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Biblical Hebrew Survival Kit

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The combination of the flash cards and the CD make this a great tool for those learning or brushing up on Hebrew on their own.

This is supposed to be used as a study helper to a text book that I don't own.. however, I have other another book on Hebrew and these goes well with it. The study sheet is helpful and makes a great reference for when Im trying to read and the flash cards are clear and correct. I don't care for the CD much but it is useful if you would like to hear the words being said.

This handy-dandy little packet has very useful tools to assist the study of Biblical Hebrew. The laminated card--4 pages of "cheat sheets" help order grammar and function, keep the alphabet handy, and generally offers essential elements that are ordered cogently. The flash cards and the cd that pronounces and defines the words in the same order as the flash cards is a perfect tool for getting vocabulary pounded into even the most stubbornly resistant brain.

The word numbers on the cards do not track with the words on the CD. There are two reasons for this.
The first is reasonable, but inconvenient, CD numbers are labelled by chapter number and the word's
number for that chapter. The card deck numbers are just monotonically increasing to the end, 1 to 1000.
But however the second reason is that there are errata on the cards w.r.t. their placement (order).
As an example, card number 78 has the next Hebrew word (79) spelling on the back with the definition
of the previous (78) word. This throws the rest of the card number off for the rest of the chapter.
If you are struggling with a subject you have not learned, how can you make corrections for the
authors in order to understand which CD blurb belongs to which card??
Also, the cards have references in their corners to books you may not own.
I would have appreciated the Strong's Concordance numbers.
If you are an old Navigator, a la Daws Trotman, you will really like the card system. All 1000 words
on the CD fit on one side of a micro-cassette pocket tape recorder. Language is 95 percent auditory.
You learn it at Mama's knee before you are 4 years old. After you understand a word by listening to it, all the
grammar will come along from the books. I sure hope Zondervan works the kinks out of this one.