's a right to left language. Whereas the alphabet is named after the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Alpha and Beta, the Hebrew alefbet is named after its two first letters, Alef and Bet.

""Weird quirk #1:"" The Alefbet has no vowels.

>How the fuck do I pronounce it then?

There are two ways. One is to memorize how you pronounce which words or to use the Niqqud (Nee-kood). Hebrew: נִקּוּד

>Gesundheit

Niqqud is basically little marks around the consonant that tells you what vowel sound follows it. Yes, like Tolkien's Elvish. Most people learn the language with the Niqqud and naturally remember how the words without the Niqqud are pronounced after a certain amount of time, and it's just a matter of learning how syllables are pronounced like one would do with Spanish or other languages which are read how they're spelled.

""Weird quirk #2:"" Sometimes the same letter looks different when it appears at the end of the word. Most languages didn't have punctuation 4,000 years ago, so they used to use it to tell when words stopped. That's just a vestige from older times and it's not at all hard to find transcriptions of scrolls and whatnot have spaces and punctuation inserted for reader's convenience.

So far, so good. Much better than English's innumerable rules, subrules, and even more exceptions that tell those rules to go fuck themselves, right? Piece of cake.

""Learning the Alefbet""

Here's some videos for you. I find the Hebrew alphabet song helps. The following all use the Ashkenazi pronunciation which is the most commonly used. There's another pronunciation used by the Sephardi Jews, but there's no difference in word usage and spelling, only pronunciation.

""Alefbet Song from Shalom Sesame:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzjHjXe-2XU

Catchy little song and you can see the letters' shape as they're said. It's a minute long. Pause the video as you need to on your next read-through.

""Complete walk through on the Alefbet in two videos:"" PT 1 https://youtu.be/veaFX9RUK4Y and PT 2 https://youtu.be/-s-CMuNTivY

Alternatively, there's this made by some Israelis, but it it doesn't have the lesson on the last four letters yet, lazy shits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBVpQzvrJ4w&list=PLCCECB0803BCF7CD4

The above playlist has the added benefit of an introduction to the different ways the letters are sometimes written and writing conventions that have developed over the past fuckthousand years this language has been floating around.

 No.1008

>>1007

""Fucking Vowels""

I am yet to find a way to teach the Niqqud in a way I really like. The way I learned was by following along with a dusty old computer program from the waning days of the Famicom and pronouncing it and memorizing the symbols. This might work for you. If that sounds like the way you like to learn, I found a free resource to checkout called the Mango Languages app which if you have library card with a subscribing library is >for free.

""This following link""" will give you a list of libraries near you that give away the service. Ask the librarian where to go from there because it varies by region: http://www.mangolanguages.com/libraries/find-mango/

Coincidentally, it has a bunch of other languages, and all the lessons are geared towards touristy activities which is a decent stepping stone to being able to regularly using a language. If you get that service, there is both Biblical and Modern Hebrew on there, so check for Biblical.

The Next Step

There are some good books out there on the subject. So far, the one I'd recommend for beginners is "Complete Biblical Hebrew." I got it off of Amazon for about $4.00. but recently prices have increased. Just searching "Biblical Hebrew" reveals a plethora of books, but I'm going to post some free stuff I've found on Google Books.

https://books.google.com/books?id=82PbbAuQsfIC&lpg=PP1&dq=Complete%20Biblical%20Hebrew&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=I_T_waPKq5gC&lpg=PP1&dq=Complete%20Biblical%20Hebrew&pg=PA189#v=onepage&f=false

There's more stuff on Google Books, but you'll have to find them yourself. Not all have the entire book available for free.

Remember

If you need help, find either a Rabbi or a Catholic Priest and ask to point you in the right direction. I can't speak for Reform Rabbis, but all Orthodox and most Conservative Rabbi know the language inside and out. Not every Catholic priest knows the classical languages, but they probably know who does. Can't find one? Google it.

Also, you can find a plethora of Hebrew Bibles on the internet and Google Play easily. Most of this stuff is free. It's up to fellow anons to post more stuff. Let's get this ball rolling.




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