Today the topic is grammatical gender. If you've ever studied a language like German, Russian, or Spanish, you know about grammatical gender. While, in English, we think of everything as "it" except for living beings (which then become "he" or "she"), in several languages like Spanish your only choices are é and ella, or "he" and "she". This ( Read more... )

So I've debated subscribing to the Hebrew-language newspaper שער למתחיל, Shara Lemaxtil, "Gateway to the Beginner". Why this newspaper and not any of the others -- say, HaAretz or Yediyot Axronot? Because Shara Lemaxtil is kind of a stepping stone, complete with all words containing vowel points, and more complex terminology explained more simply ( Read more... )