Biblical Hebrew Forum

[yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>]

martin arhelger wrote:
> Everybody has a different way of learning...
> An example: I had to learn English and French in the way you did - and I
> always hated it, because this was totally against my manner of acquiring
> languages. What I needed was a systematic and logical way through a
> language FROM THE BEGINNING and this I got while learning Hebrew in the
> traditional manner but not while learning English or French in the
> manner that you described.

another valid point, at least in part. (there is also the question of
whether the programs you endured were well run. i've seen different israeli
ulpans both kill and bring to life the same students, even using the same
material. but we'll assume they were well run.)

yet humans do have certain wiring mechanisms for language that seem more
more basic than learning styles. e.g. kids learn aurally and orally. 

part of the problem is the goal of learning. 
i'm not sure most b-hebrew programs are geared toward learning and
internalizing BH, rather, towards describing the morphology and syntax,
amassing a gridwork in a foreign language for a basic vocabulary and
writing exegetical papers in the respective foreign language.  

i was impressed with your english. can you do that even better in hebrew?

braxot
randall buth