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Title: Great little textbook
Review: Not for a total beginner, but once you know the characters of the Hebrew alphabet and their sounds, this little book quickly plunges you into short, easy lessons containing stories with sentences 1-2 words long to start. Ten or less new words are introduced with each lesson, easily learned in the context of simple, repetitious dialogue. Each lesson also includes some basic grammar and exercises to practice reading, writing, and speaking. Sephardic pronunciation of vowels and alphabet, including script, are given in the back; I love it that practice reading and writing the script is included from the second lesson on. I also love it that there is no distracting transliteration, but the student is expected to be reading simple words from the get-go. Hebrew-English and English-Hebrew dictionaries in the back are only 9 pages long, so the book is slim, easy to carry around, and very accessible. A good foundation for more complex language learning later.
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