After taking Ulpan, it was the first time that I truly learned the Hebrew alphabet and culture. When I was younger, I went to Hebrew school but when I took Ulpan I did not remember a lot. During my first few weeks in Israel I would communicate a lot with Gett drivers and the restaurant staff. A lot of the time I used words such as efo, maze, meaning where and what to sort of get my sentence started of what I wanted to say. My friends and I during our first few days in a Gett and we were communicating as best we could with our Gett driver talking about everything it was we were passing outside. He was telling us about the beaches and some local restaurants. From learning ulpan myself and my friends could definitely communicate and pick up words and speak them but sometimes our sentences were incomplete. Also, another example is calling up stores to make an appointment for something. I was calling up a nail salon called Pink of Tel Aviv and I was asking the woman on the phone where it was located by at first saying what street is the store on. she did not understand what I was saying, and I then used the word rehov which means street. It was little things like this that I was able to use words that I learned in my Ulpan class and apply it to what I was doing in my everyday life. I really am glad that I took this Ulpan course because as I went from week to week in Israel reading signs and sounding out words became a little bit easier for me. It takes time to learn a new language, but I am very happy that I got to learn the beginnings of the Hebrew language.
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