Whether you require an intensive individual Hebrew language course at our London training centre or an in-company Hebrew course at your offices, Communicaid is able to offer you and your organisation a Hebrew language course that meets your needs. With training centres in London, Paris, Frankfurt and New York providing countrywide coverage and partner organisations worldwide, Communicaid is uniquely placed to be your local, national and international training partner for Hebrew courses.
Why a Hebrew course in London? Our Hebrew courses are highly personalised and developed to improve your Hebrew language and communication skills, whether your focus is social, business, financial, diplomatic or legal. Upon completion of a Hebrew language training course with Communicaid here in London, you will have the confidence to communicate in Hebrew with counterparts, clients and suppliers.
Location: In addition to our Hebrew courses in London, we are also able to provide Hebrew language courses worldwide via our training centres and global partners.
Benefits of our Hebrew language course
A Communicaid Hebrew language course will provide you with the ability to:
- Communicate more confidently when visiting a Hebrew-speaking region or dealing with
Hebrew speakers
- Demonstrate goodwill and facilitate international communication at both a personal and
organisational level
- Build rapport and strengthen relationships with Hebrew-speaking colleagues and counterparts
through a show of interest in the Hebrew language and culture
Who should attend our Hebrew school
A Communicaid Hebrew language training course is suitable for:
- Anyone doing business regularly with Hebrew speakers
- Anyone planning to relocate to a Hebrew-speaking region and wishing to attend a Hebrew
course in order to prepare in advance for their assignment
- Business professionals travelling to a Hebrew-speaking region who need to build rapport and
strengthen relationships
- Government and non-governmental agency representatives working in a Hebrew-speaking
region who need to be able to communicate at all levels
Hebrew course content
The content and format of your Hebrew course will depend on your profession, proficiency in Hebrew and objectives. Whether beginner, survival, intermediate or advanced, key areas covered in all our Hebrew courses include:
- Spoken fluency
- Pronunciation and accent
- Listening skills
- Reading skills
- Telephone skills in Hebrew
- Email skills in Hebrew
- Sector or industry-specific terminology
- Presentation & negotiation skills Approach
Communicaid’s Hebrew courses are available seven days a week, 365 days a year. Training takes place between 08:00 and 20:00 although courses are also available outside of these hours upon request.
Suitable tailored and published Hebrew course materials will be used throughout, with recommendations on self-study material and extra reading made at the beginning and during your Hebrew course.
We offer a variety of training formats for your Hebrew course – from intensive, weeklong courses to extensive, modular lessons. Appropriate formats will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy (please click here to read more about our approach).
Hebrew course trainer
All Communicaid Hebrew trainers are native speakers with at least 3 years’ professional Hebrew training experience. In addition to relevant academic and linguistic qualifications and experience, many of our Hebrew trainers also possess considerable exposure and expertise in the professional world.
Your Hebrew trainer will be assigned to you following the results of your diagnostic consultancy according to your objectives and areas of focus. Detailed below is a sample profile of a member of our Hebrew training team.
ES
ES has been delivering Hebrew courses for Communicaid since 2003. Her clients include both public and corporate sector organisations, which have included long-term courses in Hebrew for staff from the Ministry of Defence.
An accomplished linguist and Hebrew language trainer, ES has worked in the UK, France as well as Israel. In addition to teaching Hebrew, ES is a qualified Arabic and French language trainer. She is also a professional Hebrew-Arabic translator and worked as a translator and monitor for the US embassy in Tel-Aviv between 1982 and 1983.
עברית (Ivrit) – Facts about the Hebrew language
Hebrew is the official language of Israel. Approximately 5 million people speak Hebrew as their first language in Israel and a further several hundred thousand live in the West Bank and in Jewish communities in various locations around the world.
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. As a Semitic language, it is related to Amharic, Arabic and Aramaic although none are mutually intelligible. Hebrew is commonly regarded to have two main groups of dialects: Ashkenazi Hebrew, a dialect is spoken by Jews of European descent, and Sephardi Hebrew which is spoken by Jews whose ancestors came to Israel from Middle Eastern countries. Standard Hebrew is considered to be an amalgamation of features from both groups of dialects.
Hebrew is written from right to left. The Hebrew alphabet of twenty-two letters (five of which have a different form when they appear at the end of a word) consists entirely of consonants. A pointing system comprising small dots and dashes placed above and below the consonants was devised around the fifth century to indicated vowels and syllabic stress. This system continues to be used today but generally only in education materials and prayer books. Only rarely are they used in commercial material or the media and then only in instances where they may be ambiguity otherwise. |