The Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew is an integrated language course designed ideally for classroom-based learners. Adopting an eclectic approach, the course contains 90 lessons combining authentic texts, grammar explanations, and exercises with audiovisual materials to guide and support the student through the key skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Features include:
A wide range of texts, from dialogues and simple narratives to newspaper articles and poetry
Over 30 additional passages for extended reading
Vocabulary lists for each text
A variety of exercises for every lesson including oral drills, listening comprehension, grammar
exercises and writing practice
Glossaries for each unit and a comprehensive dictionary
Thorough explanation of all the grammatical issues that arise at the introductory level
A solid grammatical foundation presented in an accessible, user-friendly manner
Cultural notes to introduce students to Israeli society
All the texts, wordlists, and verb conjugations are freely available in an audiovisual format on the companion website:
http://routledgehebrew.com/
An integral part of the course, the website also contains a wealth of additional resources including:
Answers to all of the exercises in the book
Interactive exercises
Audiovisual verb dictionary
Audiovisual charts of prepositions and nouns with their pronoun suffixes
Audiovisual reference charts of numbers, colors, the days of the week, etc.
Checklists and review lessons for each unit
Links to Israeli websites
Videos and music
The Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew provides everything that students and instructors need for an engaging and effective learning environment.
