Ha-yesod: Fundamentals of Hebrew (English and Hebrew Edition)

By Luba Uveeler and Norman M. Bronznick

Book Overview

A comprehensive, step-by-step textbook teaching modern Hebrew language and grammar, geared especially to the needs of the English speaking student. For use in the classroom as well as for anyone who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873062140
• ISBN13: 9780873062145
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Very usable self-study book

I compared this to "Hebrew: A Language Course" by Bella Bergman, et al. in 3 volumes, and finally decided to work through both of them concurrently to teach myself modern Hebrew. The approach is different, but the staging and phasing is similar. Ha-Yesod is a more traditional and formal book, perfect for those who have taught themselves other languages and thus find it helpful to learn formal grammar along with vocabulary and idiom. Bergman, et al.'s book is more "fun," reinforcing the information with cartoons, crosswords, and quizzes. Both are full of bidirectional translation exercises. The vocabulary and grammar coverage is surprisingly similar, so by using both books together, I get cross reinforcement and faster results. However, either approach by itself is completely workable.

Excellent tool for learning Hebrew

This book starts from the very basics, but it helps you progress quickly with short lessons that teach new grammar concepts and vocab. You definitely need an additional learning tool to help you with speaking and simply producing your own sentences. Hayesod does not have much in the way of challenging you to generate your own responses in Hebrew. But if you are motivated, this is a great tool to help you focus your energy and learn a lot quickly.

Learning Hebrew

I have tried many times before to learn Hebrew. It just wouldn't come. With this book, Hayesod:Fundamentals Of Hebrew.New edition,it all comes together. In my case I am lucky enough to have a wonderful teacher. He thinks this book is the best. So when the best teacher teacher, uses the best book, you know all conditions are there for the best results. This text gives the best results. I feel very lucky to have this tool. Ilene Paley Richmond Va.

Excellent Pace

I chose this book as my textbook for my online Hebrew class at http://HebrewResources.com. The book is great, with one exception: there are few exercises. In other words it is not a workbook. Each chapter is 3 or 4 pages long, and there are 75 chapters. Each chapter introduces about 20 new vocabulary words. Several universities use this book as a textbook, and cover approximately 20 chapters for a first semester Hebrew courses. Thus, if you study one chapter per week, this book can carry you through 75 weeks of study, which is a great bargain!!! This book is modern Hebrew, not Biblicial (although there is a lot of overlap between the two). The book is not primarily a "conversational Hebrew" course. It does contain many elements of conversational as used in modern Hebrew; but it does NOT teach a lot of phrases like "Hello, how are you", "Where is the bathroom", and that kind of thing.