 I'll actually do another YouTube video. In today's video I just wanted to quickly show a few cool resources, good resources for learning Hebrew on the internet that I'm using at the moment. I saw this stay home time as a result of the coronavirus just to try to improve a bit. And I recommend that these are all good things to do simultaneously. That you don't just stick to one method because obviously conversing with people with native speakers is usually the best way to acquire language. You get practice at speaking and you get practice at listening. But that might be possible for a lot of people. Additionally, the more vocabulary that you can build for yourself, the more confident you're going to be when it comes to speaking. So at the moment where as we're stuck in quarantine with close proximity to some of our people down the road from us that we're having a lot more conversations in Hebrew. But these resources are also pretty good. So there's a few things that I like to do. One is to look at the news in Hebrew and then do translation exercises. So there's a few ways to do this. One, you can go on to Hebrew news websites. So Wala is a very big one. I guess the thing you're looking for most is a frequency, something that's updated all the time. The Hebrew news websites can be quite difficult. It's definitely not every day Hebrew, but I think that's actually a good thing because if you're looking to improve your colloquial Hebrew and your idiomatic Hebrew, you can get a lot of that from watching Netflix, which I'm going to talk about next. I'm watching Can. But this will give you some stuff that isn't so typically used every day like one of the classics that always people talk or use that you'll see all the time in the Hebrew media is emish, which means yesterday. But it's not a colloquial word. You'll never hear it said on the street. So this is our, this is the internet struggling under the, or just struggling under my lack of typing, but it's been kind of intermittent at the moment. Let's see if you can actually find it in the dictionary. I'll talk about Morphic. So it gives at the mall, which is a word everybody uses for yesterday in Israel, but there's also emish, as I said, which means, which means yesterday in a more, in a more classical, classical sense. And it says here, the Hebrew Academy actually wrote a blog post. It says, Hamila emish. So it's actually, its origin is actually from the Tanakh, from the Bible, Old Testament. Okay, so basically this is number one. And it's kind of hard going. So I actually recorded a video of me working on two paragraphs of an article. And then I decided it probably wouldn't be of such interest to people. But that's what I'm trying to do. I did literally, obviously all the articles at the moment, I'm recording this on the 5th of April, are by the Coronavirus. So that is talking about the neighborhoods that the Coronavirus situation in the Charedi neighborhoods of Jerusalem. And there's sometimes just words that I'm missing. So I'll just kind of quickly, obviously, Chamoor does not mean it's more of a donkey than a Benay Brak. So sometimes if it's like a new word, I'll pop it into Morphics. And I'll talk about Morphics in a second. And learning to type in Hebrew actually is probably the most valuable thing, neglected thing I'd say that you could do. Obviously this is, it's the grave is the Chamoor is the meaning of this context here. A drastic severe. So yeah, Morphics is really good. Morphics.co.al. It's in English to Hebrew and Hebrew to English dictionary. So you can type words in Hebrew. The very important thing about Morphics to know is that it provides the vowels. So I often use Google Translate if I'm just completely stuck on getting the meaning of a sentence at all. And then if I'm building for myself, vocabulary list, I'll use Morphics to make sure that I have the nekodot, the vowelization correct. So yeah, I'll do probably a couple. I'm trying to do at least one article per day. Everything at the moment is about corona, but that can make it good because you can learn, if you're reading the English news, you can figure out stuff from context. So start up name. And beyond the corona. We did this kind of stuff in all pan as well. I'm translating. There is also, if I Google, the government also puts out, the government also puts out. The government puts out an easy Hebrew version of the news. So they've already got today's one up. So they basically, you can do this as well. And they use this resource in all pan. I think it's actually prepared for the olpanim. They do this bulletin that you can listen to. It's about a minute and a half and they have one every day. So you can go back through this archive. And I'm just going to see what else they have on this website. I think it's better to, and they have vowelization in case of ambiguity as well. Just specifically for learners. So this is good. I personally prefer to just bite the bullet and tackle this stuff because I think if you can get to the level of being able to comprehend full articles in Wala, there's also Wainet. Or you can just type in Hadashot. And you'll find the big ones. Wala, as I said, Wainet of a Hebrew edition. And Shtema's today. A lot of these also have corresponding