Hebrew For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Jill Suzanne Jacobs is a fluent Hebrew speaker having picked up the language through study, three years of living in Israel, and multiple extended visits. She holds graduate degrees in Jewish and Israel education, and she taught in the classroom for ten years before moving into leadership roles in educational nonprofits. She is the author of the first edition of Hebrew For Dummies and mom to a second generation diaspora Hebrew speaker.

Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with Hebrew 7 Chapter 1: You Already Know Some Hebrew 9 Chapter 2: The Nitty-Gritty: Basic Hebrew Grammar 27 Chapter 3: Shalom, Shalom!: Meeting and Greeting 45 Part 2: Hebrew in Action 63 Chapter 4: Getting to Know You: Making Small Talk 65 Chapter 5: Eat! Eat! You're So Thin! 81 Chapter 6: Going Shopping 105 Chapter 7: Having Fun Hebrew Style 121 Chapter 8: Enjoying Your Free Time: Hobbies, Sports, and Other Fun Activities 141 Chapter 9: Talking on the Phone 157 Chapter 10: At the Office and Around the House 171 Part 3: Hebrew on the Go 189 Chapter 11: Planning and Taking a Trip 191 Chapter 12: Getting Around: Flying, Driving, and Riding 221 Chapter 13: Money, Money, Money 235 Chapter 14: Handling Emergencies 249 Part 4: Diving Deeper into Hebrew Life 265 Chapter 15: An Introduction to Israel 267 Chapter 16: War and Peace 279 Part 5: Sacred Hebrew 287 Chapter 17: Let's Get Biblical 289 Chapter 18: Like a Prayer 299 Chapter 19: Sacred Time, Sacred Space 315 Part 6: The Part of Tens 331 Chapter 20: Ten Books on Hebrew You Just Gotta Have 333 Chapter 21: Ten Favorite Hebrew Expressions 337 Chapter 22: Ten Great Israeli Phrases 341 Appendix A: Verb Tables 345 Appendix B: Hebrew-English Mini-Dictionary 355 Appendix C: Answer Key 377 Index 383