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An indie founder’s Android-to-iOS port: five years of infrastructure, months of AI-assisted Swift development, product improvements, and App Store review.
Read article: What It Took to Bring a Mature Android App to iOSBeyond rewards and level counts: a founder’s practical framework for language-learning games, from meaningful actions to recognizing language outside the game.
How Alef-Bet Tutor grew from an alphabet trainer into a broader Hebrew learning app built around one idea: understanding matters more than memorization.
Learn Hebrew vocabulary with frequency, roots, active recall, context sentences and spaced repetition techniques designed for long-term retention.
What Hebrew listening practice actually works for beginners? A level-by-level guide to building real comprehension through active, strategic input.
Hebrew Binyanim are the 7 verb pattern groups that shape how Hebrew verbs work. Here's a practical breakdown for beginners — no grammar textbook required.
Many beginners think they accidentally started learning a second alphabet when they first see handwritten Hebrew. Honestly, it does feel that way.
Is Hebrew hard to learn? See the main challenges for English speakers, how long Hebrew takes to learn, and what actually makes progress easier.
Learn how Hebrew readers understand text without Nikud, why vowel points are usually omitted, and how beginners can practise reading unvoweled Hebrew.
Once you understand Hebrew roots (shorashim), vocabulary stops feeling random and starts multiplying. Here's how the Hebrew root system actually works.
Hebrew nikud (vowel marks) is the training system that makes reading possible for beginners — here's how every mark works and why most Hebrew later drops them.
The new Alef-Bet Tutor Verb Directory organizes 334 essential Hebrew verbs by Binyan, with full nikud and all conjugation forms — finally clear and searchable.
One of the strangest stages in learning Hebrew: when you can technically read the words, but your brain still refuses to turn them into meaning.
A realistic look at the size of Modern Hebrew vocabulary — and how many words you actually need to speak, read, and understand Hebrew in real life.
A humorous guide to the Hebrew learning habits that keep beginners permanently stuck at square one — and what actually works instead.
Why spoken Hebrew feels impossibly fast to beginners — a realistic look at what your brain is experiencing and how listening comprehension actually improves.
A practical, day-by-day plan for learning all 22 Hebrew letters in one week — no prior experience required, just 20 minutes of daily Hebrew alphabet practice.
The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. See each letter's shape, name and sound, the five final forms, nikud vowels and tips to learn the Aleph Bet.