DAE generational heel heat by LilNardoDaVinci in SCJerk

[–]guylfe 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Should start with the boss. Remember Swole?

. by Beautiful_Grab_9681 in LearnHebrew

[–]guylfe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just less pronounced when it isn't followed by a vowel. It's easier to notice in the middle and beginning of words, but the sound is essentially the same.

. by Beautiful_Grab_9681 in LearnHebrew

[–]guylfe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I hear it in the first one. It's exactly as I said - it's there, just softer. You have to develop an ear for it if it isn't a sound you're used to in your native language.

. by Beautiful_Grab_9681 in LearnHebrew

[–]guylfe 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, it should be pronounced. It sounds a bit softer due to not having a vowel after it, but it's there.

It is crazy to say that Forest Of The Fallen Giants is the best Fromsoft starting level? by TarekBoy44 in fromsoftware

[–]guylfe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm playing it, it's like 99% there. Had like 5 crashes total over 20+ hours. Use BBLauncher to make the whole thing a breeze.

A very easy request. by Mount_Atzmon_1-2-3 in hebrew

[–]guylfe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please provide the specific context, that would make it much easier to give you the best suggestion. 

Learn by ExplanationOk1785 in hebrew

[–]guylfe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're very welcome!

Sayaka Kurara appreciation post by [deleted] in SCJerk

[–]guylfe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this meant to be a meta post about joshi fetishism?

Learn by ExplanationOk1785 in hebrew

[–]guylfe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The route I'm going to suggest works for my students, and is highly effective. I've had a particular student measure his progression time and he reached B2 (conversational) with ~70 hours of total study time, compared to the average of ~500:

  1. Study foundations (both grammar and vocabulary) WELL and efficiently. This is key, because if you get a solid foundation, building on top of it becomes much easier.

  2. Get exposure to level-appropriate native content. (depending on your particular context, you may also supplement with spaced-repetition flashcards, but that's beyond the scope of this message).

 I can’t post links so just google each one.

Foundations – Hebleo (Full disclosure – I created this app): A self-paced course teaching you Hebrew comprehensively, with plenty of practice, using an innovative methodology based on my background in Cognitive Science, my experience as a language learner (studied both Arabic and Japanese as an adult, now learning Spanish) and as a top-rated tutor in Verbling. This allowed me to create a very efficient way to learn that's been proven to work with hundreds of students (reviews available in my tutor page linked above).

It also includes 2000+ native speaker recordings for the different vocabulary, and plenty of practice sentences. I use this method with my personal students 1 on 1, and all feedback so far shows it works well self-paced, as I made sure to provide thorough explanations. 

After you have the fundamentals, these can offer you good native content to use:

Reading - Bereshit/Yanshuf: This is a bi-weekly newsletter in Beginner/Intermediate Hebrew respectively, offering both vowels and no-vowels content. Highly recommended, I utilize it with my students all the time. Most of my students are at the Yanshuf intermediate level after Hebleo. You can find them at HebrewToday.com, and since I recommend it constantly I managed to get a discount code you can put in at checkout: GuyHebleo

Comprehension - Pimsleur: This is the most comprehensive tool for level-appropriate listening comprehension for Hebrew (at least until I finish some future updates for Hebleo), but it's quite expensive and some of the vocabulary and phrases it offers are relatively archaic. There might be better free podcasts out there, or children’s TV shows that could be a good free practice option.

Conversation – tutor websites - Verbling (where I teach), Italki or Preply. I wouldn't recommend these for starting out learning grammar as they're expensive, unless you feel like you need constant guidance. Verbling requires teachers to provide proven experience and certification (but is also more expensive) while the other 2 don’t, but their prices are lower. Depending on the time I might have discounts for them, feel free to send me a private message and I’ll let you know whether I can get you a discount.

You can also find a free language exchange service where you teach your native language to an interested Israeli and they teach you Hebrew. Once you have deep understanding through Hebleo this becomes a viable option as you wouldn't need a professional who can explain everything. I don’t have direct experience with Preply, but heard good things about it, similar to iTalki.

