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Is Hebrew a difficult language?
It's all relative. Hebrew uses non-Roman characters so the first step would be to learn all the letters and vowels and their sounds. Nearly every single Hebrew word orig…inates from a simple three- or four-letter "shoresh" or "root" so you can easily see the interconnection of related words. The language is neatly divided into "binyanim" or "buildings" according to the different tenses. There are, essentially, only 5 such binyanim in Hebrew (not counting 2 sort of automatic passive tenses). Once you learn the different binyanim, you can neatly place different roots into each one and conjugate them. It's quite a daunting task at first but once you embrace the concept of roots and binyanim, Hebrew is a much more simple language than English. Words that you wouldn't even think to be related (in English) make perfect sense in their relationship in Hebrew. For example, the root אמנ basically means "believe" or "trust." From that one root, you can conjugate the verb into different tenses of believing plus derive other words such as אמן (amen) - which is the common word said after prayers and blessings in both synagogues and churches. When placed into a different binyan, the root means "train" or "insruct" - think about it like you trust or believe in your trainers and instructors to teach you the correct way to do things. And so on. In many ways, Hebrew seems quite complicated. But once you get the hang of it, it makes so much sense and is organized in a fashion that enables someone to pick up meanings of sentences without knowing the exact meaning of every word...by simply pulling out shoreshim and deriving meanings from things they may already know. (MORE)
