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I am trying to learn Hebrew on my own. I currently am not in a position to be attending Hebrew classes, and I tend not to do so well in a classroom environment. I wish to learn biblical Hebrew primarily; I don't have an immediate interest to learn modern Hebrew.

I've taken a few basic Hebrew classes so I know my aleph-bet well enough, but I haven't been able to bridge the gap to basic reading. I picked up "Learn Biblical Hebrew" by John H. Dobson and its a decent book but as soon as I get beyond the obligatory aleph-bet chapter I feel like I'm missing something.

Any advice or insight from those that have done this? I've looked at this question but I don't think I'd say I have "decent Hebrew knowledge" quite yet.

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I think that a gap between aleph-beis and reading tanakh is big enough.

I would suggest you to read children books - they are fully punctuated and use pretty simple words.

When I was learning hebrew (my parents made aliyah when I was 13 years old) I was watching cartoons for 5 years old children and that helped me pretty much.

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+1, excellent idea. – msh210♦ Jul 10 '11 at 21:17
How does reading children's books help if I don't have a transliteration? – ARKBAN Jul 12 '11 at 11:04
If you know alef-beis and Niqqud you don't need transliteration, or maybe I'm missing something about the question. – jutky Jul 12 '11 at 20:43
I'm sorry, I meant a translation. I'm asking for clarification as to how this helps. While I could pronounce the words in a children's book I don't know what they mean. (For example I have a Dr. Seus's "A Cat in a Hat" book in Hebrew, but I don't know what it means unless I compare it to an English version.) – ARKBAN Jul 14 '11 at 21:45
@ARKBAN, oh, if you can't read any words at all, then I guess start with a basic textbook instead. Alas, I can't recommend any one in particular (and your question indicates that the one you tried was no good). – msh210♦ Jul 14 '11 at 22:31
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I don't know if this is good for self-teaching, but what about the Alep Champ home kit?

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