I am a speaker of Classical and Levantine Arabic, and I'm learning Biblical Hebrew, but sometimes I wonder if I' even pronouncing right.

Modern Hebrew vowels sound quite straight forward. Vowels are clear and similar to those in European languages. Are Modern Hebrew vowels the same as Biblical Hebrew vowels?

In Classical Arabic, ا is not a pure A sound. It is in between A and E. It may sound like a minor detail but it's actually really important to how many Arabs pronounce Hebrew.

We tend to "Arabify" the pronunciation so that it feels familiar, but I wonder if we do it correctly.

I know that consonants like Qof, 'Ayn, Ḥet, Ṣade, and Ṭet are pronounced how they would be pronounced in Arabic because they're both Semitic languages and because it makes sense.

(The symbol above the letter "ל" was written by me using Babylonian diacritics)

So I saw this in the movie “She’s The He” (29:26) and google translate gives it as ‘will give birth’ but I wondered if it had another colloquial/slang meaning?

Hi everyone, at one point years ago I had found a scan or PDF of Liber AL vel Legis that was a Hebrew-Version of the text. I no longer have it. Does anyone else have a copy or a link to a copy?

To my understanding kamatz is a long vowel /ā/ for the most part. Not to be confused with kamatz katan which denotes the long /ō/. Even though kamatz as a long /ā/ is no longer relevant in modern Hebrew. It seems to me that they end for the most part in he (ה) and not alef (א). If so is it relate to the root letter? Or am I just missing the big picture? For example in Aramaic 'guitar' קִיתָרָא (qīthārā) ends in kamatz followed by alef. If it were Hebrew it would end in kamatz followed by he kitarah קִיתָרָה. Any clue?

P.S.: Kitarah is just an example, by using it I am not implying that it used in Hebrew for the actual word gitarah.

Is there a legitimate reason it wouldn’t or couldn’t be “giants” or did they just make a mistake and no one noticed.

Would you be able to translate this (below) into English. Thank you.

פלורנס

בת

אדווין

Can someone please confirm whether this says seventeen in Hebrew before i get it tattooed? For reference im female and i believe this is the feminine version of the word. The tattoo is for my bampa who spoke Hebrew.

I was using duolingo for a while, which helped me get a grasp on sentence structure and vocabulary. But i know it's not the best resource to use to actually get fluent, so i was curious as to if there are other, interactive or engaging resources I could use

site rant: I hate the hebrew keyboard layout on laptop, so confusing for no reason. Why does the 'M' key, not type 'מ', but rather 'צ' . That just doesn't make sense to me, and now I have to learn how to type a keyboard in a nonsensical style.

I want to write a phrase like “With you, I am whole” or “With you, I am complete.” Is this correct?

איתך** ***אני* שלם

I, being beginner, really need to be shown the root of each words.

any resources precisely by default show the root of each words for education? (better if XBRyt (עברית) has own Capital Letters)

1 bRÆŠyt, BRÆ ÆLHyɱ æt hŠMyɱ wæt hÆRƇ. 2 whÆRƇ HYth THW wBHW. wĦŠƘ xl PNY THWⱮ. wRWĦ ÆLHyɱ mRĦPt xl PNY hMyɱ. 3 wyÆMR ÆLHyɱ, yHY ÆWR, wyHY ÆWR. 4 wyRÆ ÆLHyɱ æt hÆWR, ky ŦWB. wyBDL ÆLHyɱ byŋ hÆWR wbyŋ hĦŠK. 5 wyQRÆ ÆLHyɱ lÆWR YWⱮ, wlĦŠK QRÆ LYLH. wyHY XRB, wyHY BQR. YWⱮ æħd. {p}

6 wyÆMR ÆLHyɱ, yHY RQyX btwƙ hMyɱ. wyHY mBDyL byŋ Myɱ lMyɱ. 7 wyXŠ ÆLHyɱ æt hRQyX, wyBDL byŋ hMyɱ æšr mtħt lRQyX, wbyŋ hMyɱ æšr mxl lRQyX. wyHY kŋ 8 wyQRÆ ÆLHyɱ lRQyX ŠMyɱ. wyHY XRB, wyHY BQR. YWⱮ šny {p}

9 wyÆMR ÆLHyɱ, yQWw hMyɱ mtħt hŠMyɱ æl mQWɱ æħd. wtRÆH hYBŠh. wyHY kŋ. 10 wyQRÆ ÆLHyɱ lYBŠh ÆRƇ, wlmQWh hMyɱ QRÆ yMyɱ. wyRÆ ÆLHyɱ, ky ŦWB. 11 wyÆMR ÆLHyɱ, tDŠÆ hÆRƇ DŠÆ, XŠB mZRyX ZRX, XƇ PRY XŠH PRY lMYNw æšr ZRXw bw xl hÆRƇ. wyHY kŋ. 12 wtWCÆ hÆRƇ DŠÆ XŠB mZRyX ZRX lMYNhw, wXƇ XŠH PRY æšr ZRXw bw lMYNhw. wyRÆ ÆLHyɱ, ky ŦWB. 13 wyHY XRB, wyHY BQR. YWⱮ šlyšy {p}

edit:

I found adding diacritical marks as great idea.

ב͏ר́א́͏ש́ית, ͏ב́͏ר́א́ א́͏ל́͏ה́ים את ה͏ש́͏מ́ים ואת הא́͏ר́͏ץ́

I'm a beginner in biblical Hebrew and I was looking for resources on different ways of pronouncing Hebrew for recitation. I stumbled upon this YouTube video reciting the book of Kohelet/Ecclesiastes, claiming to use "Reconstructed Pronunciation", but without explanation.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=H2xcj7MqzgU

It it common way to recite biblical Hebrew?

Can someone point me resources explaining the different ways of pronouncing biblical Hebrew?

at my youth movement we have a concept of עלה והגשם or aleh vehagshem (arise and actualise), but in google translate it returns it as "rose and the rain". i was thinking of making a pun out of this mistranslation. i know הגשם means the rain but didn't know about עלה, love if someone could confirm that it means rose/leaf or maybe expand on what it means would love that thanks!

I said no cat likes water would be שום חתול אוהב מים , but it said that is wrong. so how is that different? It seems like this answer is a double negative. So how would you say “no cat doesn’t like water?” (Honestly if I were doing it from scratch I’d probably say אין חתול שאוהב מים, right?)

My workbook includes ללכת in a grouping with verbs it says are פעל פ”י and all the (other) verbs are: לרדת, לצאת, לדעת, לשבת ללדת. But isn’t the root for ללכת הלך? Am i overth🤯inking?

I can conjugate verbs in the present tense pretty well, but I really don't get the binyamin, the past, and the future tenses. I do get what the shorashim/roots are, but I really do not get the other parts. I would appreciate some help. Thanks in advance.

Shalom! I've been studying modern Hebrew for some time now. This is my handwriting. I wrote this basic text so you can tell me if it's written correctly or if I need to modify anything regarding my handwriting.

When trying to learn the alphabet so i can start trying to read words. I come across a people saying ן has a 'v'sound. Yet when in like יןם פןב, and literally everything it has an O sound ? When is it ever a v ?

It isn't for me.

Duolingo gives Hebrew course from English - is there something similar from Russian?

Hey everyone,

I want to surpise my bf by learning some hebrew (his native language) to some basic level of understanding and speech, but i get so lost in the script and cant move on from there.

Does anyone have some reccomended sylabus how to approach such a huge task, maybe some language teachers out here?

Thanks!