Everyday Hebrew: Language Program [Box set] [Audio Cassette]

Eliezer Tirkel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 084428484X | ISBN-13: 978-0844284842 | Publication Date: January 11, 1996 | Edition: 1

Developed by leading Hebrew-language educators, this text/audio program is great for self-study or group instruction. Four 60-minute audiocassetttes and 30 text units help students speak, read, and understand modern Hebrew.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette: 172 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 11, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 084428484X
• ISBN-13: 978-0844284842
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.2 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,111,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #4 in Books > Books on Cassette > Languages > Hebrew

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, but frustrating!, January 4, 2000

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Frustrated Hebrew Student (McCAll, ID....USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everyday Hebrew: Language Program (Audio Cassette)

I'm just a kid that decided he wanted to learn Hebrew. While this book did teach me the aleph-bet in script and print (this was very useful), as the book proceeded I found it difficult to understand and frustrating. There are no answers to any of the questions or assignments...I found myself leafing through the beginning of the book to even interpret the questions. I would have enjoyed this book (and learned more) if the author had included corrections.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A truly efficient and fun system for learning to communicate, July 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Everyday Hebrew: Language Program (Audio Cassette)

This is a really good system for learning to actually understand, speak, read and write the language. Most tape systems help you with guidebook Hebrew: teaching you how to get by at the airport, hotels and restaurants. This is for learning to really communicate. It is very efficiently laid out and easy to follow without the help of an instructor. it also comes witha full-fledged paperback text book -- not the little booklets most tape sets offer. My only criticism is that the stories are wildly sexist. All the men are doctors, while all the women are housewives, secretaries and nurses. In one story, a secretary worries that her boss would prefer a beautiful secretary to a competent one. In another, two women guess at the age of a mututal female friend. When one woman comments that the friend told her she is 25, both women laughingly question this. "Only 25?!" "So she says." And they both laugh. If you can get past that, it's a great tape and textbook set for learning the language.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating, May 30, 2002

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Susan Martin (Utah United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everyday Hebrew: Language Program (Audio Cassette)

I bought this set because I thought that the cassette tapes would provide a way to study while driving in the car. This did not work out. Too much content had to be learned before even one side of one tape could be understood. The content progressed at a very rapid pace and the introduction of new material was not well organized. The biggest problem with the book was the size of the Hebrew text. A magnifying glass is an essential tool to read the text. After a while, though, reading through the magnifying glass gave me a headache.