Summary: On January 9th, I received my first unit of Code Year, a one-year, weekly lesson in Javascript programming offered freely by CodeAcademy. Take ten minutes in the evenings, and learn the language used to create on the Web.
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So, mostly what I’ve been doing is supporting my faculty colleagues in their transition from Blackboard to our new Moodle learning management system. But, partly what I’ve been doing is continuing with the biblical Hebrew resources in my series, “A Foundation for Biblical Hebrew,” a series that uses communicative learning tools as a supplement to [...]
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Summary: I’ve worked into biblical Hebrew the children’s song, “The Wise Man Built His House upon a Rock.” I also plan “If You’re Happy and You Know It” and “Head Shoulders.” What other simple children’s songs, with good biblical vocabulary or communicative-learning pay-off, can you think of that might be put into biblical Hebrew?
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Summary: I have created a pair of “frequency lists” for New Testament Greek and Biblical Hebrew: words are listed from most-frequent to least-frequent, according to parts of speech. To what sorts of uses might you put a frequency list?
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Summary: in place of the post I had written for today, I invite you to see what you are able to make of some Modern Hebrew sketch comedy.
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Summary: a little Israeli rock with an indie aesthetic for the second-term Biblical Hebrew class: ladies and gentlemen, Rona Kenan.
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Summary: This seven-part series comes to a total of about eighty (80) minutes. At the series’ end, the student not only will have discovered, through reading, the Biblical Hebrew Aleph-bet and vowels, but will already be reading Hebrew with a considerable degree of fluency.
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The remaining letters of the Biblical Hebrew aleph-bet are covered in this sixth learning video. By this time, the learner is quite familiar with vowels and consonants composite shewa with gutturals simple shewa, including “vocal shewa” final forms “begadkepat” letters The learner is also reading a great many Hebrew words with a considerable degree of [...]
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The fifth Biblical Hebrew learning video is available. Beside the sibilants, it introduces the “strong” (or doubling) dagesh. The sixth video will finish the aleph-bet with י, ל, נ, ר. It will also include the simple shewa (the first video, on the guttural consonants, covered vocal shewa). A follow-up seventh video will explain matres lectionis, [...]
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