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I first started learning Hebrew a few months after meeting a wonderful person in Berlin whose family originated from Israel and who had...

To our This is Not an Ulpan community.   It’s no secret that this past year has been one of the hardest in our corner of the world. Hope...

Jesus is part of this land, and like all things connected to this place he has many faces and many names - it all depends on your...

To our community of learners at This Is Not An Ulpan, The war in Gaza rages on as the Israeli government refuses to accept any deal on...

TINAU's Arabic Transliteration System Learning Hebrew and Arabic with their original scripts, rather than relying on transliteration, is...

The notion of “standard language” is not a linguistic notion. Rather, it reflects structures of power and authority. -- Noam Chomsky,...

TINAU's Hebrew Transliteration System Learning Hebrew and Arabic with their original scripts, rather than relying on transliteration, is...

Hebrew Revival Struggles By the end of the 19th century, those working on the revival of the Hebrew language had a problem. There were...

A shopkeeper in a market wrote this sign noting the price of horns so commonly used in demonstrations these days across the country. It...

If you’re reading this blogpost, it may not come as a shock to you that in 1948, Israel needed a solution to a mass influx of Jewish...

About pronouns and sex English leaves its options open in practice each I has all the options you is he or she I is sexless there’s no...