עבריתHad a pretty big week! I finished Pimsleur Unit 2 and I'll be starting the third and final unit this coming week.
I also completed a Hebrew handwriting workbook that I got from my mother, a long time Hebrew teacher. It was actually really good. It starts you off with big letters but then lets you practice with smaller letters the size of actual handwork. The paper was good quality and my fountain pen ink didn't bleed through the pages. I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning Hebrew handwriting. Here is a link to Amazon:
Derech Binah - Script Writing Workbook (Hebrew Edition)
https://a.co/d/5eklBLcThe textbook for my class is עברית מן ההתחלה
ivrít min hahatkhalá "Hebrew From Scratch." Funnily enough, my mother asked me what book she was using and actually says with some disgust, "it's not עברית מן ההתחלה, is it?" But I think it seems fine. It's a bit intense though. There's more Hebrew than English so it isn't self learning friendly, and there's a lot of vocabulary. The learning order is practical, not theoretical, so they start with the present tense and infinitive of verbs, while a Biblical Hebrew course would start with the more straightforward perfective/past tense since conversational ability isn't a concern there. My wife recognized the book from having taken Hebrew for a year in college, so I guess it's a standard college level text.
There's a story we're supposed to translate and underline all construct states for homework. I didn't want to write in my book or make a photocopy so I thought I'd use it as handwriting practice and copy it down. I think it came out pretty well considering that I couldn't write Hebrew by hand a week ago. I do still need to work on my spacing and size consistency and I'm sure I'll get faster and more confident with practice.
Here is the story I copied:
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And I should probably start writing a bit in Hebrew. FYI, I did some digging and to right-align Hebrew or Arabic text here, use the "rtl" tag.
אני אובד בבוסטון ביום שלישי וביום רביעי. בימים אחרים, אני אובד בבית. לאבוד בבוסטון כיף מאוד! אני נוהג לרוויר ולוכח את הרכבת שם. אני אוהב את כל המסעדות שם! אני רוצה לאכול ארוחת צהריים במסעדה אחרת כל יום!
ChessI've been keeping up with my opening line reviews, and I've been learning some new ones too. I'm very course to finishing the quick starter to
The Uncompromising Modern Defense. It does only cover 1.e4 and 1.d4 so I'm using a book,
Opening Repertoire: the Modern Defence by Cyrus Lakdawala, to handle sidelines.
I've been getting pretty decent at beating 1600-level bots so maybe I should jump into live games when I've just finished the quick starters and not bother learning all 700 lines flagged as important. I do need to learn some more basic endgames, though.
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