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Originally Posted by Xena  woooww!!! i would love to learn hebrew actually!!! (know your enemy alright ;) ) i always receive emails about learn hebrew online blabla but still never did it ! tell me, is it close to arabic? is it an easy language to learn walla complicated??
hihihi Genki desu! anta wa? |
Quite close, actually. Many of the words are actually almost the same.
day = yom
I = ani (of Southern Lebanese اني fame
)
we = anachnu
four = arba'
five = khamesh
eight = shemoneh (of Kiryat Shemoneh fame
)
100 = me'ah
The alphabet is fun to learn and read, I actually love it, and although at first it looks difficult to memorize all those letters which look so much alike and very difficult to distinguish from each other, it is actually very easy, it took me a few days to master it. The "7araket" are a bit difficult and complicated and they are not very widely used in daily use by them, just like in Arabic people don't use them extensively unless it is necessary to distinguish between two meanings, so if you are practicing reading without those, then it becomes difficult especially if you don't know the meaning of the words so you can't guess from the context how it is pronounced...
9th May 2007
