WIKITONGUES: Yochai speaking Hebrew

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[Intel-i-k]

As a huge fan of ancient Middle East history, it makes me so happy that Hebrew was successfully revived. The linguistical and cultural variety in the ME around 1000-500 BC was just amazing, and now a part of that has been restored.

[Cybernaut]

I love how languages evolve and you're a great speaker.

[anubhaagarwal]

It would be nice if these can be subtitled. Would make the beautiful spoken text much more meaningful.

[lucaferretto]

This language is amazing. And so is this channel.

[pedrojunior]

Jeon Reno speaks French and Hebrew, congrats!

[jeffcrisafulli]

Those beautiful sounds are all I wanna hear. Thank you.

[PurpleTreeFish]

Yochai says that street Hebrew is different than tanachic Hebrew which is true but ONLY regarding certain elements of style and prose. It’s one language.

[UV_B_]

He has a slight accent and some of his phrasing is somewhat inarticulate. For example when he says "I like the Hebrew language very much" he begins the phrase with "very much" rather than with "I", as most native speakers would do. Another example is when he says that a lot of Hebrew words are mixed within Jewish-Tunisian Arabic he uses the Hebrew word for "mixed" in the plural masculine form even though "words" is feminine in Hebrew.

[matthewchapman]

I wish I could hear this beautiful language. Oh wait I have

[polemeros]

I have studied several European languages, modern and ancient, with success. I took a year of Hebrew and did well with it. Then I tried Irish, the language of my paternal ancestors. Totally defeated me. Hebrew is much easier! Principally, I think, because Hebrew is spoken as it is written and has fewer phonemes. Irish is much more variable and the spelling is harder even than English. This, I think, has something to do with Israeli success in restoring the old tongue and the failure of the Irish to achieve mastery of theirs.

[Zed-rwri]

i m tunisian and i say god bless israel..

[gefen]

His Hebrew sounds a bit different; I don't think it is an apt way to present today's Hebrew...

[tFighterPilot]

60 years? Modern Hebrew has been evolving for over 100 years.

[Levidelopes]

Modern Hebrew. The way he speaks is way different than my grandparents and teachers (Sephardic Jews) spoke Hebrew. It's basically "yiddished" Hebrew.

[jeffcrisafulli]

I would love to come and visit if I learn Hebrew thank you.

[Paraglidecrete]

Apollonii Sophistae Lexicon Homericum ΝΩΙ sounds noi means the two of us, us, most likely where first plural of personal of the dialects come from, noi italian, nous france, nosso, portugese, nosotros spanish, אָנוּ ki etera ki etera originate, what do you think ??

[portella_ra]

.תודה על הידיעות על ערבית מדוברת בג'רבה, יוחאי

[YoniVeYoshi]

He has a bit of a French accent, perhaps because his family lived in Tunisia.

[jeffcrisafulli]

Im going to listen to it on my headphones Im gonna try music in hebrew first then look up with the words say. Thank you so much.

[jeffcrisafulli]

Im surprised I have to learn to know it. What beautiful sounds thank you.