 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here bringing you a video again from Jerusalem I guess the world's only capital city where Hebrew is the official language I want to do another video today regarding this grisly business of Learning Hebrew that everyone who moves to Israel unless you come here with perfect Hebrew But if like me you were born in a random town in the great backwaters of Western Europe and Ireland You're kind of coming at it from a much more basic level and for me personally It's a kind of ongoing process one thing I would say about Hebrew I'm gonna try not for your too far off topic on this video. Is that it's a dissent? I think personally, it's a deceptively Hard language by which I mean if you compare Hebrew to Close Semitic languages modern Hebrew. I'm talking about here such as Arabic Arabic has in just in the alphabet three forms initial Medial final you say I Hebrew's a cinch Less less phonoms or sounds in the language to grapple with But the more you get into it you realize there's a lot of meese in Hebrew There's an awful lot of learning and it is it quite a difficult language I think there's an official grouping of languages according to difficulty And you have like the romance languages which are those stemming from Latin like French and Spanish Which as anyone who studied them in school knows if you know one there's a good amount of crossover to the others Then you have this the Chinese and Scandinavian really at the top But Hebrew and the Semitic languages like Arabic and Amaraic are quite far up there in the scale of difficulty so Yeah, you have to sometimes give yourself a bit of Forgiveness because I've been here in Israel for seven years and I'm to be honest ashamed of my Hebrew And I periodically hit myself on the head and say no you have to you have to do more and You know you just look around at the Anglo bubble and you say do I really want to be hanging around to see these people for the rest of my life That was a joke, but um, it is definitely a key skill in Aliyah learning Hebrew and I've been uploading recently to YouTube some of the resources that are out there I think personally learning a language through the means of television and Songs is amazing way to learn it You can if you can track down the lyrics of popular songs in Hebrew or even older songs I used to do this for Spanish. I would listen to the Spanish chart music print out the letters the canciones the Lyrics and translate words. I didn't know and you're probably you're probably gonna be you know Bias towards colloquial language And same thing for television versus formal language But it is a really effective way to learn because once you do that translation work You can listen to music at the gym and you're actually revising vocab without even realizing it So it's an amazingly effective anyway Another resource I want to talk about is Morphix and here is Morphix Now for those who haven't yet become acquainted with the strange paradox of Israeli internet websites They all look like they were built in the 1990s by a high school student doing a favor for his dad and they all cram as much Pixel banner advertising that also tends to have this kind of very 90s look as there is room for So it's a little bit heavy, but don't be detracted. You just need to Make liberal use of the X button. We got rid of the kid now They're trying to sell us a hotel and Ali express products, but anyway This is Morphix and the URL is Morphix dot c o dot I L now the thing about Hebrew and if you're watching this video You probably know this is that in Israel the standard is not to write Hebrew with vowels now the problem Google translates a terrific resource I did a video a few months ago about how Google translate finally got around to adding TTS text-to-speech voice Synthesization in other words you can put in something in English get the Hebrew and then the voice will speak now The reason that was such a big deal is because Google translate to give an example Doesn't give you the vowelization So there's no way to know just from the letters if it's an ah or an oh or an ooh Etc. Now that was where Morphix was always very useful because it's a Dictionary website and if you type in something in English it will give you the word in Hebrew And it's also another good use for Morphix if you're a more advanced learner is that it also does Morphix by the way seems to be they're mainly focused now on Selling teaching English for Israelis So the Hebrew to English lookup is particularly good on this Website so that's just kind of I want to show you guys a couple of things about it Now Morphix is a website and it's also a phone app. I have it on my Android device I also pay Morphix to store words But they're still trying to sell me in all sorts of random. It's like upselling central So anyway, you there is that functionality to save words To a lookup list and this is really useful if you're more sort of intermediate language is you the amount of words That are new to you is going to hopefully be getting smaller over time and with Morphix It does allow you to create different lists So I might have a list for medical words or animals or colors and you can do all that good stuff and Put your words save them on the phone and they'll appear on the desktop and vice versa So that's always a nice little functionality, but let me just show you the basics in this video So if I want to look up a word, let's say ghost. Sorry. I'm in English. I'm in Hebrew. I mean G O A T How do we say goat in Hebrew and we get a's but you may notice as long alongside this lovely picture of a goat A's they're giving us the vowels. So there's no Confusion here about how to pronounce that You also get English TTS there isn't text-to-speech on the other way in Hebrew now Something it's very basic. Sometimes it does give you a few different words For instance or usages, but it's more useful for Hebrew speakers learning English Like it gives you examples of that words in English But it won't it won't go from a's but let's just let's just do it the other way and let's just stick with goat now one Cool thing one thing I actually really do recommend now after eight years in Israel My Hebrew is not only exemplary. It's poor But one thing I did get ahead of the game on is learning to type in Hebrew. I learned to type pretty early But if you're just starting Hebrew and I highly highly recommend that it's something they never Everyone overlooks in Ulpan when I went to Ulpan in 2015 No one was teaching us how to type in Hebrew So I learned myself you just need to learn where the letters are and it's after that you can just do a touch typing program So the point I was I was leading up to here Is that even if you don't yet know how to type in Hebrew? You can click on the keyboard symbol and it will give you a virtual keyboard so you can use that now Just one thing here. You don't actually need this most operating systems have a virtual keyboard functionality So you don't if you are just learning to type in Hebrew now You you can use it throughout other applications not just Morphix just as an FYI So let's just do one in the other direction. I'm going to just use my actual keyboards here rather than the virtual one And let's type a's for goats And we see the translation in English a's goat And it's it gives you some sort of grammatical info here for instance next to is Next to next to a's So, yeah, it's very good system here. So I really think that's the main thing in Morphix Let's just do a couple more examples random words dancing click on Talgum translate here and we get the verb and it's three letter roots here So there is is that so Morphix is definitely one of the useful tools in the toolbox of Hebrew modern Hebrew resources One I would write one that I find very useful as well And I'll do another video about this is Hebrew to Hebrew dictionary So just simply Hebrew look-ups because as you can see from Morphix you do get the Vialization, but you don't get you know what you'd expect in a well-rounded dictionary with kind of Descriptions of different usages for that word Example sentences that sort of thing if I were to run a's through a Hebrew Hebrew Milon Evri Evri, I would get that so that's another useful thing to have as well Now that Google Translate also does text-to-speech. It's less. It's I find myself using it. Yes less But it does have some nice Gamification options like saving your list of words and then you can also do a quizzes So you can save a vocab list and quizzes So there's still a couple of reasons to use it the final one I really want to do a video about which it will get around to eventually is Websites for declining verbs in Hebrew You can put a three-letter verb root and it'll give you the very it'll decline the verb For you, which is also something very very useful to know how to do. I hope this video has been useful If you are learning modern Hebrew This is what Morphix is if you've heard about it from your teacher your friends, etc Morphix.co.al also available as an application and finally You're gonna get a lot of advertisements telling you to do this But it is worth in my opinion spending a bit of money on it in order to increase the amount of saved Vocabulary you can keep in the system because if you're looking to give yourself tests To make sure that you've learned this new vocab. This is definitely a this is definitely a good way to Improve your retention and learning. Thank you guys for watching more videos about Hebrew and various topics coming soon to this YouTube channel