This week has been a bit crazy for me! Ultimately, I focused on learning the Hebrew alphabet and numbers. Let’s just say I have a lot morework to do this week! Because Hebrew is completely new to me, I knew that thebest way to improve my pronunciation of certain words and letters would be to listento different videos and programs. Most of my studying this week, I would haveto say, was intensive. I focused primarily on YouTube videos that helped notonly with the pronunciation of Hebrew letters and numbers, but also how tospell them. Although I am not interested in learning how to write in Hebrew, itis still beneficial to be able to recognize how each letter looks so I canidentify them. In addition to focusing on the Hebrew alphabet and numbers, Ialso looked at some vocabulary. My goal is to learn roughly 3 to 5 vocabularywords a day, starting with a certain category. For instance, this week Ifocused on ‘family’ terms. A useful site that I used was called BYKI. This is awebsite that I know that I will definitely use throughout the semester. It hasall kinds of different Hebrew words, already separated into categories. Thesite will show you the Hebrew word and then show you what it means in Englishand then, at the end of the first set a words, it will test you to see how muchyou know; I cannot say that I know much at this point, but I’m getting there :)
As for my extensive listening activities last week, I did not really do much. I know that I am a beginner and still have to learn basicallyeverything there is to learn about Hebrew, so I feel like most of the listeningI do is going to be intensive, as opposed to extensive. However, I do know thatextensive listening is just as important. So, this week, my goal is tohopefully listen to some Hebrew news clips that I can find or to even watch theHebrew television channel that we learned about in class. I think that thesewill both be helpful listening activities and although I already know that Iwill not be able to understand much of what is said, if anything at all, theywill still help me become familiar with Hebrew pronunciations.
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