[Sca-cooks] language of Isreal

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Many years ago, I went to a big seder in Los Angeles where the fellow 
sitting next to me was a native Hebrew speaker from Israel on his first 
trip to the US.  He found the proceedings fascinating, since his family 
seders were mainly in Aramaic.  This time, he could understand it all! 
 I told him, I knew how he felt. <smile>

My cousin raised five kids in Beersheba.  They have moved back to the US 
last year with the three younger ones, now aged 9-14.  You would never 
know that English was not these children's first language to hear them 
now.  You will do fine.

Selene Colfox

Yehoshua ben Haym wrote:

>Pretty much. When I got here in August I knew about 4 works in hebrew, and
>could sort of mumble my way threw a prayer book. Now I'm not great but I
>can say order lunch without to much problem. For many things I have to get
>my room mate to help. I hope after 5 months in an intensive Ulpan i will
>speak reasonably well
>
>--
>Yehoshua ben Haym haYerushalmi
>Senischal soon to be Shire of Beit Aryeh
>MKA Zachary Kessin Jerusalem, Israel
>zkessin at cs.brandeis.edu IM:ZachKessin LiveJournal: zachkessin
>