Modern Hebrew for Beginners: A Multimedia Program for Students at the

About this book

Modern Hebrew for Beginners offers high school college and independent-study students a state-of-the-art learning experience. This combination text- and workbook is designed to be used with web-based audio visual and interactive materials to give students multiple learning opportunities suited to a variety of learning styles. This allows intense practice of all four language skills: reading writing listening comprehension and conversation. Esther Raizen introduces the basic concepts of Hebrew through a wide variety of written and oral exercises in this text many of which link to the websites computer tutorials and short original films based on contemporary Israeli life and society. She emphasizes the spoken language while also paying attention to various aspects of normative grammar of the written language and of cultural elements associated with Hebrew. With this variety of materials and the capacity for continuous updating via the website teachers and students will find this book endlessly adaptable and highly suitable for self-paced training.