Learn Hebrew

Start at the alphabet

The Hebrew on-ramp is written by hand, not generated, and it is 468 cards long. Every card is spoken in a recorded Hebrew voice, and what you get right is scheduled for review rather than shown again at random.

• 22letters
• 10digits
• 16pronunciation rules
• 300core words
• 60everyday phrases
• 60sentences

Three of the pronunciation cards, exactly as the course teaches them:

• מָ מַ — the first vowel, and the first surprise: kamatz (the little T shape) and patach (the flat line) are BOTH simply “a”. Ancient Hebrew held one longer than the other; modern Israeli Hebrew makes no difference whatever. Two signs, one soundיָד — a hand — the part at the end of your arm
• מֵ מֶ — the same trick again: tzere (two dots side by side) and segol (three dots in a triangle) are both “e” as in “bed”. This is the pattern of the whole system — many signs, five soundsסֵפֶר — a book — the kind with pages you turn
• מִ מִי — chirik is a single dot underneath, and it is “ee”. Add a yod after it and nothing changes in the sound — the yod is a spelling helper, a “mother of reading”, showing where the vowel is when the dots are missingאִמָּא — mum — what a child calls their mother

Then material that does not run out

Once you are reading, the level is the point. The Text Generator writes Hebrew at the CEFR level, length, topic and format you ask for, so the step up is a setting rather than a new book. Speaking scores you word by word as you read aloud. The Conversation Partner talks back. The Translator explains a sentence instead of replacing it, and the Corrector marks what you wrote and says why.

Above the on-ramp sits the Path — a station map from A1 to C2 with grammar, vocabulary and checkpoint stations — and Words & Notes, where everything you save comes back on a spaced-repetition schedule in seven quiz styles.

What Hebrew actually costs a beginner

Two signs, one sound, over and over — kamatz and patach are both a, tzere and segol are both e. Ancient Hebrew held one of each pair longer; modern Hebrew does not, and a course that drills the difference is teaching something nobody says. The real costs are elsewhere. The vowel points disappear entirely from ordinary printed Hebrew, so fluent reading eventually means supplying them yourself, and five letters change shape at the end of a word. Both are met in the on-ramp, with a recorded voice on every card.