Biblical Hebrew Forum

[yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>]

RE:     Competence in Hebrew
TO:     "Tony Starks", INTERNET:data7201 AT aol.com
DATE:   31/12/99 11:09

TS:
>Looking back, if you had to learn hebrew again and had to learn it on your

>own, how would you proceed? What would you do to reach what you would call

>competence in the language?

simple. go to israel for two years. refuse to use anything but hebrew.

if you can't do that, then go to israel for one year. :-)

if you can't do that, then get real language biblical hebrew 
(e.g., see the URL below.)
and for the moment maybe the old FSI Hebrew course with 24 cassettes. 
syracuse language also has something that looked pretty nice as a parallel
program.

elef braxot
randall buth
http://buth.jerusalemschool.org