Description

Buy them together and save! This product is available in both print and digital formats.

Print: We will ship Introduction Parts One, Two-A, and Two-B as print books, each with links to the accompanying MP3 audio download.

Digital: We will provide links to download Part One in video format (MP4 files) with accompanying PDFs of written material, and links to download Parts Two-A and Two-B as PDF files with accompanying MP3 audio files.

 

Introduction Part One (the download features MP4 video files, print version is a book with MP3 audio)

Coil-bound paperback: 193 pages (74 pages in download format)
ISBN-10: 956-7352-00-2
ISBN-13: 978-965-7352-00-7
Product dimensions: 8.5 x 11 x 0.5 inches
Audio: about 3 hours

Part One starts at an absolute beginning level and leads a student into thinking in the language right from the start.  It uses 1000 pictures with accompanying audio tracks to provide an immersion environment for learning Biblical Hebrew.  The pictures are described in Biblical Hebrew beginning with simple words, before progressing to phrases, full sentences, and eventually short story sequences, all in the language.  In this way, the student is exposed to the breadth of the language (including singular and plural nouns, participles, qatal, wayyiqtol, imperative, number and gender concord, 235 lexical items and 705 forms).

Note: Part One is highly recommend both for beginning students in any program as a complement to whatever curriculum they are using, and also for more advanced students, even instructors, who have never experienced or practiced thinking directly in the language.

Part One also teaches the alphabet through listening discovery, introduces the writing system, and has a section summarizing the grammar. All the descriptions of the 1000 pictures are transcribed in fully vocalized Biblical Hebrew so that a student learns to correctly spell what they have already learned to understand.

This is the recommended prerequisite to Living Biblical Hebrew, Introduction Part 2

To see how you can learn twenty vocabulary items in under 10 minutes almost effortlessly, see our Hebrew Demo Lesson which is the first chapter of this book in video format (see next item).

Introduction Part Two (available in print or PDF, both with MP3 audio files via download)

Coil-bound paperback: 343 Pages
ISBN-10: 965-7352-01-0
ISBN-13: 978-965-7352-01-4
Product dimensions: 8.5 x 11 x 1 inches
Audio: about 11 hours

Part Two, which comes with more than 10 hours of audio material, is a kind of “home language lab” appropriate for self-learning from a high school level and higher. It covers the book of Jonah with ten dialogs that parallel the biblical text. More than 300 audio tracks, including substitution drills, vocabulary introduction, dialogs, and readings introduce and reinforce the learning at the speed of speech enabling long-lasting internalization of the language. The Shma (Dt 6:4-9) along with other scripture is memorized.

All Hebrew vocabulary, dialogues, and texts are glossed in English and grammatical explanations are in English. Part Two also contains a full explanation of Biblical Hebrew’s morphology and syntax. As a bonus for discriminating students, there are extensive footnotes throughout that deal with the development of the language and the stylistic functions of Biblical Hebrew structures, many of which are typically only covered in advanced grammar books.

Please note that the downloadable files are registered to a single-user for personal use and are not for distribution.