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Learn Hebrew With Stories And Pictures: Igool Ha Peleh (The Magic Circle) - includes vocabulary, questions and audio
Reading is still one of the most convenient ways to make a language stick, because you're actually using the language while learning it, instead of merely memorizing isolated bits and pieces.
Each part of the story is accompanied by an original illustration, so that even when you don't understand all the words, you can still get the gist of it and put the missing words in context.
In addition to that, each picture is followed by a table containing translation and transliteration (pronunciation guide).
If in the end, you're still not sure whether you're pronouncing the words correctly, listen to the accompanying audio file.
This book
- full color illustrations
- two different versions of the book
- vocabulary and pronunciation guide
- translations of words and phrases
- a free audio guide
- questions to train text comprehension
Each part of the story is accompanied by an original illustration, so that even when you don't understand all the words, you can still get the gist of it and put the missing words in context.
In addition to that, each picture is followed by a table containing translation and transliteration (pronunciation guide).
If in the end, you're still not sure whether you're pronouncing the words correctly, listen to the accompanying audio file.
This book
- full color illustrations
- two different versions of the book
- vocabulary and pronunciation guide
- translations of words and phrases
- a free audio guide
- questions to train text comprehension
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First published July 8, 2012
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December 31, 2019
It really is a cute story, with a Circle meeting a bunch of sad shapes and using their magic powers to make all of their lives better by building cars, boats, and hot air balloons.
There's a good chunk of vocab words, and a decent amount of repetition to try to catch the meaning (the Circle keeps saying, "Al tidag, hakol yihye beseder! [Don't worry, everything will be fine!]," which is all well and good when you're a magic circle). And having phonetic translations (as well as a link to the author reading it out loud) is very handy.
A few bits though:
* Reading this on ebook turned out to be a bigger chore. The Hebrew words are actually images, so you can't properly select, copy, or highlight it :/ There also isn't a convenient way to see two pages at once, which would be nice rather than flipping between the text and translation.
* While I understand not wanting to repeat the same translations over and over, it's a little inconsistent when the author would omit a translation or not (and given searching the ebook is painful, that makes it a chore if you forget)
But given this costs barely anything, it's a cute affordable intro to Hebrew in a simple story.
There's a good chunk of vocab words, and a decent amount of repetition to try to catch the meaning (the Circle keeps saying, "Al tidag, hakol yihye beseder! [Don't worry, everything will be fine!]," which is all well and good when you're a magic circle). And having phonetic translations (as well as a link to the author reading it out loud) is very handy.
A few bits though:
* Reading this on ebook turned out to be a bigger chore. The Hebrew words are actually images, so you can't properly select, copy, or highlight it :/ There also isn't a convenient way to see two pages at once, which would be nice rather than flipping between the text and translation.
* While I understand not wanting to repeat the same translations over and over, it's a little inconsistent when the author would omit a translation or not (and given searching the ebook is painful, that makes it a chore if you forget)
But given this costs barely anything, it's a cute affordable intro to Hebrew in a simple story.
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