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Paperback Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar Book
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ISBN: 1041083823

ISBN13: 9781041083825

Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

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Releases 3/25/2026
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Book Overview

Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of modern Hebrew as used by contemporary native speakers.

Designed as a companion grammar, it provides an accessible yet comprehensive description of the language, organized by grammatical topic. The book is structured across two levels, allowing learners to engage with Hebrew grammar progressively.

Features of this new edition include:

- Updated vocabulary, reflecting changes in everyday speech and lifestyles, and more Judaic and culturally relevant words

- Clarified presentation of complex topics, while preserving a structure that makes the book a practical reference tool

- Pronunciation Guide to authentic practice, including features of rapid speech.

- Two colourful new background sections: 'Hebrew words and their stories' and 'Where did Modern Hebrew come from?'

Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar serves both as a valuable resource for independent learners and for students in taught courses.

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Simply the best

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This is simply the best review of modern Hebrew grammar I have come across. It is both logical and comprehensive as well as easy to read and is equally useful to those first studying Hebrew, as well as for those who need a refresher.

well done

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
this is a great reference book to modern hebrew. "fresh and accessible" is what it says on the back of the book, and this is exactly how i'd describe it. there are only 104 pages worth of grammar in this book, but in that space it manages to convey all the important aspects of hebrew as it's spoken today -- i.e. making clear the differences between the textbook hebrew you find in many grammars, and actual usage. it's very well organized and the examples are colloquial and quite entertaining [e.g., section 62 on generic plurals -- example sentences are "i hate cockroaches" and "vacuum cleaners always go wrong"].

Very useful, very clear

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Like other books in the Routledge "Essential Grammar" series that I've come across, this book is well-written and covers immediately useful aspects of the grammar of the language. I am particularly impressed by the author's pointing out of the frequent differences between "standard textbook" Hebrew and colloquial Hebrew as spoken by the man in the street--if you already have some command of the language from formal study and want to make your Hebrew less "schoolboy" and more colloquial, this book will help a lot in that respect.The example sentences in this book, as in Prof. Glinert's longer grammar of Modern Hebrew, deserve special mention, but as they are frequently mentioned in other reviews, I won't belabor the point.

Not a Teach Yourself Manual

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I found this concise grammar to be extremely accessible and helpful after having completed a couple of years of Hebrew at university. I continue to come back to it for refreshers.If you don't know any Hebrew yet, or you know very little, this book is not going to teach it to you. Spend some time with a good book-and-tape set, take a course, then buy Glinert.

Most fun grammar book I've ever read!

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
I LOVE the example sentences Prof. Glinert uses to illustrate each point. They are so conversational, I feel like I'm back in Israel. I've looked over quite a few grammar books in various languages with b-o-o-o-o-o-r-i-n-g example sentences, and this book is such a refreshing change. Also, it is concise and not too exhaustive, so that it makes easy reading, but covers the most important points.
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