Advanced Level (New Active Vocabulary - 2000 words):

Students who complete this level will be able to:

Speak:
Conversation on any topic-30 sentences per speaker
Short lecture on theoretical topic-5 minutes

Read:
Independent comprehension of a literary work in its original form-100-150 pages
Independent extensive reading of general news and short articles in a Hebrew newspaper
Independent extensive reading of classical writings (narrative chapters of the Bible, Mishna, and midrashim) and modern Hebrew poetry

Write:
Writing standard modern Hebrew in various forms of communication (memo, letter, essay on a theoretical subject) 50-70 sentences

Listen:
Comprehension of most components of a conversation on any topic among native speakers of Hebrew 15-20 minutes
Comprehension of most of the particulars of a song based on a single hearing

Recognize and use the following structures:

Morphology:
All three tenses and the gerund of the conjugation in niphal (shlemim)
All three tenses of the conjugation pu'al (shlemim)
All three tenses of the conjugation huph'al (shlemim)
Completion of the common paradigms in the active conjugations: and
Possessive with the construct state (smichut)
Declension of regular and irregular nouns in singular and plural

Syntax:
Summary of the formation of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences of various kinds: cause, time, purpose, result, comparison, contrast, concession
Expressions of negation
Expressions of restriction
Expressions of introduction, explanation, addition, and generalization
Sentences of correlation
Conditional sentences contrary to fact
Formation of sentences with passive verbs