I’m on holidays and I am trying to spend as much time as I can reading and learning for the next few weeks.

My Hebrew is still very rudimentary, and although I can recognize the letters and slowly spell out some words, knowing the right vowel sounds is still a mystery for me. I can’t decide whether it would be better for me to learn without nikkudim or with them.. I know there are different views on this. To read Biblical Hebrew yes, but for learning modern Hebrew I don’t know if it will just make it more difficult depending too much on the vowel markings. The mystery is though, how can you tell the correct pronunciation of a word if you are not familiar with it and don’t know which vowel sounds should be used?

Other Hebrew learners, please do share your thoughts on this. If I can just find the right logic ‘deciphering’ the writing, I’m sure I will get on with it.

I have saved lots of pictures like this from My Hebrew Learning on Instagram, I find it a nice source to learn some Hebrew basics. Rather than going through a course book, I’ve been gathering material from various online sources, as I feel the more material from different authors the easier it will be to get to grasps with a new language.