General explanation

This site was created for the student of modern Hebrew. It is arranged in advancing levels and contains exercises in a wide range of linguistic structures. These exercises are not meant to replace any textbook or class work but merely to supplement them.

Structure of the site

The levels in this site were defined according to two standards:

1. The courses offered by the Modern Hebrew Language Program at Penn for the students of elementary and intermediate modern Hebrew. There are two semester courses of elementary Hebrew (titled AMES-051 and AMES-052) followed by two semester courses of intermediate Hebrew (AMES-053 and AMES-054).

2. The text books that are used in these courses. These are:

For AMES-051 and 052: Shlomit Chayat, Sara Israeli and Hilla Kobliner. (New) Ivrit min ha'Hathala. Jerusalem: Academon, 2000.

Note: The new version of Ivrit min ha'Hathala is very different from the old one.

The exercises

The instructions for each exercise are given in both Hebrew and English. Please read them carefully.

Before giving an answer, read the whole sentence (in an exercise that consists of separate sentences), the whole paragraph (in an exercise that consists of paragraphs), or the whole text.

In some cases, more than one answer may fit. Choose the answer that seem to fit the best.

Tackling problems

If the Hebrew text is illegible, try to do the following:

1) If you are working on Mac, use Netscape version 4 or above. It does not display font right in Internet Explorer in Mac.

If you don't see the font in Netscape:

Click on "View" on the menu, then click on "Character Set", then on "Western (MacRoman)".

After this, you may need to reload the webpage by clicking on the "reload" button on the top of the webpage.

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2) If you are working on PC Windows, use Netscape version 4 or above. It does not display font right in Internet Explorer in Mac, if you don't have the font installed. If you download the font from here and install it in your computer, you should be able to see the font right both in Netscape and Internet Explorer.

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After this, you may need to reload the webpage by clicking on the "reload" button on the top of the webpage.

If the Hebrew font is correct, but some of the sentences in Hebrew seem mixed up, it may be that your font is too large. Click on "View" at the top of the screen, then click on "Decrease font" (or press ctrl+[ on your keyboard). Repeat this procedure until the words on your screen are in proper order.

Last updated: January 25, 2001