Hi Penny, just wanted to know how you like the keyboard, and whether you found any problems/bugs in it. I only just made it from scratch so it’s feasible that are some issues with it.

היי גיא. תודה.

I will practice with the new keyboard. Thanks for letting me know all its features. I’ll let you know how I get on.

Hello everyone.

I’m excited to announce that based on user feedback, I completely revamped the keyboard, made it cleaner and added some quality of life features.

1. You can now always open it from the circle on the bottom right of the site. You don’t need to open it per input field.

2. The keyboard now has forward and backward arrows for…

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Hey Penny – I have an update, and it’s very good news. I completely revamped the keyboard, made it cleaner and added some quality of life features.

1. You can now always open it from the circle on the bottom right of the site.

2. The keyboard now has forward and backward arrows for easy navigation/correction on mobile and computer.

3. There is…

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Thanks for noticing, I fixed it now.

Hi Guy,

I’m working my way through Intro to verbs #2 – פָּעַל-פּוֹעֵל + Structure Differences. Love the passive – active rainbow. I can see that this is going to take some learning.

FYI: Looking at the table of examples, the rows for ‘grow’ has the wrong verb used in the past tense (learned/studied).

Ah, that’s reassuring for me. I am really enjoying the course, by the way. Looking forward to impressing my new son-in-law when he visits in a few weeks 🤓

Thank you!

Hi Penny, thanks for letting me know. This is not the intended behavior, I’ll try to improve the code for the keyboard over the coming few days.

Hi Penny, this is a mistake in the answer, you are correct – there is no “was” in the sentence. Thank you for pointing it out to me, I fixed it now. (The reason for the mistake is it’s a relic of a previous lesson order).

Hi Guy,

I understand that typing Hebrew is often a pain online, as underlying platforms find the right-to-left orientation difficult to render. However, perhaps you have tips for this situation: I am still very slow at writing in Hebrew, and when I’m doing the translation exercises I flick back and forth to find vocabulary and pick out the…

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Hi Guy,

I am doing the sentence exercise in the intro to verbs lesson. In example 7. הַאִם גַם דָנִיאֵלָה לֶיַד הַאָגָם?, the correct answer is “Was Daniella also next to the lake?”

I got the tense wrong. Can you help me understand where it is in the Hebrew version, that the past tense is shown?

Toda!

Well I got 85 % so I’m happy with that for now. Some of the words sound so similar and so I thought I was hearing the same word again on the quiz, took me a good while going back and forth through tabs. 😁

Thank you!

Hey Karin, don’t worry about it. This is exactly why the course is freeform – you can just skip the listening exercises if they aren’t relevant to you. No need to bend over backwards over a task that isn’t that relevant to you anyway. You’re not missing anything by skipping it.

By the way, there is a phonetic spelling exercise. In the lesson…

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I am struggling with the quiz portion of the assignment, as stated in another discussion, I am deaf, and do wear one hearing aid which is blue toothed to my hearing aid to my iPad. The problem is that I can’t really hear a lot of them due to my own limitations. I am trying to work through the quiz but cannot save portions that I know for…

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Hey Hlib, I’m actually working on such a solution now. When it’s done, tables will look somewhat different. There will be an item on the sidebar with all the vocab in a single filterable table. By default it would be ordered by lesson.

It would really help (at least me), if there was a way to see the whole vocabulary of a course. Specifically in an order of lessons. That would make repetition of new and old words easier: now I need to open all the vocabulary parts of lessons separately in different tabs. It’s bearable on PC, but a bit cumbersome on the phone.

Thank you so much!

Unfortunately the image is blank, but I understand what you mean now. Yes, the pronunciation appears next to the word before the translation at this point, and will for some (but not all) lessons. It’s there for letter lessons specifically. The intention is that the initial transliteration would allow you to understand how to read the words…

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In the last lesson I did Lesson 1-3, the Hebrew word for gift shows the emphasis of the vowel in yellow as Matana is that the modern Hebrew spelling of the original Hebrew word?

I ask this is because I am deaf, and do have one hearing aid, but it only helps me to hear sounds when I am directly blue toothed to a device to get the full sound. I…

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Hey Karin, can you clarify your question? I don’t quite understand what you’re asking.

Question: is modern Hebrew the phonetic spelling of the original Hebrew word?

Hi Richard, thank you for bringing this to my attention! I will figure out how to solve it over the next few days. It should be there, so it’s about hunting down what is accidentally hiding it.

I hope this doesn’t prevent you from accessing the course. If it is, let me know and I will help you find a workaround in the meantime.

Hello again Guy. I see you have revised the home page for HebLeo. When I view this web site on my desktop computer, I am able to see Sign In on the upper right and log into my account. When I use my phone’s portrait mode, or if the web browser’s display is narrowed, the magnifying glass is there but the Sign In disappears. So when I use…

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That’s an excellent question that requires going a bit under the hood for my thought process when designing that part of the course.

Before I explain, it’s important to contextualize – there are things that are simplified in the course on purpose to make your knowledge practical. This course is about Modern Hebrew as used in Israel – therefore…

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Course teaches that this nikkud is read as “a”, but if you search everywhere else it says it shall sound as “o”. What’s the sitch?

Hi Guy!

I am trying to open the video lessons but I see the message on the screen that the video is doesn’t exist. I can’t understand what I am doing wrong )

I have tried working with workbooks only to be frustrated. I have looked at a lot of different courses online and what convince me to take this course is you, Richard. you are Deaf like I am and I noticed in the intro that English captions were used to follow along. I am happy to find a course that actually keeps Deaf people in mind.…

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Oh that’s great to know! I actually didn’t imagine it would be useful for deaf students, but that’s very pleasant to hear!

Hi Guy. Yes, the captions in the video lessons help a lot. In the brief times you switched to Hebrew, I was able to figure out what you were saying without the captions.

Hey Richard, thank you for the kind words! Sorry for the late reply, apparently the notification system wasn’t working properly. As for your questions:

1. גָדַל (Gadal) is indeed “he grew”, not “he grows”. גָדֶל (Gadel) would be “he grows”.

2. I’ll see what I can do about skipping exercises manually. Out of curiosity, how practically do you use…

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Hi Zack, thanks for letting me know. Have you tried several different browsers? This is the first time I’m hearing about this bug. Can you tell me what system you are using?

I apologize for the late reply, apparently the notification feature wasn’t working for me.

Website keeps logging you out – you can’t mark lessons as complete because after logging in and navigating to the course page it says “sign in” as if you aren’t logged in

Greetings! Thank you Guy for a fantastic online course.

Should “Mark Complete/Incomplete” be on every single lesson and exercise? For example, I am not able to mark Lesson 1-3 as Complete. So each time I sign in, I am redirected to that lesson, even though right now I am about to begin Lesson 2-3. I think this is an issue for the…

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