Colloquial Hebrew

By Zippi Lyttleton, Tamar Wang

Subjects: Hebrew language, English, Hebrew language, textbooks for foreign speakers, Textbooks for foreign speakers, Spoken Hebrew

Description: Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study and class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Hebrew. No prior knowledge of the language is required. This book aims to teach Hebrew as it is spoken and written today, giving you a level of competence to be able to travel around and engage in conversation on a range of topics as well as being able to read signs, menus, posters and other basic written texts. Each unit contains dialogues of everyday encounters and situations which can be performed in the exercises which follow. The Hebrew alphabet is introduced from Unit 1, but all dialogues are given in Romanized form alongside the script until the final stages of the book. - Publisher.