I've now entering my third year of Hebrew study, and just had a few questions for anyone who reads Hebrew regularly...
How often do you read? How much (material) at a time? How long do you typically read for? How fast can you typically read?
On a related note... How often do you have to look words up? Like... how much vocabulary do you have memorized (down to what occurrence-frequency?)? How do you typically look up words (i.e. a reader's Bible? a lexicon?) Do you regularly work on improving vocabulary? If so, how?
And then... what books do you typically read? Which books do you find the most difficult? Easiest?
Basically I just want to get a good gauge of what someone who "knows biblical Hebrew" is able to do. Like... how proficient should one be at sight-reading, how much vocab one knows, etc. etc....
(On a rather unrelated side-note, am I the only one who HATES whenever someone makes any kind of oath in the Bible?? The syntax always gets crazy funky and throws me off....)
How often do you read? How much (material) at a time? How long do you typically read for? How fast can you typically read?
On a related note... How often do you have to look words up? Like... how much vocabulary do you have memorized (down to what occurrence-frequency?)? How do you typically look up words (i.e. a reader's Bible? a lexicon?) Do you regularly work on improving vocabulary? If so, how?
And then... what books do you typically read? Which books do you find the most difficult? Easiest?
Basically I just want to get a good gauge of what someone who "knows biblical Hebrew" is able to do. Like... how proficient should one be at sight-reading, how much vocab one knows, etc. etc....
(On a rather unrelated side-note, am I the only one who HATES whenever someone makes any kind of oath in the Bible?? The syntax always gets crazy funky and throws me off....)