עברית בתמונות, ספר-א׳

by Ivor A. Richards, David Weinstein, Christine M. Gibson

Here is a book for learning Hebrew in the quickest and clearest way – through pictures. For those with no knowledge of Hebrew at all, or for anyone in the early stages of reading, this book makes learning seem more like amusement than hard work.

300 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

British literary critic Ivor Armstrong Richards helped to develop Basic English, a constructed language that British linguist Charles Kay Ogden introduced in 1930 and that uses a simplified form of the basic grammar and core vocabulary of English; he also founded the movement of New Criticism, a method of literary evaluation and interpretation that, practiced chiefly in the mid-1900s, emphasizes close examination of a text with minimum regard for the biographical or historical circumstances of its production.

Clifton college educated this influential rhetorician; the scholar 'Cabby' Spence nurtured his love of English. His books, especially The Meaning of Meaning, Principles of Literary Criticism, Practical Criticism, and The Philosophy of Rhetoric, proved founding influences. The concept of "practical criticism" led in time to the practices of close reading, what is often thought of as the beginning of modern literary criticism. Richards is regularly considered one of the founders of the contemporary study of literature in English.

Reviews

[David Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great little book for those who wish to review their Hebrew. It starts off at a very basic level but quickly ramps up to full sentences and fairly varied vocabulary.

I don't know that it would be all that useful for people who don't know Hebrew at all. You would definitely need to spend some time learning to read the script and sound it out first. There's a section at the beginning of the book that's supposed to teach that, but I'm not sure how effective it would be if you didn't have any starting point at all.