Yohanan Elihai continues to teach us Hebrew and Arabic

Yohanan Elihai, who received recognition from the University of Haifa last year for his linguistic life project, has produced two more publications to help learn both Hebrew and Arabic.

The first is a course to learn and practice at home the colloquial Hebrew verb system. The book and the CDs that are attached to it are aimed at showing and giving voice to 4000 sentences used in daily life. The promise of the author is: "a page a day and in four months one feels at home with all the verbs". The book is now published in English ("Living Hebrew: 490 verbs in 4,000 phrases of everyday life"), editions already having been published in French and in Russian.

The second aide is a "Hebrew-Arabic conversational anthology for doctors and medical staff" which is meant to aide those entrusted with giving medical treatment, helping in the communication with Arabic speaking patients. Problems of communication between medical staff and patients, deriving from ignorance of the language, do make diagnosis difficult, as well as complicate the giving of instructions during check ups, treatment and follow-up. This might even lead to a deterioration in the quality of medical treatment. In the field of emergency medicine such failures of communication might even lead to disasters. The sentences in the anthology asnd the terms in the index appear in precise and easy to use Hebrew transliteration, including full vocalization and accents. The anthology comprises 140 pages including 900 sentences, divided according to subject matter and medical professions and an index of 900 terms ordered according to the alphabet.

These publications can be ordered from Minerva Publications in Jerusalem and the details can be studied on their website: See here