Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Who is he?

Since Jordan has restarted Hebrew school, Dale and I are motivated to try and stay ahead of him, and it's kind of a fun little thing to do together in the evenings.  We took a short course together several years ago so we have a reasonable basis and a good textbook.  It's funny how you can go along translating this and that short little sentence, doing fine, and then all of a sudden the spidery lettering swims across the page and it looks like complete gibberish.  And the pronouns are comically confusing:  The Hebrew word for "he" is pronounced hu, the word for "she" is hee, and the word for "who" is me.  You try and make up a little saying to remember them, and then you are saying things like "He is she and who is he and me is who," and you are Abbott and Costello.  Or I am the Eggman!  Coo coo ca choo!

Back to the books.

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