Omer Genosar
To be honest I have avoided writing in Hebrew because I don’t believe it will be important to my future or my interest in the language. As for reading, I have made it one of my goals in my language plan to become a bit better at reading. It has been a great struggle for a long time for me to read without Hebrew diacritics. I grew up in Hebrew until the age of 7 and then attended a Hebrew elementary/middle school until the 6th grade. However, the transition to Hebrew without diacritics begins around 8th grade in my Hebrew Middle School and of course much younger than that in Israel. I never received the proper education to get myself to not rely on the vowel sound “crutches.” Learning to read in Hebrew without the diacritics means needing to know the words beforehand so as to understand what the letters mean with implied sounds. Because the words must basically be known beforehand, I have decided to focus more on the spoken aspect of the language than the written part. However, this did not mean that I wouldn’t attempt to read. In fact, most of my artifacts involve reading Hebrew that does not have the diacritics. I will continually try to strengthen my reading skills while sharpening my vocabulary.
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