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Hebrew Course Curriculum (50 units)

Glottos Matrix — structural language-learning course for English speakers

How this course works — read before Lesson 1.

BLOCK 1: A1 FOUNDATIONS — SCRIPT, ROOT, BINYAN MAP (Lessons 1–10) → Test "Talmid / Talmida / תלמיד" (Apprentice)

Read Hebrew letters right-to-left, count from 1 to 10

Greetings and politeness: shalom, toda, ken, lo, slicha, lehitra'ot. Classroom words: sefer, daf

Read vowel points (nikkud) below the letters

Everyday nouns: house, food, animals. Numbers 10–20

Read pointed Hebrew fluently; recognize handwriting

Places, everyday objects, expanded daily vocabulary

Tell masculine from feminine; form plurals -im / -ot

People, family, professions — deliberately mixed gender

Personal pronouns and verbless sentences: "I (am) a teacher"

Nationalities, countries, identity-description vocabulary

Spot the three-letter root in every word — the atom of Hebrew

Cognate families (e.g. k-t-v: write, letter, address, written)

Meet the seven-binyan map — Hebrew's verb-pattern system

One root drilled through every binyan; terminology

Present tense in Pa'al: "I write, she writes" — gender-marked

Pa'al verbs: daily routine, study, work, movement

Definite article ה- and prepositions ב-/ל-/מ-; adjective agreement

Adjectives: color, size, quality, character; spatial vocabulary

"I have / I don't have" (yesh / ein), questions and negation

Question words as a set; connectors ve-, aval, o, ki

▶ Test after lesson 10

Block-Test 1 (Lessons 1–10): Talmid / Talmida — A1 foundations

you can read pointed text, introduce yourself and ask for directions, level A1

BLOCK 2: A2 — FILLING IN THE BINYAN MAP AND THE PAST TENSE (Lessons 11–20) → Test "Chaver / Chavera / חבר" (Companion)

Use את (et) before a definite direct object

Pa'al transitive verbs and their objects

Past tense in Pa'al: "I wrote, we wrote"

Past-tense markers: etmol, shavua sheavar, lifnei. Life events

Binyan Pi'el: intensive and causative verbs (speak, search, pay)

High-frequency Pi'el verbs: speak, search, receive, pay

Binyan Hif'il: "make someone do" — explain, invite, decide

Hif'il verbs: explain, invite, bring in, decide

Preposition + pronoun = one word: "to me" (li), "to you" (lekha)

Inflected forms of common prepositions, relational vocab

Binyan Nif'al: passive or middle voice — enter, stay, be born

Nif'al verbs: enter, stay, be born, meet

Binyan Hitpa'el: reflexive — get dressed, get used to, correspond

Hitpa'el verbs: dress, develop, correspond, get used to

Possession: "my book" (ha-sefer sheli), "his house" (ha-bayit shelo)

Personal items, kinship, possession vocabulary

Comparison: "more than" (yoter mi-), "the most" (ha- … beyoter)

Adverbs of manner and frequency; qualities for comparing

Smikhut: noun-noun construct — "the teacher's house" (bet-ha-more)

Compound and relational nouns, smikhut phrases

▶ Test after lesson 20

Block-Test 2 (Lessons 11–20): Chaver / Chavera — filling out the binyan map and the past tense

you can tell what happened yesterday and chat about daily life, level A2

BLOCK 3: B1 — FUTURE, READING WITHOUT NIKKUD, THE NOUN SYSTEM (Lessons 21–30) → Test "Chacham / Chachama / חכם" (Sage)

Future tense in Pa'al, Pi'el, Hif'il: "I will write, do"

Future markers, plans, intentions, predictions

Read without nikkud — "like everyone else" in modern Hebrew

Familiar vocab, re-spelled in ktiv male

Commands and requests: "go!", "don't go!" (with אל)

Instructions, requests, directions, advice

Binyanim Pu'al and Huf'al — passive pairs of Pi'el and Hif'il

Pu'al/Huf'al forms, passive-context vocabulary

Full 7-binyanim × 3-tenses table — pick the right one

One root traced through all binyanim

Weak roots (with נ, י, ה, א) — a letter drops or changes

High-frequency weak-root verbs

Mishkalim: noun patterns — place, agent, abstraction

Noun families illustrating the main patterns

Numbers agree with gender — Hebrew's famously "reversed" system

Numbers in both genders, time, dates, quantity words

Relative clauses: "the man who…" (ha-ish she-…)

Descriptive and defining vocabulary

A coherent unpointed text with every binyan and tense

Connectors and discourse vocabulary

▶ Test after lesson 30

Block-Test 3 (Lessons 21–30): Chacham / Chachama — future, reading without nikud, the noun system

you read without vowel points, share plans, hold normal conversations with native speakers, level B1

BLOCK 4: B2 — COMPLEX SYNTAX AND HEAVY MORPHOLOGY (Lessons 31–40) → Test "Sar / Sara / שר" (Minister)

Reported speech: "I think that…", "he said that…" (with ש- and כי)

Verbs of speaking, thinking, knowing; cause vocabulary

Infinitive (לכתוב) + modals: "must, can, want"

Modal vocabulary, obligation and possibility

Conditionals: "if" (im) — real, hypothetical, counterfactual

Hypothetical scenarios, cause-and-effect

Gerund-style nouns: "writing", "entrance", "learning" (shem pe'ula)

Verbal nouns by binyan, abstract vocabulary

Conjunctions: "when" (ksheh-), "so that" (kedei she-), "because" (mipnei she-)

Full set of subordinating conjunctions

Passive voice and impersonal constructions for formal register

Process vocabulary, formal and journalistic

Advanced smikhut: noun chains, smikhut with adjectives

Compound nouns, institutional phrases

Reorder words for emphasis and focus

Focus and emphasis vocabulary

Essay connectors: "however", "therefore", "despite"

Discourse markers, argumentation

Long complex sentences with nested clauses

Academic and analytical vocabulary

▶ Test after lesson 40

Block-Test 4 (Lessons 31–40): Sar / Sara — complex syntax and heavy morphology

you express opinions, hypotheses and conditions; you can follow the news, level B2

BLOCK 5: B2 CONSOLIDATION — DERIVATION, REGISTER, FLUENCY (Lessons 41–50) → Test "Melekh / Malka / מלך" (King / Queen)

Derivation, four-letter roots, acronym-words (ראשי תיבות)

Derived and neologized vocabulary, technology

Switch between formal written and conversational register

Register-marked synonym pairs

Use Hebrew idioms and proverbs

Common idioms, culturally loaded phrases

Numbers and measurement: fractions, percentages, collective quantities

Measurement and statistics vocabulary

Write long complex sentences with nested clauses yourself

Academic vocabulary, discourse connectors

Stylistic mastery: word choice and fine register work

Precision vocabulary, near-synonym sets

Fluent speech: particles (nu, davka, ke'ilu), contractions, interjections

Conversational particles, fillers, slang awareness

Read real Hebrew: news, forms, headlines, SMS, acronyms

News, bureaucratic, digital vocabulary

Hear natural Hebrew: reduction, elision, regional variants

High-frequency conversational vocabulary, anchor words

Finale — what you can do now and how to push toward C1

Integrative review, idioms and cultural vocabulary

▶ Test after lesson 50

Block-Test 5 (Lessons 41–50): Melekh / Malka — final B2 review

you communicate comfortably with native speakers, read news and forms, and are ready to push toward C1 on your own

Hebrew Course Curriculum (50 units) · Glottos Matrix