One week before we start reading a new story - or novel - I will make an announcement that the registration is opened! Once in months for the advanced, once in 3-6 weeks for beginners and intermediate. Subscribe HERE to get the announcements!

Book lovers! If you love reading - this club is for you! Get to know the real non-adapted Hebrew literature in original!

a)
Now - also for the beginning learners! (Upper beginners, not from zero!) When you've been learning words, phrases, grammar - but you are tired of unconnected sentences and you are dying to see it all come together in a meaningful and engaging text - this is the course for you! This club is designed to be your perfect guided first encounter with an unadapted text!

b)
For intermediate learners - a slower paced reading pace, a page a week, with more explanations and help, for the advanced learners - we are reading real novels together, a chapter a week. - and then we meet to discuss what we've read!

Making good progress on your Duolingo tree, and feel you are ready for more? Want to see what you've learned in context, as part of an authentic text? Then you need the Beginner Book Club!

You can read and speak, but you want to take it to another level? Then the Intermediate and Advanced Book Club is for you!

The difference between the levels is not so much the level of the text itself (we read real literature in all clubs), but the amount of reading you get - half a page a week, 1-2 pages a week, or 20 pages a week. :)

For the beginner level we will be reading short stories written for kids! They have easier vocabulary and simpler subject matter - but still, written in real, unadapted language - that we will help you understand. :)
The reading volume - 150-200 words a week.

For the intermediate level we will be choosing interesting short stories for you, from different sources (here, for example), of different styles and authors, trying to be as diverse and as interesting as possible to keep all readers happy. :)
The reading volume ~300 words a week.

For the the advanced course, in which we are going to stay with one long novel for a while, we will dedicate the first three weeks to familiarizing ourselves with a first chapter of three different novels and then we will be voting to choose the one the participants like the most. :) (In our first run we chose Neuland)
The reading volume ~15 pages a week.

You can also have a look at the walkthrough videos above - they make quite good representative samples of our usual text level!

Have a look at the

----> BOOK CLUB CALENDAR <----
(dates, times, content!)
https://teamup.com/kshkjimow47xbemkcr

There you can see
--> the lessons that are currently running,
--> their times converted to your time zone,
--> descriptions of the novel/story we are reading at that day! (click on the lesson!)

(*NOTE: for the beginners' book club the week starts with a lesson, and for the intermediate and the advanced - the lesson is the end of the learning week!)

The beginner group lesson is on Mondays, 9pm Israel time
(see the time converted to your time zone HERE)

The intermediate club meets on Tuesdays, 4:30pm Israel time!
(see the time converted to your time zone HERE)

The advanced group lesson - on Tuesday, 9pm (see the time converted to your time zone HERE)

*You can also see the times and the lessons at the calendar -
https://teamup.com/kshkjimow47xbemkcr

The general principle - the more advanced the group is, the less English is used.

Specifically, the purpose of the lesson for the three groups is slightly different.

For the beginners - the purpose of the lesson is reading together, getting better understanding of the text, acquiring new structures and vocabulary. In this case - we do use English language for getting a better understanding of the text.

For the intermediate and the advanced - the purpose of the lesson is speaking practrice. For the intermediate we may use an explanation in English if necessary and justified, whereas for the advanced group it is rarely needed, the advanced lesson is Hebrew-only.

Normally, all our novels -
a) are written in Hebrew originally
b) have a Hebrew digital version, for easy access
c) have a Hebrew audio version, we believe in the importance of listening (especially for such a language as Hebrew, written without vowels)
d) have an easily available English translation (useful for having a quick look at a specific phrase or to catch up with the group if the week has been too busy for you to read it all in Hebrew - and you do want to participate fully in the discussion! ;) )

Once you start the course, here is what you get:

- We prepare the text for reading in different reading formats (PDF, GoogleDoc, and, last but not least, we upload it to LingQ! Not a must, but students who are using it really appreciate the contribution.)

- We have "walkthrough videos" (see the examples above).
For the beginners and the intermediate - the walkthroughs cover all the texts. For the advanced - only for the beginning of each weekly reading part. (We decided together with the students to keep the balance between "deep-reading" and "fast reading" - because both are useful in their own way.)

- We have small daily assignments posted at the course chat (different for each group, fine-tuned to the needs of each level)

- We have a weekly Zoom group lesson (for the beginners - for reading together, for the intermediate and the advanced students - for speaking practice)

You can take this course - this and all previous runs - for self-study a part of the mini-PASS program (€35 a month), or register for the full PASS and join this and any other course that The Hebrew Hub has! (€85 a month)

The payment is monthly, which means that if you pay, for example, on January 12th it covers your subscription till February 12th. If you stay with us for more than one whole month and then, for some reason, decide to discontinue - you are entitled to keep all the materials you started learning with, even if you leave before we are done reading the book/story.

Once you sign up, you'll get an automated welcome email (check all your email folders!), saying that your enrollment is confirmed!

Then, on the day before we start reading the next novel/story, you'll get two things:

First - you'll get an email inviting you to the course chat. This is a text chat, and it's a very important step - it's your main communication channel with the teacher and other classmates.

Second - you'll get all the learning materilas - the google doc, the PDF, the LingQ, the walkthroughs - all as one link, neatly gathered at an online learning platform, accessible from your desktop as well as from your mobile.

The course is ongoing, - because learning a language - and reading - it's a way of life, as I see it. :) Once we finish reading a story or a novel - we start reading a new one! It takes a monthly subscription - but of course, you can stop it and step out any time! (See the "Guarantes and refunds section" below)

Yes, all lessons are recorded - not publicly, of course, but only for the course participants! So you can watch any lesson again, if you want to, or catch up if you couldn't make it to one of the lessons! ;)

The materials are yours forever! All texts, PDFs, audios, and exercises - all are hosted at a learning platform, accessible from your desktop and mobile. Once you join to start reading a story with us - you have access to it and all the materials that come with it - forever.

Yes, sure! But I want you to be able to participate fully, so switching tracks is recommended only when we start reading a new piece - so that you'll know what we are talking about and benefit most from the discussions at the lesson!

It will be happening once in several months for the beginner and the intermediate group, but only once in half a year for the advanced!*
You can refer to the calendar -https://teamup.com/kshkjimow47xbemkcr to see the starting dates.

(*As a workaround for the advanced book clubbers – if you want to join in the middle ,basically, you can catch up quickly and read up to the point where we are in English... But better start together with the group, it's an incredible, immersive process!)

Sometimes yes. ;) You may need to need to purchase the digital version of the story/novel we are reading to be ok with the copyright, but it is not expensive and it will happen, probably, twice a year. (For the advanced group it will happen when we decide which novel we are going to settle for, and we are going to stay with this novel for quite a while, and for the beginner/intermediate groups we will be taking most of our stories from free collections, and then maybe once in a while we will ask you to buy something exceptionally good – like Etgar Keret stories collection. 😉)

Join as part of mini PASS (access to learning materials obly) or full PASS (access to everything, including the live Zoom lessons). https://thehebrewhub.com/course-menu