Everyday Hebrew

By Eliezer Tirkel

Developed by leading Hebrew language educators this audio and text programme is unrivalled for self-study and group instruction. This text and tape programme helps students speak, read and understand... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844284882
• ISBN13: 9780844284880
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A very motivating textbook

I have found this book most useful and motivating. It takes you step by step through the language. I started myself practically from scratch and I feel I'm making a lot of progress day by day. Some people complain that there are not translations for certain words and expressions, but I remind them that it is necessary to have a dictionary as well.

Great for building a foundation

This is a great kit for beginners, it starts at the very beginning and takes you through almost everything you need to know as a beginner. The only real complaint I have is that the new vocabulary is given AFTER each new conversation passage. I guess the assumption is that you'll figure out the words from the context, but there's too many of them to do it that way. But you can always just flip the pages and read the vocab section before you're supposed to. All in all, this kit is a really good find. Another respondant pointed out the sexist nature of the stories and I have to agree. There's several instances of bosses hitting on their secretaries, etc. Then again, I guess that's true preparation for life in Israel...

Good book, but frustrating!

I'm just a kid that decided he wanted to learn Hebrew. While this book did teach me the aleph-bet in script and print (this was very useful), as the book proceeded I found it difficult to understand and frustrating. There are no answers to any of the questions or assignments...I found myself leafing through the beginning of the book to even interpret the questions. I would have enjoyed this book (and learned more) if the author had included corrections.

The Best Yet

Of all the tape sets for language learning I've ever seen, this one is the best. It isn't as good as I'd like simply because it doesn't give you exact meaning for words or colloquial phrases. On the positive, it does an excellent job of teaching words and then using them. I was very much impressed by the fact that this system also teaches you how to write Hebrew script as well as to read print. Most methods I've seen will either ignore the script, or force you to write in print.

A truly efficient and fun system for learning to communicate

This is a really good system for learning to actually understand, speak, read and write the language. Most tape systems help you with guidebook Hebrew: teaching you how to get by at the airport, hotels and restaurants. This is for learning to really communicate. It is very efficiently laid out and easy to follow without the help of an instructor. it also comes witha full-fledged paperback text book -- not the little booklets most tape sets offer. My only criticism is that the stories are wildly sexist. All the men are doctors, while all the women are housewives, secretaries and nurses. In one story, a secretary worries that her boss would prefer a beautiful secretary to a competent one. In another, two women guess at the age of a mututal female friend. When one woman comments that the friend told her she is 25, both women laughingly question this. "Only 25?!" "So she says." And they both laugh. If you can get past that, it's a great tape and textbook set for learning the language.