snakelegs
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Re: מי שרצח ללמוד/לדבר בעברית- Hebrew
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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.
Peace, snakelegs
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*
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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.
