Free Hebrew tools — no account, no trial, no card
Everything on this half of the page is genuinely open. You do not need to sign up, and nothing is a teaser with the good part removed. What the text says and what a root means are facts about the language — I did not invent them and I am not going to charge for them.
The Tanakh in Hebrew
The complete Hebrew Bible with vowel points, verse by verse, with the English beside it. Read a chapter in Hebrew and check yourself line by line.
The Hebrew Root Explorer
Three-letter roots with the whole family of words each one produces, the binyan of every verb, and the verse it comes from.
The grammar library
Written explanations of how the languages actually work — reading, binyanim, gender, plurals and the grammar textbooks rush past.
Yiddish word of the day
A growing archive of Yiddish words with transliteration, meaning, a real example sentence and an original woodcut illustration.
And this is what is inside
The rest of the app is a practice system, not a library — and it runs on your own lesson data. I am not hiding it to create suspense, so here is the honest list, including why each one needs a teacher behind it to be worth anything.
Spaced-repetition flashcards
Every word from your lessons becomes a card, scheduled by an FSRS algorithm so it comes back exactly when you are about to forget it.
Why it needs a lesson: The cards are built from your lessons. There is nothing to review until we have had one.
Binyanim & conjugation trainer
Drill any verb across the seven binyanim and three tenses, with the pattern explained rather than just marked wrong.
Why it needs a lesson: Tracks which patterns you personally keep missing, and feeds them back into your lessons.
Reading practice with live nikud
Any Hebrew text, vowel points on or off with one tap, and a record of which words you have actually read before.
Why it needs a lesson: The word-by-word history is yours, and it is what tells me what to teach next.
Conversation practice
Spoken role-play scenarios that correct you as you go and explain the correction.
Why it needs a lesson: Runs on live AI per exchange, so it is genuinely metered rather than artificially gated.
Speak it & listen drills
Hear a native voice, say it back, and hear the difference — built from your own vocabulary.
Why it needs a lesson: Generates audio per phrase from your card list.
Homework, lessons & progress
Lesson summaries written in your own first language, homework with audio, streaks, XP and a record of every session.
Why it needs a lesson: This is the teaching. It only exists because there is a teacher on the other end.
A trial lesson is a real lesson — thirty minutes, with me, no card. You leave it with your first set of cards already built, which is the point: the practice side only means something once there is something of yours in it.
Book a free trial lessonEverything here is free. The lessons are where it goes deeper.
I'm Yaacov — a native Jerusalemite teaching Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Yiddish and Aramaic. This reference library and the daily words are open to anyone, no account needed. If you want someone to actually read with you, that's what the lessons are for.
No card required for the trial. Real lesson, real teacher, 30 minutes.