New Hebrew courses for different levels uploaded!
Check it out - for beginners -
And these below - for intermediate/advanced - thanks to the wonderful LingQ team who has fixed the severe YouTube import bug!
However, there is still more to be done, some sources are all ready to be uploaded but it just takes time, some sources need additional effort (such as ripping the audio from an otherwise free site somehow - I mean the wonderful atar haagada!), some need to have audio added, etcā¦ So much to do, so little timeā¦
And then I thought - we can do it together!
LEND ME A HAND in uploading all the wonderful materials Iāve collected, learn yourself, help others, and help to make our LingQ better!
THATāS HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Look at this list Learn Hebrew at LingQ - old full version - Google Sheets
a) please, pick a source thatās not uploaded yet,
b) upload it and
c) add the LingQ course link to the table!
Thank you for helping other Hebrew-learners, and thank you for helping to bring Hebrew on LingQ to the next level!
Yours,
Alisa Zingerman
I just added two more. Itās my first time making a video public so let me know if they work. These are ācuteā and short:
They are part of a whole series, but these are the only ones Iāve studied and made sure that they worked. Please feel free to add the whole course to the google doc.
Wow, these are great! Iāve added them to the list (you can do it, too the document is shared ), but I canāt find the whole course - seems like itās new and still āin makingā, I think they will be adding more! letās keep an eye on them and add it as course then.
One thing I noticed, however, is that the early lessons have web addresses in the body of the lesson, which gets all messed up in the formatting (we have to āXā out a lot of gibberish to ignore them), and the words with niqqud donāt get saved correctly on LingQ so theyāre a little superfluous. Would it be possible to delete everything up until the LISTEN segment?
Most welcome! Thank you for your remarks, gregf, I appreciate - and I definitely want to fix it!
I need your help, though -
āEarly lessonsā - the first three lessons?
About the links - I thought about it a lot, I know itās a nuisance, but I wanted to help those, who donāt know the alphabet yet, that was the ideaā¦ I also have pasted them in the resources section, but one canāt copy from there, thatās the problem! Do you have any suggestion how to incorporate these first steps into the system smoothly?
About the ānikudā - lessons from 4 onward are all vocalized! How bad is that? Does it mean that I have to get rid of the nikud in all the lessons? Itāll take some time, but it is possible - in case it makes the course unusable it must be done! But I absolutely agree that itās superfluous, I just had the texts vocalized already and copy-pasted them hereā¦ Let me know how bad that is, ok? On scale from 1 to 10 - when ten is - āvocalized text are a catastrophe and canāt be used at all, get rid of them urgently!ā
Thank you!!! I am happy I could help! And thank you for creating this ingenious learning environment - It took me a while to appreciate, but I am officially hooked now (thanks to Konstantin ) Iāll keep uploading and see you in Fukuoka!
Yes, I was referring to the first three lessons of your first class. They work great, except for the html links.
As for the links in the text, I see them in the āResourcesā tab, so thereās no need to include them in the body of the lesson itself (html links get all broken by the system when theyāre displaed from right to left).
As far as I can tell, nikud doesnāt work at all on LingQ. When you create lingqs from vowel-marked words, the system āforgetsā your entry and doesnāt save them. Iām not sure what the problem is technically, I just know that any texts with nikud are functionally broken on LingQ. You can check it out yourself by opening the lesson 4 and trying to save words.
Iām not sure what to do with your nikud lessons: either we wait for the admins to fix the problem, or we remove the vowel markings. I prefer not having nikud myself (for the same reasons that Steve doesnāt like vowel markings: might as well learn to read adult-level texts from the beginnings, with no helpers beyond TTS).
I would be most interested in the possibility of an actual book in modern Hebrew, like a work of fiction: an ebook with corresponding audio to import into LingQ. Do you have any ideas about this?
You read my mind. I have an e-version of a book with audio that Iām selling on Amazon, Iām just about uploading it to the e-books section! (Not for free, but thatās the best I can do - and of course Iāll make it most affordable for LingQ users! Hope this section really worksā¦) So - working on it, Iāll let you know when ready!
Alisa, you are really enticing me back to Hebrew. I look forward to using these materials next year including buying your book if it is offered for sale across LingQ.
Thanks Alisa. Is there a link to your book on Amazon? I will definitely look at your book, but I was also thinking of an audiobook from an Israeli fiction writer, maybe someone considered a great writer. There are actually some Hebrew audiobooks on audible.com, but I donāt know which ones are āgoodā (subjective of course) and how to find the corresponding ebook.