Modern Hebrew For Beginners – Lesson 2
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Welcome to Lesson 2 of Modern Hebrew for Beginners – Hebrew for Christians or Messianic Believers!
Please go back and listen to lesson one HERE if you have not already This lesson’s audio is also available for download at the end of the page!
Notes to follow with audio:
Bevakasha – “you’re welcome”…also means “Please”
Al lo davar Ein be’ad ma – both mean basically “its nothing” – more formal
Ma Nishma? How are you? (Literally “What is heard” It is like our ‘what’s up’ or ‘what’s new’ or ‘what have you been up to’?)
Numbers:
1 Echad
2 Shtaim
3 Shalosh
4 Arba
5 Hamesh
Days of the Week:
Shabbat – Saturday – the Sabbath
Vocabulary
English – Anglit
You – At (Feminine) – Ata (Masculine)
Speak – Present Tense Medeberet (Feminine) Medeber (Masculine)
At medeberet anglit? Do you speak English (Feminine) Ata medeber anglit? Do you speak English (Masculine)
They will answer with either ken (yes) or lo (no) They may say “Ken ani medeberet anglit” or “Ken ani medeber anglit” or they may say “Lo, ani lo medeberet (or medeber) anglit”
Let’s Read
Aleph א (‘A’ sound like ‘ah’)
Beit בּ or Veit ב (Beit sounds like ‘bait’ and has a B sound like in ‘boy’ and Veit rhymes with Wait and has a V sound like in ‘vet’)
Always read Hebrew from right to left
א בּ א
Abba – This is the word “father” “daddy” Thank you for listening! Toda!!
Shalom!
How fun! I love posts where I learn new things! What a great idea!
Thank you Alice!! I am glad you enjoyed it!!
Wow this is awesome! I love how in depth you are! I just read another post where the writer went into depth teaching Hebrew. Thank you Diane! This is wonderful! ❤
Thank you Donna!!
Great phrases, and it’s nice to hear them spoken.
Thank you!!
What a cool tool! Thanks so much for sharing this! Learning Hebrew and Greek are on my list of things I would really love to do, but probably never will. Haha… but maybe you’ll teach me enough to ignite my passion enough to actually do it! So cool!
I would love to!!!!
Diane, this is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing part of your Jewish heritage with us through these lessons! I LOVE the beauty of language, and what a gift it is to be able to read the Bible in Hebrew! My husband has taken Hebrew in seminary, and now I will be able to share with him what I have learned! 🙂
That is so awesome Christin!! I will have lesson 3 coming out shortly that will start to go into the Names of God and other things that will lead up to learning some of the blessings. So you can wow him with your knowledge LOL
This was wonderful Diane, thank you! Is it possible to put the written Hebrew in with the phrases we are learning? I find the more exposure there is to the language, the easier it is to pick up. Anyway, just a thought. Thank you again for your time and care!
You mean the actual Hebrew lettering? Yes I can do that
So glad I found this site and your lessons. Been trying to study on my own.
I’m glad you found me! More lessons will be coming soon!
Thank you!! I am new to this and am so very excited to be learning about it!
Awesome!! I’m so glad!!!
I’m so glad that I found this! My children and I are doing this together.
Thank you!
That’s so great!! I love that your children are doing it with you!! I’ll be adding more content soon!
I have a deep interest in learning lashon Hakodesh. My goal is to read the Bible in its original language. I am so grateful to Dianne for offering this free but awesome website to help people like me. This is indeed a God-sent.
I am so happy you found it helpful Teddy! If you want to learn Hebrew from an amazing teacher you can also check out https://www.holylanguageinstitute.com Izzy is a great teacher, not only of Hebrew but so much more! And if you are looking for a good free resource there is also https://www.hebrew4christians.com as well!