I had the first day of ulpan today. I'm in the lowest level my program is offering! Its Monday through Thursday from 9:30-2:30 for 3 weeks. So it is definitely a lot of learning! We learned common phrases today and went over some of the letters in both block and cursive. The letters were easy for me, since its just a manner of remembering what I learned years ago in Hebrew school. The language seems like a hard one though. I keep getting it confused with Spanish, because the masculine and feminine are backwards from what spanish is. For example masculine "you" is ata, while female "you" is at, which just seems wrong! We went for a tour of downtown Tel Aviv today. Tomorrow I plan to run on the beach, which I always love.
I am shocked at how expensive Israel is. Food and groceries are much more expensive than in the US. Just a box of cereal (like Kellogs) can be like 25, 30 shekels, which is 7 bucks! It is like that for everything. It really is ridiculous.
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Hebrew is really confusing. In French the feminine is like Spanish and always has the extra syllable. Hebrew goes back and forth. Like "you understand" for a male is ahta mevine, while for a female it is aht mevina. You'll get the hang of it really fast though since you'll be surrounded by it.
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