Last few weeks, I’ve been in the process of transferring my future classes toward a major in Hebrew. Now, I’m not doing this for the sake of my blogging, although I hope it will make me better at talking about issues involving Hebrew. I have dabbled slightly up to this point in learning a little about Hebrew: the alphabet, the vowel-points, some words, a verse or two of the Bible, a phrase or two of conversational Hebrew, a book or two about the formation of Modern Hebrew.
But today I begin something altogether different: a 3 1/2 – year commitment to studying the Hebrew language formally. (Wow. That sounds kind of like something out of the Apocalypse or Daniel.) I’ve got Weingreen’s little Hebrew grammar, and I’m going to start working through that daily. In three weeks I’ll start my first Hebrew-related classes: Hebrew 101 (Modern) and a class on the history of the Second Commonwealth. I am ashamed to tell you this, but I do not even know what “Second Commonwealth” refers to, nor could get past “Shalom” in introducing myself to a stranger.
That all begins changing now. I’ll update you as I progress.
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Last few weeks, I’ve been in the process of transferring my future classes toward a major in Hebrew. Now, I’m not doing this for the sake of my blogging, although I hope it will make me better at talking about issues involving Hebrew. I have dabbled slightly up to this point in learning a little about Hebrew: the alphabet, the vowel-points, some words, a verse or two of the Bible, a phrase or two of conversational Hebrew, a book or two about the formation of Modern Hebrew.
But today I begin something altogether different: a 3 1/2 – year commitment to studying the Hebrew language formally. (Wow. That sounds kind of like something out of the Apocalypse or Daniel.) I’ve got Weingreen’s little Hebrew grammar, and I’m going to start working through that daily. In three weeks I’ll start my first Hebrew-related classes: Hebrew 101 (Modern) and a class on the history of the Second Commonwealth. I am ashamed to tell you this, but I do not even know what “Second Commonwealth” refers to, nor could get past “Shalom” in introducing myself to a stranger.
That all begins changing now. I’ll update you as I progress.
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