Power Tools
Two powerful tools to enhance and accelerate your Hebrew learning process, available exclusively to members of the UlpaNoya tribe. These valuable tools can only be purchased as an add-on to the Hebrew lessons you’re already taking with UlpaNoya.
ShorTalks Speak It, Drill It, Own It
ShorTalks are short, focused conversations: 20-minute sessions conducted on ‘dark Zoom’ (cameras off), or alternatively, via WhatsApp calls for students located abroad, or by regular phone calls for students in Israel.
You can schedule them as often as you’d like throughout the week, making them a flexible and convenient way to enhance your Hebrew learning experience.
These sessions are designed to complement your standard Hebrew lessons by focusing on pure conversation and repetition. They provide a powerful tool for developing and refining your oral communication skills, covering everything from vocabulary and grammar—learned in our standard lessons—to natural fluency and self-expression.
ShorTalks offer an extra boost to your Hebrew journey by:
- Reinforcing vocabulary: Strengthen your retention of new words and phrases by practicing them in context and through repetition.
- Reinforcing lesson content: Solidify your understanding of grammar rules, language phenomena, and sentence structures learned in standard lessons.
- Improving Listening comprehension: Sharpen your ability to understand Israeli Hebrew by relying solely on your ears—without the visual support of video.
- Developing Fluency and self-expression: Build confidence and ease in expressing yourself through additional, focused conversation practice and pronunciation refinement.
- Adding variety to your Hebrew practice: An opportunity to step away from traditional methods like writing, reading, and memorizing vocabulary. Instead, engage in speaking and listening, practicing real-life conversations. This dynamic approach adds variety to your learning routine and helps you gain confidence while improving your fluency through active, interactive communication.
- Boosting your motivation: Extra encouragement for students who need a bit of a push to practice what they’ve learned—perfect for those who struggle to complete homework, review lesson materials, or practice independently.
Any useful words, phrases, pronunciation corrections, or insights from our conversations will be typed into our WhatsApp chat- LIVE, during the session itself. This serves as an immediate aid to enhance understanding of key points being discussed, clarify pronunciation nuances, and ensure you can follow and absorb what’s being learned in real-time. It also allows you to revisit anything introduced earlier in the session, providing deeper insights and reinforcing your progress. After the session, this record becomes a valuable tool for reviewing and drilling what we practiced, helping you solidify and retain what you’ve learned.
How many ShorTalks should you take?
When it comes to ShorTalks, the more consistent and intensive practice you can get, the better your results will be!
ShorTalks come in packages of four, providing a structured yet adaptable way to add focused conversation practice to your schedule. Their setup allows you to spread sessions throughout the month or intensify your practice by scheduling multiple sessions in a single week.
For the best results, consider using ShorTalks consistently throughout the week. By enrolling in several packages a month, you can enjoy daily or near-daily practice, creating a powerful rhythm that complements your weekly Hebrew lessons and accelerates both your progress and confidence in speaking Hebrew naturally.
Please note: To maintain the focused and effective nature of ShorTalks, you can schedule only one session per day. Back-to-back sessions (i.e., consecutively) are not permitted, as they are designed to remain short and targeted for maximum impact.
Custom-Made Worksheets Tailored Practice for Maximum Effectiveness
Custom-Made Worksheets are a VIP service designed to tackle two key challenges. First, they provide extra encouragement for individuals who find it hard to stay motivated and complete their homework consistently. Second, they help you focus on what matters most for effective learning and real progress, emphasizing the use and practice of new vocabulary through targeted writing assignments.
Homework is an essential and inseparable part of the journey to success and achieving the Hebrew goals you’re eager to conquer. Significant progress simply cannot happen without self-practice between lessons, or ineffective practice that doesn’t target the right skills.
However, some students find it challenging to engage with their homework—whether due to creative blocks when forming sentences with new vocabulary, difficulty getting started, or a lack of free time. For others, the challenge lies in focus: while they may complete their homework, they often spend their energy on the wrong things, practicing ineffectively and missing opportunities to reinforce what truly matters for progress.
That’s exactly why the option of ordering Custom-Made Worksheets is available to you. I personally create these worksheets after our lessons, tailored to the specific vocabulary, rules and phenomena we covered, and send them to you. This ensures that you practice what we’ve learned and that your learning process is as effective as possible.
As these worksheets are designed to complement and reinforce your Hebrew lessons, they come in packages of four, just like the lessons themselves, ensuring consistent and synchronized progress.
Once you’ve completed your worksheet, you can send it back to me for review. During our next lesson, we’ll go through it together, learn from it, and make any necessary improvements, significantly contributing to your learning process and progress in Hebrew. Additionally, if you send me your completed worksheet at least 48 hours before the lesson, I’ll have the opportunity to review it in advance. This allows me to prepare for the lesson by addressing the most significant or recurring mistakes right away, ensuring that we work as effectively as possible.
