Hebrew classes

That was my first class yesterday evening.
I enjoyed learning a new language.
I knew it a little by starting Yiddish by my own.

I found these classes by the rabbi i met at the Jewish Consistory last week.
The Jewish Agency advised us to start Hebrew before living there.

I called other schools but their price are too expensive for one hour and half weekly!
What i like with this class is that we will learn Hebrew: to write it and to read it, but once we know our alphabet and some words, we will read some extracts of the chumash.
The teacher is a rabbi.

room of the shul, Paris, November 2014, ©emmarubinstein 

But yesterday, we were 3 new students. The classes started three weeks ago.
We were three generations around the table in a beautiful room of the shul.
We had to make up the delay.
The rabbi was not available, her wife was the teacher.
She is Sephardic, wearing a hat. A student was not sure to have recognized her.
She said very naturally: "Last time, i was wearing a wig." :-)

We started with the vowels. We don't have the same in Yiddish.
We read a lot, and learned new words.

This woman was amazing, and so helpful.
She gave us one hour more, to be at the same level than the other students.
Next Monday, we are going to get into the classes with the other students.
Her husband that we met yesterday, and her won't be in Paris the next three weeks.
But she offered us to help us when she is back in town if we have difficulties to follow the class.
The other teacher is a woman and she said that she was very pedagogue.

What i appreciated the most is that she did it with her heart not with her wallet.
She wanted us to be comfortable with the other students next Monday.

Now we have lot of homework to do. I will take one hour or two daily to read it and remember the letters we already learned.

If we are good students, we might be joined the group of Oulpan level 1.

room of the shul, Paris, November 2014, ©emmarubinstein