Looking to brush up on your conversational Hebrew? The following free online Hebrew course consists of ten lessons. It is designed for those with a basic background in spoken and written Hebrew. Each lesson consists of a short dialogue, grammar notes, and practice drills. Lessons also come with a recorded version so you can learn the proper pronunciation of the words and phrases.
Lesson One– Greetings
Lesson Two– Introductions; The Direct Object Preposition
Lesson Three– Introductions Continued; Alternative Noun Forms; Dual Number in Nouns
Lesson Four– Housing Arrangements; The Preposition ‘Shel -‘ ‘Of’; Contraction of ‘Le-‘ and ‘Ha-‘ ‘To The’.
Lesson Five– Speaking Hebrew; Past Tense of Verbs – First and Second Person; Alternation ‘Mi’ and ‘Me’ – ‘From’; Consonant Alternation ‘B’ and ‘V’
Lesson Six– Asking Directions; Stark Imperatives; Gentle Imperatives; Negative Imperatives; Contraction of The ‘Be’ and ‘Ha’ – ‘At The’ and ‘In The;’ Alternative Forms of ‘Ve’ and ‘Oo’ – ‘And’; Loss of the Final Stem Vowel in Verbs
Lesson Seven– Wandering Through Tel Aviv; Gender and Number – Present Tense Verbs and Adjectives; ‘-T’ Suffix Feminine Forms; Present Tense of Verbs with Stem pattern ‘eh-a’ / ‘a-at’; Present Tense Pattern ‘Mo-tzeh/ Mot-tzet’; Present Tense Pattern ‘Nim-tza/ Nim-tzet’; Derived Adjectives with ‘ee’
Lesson Eight– Wandering Through Tel Aviv (Continued); ‘Ah’ Suffix of ‘Lam-ed Hey’ Verbs; Common Adjective Pattern; Adjectives Ending in ‘Ach’
Lesson Nine– Wandering Through Tel Aviv (Continued); The Preposition ‘Etz-el’; Definite Article ‘Ha-‘ Prefixed to Adjectives
Lesson Ten– Wandering Through Tel Aviv (Concluded); The Relative Conjunction ‘She-‘; The Conjunction ‘Ksheh’; Adjectives Used to Modify Verbs