About the Book

The Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew: Hebrew in Israel is an integrated language course designed specifically for classroom–based learners.

The course contains ninety lessons combining texts, grammar explanations, and exercises. This is supported by a companion website with audiovisual materials to guide the student through the key skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

Features include:

• a wide range of compelling texts, from dialogues and simple narratives to newspaper articles and poetry

• vocabulary lists for each text

• a variety of exercises for every lesson including oral drills, listening comprehension, grammar exercises and writing practice

• a solid grammatical foundation presented in an accessible, user-friendly manner

• cultural notes to introduce students to Israeli society

• beautiful illustrations.

All the texts, wordlists, and verb conjugations are freely available in an audiovisual format on the companion website http://artsci.wustl.edu/~hii, which contains a wealth of additional resources including:

• answers to all of the exercises in the book

• interactive exercises

• audiovisual verb dictionary

• audiovisual lists of prepositions with their pronoun suffixes

• audiovisual reference charts of numbers, colors, the days of the week, etc.

• checklists and review lessons for each unit

• links to Israeli websites

• videos and music.

Hebrew in Israel provides everything that students and instructors need for an engaging and effective learning environment.

Giore Etzion is a Senior Lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis