Shalom! For the last couple months I have been taking Hebrew language lessons with Morah (teacher in Hebrew) Melissa. As a proud cultural Jew, I have always wished I knew more conversational Hebrew as I have been lucky to travel to Israel a few times and many of my colleagues and friends speak Hebrew fluently. I remember when I interviewed for my current job, the President of our Foundation asked me if I spoke Hebrew. I answered "while I learned the alphabet and some basic words in Hebrew school growing up, I don't - but I do want to learn. Do you speak Hebrew?" (he answer was similar to mine if you were interested).My colleague Melissa speaks Hebrew. I heard she was tutoring someone else in the language so we chatted and decided to have four lessons so she could teach me some of the basics. When I travel to new countries, I try to make an effort and learn some basic words. Through my travels in Israel, I have learned a handful of words and phrases so my Hebrew lessons with Melissa at least started with a very basic understanding, although I had never been taught how to formulate phrases, verb tenses, etc. We ended up having 4 lessons, here is a bit of what I learned in each:
- Lesson 1: I have/don't have, need versus want, telling time, numbers, question words, verbs
- Lesson 2: calendar (days of the week, month, year), body, colors
- Lesson 3: prepositions, verbs in past tense, adjectives, simple phrases
- Lesson 4: verb groups, simple phrases, review
While I am in no way fluent, I do feel that I have a better understanding of the language. Todah Rabah Morah Melissa!
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