English editions, but how else, for example, have a big, so there's one. So you've got really quite a lot of options to choose from over here. So much so that you could just spend your entire day translating from Hebrew to English. And although it would be kind of boring, I'd imagine you would probably end up with a pretty good vocabulary. So basically the next thing I like to do, the next strategy I recommend, you could say, and excuse me for choosing music in such a bad taste, but I'll put in any kind of, I actually like El Golan. That's the truth. So I do not mean that sincerely, but I know a lot of people aren't so keen on Mizrachi music. But anything that's in the charts, if you take some of these, this came out a few weeks ago, El Golan, Mekan ve Adanetzach, anything that's in the chart, basically, you'll be able to find Milim. So if I type in El Golan, Milim, I'll be able to find. And this I actually used, I basically taught myself Spanish when I was in high school. We didn't teach Spanish. I used to be a big language buff. I did Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, which probably seemed more impressive than it is because they're all romance languages. Romance means anything derived from, I'm actually not sure, from ancient Rome, but Rome wasn't a language, but that's the meaning. So Romanian actually is in the family to Spanish, Portuguese, Italian. So learning a few different, it's almost like learning dialects of one language. So I did a lot of that. And Hebrew I used to do, I used to translate songs in Spanish. And that was actually fantastic because you'll be able to do this. Firstly, you learn a lot of obviously quite colloquial language. So this is a nice compliment to translating the music. But then if you enjoy the music, you will also be able to like reinforce your vocabulary when you're, you know, just going to the gym or doing some exercise. So what I typically do is I'll make myself up a list and I'll just say, you know, verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs. And I'll go through it like this and I'll translate a song and if there's something I don't know, I'll add it to the list and I'll keep that in a folder basically. Typically you won't find so much stuff you don't know in lyrics in terms of just vocab, but you will build good idiomatic Hebrew. And I think that's very important. You know, you'll also learn how people actually pronounce stuff. So that's my technique number two. What other secrets, secrets can I spill? And I by no mean, I'm really, to be honest, I'm quite behind on my Hebrew. I've been in Israel for a number of years and I would say my main distraction has been business and making money, which I think is really, it's aliyah when you move to Israel, if you're aliyah is the process for Jews moving to Israel under the law of return. And just so much comes comes up, making a living, adjusting, making friends. So I think my Hebrew is fallen by the wayside of this, particularly as in our work in English, almost exclusively. But you know, I think if you live in a country, it's easy to create it in an immersion environment, even if your professional environment isn't always conducive to learning. So I think I will be able to get to like complete fluency. I use the word fluency pretty strictly. A lot of people who are kind of what I would call conversational describe themselves as fluent. I think I can get to real fluency, but it's going to be a battle and people should be no under illusions, under no illusions as well that Hebrew is an easy language. I think there's some ranking system in which Chinese is like number one and the Semitic, sorry, well Hebrew is a Semitic language in which the Semitic languages and I think the Slavic languages are also pretty high as well. So here we go, category one, Italian, French, Spanish, right, so those were on that category. German and Hebrew is in category four. So that would be one, two, three categories above the romance languages. So you have in this list Hebrew, I'm just talking about the Semitic languages here, Amaraic, Arabic, I'm surprised Arabic must be one above. Arabic is indeed one above and actually Arabic, I've also been learning Arabic a bit as well, Amia, which is local Palestinian, Jordanian Arabic. Arabic is very, very hard. I'd say much, quite a bit harder than Hebrew because you have, you have a, in Hebrew it's kind of, I don't want to use the word dumbed down, but they basically did when they decided on the common variant of Hebrew to satisfy the needs of Yemenite Jews and Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardi Jews and Mizrachi Jews. They went for kind of a version that maybe dumbed down is Hebrew alphabet because there's a lot of really great sounds that you have in Hebrew that have just been lost, namely the harsh ayin sound, the hate like Rahamim, like you have in Arabic. I'm not sure what the phonetic for that is called. That's gone. In Gimal in Arabic, like you have ayin and you have ghayin. That sound, Gimal with dagesh, is also unfortunately has been fallen to the wayside. So yeah, they've gone for it. It doesn't surprise me that Arabic is at the top of the list. But anyway, the point I guess was just to say that it's, it's easy