Hebrew Course Ideas
Use a linguistics chart of the head to explain where all the sounds are located. Give students a tactile and visual feel for where sounds are Becomes important later for sound changes Give some history of the alphabet and trace how it came down to English trace some letters out acrophonically (eg aleph > alpum) point isn’t really to teach ancient abjab, but to interest students, and show what is there also may give some hooks for memory, but won’t have time to do all letters Discuss the concept of a word family, like a fact family in math. We have this in English, but nowhere near to the degree in Semitic languages.