Textbook of Israeli Hebrew

About this book

The aim of this book is to enable the student to read write and speak acceptable Israeli Hebrew and to understand less complex biblical Hebrew. A unique feature is the authors use of the principles of structural analysis. For students who are not acquainted with a language other than English he elucidates those features of the language that are unfamiliar in the structure of English. The student is trained from the first to read "unvocalized" script as the native reader does and "reading clues" (word and phrase patterns) are provided for this purpose. The work is organized into sections that can be worked through in an academic year--presentation of features text samples exercises grammatical synopses and individual and comprehensive glossaries. This text may be used by teachers without specialized training in linguistics. It can be used by self-teaching students as well as by those at college level and it will valuable for immigrants to Israel.