Hebrew by Inbal

Hello & Shalom! Welcome to Hebrew by Inbal

My name is Inbal Amit, and I help English Speakers Learn and Love Hebrew.

Combining practical and innovative methods including the English you know, my students of all ages enjoy great wins, clarity, and confidence in their journey to Hebrew fluency.

My resources are packed with all that good stuff! Click the link to see all that I have to offer.

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Please ask any questions and if you find value in what I’m teaching feel free to use all of my resources 😊 I definitely would recommend the following free and easy steps:

(1) download my free guide to get you speaking Hebrew,

(2) follow my YouTube channel, and (3) join my mailing list.

Welcome my Friend!

Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️

This marks the 46th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.

Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.

What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.

Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat and I’m wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat.

July in Israel is not a month. It is an oven setting. 🥵🇮🇱

We are talking 13 hours of blazing sun a day, zero rain, humid Tel Aviv afternoons, and the Dead Sea area pushing past 40 degrees. Israelis do not just endure this. We have an entire survival system, and it comes with its own vocabulary.

In an Israeli summer, certain words stop being words and become lifelines. The signs you scan for on every street. The things you ask for the moment you walk in somewhere.

In today’s video I teach you the exact Hebrew words to look for when you are out and about and the heat is winning. Learn them, and you will navigate an Israeli summer like a local.

My students have a direct line to me.

They send me their speaking practice, their questions, their wins, anything. And I answer.

That's not a bonus feature, it's the heart of my formula:

You get me as your personal teacher, telling you exactly what you're doing great and what needs a tweak, for life. Answering any question so you never get stuck. Being there whenever you need me.

Sarah didn't want to "fill up my inbox." But her progress was so real she just had to write me. That's the part I love most.

When you're ready for a teacher who's actually yours, Practically Speaking Hebrew is where you start. 💙

I have a confession.

I'm not a reader.

Shocker, right?

I've never been the person with a book in her bag. Who packs one for vacation. And for someone so curious, who consumes knowledge like air and loves learning more than almost anything, that never made sense. Even to me.

The truth is, reading long text in English tires me. And I always leaned toward listening to long texts when I could, even in Hebrew. But somewhere along the way, "I don't read much" quietly became "I'm not a reader." And "I'm not a reader" carried shame with it.

So a few months ago, when the new friends I made here started talking about a book club, I froze.

You know that internal voice. THAT'S NOT FOR ME. TOO LATE. I KNOW WHO I AM BY NOW.

We all have a few of those. Mine were heights, any activity that can put me face to face with a shark, and books.

But I wanted to be part of this group. These are people worth showing up for. So I treated it like a task I needed to get done.

I subscribed to Audible and made one small rule: every time I start a drive, any drive, I hit play. No drifting into my to-do list. No business ideas.

The first drive I forgot.

The second I remembered to hit play, but caught probably 40% of it.

By the fifth, it was a habit. And I actively listened without drifting off every second.

And then something unexpected happened. The book captivated me. "The Correspondent" by Virginia Evans. I caught myself looking forward to my next drive. Every single time!

The shocker to me was when I couldn't wait for the next drive, and found myself cuddling up in bed with my audiobook.

Three books later, I suggested the title. I picked the Israeli "Someone to Run With" by David Grossman. My new friends are reading it in English. I'm listening to it in Hebrew.

So no, I'm not reading the books. I'm listening to them. And who cares? I'm having fun, and for the first time I can answer the question I always dreaded: "What are you reading these days?"

That thing that was so clearly not for me? It was just waiting for me to find my door in.

If there's something you've quietly filed under NOT FOR ME, I want you to know: it's never too late, it may very well be for you, and finding your own way in isn't cheating. It's winning.

Shabbat Shalom,

💙

July Activities in Hebrew ☀️

I say this with love because I see it every day. People spend years memorizing vocabulary, collecting thousands of flashcards, and still cannot hold a real Hebrew conversation.

Because words alone will never get you there.

The real skill is building your own sentences. Saying exactly what you want to say with the right words, in the right form, naturally and confidently.

That is what you master inside “Practically Speaking Hebrew.”

Here’s the part that surprises people: I give away vocabulary for free every week. The sentence building system that transforms those words into real conversation? That is what we build together inside the program.

If your goal is to truly speak Hebrew, stop investing in more words. Invest in the skill that makes every word count.

So I opened the YouTube app on my TV last night, scrolled through the recommended videos and guess who was staring back at me?

Me. 😄

YouTube was recommending my own video to me. “How Israelis Actually Talk” Part 1 right there on my living room screen, suggested like I was any other viewer.

