Oh my goodness, I can't believe that it has been since Aug 2010 since I have written any thing.
I am at the end of the second year of "first year" Hebrew. I feel as if I know more than I did at the beginning of this last "year of Hebrew". I know that I understand a lot more about what I have learned. I guess I need it twice to even know what questions to ask. Unfortunately at $800.00 a pop I will not be taking another "year" of Hebrew lessons. I need to find some other way to learn Hebrew. I have been reading some with a group that reads every evening. I don't read every evening but I try to read a couple of times a week. At that it is only mildly helpful. Perhaps that is because I am such a slow learner.
Another thing that I have been trying to do is to read Scripture in Hebrew and in English and I am going to change even that. I think I will start trying to break down the words in Hebrew and learn word by word what scripture is saying. I know that there is a side by side Bible, and I have one of those but I really feel that I should be breaking the words down for my self. After all, if I wanted to know what some one else thinks the Scripture says then I could just read it in English.
I know that the Lord is patient with me because of how long He kept me in the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. Now I am in Genesis and I am still in the first three verses. But the good Lord is finally getting through to this thick head.
I am spending some time "resting" from learning new "verbal forms". I am reading the Seama over and over with the idea of learning what each word means translating from Hebrew to concepts I can understand without line by line translation in to English.
I am not sure if this will help but it is a break form the verbal system without just not working on Hebrew.
I would like a teacher, but in East Texas I know that is like asking for snow in June. Not impossible but not probable.
Well, I suppose it is time for me to get back to preparing the children's Sunday School lesson.