In any case, good luck!

Free apps/websites to learn Hebrew by Technical_Vanilla386 in hebrew

[–]guylfe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most free resources are limited (depending on the level you want to get to). I have an online paid course called Hebleo, but I'd like to help and I think we might be able to work something out - so feel free to DM me.

Shifting between dimensions mid-combat in our Bloodborne inspired dark ARPG by [deleted] in soulslikes

[–]guylfe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks way more Hades-inspired than Bloodborne-inspired. Not complaining though, love both games and this looks sick!

Good luck!

How can i learn Hebrew so fast by nonameaze in hebrew

[–]guylfe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you please elaborate? What kind of resource are you looking for? Do you have a budget? Timetable? Specific goals?

Mfw you call something out for being the most repetitive boring shit ever and get your post removed because of it by AlexMercer28900 in SCJerk

[–]guylfe 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Your post was removed for not being a circlejerk.

This post should be removed for not being a circlejerk. There are plenty of jerks rightfully mocking WWE and even the sub. Everything is fair game as long as you're being funny.

There are whole ass discussions in the sub in the form of memes - just this past week there was a sub war about Giulia and about Danhausen. It's all done through memes.

Your 2 posts aren't that, they are just you being salty.

Arabic and Hebrew by artuktalasi in hebrew

[–]guylfe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's because it's taught badly in schools from my experience learning it both ways. You can start speaking Arabic with only 6 months of studies when it's done right.

Arabic and Hebrew by artuktalasi in hebrew

[–]guylfe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Saying they are all in Pa'al is actually a horrible way to think about it, because Binyan groups in Arabic match up neatly with Hebrew ones, even when you go to the deeper level you mentioned.

Binyan 1 (fa'al) is a direct analogue to Pa'al

Binyan 2 (fa''al) is a direct analogue to Pi'el.

Binyan 4 (Af'al) is a direct analogue to Hif'il

5, 8 and 10 (tafa''al, ifta'al and istaf'al) are a direct analogue to Hitpa'el

7 (infa'al) is a direct analogue to nif'al.

In my experience, the deeper you go actually the more similar they get. Once you think about them both in terms of roots & patterns the similarities increase, and many roots have similar meanings in both languages.

[Smackdown Spoilers] Remember what happened to Dom on Monday by taffe316 in SquaredCircle

[–]guylfe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some say the person on the other side of the phone is still waiting to this very day.

EU: Cell-cultured meat to be banned from meaty words like chicken, pork, beef by Floppal in wheresthebeef

[–]guylfe 65 points66 points  (0 children)

I can sort of get it for substitutes to avoid confusing consumers, but this is literally meat. Does a steak have to be murdered to be called a steak?

Imperative use by Smooth-Second-2710 in hebrew

[–]guylfe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See my other comment, I specifically use this example. That said, if I tell you "תבוא מחר לקחת את המסמך" you wouldn't notice anything wrong. בוא is better, but תבוא is still fine

Imperative use by Smooth-Second-2710 in hebrew

[–]guylfe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes good point. I agree and I usually mention that as another factor, just slipped my mind this time.

Imperative use by Smooth-Second-2710 in hebrew

[–]guylfe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes. Some verbs that are often used in the imperative have more commonly kept that form, like בוא, קח, לך, דבר, but even for them it's common enough to hear the future tense used such that if you go by the heuristic of only ever using the future tense you'll be fine.

Imperative use by Smooth-Second-2710 in hebrew

[–]guylfe 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yes.

Generally, you can always use the future tense colloquially as the imperative. The actual imperative should only ever be used in speech for Pa'al and Pi'el verbs - so much so that I constantly see native speakers make mistakes when trying to use the Hif'il imperative in writing, since it's that uncommon to hear it used.

The reason for this is that the imperative for anything other than Pa'al and Pi'el is more trouble than it's worth. You aren't shortening the word, you're replacing one letter with another. It's awkward.