Modern Hebrew (Alphabet, Duolingo, Hebrew from Scratch)

A comprehensive deck for learning Modern Hebrew vocab with nikkud-insensitive typing, combining:

• The Hebrew Alphabet — including pronunciation & cursive forms
• Hebrew From Scratch (Books Alef & Beit) — full vocabulary (0-א added)
• Duolingo — cleaned & expanded
• Top 2000 Vocabulary Deck (unavailable) — those words not in the above decks

✅ Requires Anki[Mobile] 24.11 or AnkiDroid 2.20+!
📢 Be sure to read the caveats below!

Screenshots (back cards; resized):

🔍 Features

• Cleaned & High-Quality Audio: Recordings from Duolingo, Forvo and (as last resort) TTS.
• Nikkud-insensitive typing: If used, the vocalized writing will be cleanly shown below what's entered.
• Fully Vocalized Hebrew & Cursive Font: On the front of "Hebrew → English" cards, Nikkud is filtered, but not for the cursive script (hover/click/long-press on the word to toggle).
• Example Sentences: At least one voiced or unvoiced sentence per note (up to 5 Hebrew/English pairs shown at a time).
• Grammar & Conjugation: Pealim-style conjugation tables embedded on verb cards. Word class is indicated to help with ambiguity, click on it on the front side to further reveal gender.
• Color Coding: Binyan colors, grammar-based backgrounds. Night-mode compatible.
• Useful Hyperlinks: In the top line (with ・), left → right: Morfix, Milog, Klein, Wiktionary, Pealim, Academy of the Hebrew Language.
  The middle section links Reverso (beware of homographs).
  Pealim searches for the word on single-click and, if present, the shoresh on double-click.
• Streamlined Content: Merged vocab sources. Duplicates removed. Tags cleaned & made hierarchical. Translations and grammar improved.
• Contextual Details: Brief explanations (e.g. for locations), pictures, missing noun genders, roots, irregular plurals, (where found) verb prepositions.

⚠️ Caveats

• Card Order: Original HfS/Duolingo ordering was not preserved. Use tags or Advanced Browser to reorder in the Card Browser (select the cards → reposition).
  [If you know of a way this can be exported to AnkiWeb, please send me a message!]
• Typing: Ignores all diacritics entered → no nikkud comparison, even if the correct ones are entered.
• Media Syncing: Anki[Droid] currently uses a slow upload (25-files/batch). If media seems missing, it may still be uploading. Double-click Sync to check status. This can be interrupted & continued without issue.
• Deck Cleanup: Redundant Duolingo fields removed. Top 2000 reduced to ~920 relevant terms (a tag indicates their frequency tier).
• Visual glitches: The cursive font is slightly mismatched in size, which had to be worked around. WEBP/AVIF images and some emoji (→ �) may not render on older OS.
• AnkiDroid: Activate "Settings → Advanced → Type answer into field" and set the appropriate "Card zoom" in "Settings → Reviewing".
• Audio Playback: Uses HTML <audio> tags (not [sound:...] syntax) and JavaScript to randomize, carry a selection across front & back, and selectively play. Its field appears empty in Card Browser — edit only in raw HTML mode (Windows: Ctrl-Shift-x) or risk deletion!

💬 Example Sentences

• Front: If the note has at least two, one will be randomly chosen, with the note's term hidden on the front. Voiced ones are prioritized, their audio auto-played on the back.
• Back: Up to five examples randomly shown at a time. The sentence shown on the front is always repeated on the back.
• Numbers on the ◂/▸ audio buttons: How many unvoiced/voiced ones are present. They only appear when said 5-limit causes some to be hidden.
• Double-tap these numbers to reshuffle and show a different random selection.
• Gray border if the note has 10+ examples. Only the second digit is shown (e.g., 15 → “1”).
• Highlight colors are inherited from the card note's base color — gender mismatches may appear in coloring.

🗣️ Voiced Examples

• Speakers do not match gender consistently — mismatches are common.
• Examples shown on the front will have a gray audio button on the back.

🧩 Fields

• Hebrew: Main vocab term (with nikkud)
• English: Translation
• subtext: Additional context
• gender: ז (masc), נ (fem), or (repurposed for verbs) binyan; affects card coloring.
  [פָּעַ for pa'al, פִּעֵ pi'el, הִפְ hif'il, הִתְ hitpa'el, הֻפְ huf'al, פֻּעַ pu'al, נִפְ nifal]
• grammar: Abbreviated grammar type, e.g. n = noun, adv = adverb (triggers stripes: ni = noun irregular)
• shoresh: Three-letter root (with ־ separators); duplicated as (hierarchical) tag with ::
• audio: <audio> elements: not visible in card browser
• inflections: Plurals (color-coded if irregular), conjugations (from Pealim). Auto-opened to:
  1. A marked TD tag with id=m (= a particular verb form)
  2. TR tags with class=col (for verbs of which only these tenses are used)
  3. first TD tag (default)
• notes: Additional info, images, comments
• voiced: Formatted voiced sentence pairs
• examples: Formatted unvoiced sentence pairs
• image: Sometimes using emoji/symbols instead

🛠 To Do / Limitations

• Since initial deck creation, Duolingo has updated its course; changes are not included.
• No Hebrew-only definitions (e.g., from Milog) on the cards.
• Card HTML/CSS/JS is functional but messy.
• Minimal grammar notes — this is primarily a vocabulary deck.
• No tricolor backgrounds (gender/type/number combined).
• Could benefit from English audio for main meanings.
• Shoresh-based grouping, irregular markings missing.

🗣 Feedback Welcome!

This deck is large and hand-tuned — some errors are inevitable.

If you find bugs, missing content, or have suggestions, please leave a comment and a thumbs-up review on AnkiWeb!

[Changes since last update 2025-06-21: CSS & JS clean-up, minor tweaks to a few notes]