Tarbuton - Hebrew - Israel - Culture - Community

Learn the aleph bet with fun cartoons and silly things to help you remember the letters.  http://www.cartoonhebrew.com

 

I actually saw this in use in a K class at the Jewish Academy here in town during my tour and was impressed.  A fun way to teach kids vocabulary using the computer. 

http://www.zigzagworld.com/hebrewforme/ 

They have a graphic literally of various scenes like the breakfast table, the classroom, etc. and the words for various items you can put in the room.  You drag the word over to the room and it puts the graphic of the item in the picture.  Pretty cute. 

My favorite site for news in Hebrew is Walla.  The Hebrew site is at: http://www.walla.co.il/ .  They have pretty good radio stations too - if you want to listen to music in Hebrew but make your selections from an English menu go here: http://radio.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=index.english&fg=1

This site has some wonderful games for kids learning Hebrew; Hang Man in Hebrew, Trivia quizes, a word search in Hebrew (covering lots of easy vocabulary for kids). http://www.j.co.il - make a point to try the word search in Hebrew.  Its very cool.

There’s a songbook that let’s you print some popular songs and prayers - the words in Hebrew.  Some songs are secular Israeli, others are holiday oriented.  http://www.j.co.il/songs/index.asp

There’s a fun application too that let’s you create a banner in Hebrew and allows you to use a variety of nice Hebrew fonts.  http://www.j.co.il/signmaker/index.asp

 

 

This site is a terrific news site for Israel, they offer an English version and a Hebrew version.  http://www.ynetnews.com/ and http://www.ynet.co.il/

Its great practice to read the Hebrew version, and then flip over to the English when you don’t understand something.  The company has a great product too called the Megaphone run by Collactive at this address: http://my.ynet.co.il/collative/ 

The idea behind the Megaphone is that you get desktop delivery of hot news, and a way to proactively respond to legislators, etc. about the news.  Its a really powerful community tool.  

This site has an interesting set of categories of words you can learn including some critical phrases for the adult who has some knowledge but needs to fill in some vocabulary.  For example, there is a section on business terminology (like market size, revenue, etc.) and economics. 

http://www.learn-hebrew.co.il/ 

The site is well done with a blox that lets you click on the word to hear its pronunciation and phoenetic as well as hebrew spellings are visible.  The author has done a variety of other interesting sites for English and Spanish too.  Its worth checking out in the About section.

Another one of his that is great is for Hebrew verbs: http://www.hebrew-verbs.co.il

What I love about the verb site is it conjugates the verb for you and also lets you hear the conjugated variations.