I don't want to be too curious nor ask too personal questions, but I can't help it! What is your ethnicity? And how did you learn Hebrea?
You don't have to answer but... Know that the first question I just proposed has been almost killing me all these months, for I haven't found the right moment to ask... *über dramatic*
i'm american, white folks mongrel. my mother was agnostic and my step-father atheist so i was never raised in any religion and never belonged to one.
as a child i felt a mystical attraction to the hebrew letters and in my late teens i became disabled so had plenty of time and taught myself.
i also studied judaism many years ago, just because i found it interesting. but hebrew was the Big Thing. i love the language!
many, many years later i learned that my biological father was a jew. (which does not make me a jew according to jews).
life is funny, huh.
i've been trying to teach myself urdu for the last 6 years or so and either i was much smarter when i was young, or i thought i was smarter than i really am, because it is very slow going. or maybe the hebrew was just easy to me because of the attraction i had to the letters.
if i live long enough (which is very doubtful unless i decide to give up on urdu), i would really like to learn arabic, which shouldn't be super difficult, since it's a semitic language too (unlike urdu). i wanted to study arabic after i learned hebrew but at the time, there were no resources available to me - this was in the 70;s. (had a hard enough time finding hebrew books, lol)
now, of course there is soooo much available - i wonder if young people really appreciate that - they probably take it for granted.
languages are fascinating - if i had the brains, i would have probably taught myself at least a dozen.
each man thinks of his own fleas as gazelles
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ken, tov me'od! (you probably know that, but in case you don't = yes, very good!)
actually, i think it should be "ani ohev et turki"
a woman would say ani ohevet et turki.
Whoa... never met a Muslim who can speak Hebrew...
if you go to palestine you will find a large group of muslims who speak both hebrew and arabic. The muslim arab-israelis would all speak hebrew and in the westbank hebrew is also understood at times
I had received few words from lessons about Modern Hebrew language. Just want to share with others few words and I had seen that this thread is like dead, maybe we can learn something together since Allah had asked us not to waste anything related to good knowledge like languages. Maybe we can read what Zionists said about what they had done in Israel who knows. I dunno how to write Hebrew but I use Arabic script to learn those words and transcribe them using roman script, : P
Today lesson that I've got is about water.
Mayim: Water
Mishkha'im: Precipitation
Hatpala: Desalination
Hashkaya: Irrigation
Batsoret: Drought
Last week I've got to learn about the word Hikma in Hebrew,
It is Hokhma, almost the same in sound with Arabic. They said this word is traditionally associated with Torah, the Law. It is translated as Wisdom and for the wise man, they say Hakhkam. Hebrew script is so difficult to recognize, they look all the same. I only can remember aleph and beth.
Wow, how to read that? I just use Arabic and Roman script transcribing Hebrew sound. Do you know how to read Hebrew? Can you help me and others learning the alphabets? They are so confusing, I tried learning them but only can remember alep and beth :blind:. I also can write those two alphabets only : (
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Wow, how to read that? I just use Arabic and Roman script transcribing Hebrew sound. Do you know how to read Hebrew? Can you help me and others learning the alphabets? They are so confusing, I tried learning them but only can remember alep and beth :blind:. I also can write those two alphabets only : (
i cant read hebrew too.. just translate thru google translator... I wish I could have a teacher teaching me Hebrew, Turkish and Greek.
i cant read hebrew too.. just translate thru google translator... I wish I could have a teacher teaching me Hebrew, Turkish and Greek.
You had chosen nice and ancient languages. All of them are interesting and fascinating, don't forget Persian and Assyrian too. I tried to find some books about learning biblical Hebrew, but there are very difficult to find in the market here. I will start scratching Hebrew and Estrangela letters since now I have nothing to do, just finished my study. They are so difficult, especially Hebrew .
You had chosen nice and ancient languages. All of them are interesting and fascinating, don't forget Persian and Assyrian too. I tried to find some books about learning biblical Hebrew, but there are very difficult to find in the market here. I will start scratching Hebrew and Estrangela letters since now I have nothing to do, just finished my study. They are so difficult, especially Hebrew .
I only bought one Hebrew dictionary from Popular Bookstore years ago... and .. like half of it are words from the bibles...
Sukkah: Tabernacle, Booth for the Feast of Tabernacle
They said that, this tabernacle feast was one among three major Jews holiday. Historically they said, they traveled to the Temple in Jerusalem?? They were instructed to build a temporary structure which looks like a hut and they called it Sukkah. They live in the structure for a while. The Sukkah is reminiscent of the type of huts in which the ancient Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of wandering in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt.
E.g
Ana7nu bonnim sukkah: We build a tabernacle
Ana7nu: We
Bonnim: Build
Sukkah: Tabernacle
I guess I need to buy a dictionary too. It's difficult to construct a sentence without a dictionary help and a teacher of course.
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