A Textbook of Israeli Hebrew

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Summary: satisified customer here
Review: gets down to business and teaches the language
also includes excerpts of poetry and biblical hebrew

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Summary: Full of information but dated...not best for beginners
Review: I have had this book for a while now. It is packed with information, more so than you would see in a modern book. However, it seems when this book was originally published they did not use "binyanim" to explain the Hebrew verb classes. Instead you will find a lot of seemingly technical jargon for grammatical rules. Some of the dialogues are dull and instead of using all modern conversations or literature the book sometimes has passages from an ancient story called "Holophernes and Judith" rendered in Modern Hebrew. I would choose this book as a probably complete reference guide to Hebrew, but buy something else to really get going in the language.

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Summary: One of the best books on a language I've ever seen...
Review: This book is really great... It's better than 99% of all other language books on the market, IMHO, because it teaches bit by bit, and has lots of exercises that make you understand how to use each construction, one at a time... It's very easy to remember vocabulary this way, because you actually use it in real sentences. I very highly recommend it, if you want to learn hebrew...