to be dissuaded, but Hebrew is actually a hard language. So it takes time and it takes effort. So that's number two is I translate. Number one was I translate the news and as I said, this is a good way to learn, you know, if you want to, if you're using Hebrew in a professional context, you want to really increase your vocab. Two is Ivritkala and that is hadshon.edu.gov.au. That's hadshon, Ivritkala. They also put this out in a print format, by the way. That's what they do in Ulpan. So kind of old school, they literally will give you these newspapers. And when I went to Ulpan at Zion in Jerusalem in 2015, we were actually using tape cassettes as well, which I kind of found quite entertaining. So, you know, they do have articles. This is a nice little one, Ulpanim, Ivritkala, Ulpanim, Ivritkala, Lomdin, Marachok, Margishim, Karov. Okay, so it's nice. It's a little bit easier and you can translate. So you can do this exercise as well. People actually are writing Zoom in Hebrew now, but they're just spelling it out in English here. And the final one, which I'm trying to be a lot at the moment, and I'll just quickly call up the blog I wrote about this just a couple of days ago. I basically pulled this from Facebook. I am looking for shows in Hebrew, and what I recommend is that you find shows with the audio in Hebrew and that have English subtitles. Once you get good enough, you can learn a language by looking at the audio and the subtitles in the target language. So your native language is the one you speak and the target language is what you're learning. So target audio native subtitles. That's what I'm doing. I just made this list from Facebook, basically. Some of these are well known. And again, this is what's in the library on the 5th of April and this is also what's in the library in Israel itself. I'm not using a VPN. I'm literally connecting directly from a computer in Jerusalem to Netflix. So, I'm just going to give a quick preview over here. This, basically, this is quite a heavy one. It talks about, you know, ultra-orthodox life in which is a suburb of Jerusalem, sorry, suburb, I would say neighborhood, just performed and it's kind of heavy. It's a little bit kind of too, I think, sometimes a nice thing about watching TV is that you see a different environment than the one you experienced today. Certainly, this is pretty close. But it's interesting and the main thing, I mean, when you're learning a language, it's not a recreational. I think this is a pretty recreational way to learn. But what you're looking for is volume and that's actually quite hard when you're learning Hebrew because you just don't have, like, Israelis learn English through watching movies and there's just tens of thousands of movies and all you have to find is one that's being subtitled into Hebrew. Slection in Hebrew is much more limited because it's obviously a smaller market. But thankfully, there are quite a few shows. So, the second one is Fauda. These are all famous. Fauda, you know, talks about the Mistar Avim, and I think, actually, that link is wrong. Link for Fauda took me to Shdezal again. And I've just written in here whether there's English subtitles. Kacholim, for example, is only in Hebrew audio and it doesn't have English subtitles. So, that's anyway, it's kind of, I find it a bit boring. And you can just see sometimes you can also type in, this is where I just got a lot from searching in Hebrew and then, you know, search for Israel and search for Hebrew and you will get quite a list over there. So, some of these are on my list and some of these are not. I'll just see if this one should be added to my list and I will just quickly see, yes, you see, this one doesn't have the English subtitles. It's just got Hebrew and Hebrew. So, there are more of these as Netflix becomes more popular within Israel itself. When heroes fly is kind of edgy about guys who are in a war of some sorts, I think in south Lebanon and it's okay. The point I didn't finish earlier was you want volume. So, this has got one, two, three, this has got eight, ten episodes. So, that's something Fauda and Shdezal, I believe, have two on Netflix and the third one coming soon. So, that's really what I would be looking for when I'm trying to follow a show is how many hours of, how many hours can I watch it, basically? And the more the better, really, because you'll just kind of mentor the learning. Chastages, I got confused. I got my languages splurred together there. So, this is about the guy that kind of captures, comes in to, takes a surgeon who's going to be operating the prime minister for hostage. I'm not particularly fond of it, but it's a few more things. I don't like all these security in general. Unfortunately, I guess a lot of the stuff made here goes back to the themes like the one in Fauda, about the conflict in Kechulim, about the police and when a hero flies, about the war. It's kind of, you know, enough already. Sorry, Khatufim is not hostages. Anyway, and then I've just made it, haven't checked these out. I've heard this is good at parliament, Masad 101. So, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, eleven more ones that I'm going to be checking out a lot of time in over the forthcoming holiday of