Ivrit

[cellio]

Tonight was the last night of the ulpan (Hebrew class). I have mixed feelings about it, but there was enough that was positive that I let myself get talked into a weekly follow-on class (five sessions), after hearing who would be teaching it. :-)

I'm going to try an experiment. Occasionally I'll post short passages in Hebrew. I'll never include anything important only in Hebrew, so you're not missing anything if you don't read the language, but if you do read, I welcome corrections, replies in Hebrew, comments, etc. If you reply in Hebrew and you don't use vowels, try not to be too subtle -- I'm not too good with unpointed text yet. And my vocabulary isn't very large yet, but I have a dictionary and 501 Hebrew Verbs. Until I find a reasonable way to typeset, I'm going to take advantage of LJ's vast stores of disk space to store scanned handwriting.

Here's the first one:


(The first word on the last line is a little sloppy; it's ha-hi. That mark below it is a smudge on the paper that I couldn't quite crop out.)

Comments

Re: et

[cellio]

My Biblical-Hebrew book says "et" is for direct objects and doesn't specify definite/indefinite -- but it does say that the word "can" appear (or maybe "usually appears") but might not. One of the ulpan teachers corrected me when I used it indefinitely, saying (as you do) that it's only for definite objects.