Trevor, your long contribution should be helpful in general, but it
seems to miss out one important category which is the one Al puts
himself in: those learning Hebrew. I am thinking mostly of those
learning biblical Hebrew. I would also put myself in this category,
though perhaps more advanced than Al. But I still find that the major
difficulty which I have with Hebrew is the script, more so than the
grammar or the vocabulary. Indeed for some time I was regularly using a
transliterated Hebrew Bible text (in my computer) for my studies and
translation work. To put it simply, it is much easier (for English
speakers) to learn Hebrew using transliteration than using Hebrew
(rather, Aramaic square) script. And for many purposes this is adequate;
also if one has mastered the basics of grammar etc in transliteration it
may then be easier to transfer to Hebrew script.
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