Pesach to do that. So that's a good one and that's comedy. So a nice break from the heavy war stuff. So that's my, that's the other source is Netflix. So for a monthly subscription to Netflix, you can get quite a lot of bang for your buck in terms of learning. The other thing I will just say is you can check out Cannes TV. Cannes is a national broadcaster of Israel and they have quite a few series, they put them into playlists. So if you go into the playlist tab, you will see, for example, they have some Cedarot over there. Cedarot are shows. So some of them are in English. I don't think it's, I think it's only Hebrew. They had a good one called, for example, I just shown it in a relocation. Cannes had a story to this and it's talking about basically Israelis moving abroad and if you click in YouTube and you go for subtitles and I thought this was, I really thought this was in English. I watched the whole thing, actually, it was pretty good. Yeah, it's Hebrew and and Hebrew. I think Aritz Ayahudin Ba'im is in, I think Ayahudin Ba'im has English. So this is again on Cannes, they're kind of selective in terms of what they translate into. No, OK, that's weird. What they translate into, yeah, this one has, but it's not. It's yeah, sometimes you can search in English as well and they'll actually have translated the whole, they've added the, so this is in English, they've added the actual captions into the video track itself as opposed to a caption track. So there are, those are really the main options, I would say. I'm always on the lookout for more. There's of course movies as well, Israeli movies that are somewhat successful will be translated to, are given English captions and for obvious reasons, not everyone is because it's a job for somebody and I'm sure it takes time and it takes money. So that's it, those are my current resources. In terms of reference resources, actually I mentioned Morphix quickly and one other one I find very useful is Kitzurim. It's called Kitzu.co.al. So Hebrew has an awful lot of Kitzurim, which are abbreviations. So if I type, for example, United States, it's Arsotabritz, but you'll see that written. Like, you'll see this written like this in Arsotabritz. Maybe I have that wrong, but it's basically acronyms and the acronyms are red. So you have, for example, the UN acronym, the Kitzur for the UN is this. It's Aleph Vav Memsofit with a quotation mark here and they actually read this as um. So you'll hear um and that means the UN and that's, we can figure it out actually. So if you don't know a Kitzur, you can put that into this website. It is in Hebrew only, Kitzurim vrachetivot bevritz. I'm not sure what the difference between the Kitzur and the rachetivot, rachetivot are acronyms. So UN actually stands for umot meyochadot and that's where you get, and the quotations before the final, the mem which stands for meyochadot. And as he said, some of these are read out. Literally that's read um, Arsotabritz, I've never heard of read, Arsotab, they just say Arsotabritz. So it's not consistent, but that's also a good resource and with more fixes you should be able to type in most words and get them down to the Shoresh. So if we say, for example, Anil or Meds, it'll bring it down to Lamad, the three letter Hebrew Shoresh of that verb. And I actually learn a language and I'm kind of learning Hebrew just through, almost like more like the Rosetta Stone method of just kind of learning patterns, like pattern recognition. I don't typically decline verbs and go through verb, decanation tables. A because it's terribly boring and B because I don't think it's a natural way to learn a language. So you will get this three letter Shoresh and it's up to you to know how to conjugate that. If you type in a noun, for example, Ivrit, it'll give you the gender of the noun as well. Shem zachar, Hashem nekevah. Am I missing something here? Hebrew language, it doesn't give, usually it does give. And you can also go the other way if you're looking up words. English and Glitz, okay. So it'll give you, as I said, it'll give you the actual nekudot here, which is very useful. Another final cool thing to have on your computer, if you're using Google Chrome as your browser, is the Google Translase. Chrome extension, that means you can highlight one word and you'll get the little button and it'll do a quick auto-detect the language and translate. So that's the Google Translate Chrome extension and the extension actually, they have the extension for Firefox as well. So if you're using Firefox, you can just get that. Okay, those are all my current tools. Maybe as I get more into this process of improving my Hebrew over the Hageem, I will be able to highlight some more resources and maybe do some live translations as well, which I tried the last time, but I felt it wasn't maybe super interesting to most people. So hope those resources have been of some use. Anybody that wants to get in touch is welcome to just shoot me an email. My website is danielrosill.co.il and you have a contact form here, which reaches me and you have my public pretty good privacy, PGP key, if you are also a fan of using end-to-end encrypted email. Thanks for watching and much success, or as I say, in your learning of Hebrew.