A long time ago (as in 2014! Say what?!) I received a lovely email from Ahikam, a Hebrew speaker, giving me 9 Reasons to Learn Hebrew, à la this video. So, I’ve finally got around to putting it together. And I couldn’t be more happy to present to you the first co-written 9 Reasons video! Thanks, Ahikam!

This morning I had three men in the kitchen playing around with buzzy things behind the coffee machine. Turns out the switch saying “Washing Machine” turned the kettle on and off. Logical. It’s not as exciting as that may sound, and I’m sure the technical term is working, not playing, but either way they cut off my power. Yikes. I had to rerecord bits of lost footage (the “reason number” bits – you can tell, I’m sure!) but thankfully everything fell back into place. So it’s a bit of a miracle I’m managing to get this online today. Proof that good stuff can happen even if all you can do is sit and twiddle your thumbs on your extended lunch break. Also, sidenote, one of the men spoke Spanish! Yay!

This video has actually fallen at a really nice time because, as you may remember, the current World Cinema Club film we’ll be discussing at the end of the month is in Hebrew. Not only that, but I’m also currently learning the Hebrew alphabet as part of my Language Script Challenge. Be sure to check both of those out.