Free Hebrew Lessons and Courses

Free Hebrew Lessons and Courses
We have gathered together here a number of free Hebrew language lessons and language courses for those learning Hebrew, along with some other Hebrew language resources, such as Hebrew online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets, dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers, articles, and books. Most of these sites will be in English, although a number are multilingual in nature.

  Video Lessons

Learn Hebrew on YouTube
In this series of videos teaching you the Hebrew alphabet you will learn much more than the basics. It is a long series of video tutorials of the Hebrew language, but it is basically a "full course" on learning how to read and write in Hebrew.

  Courses and Exercises

Wikibooks: Hebrew Language Course
A free Hebrew language course from Wikibooks, the open source books collection.
The Online Hebrew Tutorial
Lesson 1: The Alphabet, Lesson 2: Vocalisation, Lesson 3: Nouns Part 1, Lesson 4: The Definite Article, Lesson 5: The Adjective, Lesson 6: The Conjunction, Lesson 7: Prepositions, Lesson 8: Pronouns, Lesson 9: Adverbs, Lesson 10: Verbs Part 1, Lesson 11: Verbs Part 2, Lesson 12: Verbs Part 3, Lesson 13: Numbers, Lesson 14: Nouns Part 2, Lesson 15: Differences Between Modern and Biblical Hebrew, Lesson 16: Weak Verbs, Lesson 17: Verbs Part 4, and more
Internet Polyglot: Hebrew Lessons
44 lessons in Hebrew language and vocabulary, in English and a host of other languages.
Animated Hebrew
A smorgasbord of lessons, flashcards, vocabulary lists, and tutorials in various formats.
A Hebrew Class
Hebrew lessons in Java.
Learn the Hebrew Alefbet the Easy Way Through Pictures
"Anyone who wants to read Hebrew! You'll learn very quickly, using silly pictures to remember the letters! You might pick up a few actual words of Hebrew, but the main thing is reading."
Biblia Hebraica
"Found on this site are notes from a graduate Biblical Hebrew Level I class taught by Dr. David Wallace. The main text used in this site is Page H. Kelley's Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar. At times reference will be made to Kelley, this is the primary work that is being noted."
Learn Hebrew Verbs
Verb declensions in Hebrew, with roots, gender, tense, singular/plurals.
Introduction to Learning Hebrew
Lessons in Hebrew from Jeff A. Benner, with an emphasis on reading the Bible
Chapter-by-Chapter MP3 Recordings of the Hebrew Bible
Direct links to MP3 recordings in Hebrew on the Israeli Snunit Kodesh site, provided by Audio Scriptures International and the United Bible Society, downloadable or playable online; some files are up to 8 MBs in size.
Narrations of Psalms in Hebrew
MP3 recordings in Hebrew of the Psalms, with musical backgrounds, and Hebrew text without and with vowel transcription.

  Books and Reference Works

From Google Books, browsable online and available as a free download:
Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar
Meyrowitz' Hebrew Grammar
Davidson's An Introductory Hebrew Grammar

Wijnkoop's Manual of Hebrew Grammar - Read online, or download as PDF, EPUB, Kindle, text editions.
Hurwitz' A Grammar of the Hebrew Language - Read online, or download as PDF, EPUB, Kindle, text editions.
Biblical Hebrew: A Student Grammar (in PDF) - by John A. Cook and Robert D. Holmstedt, 2007 edition. "This textbook is intended for a university classroom. It is divided into thirty lessons, corresponding to the typical thirty-week academic year."
Biblical Hebrew Grammar Summary (in PDF) - Grammar summary of Hebrew in PDF text.

  Language Communities

Polyglot
Polyglot is a non-profit community dedicated to language exchange. Polyglot allows you to find the right person ready to exchange languages with you. You will search for penpals according to age, gender, location, hobbies, etc. Polyglot is fully customizable. You will choose your own icons, styles or post your own Polyglot translations, so that more people speaking your language can become a member.
UniLang Community
The main purpose of the UniLang Community is to provide an online site where people interested in languages can unite, openly discuss, and find resources related to language(s), linguistics and translations. We are an open non-profit organization, meaning that everything on our site is publicly accessible at no cost, and membership is also free and open for everybody. All data, unless otherwise stated, is licensed under an open licence, the UniLang Public License, as opposed to a restrictive copyright.