Dictionary
Part of learning Modern Hebrew is learning how to understand words from context, and how to use a Hebrew dictionary. That's why the textbook glossary contains only certain words key to the textbook lessons, and leaves gradually absorbing the other words as part of your language-learning process.
You will find it helpful and sometimes essential to refer to a Hebrew-English / English-Hebrew dictionary. Here are two recommendations. (We welcome your comments and recommendations. Please send these to cking@hebrewcollege.edu.)
Michal Levy's first choice:
Multi Dictionary-Bilingual Learners Dictionary, by Edna Lauder & Liora Weinbach ($36).
A smaller dictionary, second choice:
Oxford English-Hebrew Hebrew-English Dictionary, by Yaacov Levy
Publisher: Kernerman/Lonnie Kahn, 1995 ($20)
Both are available at the Israel Book Shop, (800) 323-7723, and possibly through other online booksellers (try a Web search. They are not currently available through Amazon.com.).
