Talk:Hebrew/Archive

Organization
It will make things easier for you if you use the / system to organize the pages. Hebrew/Intro, Hebrew/Verbs, etc. The secondary page, Intro or Verbs, has an automatic link that is created to the parent page, Hebrew. --Karl Wick 23:15, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Transliteration
Would it be possible for you to put in more transliterations of new vocabulary so that learners could be sure of their pronunciations?

suggestion
Lesson 2 and 5 on verbs should be merged, they're bascially the same.

Other Suggested Lessons
I don't know enough Hebrew to create these, but I'll try to help where I can.

Meals
nouns: breakfast, lunch, supper, snack, water, food, wine, sandwich, meat, milk adjectives: hungry, full (satisfied), delicious, fresh verbs: eat, drink, cook sentences / usage: I am hungry. When is breakfast? Lunch is delicious. The milk is fresh. Where is the restaurant? (taught in places/lesson 2)

Hebrew/Meals

Food
Hebrew/Food (basics) Hebrew/Fruit Hebrew/Drinks Hebrew/Meals Hebrew/Restaurants

Health and Safety
nouns: doctor, nurse, hospital, head, hand adjectives: dangerous, sick, healthy verbs: hurts sentences: My head hurts. Where is a hospital? He is sick. She is a doctor.

Hebrew/Health and Safety

Hebrew/Body

Good and Bad (Basic Adjectives)
usage: gender and number agreement adjectives: good, bad, happy, sad, hungry, sick, healthy, fresh, dangerous, delicious, beautiful, kind, tired/sleepy, excited
 * (Note: many of these adjectives are repeated from other lessons, so there can be more of them, and they serve as a review.)

sentences: I am hungry. He is healthy. She is happy. We are tired. The food is fresh. The wine is delicious. Where is a good hotel? exercises: Translate:  He is happy. She is happy. The doctor is good. The restaurant is bad.

Language
nouns: word, letter, language, lesson proper nouns: Hebrew, English phrases: How do you say? What does X mean? verbs: say/speak, understand, mean translate or translation Hebrew/Language Hebrew/Language2

Numbers
The relationship between numbers and letters. Counting to 10. About numbers higher than 10. Masculine and feminine forms of numbers number related words: many, more, fewer, less, first, last, number Phrases: One hospital, Three doctors, 2 hands, many restaurants, 5 streets, 4 and 6 makes 10, 8 sandwiches, 9 lessons, 3 three words

Hebrew/Numbers

Time
words: after, before nouns: time, day (related review: today, yesterday, tomorrow), hour, noon, midnight, morning, afternoon, evening, night sentences: What time is it? When is supper? It is before three. Lunch is at noon. It is 8 in the morning. Hebrew/Time Hebrew/Days Hebrew/Months

Hello and Goodbye (More Greetings)
Actually, after looking more at the current structure, I suggest we pull some of the greeting stuff out of the current locations and create a Hebrew/Greetings lesson. noun: name phrases: Good Morning, I'm happy to/It's good to meet you. My name is X. Welcome. Good-bye. See you. Good afternoon. How are you? I'm fine. She is sick. What is your name? Hebrew/Greetings2

Family
nouns: mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, husband, wife verbs: love started, see Hebrew/Family

Advanced Family
grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, relative, family Hebrew/Family2

People
In addition to Hebrew/Family, Hebrew/Names, Hebrew/Occupations, Hebrew/People

Travel
Hebrew/Tourism? - Where is __? hotel, taxi

Miscellaneous
Hebrew/Colors, Hebrew/Language, Hebrew/Language2, Hebrew/Animals, Hebrew/Moods

Feedback
Is this helpful? --CocoaZen 05:54, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

IMHO the Hebrew course is quite helpful, at least for beginners (such as myself).

General Guidelines

 * 1) I suggest that most lessons should not introduce more than 20 vocabulary words (fewer if possible). More advanced lessons can have "prerequisite" lessons.  For example, a lesson on cooking terms could have some basic food lessons and measurement as prerequisites.
 * 2) Lessons should have a common format and components. There are several options.  Here's one example, Hebrew/Lesson formats.  Some language books put vocabulary first; others start with a dialog and then explain it with vocabulary etc.  Some common components could be
 * vocabulary (broken into parts of speech: Nouns - Verbs - Pronouns - Adjectives - Adverbs - Conjunctions - Prepositions - Interjections) with diacritic marks and transliterations/phonetic guidelines
 * dialog
 * usage hints (modern versus prayerbook Hebrew, colloquial use, more polite forms)
 * related lessons (prerequisites, more advanced, overlapping topics -- for instance days of the week and numbers are related)
 * exercises (translate individual words, phrases, sentences, first with the diacritic marks and then without) link to correct answers

Other ideas? --CocoaZen 04:35, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Layout and Formatting
As a suggestion, i think you should go over the book and make the layout and formatting consistent and then try and keep it consistent as the book develops.

Fonts

 * The fonts "Ezra SIL SR" & "Ezra SIL" display the Dagesh badly (too much to the left of the letter). If no one objects, I'll remove it from the Hebrew templates. Dan Pelleg 21:23, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Since no-one has objected for almost a month, I'm removing these fonts from the templates. Dan Pelleg (talk) 23:28, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned pages
The following pages are not linked to and should be marked with if no longer needed, linked to, or merged into another page and marked with. -- Adrignola talk contribs 18:46, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Hebrew/Exercises
 * Hebrew/Introduction
 * Hebrew/Questions