Lesson 10 | After Jonah
[1] Next Step: A Daily Dose
After completing four Hebrew courses, about one year of study, you probably feel a mixture of emotions! God has brought you a long way since you learned the Hebrew alphabet, enabling you to persevere through tears and sweat. But you also know that there are many vocabulary words you haven’t yet learned, and you still stumble at strange-looking word combinations.
Like a toddler, you’ve learned how to walk—and even to run—but there are a lot of exciting skills you still have to master, like jumping high on a trampoline, confidently dribbling a soccer ball, or gliding across a pond on ice skates.
Now that this course is over, we won’t be able to hold your hand as your find your feet on those skates, but we don’t want to leave you without suggesting how you can maintain and increase the abilities you’ve worked so hard to gain.
So what steps can you take to get from hesitant skating to smooth gliding? We suggest two possible ways forward. The first is:
Take a Daily Dose of Deuteronomy
This option will work for you if you don’t have a lot of time to devote to studying Hebrew, but you don’t want to fall away from what you’ve attained. While it offers less benefit than our second suggestion on the next lesson step, we think it is better to do something small than tackle something too tough and give up partway through.
Especially in the first few chapters, Deuteronomy isn’t a very difficult book to read with helps. And Adam Howell of Daily Dose of Hebrew gives excellent help! Each video is about two minutes long and so it should be easy to do one per day. (If you have 10 minutes to give each day, try reading and translating yourself first.) Watching these videos will both remind you of parsing helps you already know and teach you more about grammar and syntax.
Here is a sample: