Basic Modern Hebrew includes the first 10 lessons from the Pimsleur Comprehensive Level I. 5 hours, audio-only, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.What is the Pimsleur difference? The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick command of Modern Hebrew structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak Modern Hebrew can actually be enjoyable and rewarding. The key reason most people struggle with new languages is that they aren't given proper instruction, only bits and pieces of a language. Other language programs sell only pieces -- dictionaries; grammar books and instructions; lists of hundreds or thousands of words and definitions; audios containing useless drills. They leave it to you to assemble these pieces as you try to speak. Pimsleur enables you to spend your time learning to speak the language rather than just studying its parts. When you were learning English, could you speak before you knew how to conjugate verbs? Of course you could. That same learning process is what Pimsleur replicates. Pimsleur presents the whole language as one integrated piece so you can succeed. With Pimsleur you get: - Grammar and vocabulary taught together in everyday conversation, - Interactive audio-only instruction that teaches spoken language organically, - The flexibility to learn anytime, anywhere, - 30-minute lessons designed to optimize the amount of language you can learn in one sitting. Millions of people have used Pimsleur to gain real conversational skills in new languages quickly and easily, wherever and whenever -- without textbooks, written exercises, or drills.
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Fantastic introduction to Hebrew, May 28, 2007
Reviewer: Skokie mom
I bought this 10-lesson introductory course about 18 years ago to check out the course before buying the fairly expensive full 30-lesson course. In just a few lessons I was sold and I did buy the 30-lesson course. It was well worth the cost and I have gone through the whole course three full times since first buying it. This review is really for the full 30-lesson course, of which the 10-lesson introductory course is simply the first third. However, although you can learn more with the next 20 lessons, the first 10 lessons are reasonably self-contained.
I originally wanted to learn basic Hebrew for the first of many two-week visits to Israel when my husband had a post-doc at the Weizmann Institute while I continued living in the U.S. I conscientiously worked with the tapes for 30-45 min a day for a month before my visit. It is not just mindless repetition: the lessons require you to put your own new sentences together, so you really learn how the language works. After working through all 30 lessons, I found that I was indeed able to ask basic questions like "where is the restroom?" and understand the answer.
A few years later I used the tapes again to review before going to live in Israel for the summer. I enrolled in a municipal "Ulpan"---Israeli Hebrew lessons for new immigrants. Based on the basic knowledge I had gained from the Pimsleur tapes, I was able to skip the extremely basic introductory level course and take the next level course. To compare the Pimsleur course to Ulpan classes: the Pimsleur is not quite as thorough in covering grammar and vocabulary, but given the goal of maximizing the ability to use the language in 30 short lessons, it does an admirable job. And in some ways, the Pimsleur course gives students better conversational skills for a given basic level of knowledge.
Finally, just a few years ago I used the tapes once more to review before a visit to Israel since I had forgotten most of the conversational Hebrew I had learned. We visited stayed for a couple of weeks with an Israeli family in which the mother and father speak very little English. They are friends my husband had met when he worked there. It helps that they are very patient with beginning speakers, and they do understand a fair number of English words, so I can fall back on that for vocabulary I do not know. But they were impressed that I could even catch the gist of some of their Hebrew conversations. Not bad for the 30-lesson Pimsleur course plus a couple of months of Ulpan.
I can't recommend the Pimsleur Hebrew course highly enough. I only wish there were more advanced Pimsleur Hebrew courses.
- Published:
December 2005
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
H017756
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