New Hebrew courses for different levels uploaded!

Dear Hebrew-learners!

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 Iā€™ve collected, learn yourself, help others, and help to make our LingQ better!

THATā€™S HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Look at this list Learn Hebrew at LingQ - old full version - Google Sheets
a) please, pick a source thatā€™s 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

Alisa,

These are amazing! I alreadyā€“after your postingā€“did one of the ā€œHebrew Streetā€ Lessons.

These will keep me busy until my trip to Israel in Juneā€¦:slight_smile:

Todah!

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I just added two more. Itā€™s my first time making a video public so let me know if they work. These are ā€œcuteā€ and short:

They are part of a whole series, but these are the only ones Iā€™ve studied and made sure that they worked. Please feel free to add the whole course to the google doc.

Dan

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Wow, these are great! Iā€™ve added them to the list (you can do it, too :slight_smile: the document is shared :slight_smile: ), but I canā€™t find the whole course - seems like itā€™s new and still ā€œin makingā€, I think they will be adding more! letā€™s keep an eye on them and add it as course then. :wink:

These are great, thank you Alisa!

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 ā€˜Xā€™ out a lot of gibberish to ignore them), and the words with niqqud donā€™t get saved correctly on LingQ so theyā€™re a little superfluous. Would it be possible to delete everything up until the LISTEN segment?

Otherwise great work, theyā€™re really useful!

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Wow Alisa. Great work. I will certainly get back to my Hebrew one day and you have made me much keener to do so. Thank you!!

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Most welcome! :slight_smile: Thank you for your remarks, gregf, I appreciate - and I definitely want to fix it!
I need your help, though -

  1. ā€œEarly lessonsā€ - the first three lessons?

  2. About the links - I thought about it a lot, I know itā€™s a nuisance, but I wanted to help those, who donā€™t know the alphabet yet, that was the ideaā€¦ I also have pasted them in the resources section, but one canā€™t copy from there, thatā€™s the problem! Do you have any suggestion how to incorporate these first steps into the system smoothly?

  3. About the ā€œnikudā€ - 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? Itā€™ll take some time, but it is possible - in case it makes the course unusable it must be done! But I absolutely agree that itā€™s 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 :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: - when ten is - ā€œvocalized text are a catastrophe and canā€™t be used at all, get rid of them urgently!ā€

Thank you for your help!

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 :wink: ) Iā€™ll keep uploading and see you in Fukuoka! :slight_smile:

Hi Alisa,

  1. Yes, I was referring to the first three lessons of your first class. They work great, except for the html links.

  2. As for the links in the text, I see them in the ā€œResourcesā€ tab, so thereā€™s no need to include them in the body of the lesson itself (html links get all broken by the system when theyā€™re displaed from right to left).

  3. As far as I can tell, nikud doesnā€™t work at all on LingQ. When you create lingqs from vowel-marked words, the system ā€œforgetsā€ your entry and doesnā€™t save them. Iā€™m 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.

Iā€™m 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 doesnā€™t like vowel markings: might as well learn to read adult-level texts from the beginnings, with no helpers beyond TTS).

Alisa, thank you so much!

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Thanks, Dan!

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Hi Alisa,

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?

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Great job. I want to do something similar for Japanese learners too. The more content, the better!

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Thank you! I wonā€™t wait, then, - Iā€™ll just remove the nikud asap (and let you know when ready!) Thank you so much for the heads-up!

About the resources section - Iā€™m on Android and I canā€™t copy anything from the resources sectionā€¦ Maybe you can on your device?

You read my mind. :slight_smile: I have an e-version of a book with audio that Iā€™m selling on Amazon, Iā€™m just about uploading it to the e-books section! (Not for free, but thatā€™s the best I can do - and of course Iā€™ll make it most affordable for LingQ users! Hope this section really worksā€¦) So - working on it, Iā€™ll let you know when ready! :wink:

הנה חדש! Here is a new one!
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Thank you all, for showing interest! Here, Iā€™ve added another one - excellent if you are curious about Israeli private VS social standards and pains.

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.

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Alisa, thank you for adding such good content for us. I look forward to buying your book when itā€™s ready.

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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 donā€™t know which ones are ā€œgoodā€ (subjective of course) and how to find the corresponding ebook.

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Done! All HCC lessons are free from Nikud now! Enjoy :slight_smile: