Hebrew Year 1

🕎 Baruch haba.
Hebrew is a Northwest Semitic language spoken by about 9 million people worldwide. Its alphabet of 22 consonants is unique and written right to left. Modern Hebrew uses subject–verb–object (SVO) sentence structure, though biblical texts often feature verb–subject–object (VSO).
Hebrew preserves roots shared with Aramaic and Arabic and has a history spanning millennia, from biblical texts to modern daily usage.

Unique features:

1. Only Semitic language fully revived as a native spoken tongue after centuries of liturgical use.
2. Combines ancient morphology with modern syntax adapted for contemporary use.
3. Unique triliteral root system (e.g., k-t-b for writing).
4. Special final letter forms (ך, ן, ף, ץ) not found in most other alphabets.

Commonalities:

1. Related to Aramaic and Arabic; shares triliteral root patterns.
2. SVO word order in modern usage, like English.
3. Includes modern loanwords shared with Indo-European languages.
4. Revived modern usage parallels other 20th-century linguistic reforms (e.g., Turkish).

𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄
Year-by-year vocabulary covering 420 words per year, spanning 15 categories. Each year introduces 28 new vocabulary terms per category. The hope is that the small size will reward incremental progress through gradual effort (master ~8.08 words/phrases per week to finish in a year, or master 15 terms per day to finish in a month).

𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗱
Excel Labs to generate translations/transliterations, to export as CSV into Anki, and to analyze or track progress; HyperTTS (Forvo > Azure Neural), anyvoicelab, and Forvo to accompany with sound (alternatively, if these are mistaken, I use System Settings → Accessibility → Read & Speak → System Speech Language: Hebrew; System Voice: Carmit; Detect Languages: ON; Speak item under the pointer: ON and hover over the target language I want to hear); 3dicons.co, Copilot, Gemini/Imagen4/Nano Banana, GPT-5, Llama 4, Perplexity (incl. Sonar, Claude 4.5), Canva, Picsart, Photoroom for transparency, BruceBlaus donation from Blausen.com staff, freepngimg.com, iconlibrary.com.

𝗧𝗼-𝗗𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁

• ☐ Find & remove duplicates compared to other years (brush, glasses, screen, comb)
• ☐ Find and fix audio errors
  • ☑ Fixed pronuncations for : *palm, lymphatic [system] (p→f), ureter, seam, hem, measles, drone (p→f), shin (conflated with market), new (conflated with month), old (conflated with asleep), volume (conflated with blacksmith), 1000 (conflated with the letter aleph), *Added audio for: burger, coffee, birds.
• ☐ Ensure translations do not conflate homographs such as: truffle (candy, not fungus), collar (human, not dog), cloves (spice, not garlic), cartwheel (verb, not wheel), capital (city, not uppercase letter), record (unprecedented feat, not document or act of documentation), and scales (musical vs weight measurement)
• ☑ Create images (100 % complete) 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 completed
• ☑ Attach images (100 % complete)

Note: The link and author information for graphics sourced from scientific journals are embedded in the metadata.
Please submit corrections (contact information in link), as this deck is intended to be continually improved upon.

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗴

• [2025-11-10] Images have been attached to the deck. The deck will now be reviewed to ensure accuracy and identify improvements for future updates.
• [2025-11-12] After initial review of the deck on MacOS and iOS, added a hidden repeated audio of the front to the back of the cards in order to facilitate recognition and memorization. Updated the card front, back and styling sections to include fallback minimal codes in case the app used to load Anki cards is failing to render.
• [2025-11-14] Fixed pronunciation mismatches due to Hebrew homographs (no niqqudot were submitted to HyperTTS to maximize the chances of finding an audio from Forvo); Added image for blacksmith to deduplicate volume; Added missing audio.