Colloquial Hebrew

by Lyttleton; Zippi

• ISBN13: 9780415240482
• ISBN10: 0415240484
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-12-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Colloquial Hebrew aims to teach Hebrew as it is spoken and written today, giving you a level of competence to be able to travel around and engage in conversation on a range of topics as well as being able to read signs, menus, posters and other basic written texts. Each unit contains dialogues of everyday encounters and situations which can be performed in the exercises which follow. The Hebrew alphabet is introduced from Unit 1, but all dialogues are given in Romanized form alongside the script until the final stages of the book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(7)
Reading and writing Hebrew	8	(16)
Peter arrives in Israel	24	(15)
Can we meet?	39	(16)
It's a very popular restaurant	55	(17)
Family and plans	72	(20)
Shopping at the mall	92	(21)
Making arrangements	113	(19)
On the road and on time	132	(25)
Home Sweet Home	157	(20)
Sport and culture	177	(22)
Driving down to the Dead Sea	199	(19)
At the doctor's	218	(20)
Jerusalem the holy city	238	(20)
Media and communications	258	(14)
Key to exercises	272	(54)
Appendix I Transliterations for Units 10-14	326	(11)
Appendix II Quick Grammar Reference	337	(11)
Appendix III Prepositions Chart	348	(2)
Verb Glossary	350	(21)
Hebrew--English Glossary	371	(19)
Index	390