Comment by nephihaha
12 hours ago
I have just watched a video about Hebrew spelling which suggests it is a lot more complicated than people realise.
12 hours ago
I have just watched a video about Hebrew spelling which suggests it is a lot more complicated than people realise.
overblown. there is no need in vowels beyond first couple of classes of elementary school and first couple of months when you learn hebrew as Nth language.
the rest of complaints can be equally applied to any given language i guess.
A considerable number of Israeli citizens arrive in adulthood, maybe with bar mitzvah level Hebrew and sometimes not even that.
i know. its applicable to them as well.
hebrew is learned in ulpans with teachers that speak only hebrew. vowels (nikud) will be used only for first month or two when people figure out basics of the language.
given the way that hebrew structured, it's trivial to figure out words even if you don't know them.
the really hard problem is borrowed words that are written without nikud. for example something like: _nvrst .
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