My Hebrew Story

Most Hebrew apps hand you a streak. This one hands you a year in Israel. You land in Tel Aviv with two suitcases and a little Hebrew, and take a walk-up on Allenby Street. Your neighbor across the landing doesn't speak English. Over the next 36 lessons, that becomes the reason you progress. My Hebrew Story is a complete beginner's course in modern, spoken Israeli Hebrew — told as one continuing novel. Eight chapters. One year. A single story that runs from a first hello in a stairwell to a Passover seder where you finally follow every word at the table. YOU'RE IN THE STORY Choose your protagonist at the start and the whole course follows. You become Ron or Gal Katz, a programmer from New York who's just made aliyah. Hebrew's gendered grammar stops being a table to memorize and becomes the way you talk about yourself. SPEAK IT OUT LOUD Step into any dialogue and take a role. The other…