Alpha NETA – True Beginner Level (New Active Vocabulary - 450 words)
This level is designed for students with no or very little knowledge of Hebrew. However, it assumes mastery of the Alef-Bet and the skill of reading in print and in cursive, both without the vowels (nikkud).

Students who complete this level will be able to:

Speak
in short dialogues about daily life or customs (acquaintances, school, schedule of the day, Shabbat, Holidays)-10 sentences per speaker

Write
a paragraph on a personal topic (description, information, impression) - up to 5-6 sentences
a memo- 7-8 sentences
an assertion of opinion - 5-6 sentences

Read:
a paragraph of information or a description- 10-15 sentences
a story or a folk tale -10-12 sentences

Listening:
comprehend a short dialogue about daily life -16 sentences
comprehend and summarize a short informative lecture on places, customs, groups of people and social phenomena

Recognize and use the following structures:
Morphology:
Forming masculine and feminine singulars and plurals in nouns, adjectives, and verbs in the present tense
Infinitives and present tense of the following conjugations: pa'al, pi'el, hiph'il, hitpa'el (shlemim)(in pa'al)
Numbers
Basic form of the construct state (smichut)
recognizing the suffixes and prefixes of the past and the future tense.
Conjugation of pa'al (shlemim and ) in the past tense
Declension of the preposition l' and shel

Syntax:
Agreement of nouns and adjectives
Agreement of nouns and verbs
Use of the definite article with nouns and adjectives
Three forms of nominal clauses in the present tense
The prepositions b', l', et, m', shel, and im
Cardinal number adjectives with masculine and feminine nouns
Interrogatives (question words)
Expression of cause with ki'
Placement of infinitives in sentences
Word order in sentences