Offered:

Term 1 (Feb -Apr) and Term 3 (Aug - Sep) each year. This course is offered as a Zoom-only course and has no in-person component.

Date & Time:

Hebrew 103 Term 1 classes begin on Thursday, 23 February 2023, 6:00-7:30 pm (New Zealand time), and run for eight successive weeks, with the last class of the Term held on Thursday, 13 April 2023. Check below for time zone equivalents in outher parts of the world:

Time Zone equivalents:

for live-streaming Zoom Sessions from New Zealand. If your Time Zone doesn't suit our live-streamed class, you can also access our courses by watching the live-recorded sessions that are posted to the course webpage each week, usually within 1-2 days.

  • Honolulu, Hawai’i: begins Wednesday 22 Feb 2023, 7:00-8:30pm

  • US Pacific: begins Wednesday 22 Feb 2023, 9:00-10:30pm

  • US Eastern: begins Thursday 23 Feb 2023, 12:00-1:30am

  • London, UK: begins Thursday 23 Feb 2023, 5:00-6:30am

  • Paris, France: begins Thursday 23 Feb 2023, 6:00-7:30am

  • New Delhi, India: begins Thursday 23 Feb 2023, 10:30am-12:00pm

  • Bangkok, Thailand: begins Thursday 23 Feb 2023, 12:00-1:30pm

  • Singapore & Shanghai: begins Thursday 23 Feb 2023, 1:00-2:30pm

  • Sydney Australia: begins Thursday 23 Feb 2023, 4:00-5:30pm

Description:

  • The Introductory Hebrew 103 course continues to build upon the learning completed in Hebrew 101 and 102, with continued emphasis on increasing conversational skills, learning additional rules of Hebrew grammar, expanding vocabulary, and improving our reading and writing skills. Both contemporary and traditional Hebrew songs will be learned.

  • Introductory Hebrew 103 is next offered in 2023 Term 1 on Thursdays from 6:00 - 7:30pm during school Terms. Each Term consists of 8 weekly classes.

  • Hebrew 103 Term 1 classes begin on Thursday 16 February 2023 and run for eight successive weeks, with the last class of the Term held on Thursday 6 April 2023. Subsequent classes (Hebrew 104 and 201-204) will be held in the same time slot.

Meet our Instructor

Puppeteer-in-Residence, Puppet Education Specialist, Hebrew Instructor Ifat Vayner-Itzkovitch

Shalom! שלום ! My name is Ifat Vayner-Itzkovitch, and I have been living in New Zealand for the past few years. I’m a Puppeteer and a Hebrew teacher, a mother of two amazing kids: Hadas and Tal and a wife to Gilad. Born and raised in Israel, I completed my B.A. in the Department of Theatre and Literature at Tel-Aviv University and graduated from the “Holon Puppet Theatre School” as a master puppeteer and also completed the training program ‘Puppet Theater as a Therapeutic Tool’. I worked as a puppeteer at the “Holon Puppetry Center”, gave tours of the Puppet Theater Museum of Art and taught adult puppetry courses at the Puppet Theater Art School. I taught puppet theater at Alona Elementary School in Amikam for four years for ages 7-12 and also taught groups and individuals, children, and adults, in various activities through puppet theater in informal or therapeutic settings. For the past two years I have been teaching Hebrew on-line with IVRIE-LI Language School and meeting people from all over the world that are interested in keeping Hebrew alive. I really like to teach and share my knowledge, travel the world, and play with puppets to create communication, touch emotions, and create humor and laughter together with my students. My favourite word in Hebrew is אהבה (love). Let’s find out what your favourite word is!

Location:

All in-person classes are held at the EarthDiverse offices and classrooms located at 401 Anglesea Street, Hamilton Central, Hamilton (located just north of the Hamilton Central Bus Station) (entrance is located on the side of the building, see map below). Those looking for parking for our evening classes can park just in front of the building in any of the available car parks. Daytime parking can be found in our dedicated car parks, or free 2-hour on-street daytime parking can be found just in front of Anglesea Street.
Location

Distance Learning:

This course has distance-learning options for those unable to attend the live class sessions in Hamilton. Students have three options for attending our courses once they have registered:

  • Attend in-person classes in our Hamilton classrooms at the regularly scheduled day and time.

  • Attend our live on-line classroom sessions via Zoom at the regular scheduled day and time.

  • Watch the live-recorded class sessions at your leisure, at a time, day and place more suited to your schedule.

Distance-Learning option:

  • In addition to our in-person classes in Hamilton, our courses offer distance learning options for those unable to attend classes in-person. Live-streamed Hamilton classes are available via free Zoom software for those living outside the Waikato. Live-streaming allows you to participate fully in your own learning, ask questions of the instructor and participate fully in the same way as if you were in the physical classroom.

  • Those unable to attend the scheduled date and time of the actual class sessions, or those who need to miss a class or two due to previous engagements or unexpected illness, can watch any or all of the live-recorded video sessions on their computers, laptops, tablets or mobile devices and study at their own pace and in their own time.

  • Detailed instructions on how to access our distance learning components will be sent after completing your registration. There are no additional fees for this service. However, distance learners will need access to a desktop or laptop computer with a good quality web-camera (tablet devices and mobile phones can also access our live-streamed classes), a built-in microphone (most modern laptops have built-in microphones) or a headset with a microphone. You will also need to download and install the free Zoom software on your computer or device. Those accessing the video recordings will be able to do so with a simple web browser on any device.

Pricing options:

All prices in New Zealand Dollars

Course curriculum:

Week by week new material will be posted throughout the duration of the course. Video recordings of each weekly session will be posted here after 1-2 days after each class.

    1. EarthDiverse Course Information

    2. EarthDiverse Zoom instructions

    1. 20230223 T1.1 Hebrew 103 video

    2. 230223 T1.1 Hebrew 103 PDF

    1. 20230302 T1.2 Hebrew 103 PDF

    2. 20230302 T1.2 Hebrew103 video Part 1

    3. 20230302 T1.2 Hebrew 103 video Part 2

    1. 20230309 T1.3 Hebrew 103 PDF

    2. 20230309 T1.3 Hebrew 103 video

    1. 20230316 T1.4 Hebrew 103 video

    2. 20230316 T1.4 Hebrew 103 PDF

    1. 20230323 T1.5 Hebrew 103 PDF

    2. 20230323 T1.5 Hebrew 103 video video

Additional course info:

  • Video and PDF content of class presentations or whiteboards notes are uploaded weekly after each live session
  • Begins on Thur 16 Feb 2023
  • NZ time: Thursdays 6:00 - 7:30pm

Notes:

Those who cannot make the class meeting day and time either in-person or via live Zoom sessions may consider accessing this course through the weekly recorded video sessions. Class videos are posted within 24 hours of each live class session and are available for your own personal learning session on a day and time of your choosing.

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites for this Course:

  • Completion of both Hebrew 101 and 102

  • If you already have learned the Hebrew script, and have some background in Hebrew grammar, vocabulary or spoken Hebrew you may be eligible to join his course. Contact us for more information.

Materials:

  • Course materials are included in the course fees. These are currently being distributed to students as PDF files which can be printed out at home.

  • You will only require a pen or pencil, a notebook for taking your own class notes, and a loose-leaf binder. Any notes that our instructor writes on the class whiteboard will be emailed to you as a digital PDF file so that you can print these out at home and add them to your own notebook.