My Hebrew Story

Most Hebrew apps hand you a streak. This one hands you a year in Israel.

You land in Tel Aviv with two suitcases and a little Hebrew, and take a walk-up on Allenby Street. Your neighbor across the landing doesn't speak English. Over the next 36 lessons, that becomes the reason you progress.

My Hebrew Story is a complete beginner's course in modern, spoken Israeli Hebrew — told as one continuing novel. Eight chapters. One year. A single story that runs from a first hello in a stairwell to a Passover seder where you finally follow every word at the table.

YOU'RE IN THE STORY Choose your protagonist at the start and the whole course follows. You become Ron or Gal Katz, a programmer from New York who's just made aliyah. Hebrew's gendered grammar stops being a table to memorize and becomes the way you talk about yourself.

SPEAK IT OUT LOUD Step into any dialogue and take a role. The other characters answer in real voiced Hebrew — about fifteen distinct speakers, including native Israelis, an American accent for the newcomer, and French- and Russian-accented Hebrew from your classmates at ulpan.

Tap the mic and answer out loud. Your reply is judged on whether it makes sense in the conversation, not on whether it matched a script — say something sensible and different, and it still passes. Stuck? Flip the card to see the Hebrew. Every turn stays on screen, so you can play your own recording back.

INSIDE EVERY LESSON • A dialogue with speaker portraits and complete nikud • Vocabulary, with verbs linked through to full conjugations on Pealim • A grammar point drawn from the scene you just read • A culture note explaining what actually just happened • Exercises with answers you reveal when you're ready

BY THE END, YOU CAN Order coffee. Haggle at Shuk HaCarmel. Get through Paperwork Day at Misrad HaPnim. Understand why the whole country falls silent on Yom Kippur. Talk about your week, your work, and the people you've met.

FOR PEOPLE WHO'D RATHER READ No streaks. No leaderboards. No mascot waiting to be disappointed in you. If gamified apps have never held you, it's because they were never telling you anything. This one is.

Modern conversational Hebrew as it's spoken in Tel Aviv today.

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