Unfortunately, due to copyright issues, I can’t just post the answers to the Weingreen exercises online, so there isn’t a link to direct you to. I’ll keep trying to work on getting permission to post it.

Karyn

would you be so kind to send me the address of your website (where you have uploaded answers to Weingreen excersises). Thank you

I wrote software tool that lets the student type English in one pane and Hebrew in another — quickly working through Weingreen and producing this above results. Windows based (sorry).

As for the fonts in your file: Yes! the PDF files do work correctly outside of my browser (Google Chrome). Odd. Chrome also refuses to show my WordPress dashboard properly.

I stumbled onto your blog when I saw your top 5 books. Ken Brown took all of our selections and put them on one page. You were the only one with Mark Smith (and him at the top) — that caught my eye as I have read his work. For my Ugaritic studies I wrote software that lets me explore and translate Ugaritic and all of it is tied to Gordon’s dictionary.

Thanks for all your Hebrew work,

Steve

Thank you for your comments. We’ve got an answer key for WG too, so it would be interesting to compare our documents.

As to the Hebrew worksheet. Are you talking about the Weak Verb chart or the Review guide? Both are meant to be able to be “read” whether you have the fonts or not. I’ll double check on that. I may email you a different version and ask you to check to see if you can read it. I appreciate you pointing that out to me.

I am in the process of uploading answers to all of Weingreen’s exercises (PDF format) onto my web site. I would have them check their answers that way. Not that my answers are the answer key, but I would provide one if I were the prof.

Also, while I have you here: do you have fonts to go with your Hebrew worksheet? When I look at your PDF files on my machine, the fonts for most of the Hebrew don’t come across. Which fonts did you use?

Welcome. Thank you for your comments. I agree that the communicative method is going to be a challenge to utilize in a 2 week course. That was exactly my point in challenging the proponents of CLT to think through this particular situation. I think sometimes we need to turn our attention to the “trenches.” No matter what you think about communicative methodology (and there are many mixed opinions), the reality is that it is not going to be best in all situations. The specifics of a given situation will drive what is the most useful set of tools to implement (hence, my emphasis on focusing on the end-use of the learner as the driving force of the decisions for curriculum and pedagogy). Having a friend go to China to teach Biblical Hebrew in Mandarin takes the conversation out of the realm of theory and into practice. I look forward to posting more about the finalized syllabus and a report after the teaching is completed.