That line is just a fitting end to our beginning Hebrew course as it is also the closing line of the Book of Jonah, which we've been reading. I cannot count how many stories we've told this semester as a class that involved male cattle, female cattle, herds of cattle and so on... Quite fun and very effective for language learning. As a story is being told, the language learning almost become second nature because everyone is so excited to get involved in telling the story.
And today we retold the story of Jonah as a class. Our teachers helped us to both tell the event of the story and then to actually tell the story the way the Hebrew Bible records it. There is a special word form in Hebrew for telling the progressive events of a story and we had a great time using it today.
Tomorrow is the big exam. We'll walk into class and be handed a test with no English written on it, just Hebrew questions. But most people aren't concerned because by this point the language has gotten so much inside of us that we're ready for a test. Besides, I know that I haven't used up my 30,000 mistakes yet! (that's a class joke, haha)
Shalom
