From my evaluation of the levels of competence I am a beginning novice in all parts of the Hebrew language. From interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational Hebrew, I honestly know nothing. The only word I know in Hebrew is Shalom, which I think means hello. Based off the fact that I know zero Hebrew, I have set my goals to be primarily speaking oriented.
1. I want to be able to say dates like January 20, 2011 and be able to count to 30 or 40.
2. I want to engage in introductory communication like “Hello how are you today?” “I am great how are you?”
3. I want to know how to say 10 animals, like cat, dog, lion, bear, etc.
4. Knowing the Hebrew alphabet could be helpful and some adjectives would be beneficial to learn. Some adjectives I really want to learn are happy, tall, big, small, fat, skinny, beautiful, cold, essentially things that are used on an everyday basis in English.
5. The only non-speaking part of Hebrew I want to learn is the ability to order off a menu, like Chicken pasta.
I believe these goals are fully reasonable for me to be able to learn throughout the semester as the Hebrew language is not the easiest language to speak nor understand.
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