Learn Hebrew
Hebrew has twenty-two letters and five vowel sounds, written with a vowel system that has far more signs than sounds. iLexiBox teaches the sounds rather than the history: each sign is paired with what it actually says in modern Israeli Hebrew, so a beginner learns five vowels and where they may be written, not a table of distinctions the country stopped making.
Start at the alphabet
The Hebrew on-ramp is written by hand, not generated, and it is 468 cards long. Every card is spoken in a recorded Hebrew voice, and what you get right is scheduled for review rather than shown again at random.
- 22letters
- 10digits
- 16pronunciation rules
- 300core words
- 60everyday phrases
- 60sentences
Three of the pronunciation cards, exactly as the on-ramp teaches them:
- מָ מַ — the first vowel, and the first surprise: kamatz (the little T shape) and patach (the flat line) are BOTH simply “a”. Ancient Hebrew held one longer than the other; modern Israeli Hebrew makes no difference whatever. Two signs, one soundיָד — a hand — the part at the end of your arm
- מֵ מֶ — the same trick again: tzere (two dots side by side) and segol (three dots in a triangle) are both “e” as in “bed”. This is the pattern of the whole system — many signs, five soundsסֵפֶר — a book — the kind with pages you turn
- מִ מִי — chirik is a single dot underneath, and it is “ee”. Add a yod after it and nothing changes in the sound — the yod is a spelling helper, a “mother of reading”, showing where the vowel is when the dots are missingאִמָּא — mum — what a child calls their mother
Your first Hebrew phrases
The first phrase and sentence cards of the on-ramp, each spoken in a recorded voice:
- מַה שְׁלוֹמְךָ? ma shlom-KHA — how are you? (to a man)
- מַה שְׁלוֹמֵךְ? ma shlo-MEKH — how are you? (to a woman)
- הַכֹּל בְּסֵדֶר ha-KOL be-SE-der — everything’s fine — the standard answer, and half of everyday Israeli conversation
- אֲנִי סְטוּדֶנְט. a-NI stu-DENT — I am a student.
- זֶה הַבַּיִת שֶׁלִּי. ZE ha-BA-yit she-LI — This is my house.
Then material that does not run out
Above the on-ramp sit the practice path (A1 to C2), Make a text at your level and the album: more than 2,700 photographs, each captioned and spoken in Hebrew. Hebrew has practice and tools, not lessons — the only course on iLexiBox is the full English course (how each part works).
What Hebrew actually costs a beginner
Two signs, one sound, over and over — kamatz and patach are both a, tzere and segol are both e. Ancient Hebrew held one of each pair longer; modern Hebrew does not, and a course that drills the difference is teaching something nobody says. The real costs are elsewhere. The vowel points disappear entirely from ordinary printed Hebrew, so fluent reading eventually means supplying them yourself, and five letters change shape at the end of a word. Both are met in the on-ramp, with a recorded voice on every card.
The full English course, A1–C1 →