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Learning Biblical Hebrew Interactively, Volumes 1 & 2: A Second Language Acquisition Approach for the Language and Culture of Ancient Israel is unavailable, but you can change that!

The fruit of several years’ research and development, field-tested by teachers without experience of conversation in Hebrew as a spoken language, Paul Overland’s new Hebrew textbook is startlingly original and immediately accessible and attractive. Its foundation is the theory and practice of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), which orients grammar so as to empower the student’s capacity for...

Silent sheva after short vowel U/O-Class I/E-Class A-Class Sheva after 58◌◌ָ Sheva after ◌◌ִ Sheva after ◌◌ַ אָזְנְךָ מִגְדָּל כְּאַרְיֵה אָזְ־נְ־ךָ מִגְ־דָּל כְּ־אַרְ־יֵה ʾoz-nĕ-ḵā mig-dāl kĕ-ʾar-yē your ear a tower like a lion To summarize, the three rules for the vocal sheva may be expressed as: “first in a word, second in a pair, following a long vowel.” After becoming comfortable with the Hebrew script, the single skill most helpful for smooth vocalization
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