learn hebrew

I was doing so well practicing Hebrew every day and then classes started up, and I moved into a new apartment and now I’m not getting ANYTHING done… >_<

but I have to get this apartment clean before I can settle down and concentrate

aAAH!

I feel so overwhelmed. My friend was showing me the prayers she was practicing and I can’t believe that some people can read Hebrew without the vowels added….. I feel so inept.

I’m never going to get there.

My handwriting is getting better. I still only know 8 consonants and a few vowels, though. I didn’t want to jump in too quickly. Doing reading exercises and getting used to immediate recognition of the few letters I’ve learned.

So I’m doing work out of the Hebrew book I purchased and I am drilling writing the letters in block and script. I also know the sounds for the following letters

tav, bet, shin, lamed, mem, mem sofit, hei, reish

and some of the vowels for soft “a”, long “o”, soft “e” and long “a”

I can now write Shalom in hebrew!

Today I picked up “Aleph isn’t Tough” by Linda Motzkin at the Jewish Book Center in NYC. If you live in New York, they had several books on learning Hebrew (and many more on Yiddish), but this is the one I liked best.

It really breaks it down easily, but it’s a learning book for adults, so you don’t feel juvenile working with it.

If you’re interested, the USBN for this book is : 0-8074-0726-7

Is there a good Hebrew school in Indianapolis that will let older people come study there? I’m looking for adult classes in Hebrew because I’d feel very awkward learning Hebrew with a bunch of elementary school children. lol

I tried learning out of a book of my father’s but Hebrew isn’t very easy to learn on your own…