Mishns

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Hebrew

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Colloquial

Hebrew
The Complete Course for Beginners
Zippi Lyttleton and Tamar Wang

London and New York

First published in 2004 by Routledge 11 New FetterLane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2004 Zippi Lyttleton and Tamar Wang

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Contents

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1 8 24 39 55 72 92 113 132 157 177
v

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Reading and writing Hebrew

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Peter arrives in Israel

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Can we meet?

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It’s a very popular restaurant

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Family and plans

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Shopping at the mall

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Making arrangements

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On the road and on time

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Home Sweet Home Sport and culture

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Driving down to the Dead Sea

199 218 238 258

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At the doctor’s

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Jerusalem the holy city

14 ˙¯«˘˜˙ ˙»«˙ÈÚ
Media and communications

Key to exercises Appendix lTransliterations for Units 10–14 Appendix ll Quick Grammar Reference Appendix lll Prepositions Chart Verb Glossary Hebrew–English Glossary Index

272 326 337 348 350 371 390

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Acknowledgements
Sincere thanks and appreciation are due to Sarena Alfandary for her...