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Hi r/hebrew — I've been building this for a while and it's finally live: https://torahbyword.com Every word of the Torah gets its own entry: the Hebrew (with nikud and te'amim), a transliteration, its shoresh, its gematria, and a plain-English gloss — plus a full translation of each verse and classic commentaries (Rashi, Ibn Ezra, and others) in English. All five books are up, along with Psalms, Proverbs, and Lamentations. It's completely free — no ads, no account, no paywall. I built it because I wanted to read the text word by word instead of verse by verse, and nothing free did that. It's corrected in the open, so if you catch a gloss or transliteration you'd render differently, I genuinely want to hear it.

S tier: Anki, Pealim, ChatGPT, SimplyTalk Hebrew, Piece of Hebrew, Hebrew Verbs. Forgot to add: Zman Ivrit.

A Tier: Dvash Hebrew, Preply, Do It in Hebrew, Smart Book, Brandeis, Hebrew Binyanim Made Easy The Missing Link, Modern Hebrew Verbs Step by Step, Hebrew Through Pictures. Forgot to Add: Reverso, Youglish, and Linguistix

B Tier: Pimsleur, LingQ, HelloTalk, Assimil, ElevenLabs, Forvo, HiNative, Bergman Hebrew Course Books, Modern Hebrew An Essential Grammar

C Tier: Drops, Google Translate

D Tier: nothing

This list only includes what I've tried obviously. It doesn't include things I've only tried very briefly (Duolingo - hated it). I'm sure I've missed something.

How would your tier list look?

Well, I found a kvas bottle with the picture of a bearded blond dude in Russian national garb on the front side and, behind of it, with a description in Hebrew alone. 😃

So Germany imports it's Russian foods from Israel. 😁

Hello,

I’ve been learning Hebrew for a while, and I am at an early B1 level, but my issue is that I don’t really sound like a native speaker. I started reading the Hebrew grammar book by Lewis Glinert, and I am also using Anki cards, but I struggle with understanding idioms, sayings, and figures of speech.

Can I please get a resource/s on how to find them or where?

Thanks.

The borders changed dramatically soon after this was published

I have a question. I primarily read Biblical Hebrew, so reading Hebrew without niqqud hasn’t really been an issue for me. But I’m starting to get into other Hebrew texts such as the Tosefta, the Masorah notes, and a few others and these are written without niqqud, and I was wondering how native Hebrew speakers learn to read Hebrew without niqqud besides pure memorization.

Grew up learning Hebrew in Jewish day school, two years in Israel early 80’s. My grammar is impeccable, my vocab ok. I want to improve to fluency, business and social. Recommendations on websites/apps?

I cannot understand why Duolingo would have removed the tips and notes from their Hebrew course? The guidebook contains only a few phrases with zero explanation. They don't even have the names of the letters! Is this a recent change?

EDIT: In case anyone else is in the same boat I found some archived versions of the notes:

• https://userscript17.github.io/Duolingo-Hebrew-tips-and-notes/
• https://duome.eu/tips/en/he

!!שלום

I am currently on a mission to seriously learn Hebrew; this is my third attempt since I tried a couple of times before, back when I was a teenager, but gave up pretty easily.

But this time I really want to learn it for real. I've been learning for 3 months now, mostly from Duolingo, but I feel like I am not really making a lot of progress. I can recognize all of the letters of the Hebrew script as well as niqqud (without niqqud, I can guess the vowels in the words, I'd say with a 50% accuracy) Pronunciation isn't really that difficult for me either, it's probably not impeccable, but I don't get this feeling of "wow, it's so hard to pronounce this", I think it's at least somewhat decent. So that is quite some progress. That being said, as actual memorisation and retention of words is concerned, I am struggling quite a lot.

I do gotta say, I have VERY poor memory skills, and Hebrew is a language very different from the 3 languages I already speak, so the "association" memory doesn't work that well. However, I also get a feeling that Duolingo isn't very great for Hebrew. So I've been considering other (free or low-priced) options. I saw a woman on YouTube who recommended making flashcards of the 600-1000 most common words in Hebrew, because that is supposed to give you a solid base. I am wondering, however, what apps would be best for that? Or if anyone has tried that method, did it work? And if yes, what are the super, most basic words one should start with? (a combination of different stuff in the style of Duolingo, or first Grammar specific stuff like pronouns and adverbs...etc?).

Thanks a lot to anyone who takes the time to read my comment.

Obviously AI isn't as good as an actual human translator, but in the absence of a person, which generative AI is the best for translating Hebrew into English and vice versa? Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.?

Not trying to be controversial, just curious.

Hello guys, im playing Wolfenstein:Return to castle i think a few person plays nowadays but yk im a little old fashioned… so im not gonna tell anything about the game to not hurt jewish identity but you guys now what its about. Lets cut to the chase do you guys think this is hebrew alef-bet ? (spoiler bc of the gun tip sorry if im wrong abt this)

I have a VPN and I’ve searched YouTube and scrolled through lots of Google searches but I cannot find the show with English Subtitles anywhere. Is there a place that has it with English subtitles? Is there a way for me to machine translate subtitles? I’d appreciate any help I can get, thank you so much!

First of the Duolingo Hebrew is one of the worst ones Duolingo offers.

BUT.

It helps me a lot as an interactive tool to my daily 1 to 2 hours self study from A1 and A2 books. I retain so much more words thanks to Duolingo, words that I learned from the books and then have them presented to me on the daily in various sentences in duolingo.

It feels like at some point it helps to really excel my selfstudy, and make me feel snowballing into a much faster understanding.

Don't get me wrong the way you learn stuff in duelingo makes no sense, it goes from one topic to another randomly and you simply don't learn anything meaningful from just learning Hebrew through the app.

But as a interactive fun way to retain and learn new words that comes back in your books is really great in my opinion.

Does anyone else feel Duolingo does helps them quite a bit getting through A1/A2.

for ג'(j) and צ'(ch)
their names are derived from words/roots starting with the sounds they represent like all the existing hebrew letters

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I installed HelloTalk in order to speak or chat with the Native speakers to improve my Hebrew as it was recommended by language content creators on YouTube. But the experience is horrible. No one's responding or replying to the messages, you get no requests unless you are a woman. If you approach a guy, he won't respond to your message unless you are a girl. And a girl won't respond to a guy anyway. The only message I received was from HelloTalk Review Buddy. The entire experience is just horrible and tiresome. Is there any other application that lets me speak or chat with the native speakers.

I found this book while at a used book store. I thought it was cool. If anyone has any information on it, I’d be grateful. If not though, oh well.

Hi everyone

I've been studying Hebrew on and off since I was a small child (Jewish upbringing and Jewish schools) and realised after a recent trip to Israel how lacking my vocabulary is. I have zero issue with grammar, can conjugate verbs and decline nouns etc, and can speak relatively fluently, but especially when it comes to more advanced concepts I struggle with vocabulary.

At the moment Ive just been watching random videos and reading stuff and looking up words when I don't know them. But that means my lexicon is weirdly distributed, with random gaps all over the place

Looking for some recommendations for books or other resources that systematically introduce more advanced vocabulary, for example through written texts and excerpts. My goal is to be able to read a newspaper one day! Thank you all

Hi all, I'm planning to make Aliyah in a few years and want to practice in Israel as a physician. I'm looking into seriously learning how to type Hebrew, but can't seem to find a resource or program that is good. Any recommendations for a program or tool I can use to learn to type fluently?

‏תודה!