All our course material comes directly from NTIS, notice their price is $280 and they no longer have the textbook, our price is $19.95!

Here is a picture of our Hebrew Basic Course Cassettes that we mastered using the Tascam Pro Audio equipment below. Double click the images to see a detailed image.

Learn Hebrew Language Course I $19.95

Language Experts agree, our courses are the most complete and thorough self-instructional language course available. Repetition, vocabulary, sentence structure are the building blocks our course utilizes to teach a language. Lots of repetition drills. Dialog drills. Pronunciation drills. Vocabulary. The audio material is from native speakers and the corresponding textbook is your guide. Our Methodology, Guided Imitation, sets the student on a path to a certified level of fluency. We no longer sell our courses in Volume I and Volume II, so there's no up sell for the next level. You will receive the entire course material, on DVD, for the lowest price we can afford to produce, $19.95. Our shipping cost is $5.45 for domestic shipping and $16.45 for international shipping, which is the exact price we pay the U.S. Postal Service to ship priority mail. We do not make money off of shipping, and ship priority mail because it is the fastest and least expensive way to ship. The DVD will play in both a PC or MAC, and the audio can easily be saved to an IPOD or other MP3 device. You will need Adobe Reader to access the PDF textbook.

Our Value Proposition

The Hebrew Basic Course, as you can see, sells for $280 from NTIS and that's without the textbook. NTIS is the United States printing service for audio/visual materials; however, they only sell it on audio cassette as you can see from our screen capture of their shopping cart. We purchased the material from NTIS, as evidenced by the screenshot provided of the original Hebrew Basic Course Audio Cassettes, and did the remastering work. We had the textbook professionally digitized into a PDF file. And then we spent countless hours remastering the cassette to a digital form, now we are providing this course to you for less than 10% of the cost of original material. Only $19.95!

Our Quality Proposition: It's all about the Remastering!

We used Tascam Pro Audio equipment to do the initial digital remastering from cassette to compact disc. Once completed, we converted the compact discs into an uncompressed WAV file. We copied what would have been on Side B of the Cassettes, to the end of Side A, creating one continous file, saving again as a WAV file. We used audio software, like Nero and Audacity, to clean up the audio even more. This multi step process includes converting the mono file to stereo, normalizing the volume across the entire WAV file, removing "clicks and pops", doing a low frequency filter, then a high frequency filter, truncating silences to 3 seconds to ensure the audio is quick to begin and end without dead space, normalized the volume again, and outputting the file as another WAV file. We used an MP3 encoder to convert the WAV file to an MP3 file, and we tagged all files with Subject, Title, Copyright, Volume I, Volume II data.

What does all this mean?

The remastering process and filter work means that silence sounds like silence. And in this case, silence truly is golden. Our product is of unparalleled quality, and we can honestly make the claim that no one has spent more time making these courses sound as good as our courses sound. We have provided significant improvements to the sound quality versus the original masters, and even the material we were selling just a year ago, thanks to current technology. All you have to do is open our files in a sound editor and see that silence is a straight line, not wavy, and this means clarity.

About the FSI Hebrew Language Course

FSI Hebrew Language Course contains 21 hours of audio, and one textbook in PDF file format with 584 pages.

Hebrew Drills are recorded first for listening, then for familiarization through repetition, and finally for participation. During the participation step, when the student performs the required manipulation, his utterances are confirmed on the audio immediately following the space provided for his participation.

Hebrew Drills are generally in two groups in any unit: a) variation drills on pattern sentences, which provide opportunities for the student to develop flexibility in the use of patterns already memorized, and b) grammar drills, which are intended to provide practice for the student in the operation of the patterns explained in the immediately preceding grammar notes.

Learn Hebrew 1 - Greetings

Learn Hebrew 2 - Introductions

Learn Hebrew 3 - Introductions

Learn Hebrew 4 - Housing arrangements

Learn Hebrew 5 - Speaking Hebrew

Learn Hebrew 6 - Asking Directions

Learn Hebrew 7 - Wandering through Tel Aviv

Learn Hebrew 8 - Wandering through Tel Aviv

Learn Hebrew 9 - Wandering through Tel Aviv

Learn Hebrew 10 - Wandering through Tel Aviv

Learn Hebrew 11 - Dinner invitation

Learn Hebrew 12 - Friday evening dinner

Learn Hebrew 13 - Friday evening dinner

Learn Hebrew 14 - At the grocery store

Learn Hebrew 15 - At a coffee house

Learn Hebrew 16 - Conversation in the coffee house

Learn Hebrew 17 - At the Post Office

Learn Hebrew 18 - Telling time

Learn Hebrew 19 - Calling long distance

Learn Hebrew 20 - Going to the theater

Learn Hebrew 21 - At the box office

Learn Hebrew 22 - Before the play

Learn Hebrew 23 - Discussing the show

Learn Hebrew 24 - Leaving the cafe

About The Hebrew Language

Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Culturally, Hebrew is considered the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such as the Samaritans. Hebrew in its modern form is spoken by most of the seven million people in Israel while Classical Hebrew has been used for prayer or study in Jewish communities around the world. The language is attested from the 10th century BCE to the late Second Temple period, after which the language developed into Mishnaic Hebrew. Hebrew is one of the official languages of Israel, along with Arabic.

Ancient Hebrew is also the liturgical tongue of the Samaritans, while modern Hebrew or Arabic is their vernacular, though today about 700 Samaritans remain. As a foreign language, Hebrew is studied mostly by Jews and students of Judaism and Israel, archaeologists and linguists specializing in the Middle East and its civilizations, by theologians, and in Christian seminaries.