Reading Hebrew

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I read the Little Red Hen in Hebrew, which was quite easy, and I learned one useful phrase, "And that is what she did," or "And so she did." There are jillions of stories about chickens, for some reason or other. There probably was a time when everyone was familiar with chickens and probably had a few in their house. I used to raise chickens, and I counted at least a dozen meaningful sounds they make.

By the way a man told me that the other day a chicken was running back and forth on the bus and noone seemed to care or be at all surprised.

I have been taking lessons from a tutor, so I can ask questions about whatever I want to know, including the rules for shwa's and dageshes. I am also learning some things that I would have never asked for. Like some of the horrible things the Christians have done to the Jews. Such as spreading rumors about Jews making matzos with the blood of Christian children, etc, till pretty soon everybody believed it. Sometimes Jews were forced to convert to Christianity, etc.

There seem to be several unconnected areas of language learning. Reading children's stories, studying grammar, reading the Bible, reading labels on jars and signs along the road and in stores, listening and speaking--it seems like a never-ending process, and all these different tasks never blend together. I don't remember going through all this in English. I just started reading. (But of course I had already been listening to English for several years.) I remember asking my mother "what's this word," and fearing that I would ask the same word more than once. In Hebrew I sometimes can't get a word to stick in my head and have to look it up twenty times. Sometimes I hear a word and a minute later have to ask my tutor, what was that word again? And a minute later, what was that word again? What tense is that? How do you say it in past tense? How do you spell it? What's the difference between that and this?

And whoever heard of eating breakfast at ten o'clock. Guess I better run and eat.