Omer Genosar
Learning about a language’s history is actually extremely helpful in learning the language. Knowing what is from the past and what is more recent allows us to put context to some words. This works the best for technology and that ideas and objects from the 20th and 21st Centuries tend to be in Hebrew but still in the English form. For example meecro (Hebrew) and microwave are the same word. On the flip side of that, much older words many times have roots that come from ancient Hebrew or Yiddish or other dialects. For example the word day in Arabic and Hebrew is very similar (yom) that means that the both share the same root. In fact the word yom is in the bible several times and is probably a very ancient word. But it does not take a genius to know that microwave is not said in the bible. What I am trying to say is that if a word kind of sounds like English, then meaning could be figured out just by knowing that it is a (relatively) recent word.
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