Including a slow, measured, memorable approach to mastering the alphabet. In-depth verse study of Genesis 1.1 demonstrates some of the principles learned. Exercises include transliteration practice, writing practice and character recognition drawn from famous Biblical passages and historical examples such as medieval Jewish scrolls.
Tutored students receive marked, annotated exercises and model answers.
Non-tutored students may send for the model answers and mark their exercises themselves. Here the structure of creating nouns etc., from verbal roots is explained. From a vocabulary of just 1800 root verbs the whole language can be mastered. Since Hebrew merges several words into one via prefixes and suffixes I approach this from the Hebrew back into English direction rather than vice-versa so that someone can very quickly extract an English meaning from the Hebrew without necessarily being as quick to translate English thought into Hebrew. If you work too much from English into Hebrew you only learn word for word equivalence rather than foreign idea to own-language idiom translation.