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English/עברית

Shalom and welcome to Hebrew! Hebrew is the "sleeping beauty" of Semitic languages. For more than a thousand years, the Hebrew language had been sleeping (according to linguists, it was only daydreaming). But then, one day in the nineteenth century (so goes the legend), it was kissed by the crazy visioner Eliezer Ben Yehuda, and woke up to life.

שלום וברוכים הבאים לעברית! עברית היא ה"יפהפיה הנרדמת" של השפות השמיות. במשך יותר מאלף שנים, השפה העברית נמה לה את שנתה (בלשנים טוענים כי חלמה בהקיץ, או סתם נמנמה), עד שיום אחד, בשלהי המאה התשע-עשרה, הגיע חוזה סהרורי בשם אליעזר בן-יהודה ונישק אותה! ואז קמה השפה העברית לתחייה.

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