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people interested in studying this course Modern Hebrew – Level 2

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The course is also available in Spanish, Portuguese and French.


Take your Hebrew studies a step further and learn how to express yourself using sentence structure and grammar rules that you'll learn throughout the course.

Programma

1. Hello! Nice to meet you!

In this unit we’ll get acquainted with the teacher and with our classmates, and then we’ll start learning and enjoying.
This unit will introduce the different parts of the body and will refresh some verbs and conjugations.


2. Doctor, I am in pain!

In this unit we’ll learn how to describe our symptoms to the doctor.
We'll also learn how to identify feminine nouns, and learn the names of basic colors.


3. Would you like to work at the bank?

In this unit we will learn verbs and infinitives and practice using them. We will also discuss the pros and cons of certain jobs.


4. Buying vegetables at the market

Israeli culture thrives on eating and cooking local vegetables from the marketplace. This unit will teach you how to engage in conversation on your next trip to the Israeli shuk (marketplace.)


5. Fruit salad

What do you do when you feel that you'd studied for too long? –Prepare fruit salad, of course. Today we will learn about the tasty ingredients of this delicious dish.


6. The weather

In this unit we will learn about the weather, the seasons, and the conjugation of the prepositions "?" and "??".


7. David Ben-Gurion

David Ben Gurion was the primary founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel. In this unit we will learn about him and his life after retiring from political activity. By following a typical day of his life, we will learn about time expressions and the verbal group of ?? and ??.


8. Clothes

This unit will teach you some of the words that will help you in describing clothes.


9. Transportation

In this unit we’ll learn about all the different forms of public transportation to help you get around Israel in the best and quickest ways possible.


10. A Tour of the Old City of Jerusalem

Would you like to tour Jerusalem's old city? Join the Cohens and their tour guide and visit the holy places and even put a note in the Kotel!


11. Israeli Breakfast

Our class goes to a coffee shop to enjoy an Israeli breakfast. We will learn about the different ingredients of the breakfast menu such as different cheese and eggs. We will also learn the verb group of "??????".
Bete'avon!


12. Tiberius Marathon

In this unit we are going to train for the lowest marathon of the world – The Tiberias Marathon, and participate in it. We will learn words and verbs related to sport.


13. The kitchen is small

In this unit we will elaborate our understanding of noun and adjective forms.
We will also learn to understand and say sentences without verbs.


14. "Ulpan" in the Central Station

In this unit we’ll join a newcomer to Israel who has a brilliant idea to practice Hebrew. We will study how to pluralize irregular nouns, learn about the demonstrative pronouns (???, ????, ????), and about the prepositions “?”, “?” and “?” combined with the definite article.


15. Domestic cat, alley cat

In this unit we'll learn about combining noun constructs. Understanding noun constructs and the ability to create them will broaden and enrich our manner of expression in Hebrew.


16. Special Wedding

In this unit we'll accompany a special couple, Ya'akov and Anna, from being soldiers with no family in Israel who volunteered to serve in the IDF, to becoming a family.
We will also study the inflection of the preposition "??" and the transition of direct and indirect speech.


17. It’s Useful to Learn Hebrew

In this unit we will learn a children's song about all the things one is obliged to do.
We will also learn the infinitive combinations and how to construct sentences which refer to things that are allowed or forbidden, possible and impossible.


18. Nobody knows where my cellphone is

In this unit we'll follow an original way of revealing a lost cellphone. We will study the use of double negative expressions (never, nothing…) in Hebrew.


19. Review and goodbye

It's time to say goodbye, but first, let's review what we have studied in our course: vocabulary, grammar, and some of the stories we read.
We cannot say goodbye without giving some farewell presents to our classmates. But, in a virtual class we give virtual presents – pictures are enough?.
See you in Ulpan 3.

Docenti

- Tamar Weyl, Modern Hebrew, Academic Director & Developer.
- Shira Cohen-Regev, MS MSW, Biblical Hebrew, Academic Developer.