And what an odd, full-circle moment it was. I pressed play, sank into my comfy couch, and watched myself on “TV.” But my mind drifted back to the beginning, when no one knew who I was. When I was filming lessons on my closet floor hoping even a few people would find them. Now my videos are watched by millions, and the algorithm is introducing me to myself.

So I let the video speak to me beyond the Hebrew. It spoke to the entrepreneur who started from nothing. The creator who kept showing up. The small business owner who built this one lesson at a time. And for a quiet moment on that couch, I simply felt accomplished.

If YouTube says it is worth recommending, who am I to argue? Here it is for you too:

Today we enter the month of Av.

In the Hebrew calendar, Av carries the heaviest memories of our people. Loss. Destruction. Things that fell apart.

And yet, look at the name. Av. “Father.”

That’s not an accident. That’s the whole lesson of this month.

Because Av doesn’t end in grief. Just days after its lowest point comes Tu B’Av, the holiday of love. The same month that holds our deepest sorrow also holds our greatest celebration of the heart.

Av teaches something we all know from our own lives: breaking is not the end of the story. It’s the middle. What falls can be rebuilt. What was lost makes room for what’s coming. And comfort doesn’t arrive instead of pain. It arrives through it.

So this month, if something feels broken or unfinished, remember what Av whispers: hold on. Love is already on the calendar.

English words that mean something COMPLETELY different in Hebrew. 🇮🇱

They are called “FALSE FRIENDS”

Some will make you laugh. One will make you gasp. 🤣

COMMENT “FRIENDS” for the link or Check out the full list on my Substack. 👇

July in Israel is a whole different world. 🇮🇱☀️

Film festivals under the stars, dancing in the streets, music everywhere, and the Mediterranean summer in full swing. In today’s video I take you through the top events that light up Israel every July, what they are, and exactly how to pronounce them like a local.

Consider this your insider’s calendar. Watch, learn, and tell me which one you would love to experience in person. 👇

There are English words that mean something COMPLETELY different in Hebrew. 🇮🇱

Some of them will make you laugh. At least one will make you gasp. And a few are so surprising that you will never hear these words the same way again.

They are called false friends, words that sound identical in both languages but mean entirely different things. This Tuesday I am handing you a long, useful, occasionally hilarious list of them.

It publishes Tuesday at 8:30am Eastern. Subscribe now so it lands in your inbox the moment it drops. 👇

July in Israel is a whole different world. 🇮🇱☀️

Film festivals under the stars, dancing in the streets, music everywhere, and the Mediterranean summer in full swing. In today’s video I take you through the top events that light up Israel every July, what they are, and exactly how to pronounce them like a local.

Consider this your insider’s calendar. Watch, learn, and tell me which one you would love to experience in person. 👇

Speaking of YouTube Views, Stay Tuned!

Sunday at 12 noon (Eastern Standard) my newest Video Lesson will Premiere.

It’s all about navigating July Events in Israel, What are they and How to pronounce them 🥳

If you’re not SUBSCRIBED search “Hebrew by Inbal” on YouTube or CLICK https://www.youtube.com/hebrewbyinbal (Don’t Forget to hit the Notification Bell)

See you there and get ready for a fun one 🤗

2,400,000 views. 🤯

My YouTube channel just crossed 2.4 million lifetime views, and I have been sitting here trying to actually picture that number. I cannot.

What I can picture is one person. Someone at their kitchen table pressing play, wanting to understand their grandmother, or read a prayer in the original, or finally feel at home in Israel. Behind this number, that person showed up 2.4 million times.

When I filmed my first Hebrew lesson, I dreamed of reaching a few people who needed it. I never imagined millions of clicks from every corner of the world.

To every one of you who ever watched, learned, commented, or shared, this milestone belongs to you. Thank you for learning Hebrew with me.

Shabbat Shalom Friends 🕯️🕯️

This marks the 45th Shabbat in a row that I’ve had the privilege of sharing your beautiful photos and messages in response to my weekly Shabbat greeting. What began as a simple post has grown into something far more meaningful than I ever imagined.

Week after week, you bring light, warmth, and connection into this space. Seeing the images you share, whether candles, tables, family moments, or quiet reflections has turned this into a truly special tradition for our community.

What started as a collection of lovely photos has become something deeper. Many of you now share glimpses of how Shabbat lives inside your homes and hearts, and it’s incredibly moving to witness those moments. It fills me with gratitude every single week.

Reading your comments has become one of my favorite ways to welcome Shabbat. If I ever miss responding, please know it’s never intentional, sometimes comments get hidden but I always see the spirit behind them and feel connected to each of you on this sacred day 💙

Wishing all of you a peaceful and meaningful Shabbat.

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