I would give this grammar 10 stars if I could. It really seems to be the only one that teaches Hebrew sensibly for normal people I read Dr. Griffin's article Killing a Dead Language as i was considered how I wanted to self-study Hebrew. I agreed completely with his approach. I was using some Memrise (the Ginoskos app is better) courses, the Aleppo codex on Quickbible, an interlinear on MySword and an a free grammar I downloaded. These were helpful, t but I wasn't enjoying the grammar. So I searched again and found that Dr. Griffin had created a grammar after all. It was just tied to Logos and isn't receiving the promotion it deserves. I have finished the fourth chapter and everything is presented so clearly. I started which chapter 2 since I already knew the Alef-bet. (The Singing Rabbi has a great version of the classical Alef-bet song on Youtube). I was delighted with the simple explanation of prefixes and getting to jump right into short sentences. He even doesn't assume you know the English grammar terms. Indeed, he admits he didn't know what a prepositional phrase was until he started learning Hebrew. But the biggest advantage is that he doesn't teach the Masoretic vowel points. The vowel points weren't added until around 1000 AD, so I have little confidence that they reflect how Abraham, David, or even Jesus spoke. "The typical Hebrew grammar devotes a great deal of space to the intricacies of Masoretic pointing, and many who teach elementary Hebrew have similar emphases. Students are taught propretonic reduction, the rule of shewa, and countless other rules of vowel patterns, each with many exceptions. "Why does this have a patach instead of a qametz?" They then move to verb paradigms, where they encounter further lists of exceptions, when to include the dagesh, variations for gutturals, and so forth. And they have only encountered the Qal. Our students, who by and large are anything but linguists, encounter statements like, "The verb 'rr differs from sbb in one way. In the second and first position forms, singular and plural, the Geminate consonant rejects the Daghesh Forte and the Pathach under the [aleph] becomes Qamets due to compensatory lengthening."[1] "When there is an unaccented syllable followed by a . . . ," and so forth. Next comes the Piel with its multitude of variations. These students are not merely expected to know that such vowel patterns exist, but they are expected to be able to reproduce them as well. We then wonder why people regard Hebrew as a "hard language" and why attrition rates are so high. The answer is this: We are not teaching one language, but two; if we emphasize the accents, make that two and a half. We demand that our students understand and replicate an elaborate cellophane overlay that is more complicated than the language it attempts to clarify." in short, get Hebrew for Reading Comprehension if you don't want learning Hebrew to be painful.