Hebrew for kids, grade by grade

What Hebrew does Maya teach?

50 written lessons, from grade 1 to grade 10. In grade 2: a full stop at the end of a sentence, a question mark, who-what-where in a story, beginning, middle and end. In grade 3: nouns and verbs, adjectives, commas in a list, words with close meanings. In grade 4: masculine and feminine, singular and plural. In grade 5: characters in a story, and a claim you can check.

These are lessons in Hebrew as a school subject, for children who learn in Hebrew — not a course for speakers of other languages starting Hebrew from zero.

How does a lesson with Maya go?

A Hebrew lesson with Maya starts from what the class did today — say, singular and plural — and goes like this:

• Your child tells Maya what the class learned today, or shows her a photo of the worksheet.
• Maya teaches that topic with them, in short steps, at their grade.
• She asks questions they answer with a tap — no typing, no blank page.
• When an answer is wrong, she does not just say “try again”. She explains why that answer was tempting, and what was missing to reach the right one.
• She remembers what did not land, and comes back to it in later lessons.

Which children are the Hebrew lessons for?

Children in grades 1 to 6 who study Hebrew at school: reading, writing and grammar. They also suit a child who reads slowly or mixes up forms, because every question is answered with a tap and Maya repeats an explanation as often as needed.

Maya does not replace a reading specialist or a speech therapist; she is everyday practice on the topic the class learned.

What Hebrew mistake does Maya catch?

In grade 4, children learn singular and plural. Many add the ending -im to every noun, even to delet, a door, whose plural is dlatot. It is tempting because -im really does work for a great many words, like sefer and sfarim, book and books.

Maya explains exactly that — why -im sounded right — and then shows words that take -ot, until both the rule and its exceptions make sense.

Is Maya safe for a young child?

Maya is built for children with a parent nearby, and the rules are written into her legal pages, not just promised on this one.

• Maya does not ask a child for an email address, a precise location or a friend list.
• There is no chat between children, no public feed and no ads in the lesson.
• Lessons that go through a language model stay locked until a parent confirms a link sent to their email.
• From the parent screen you can pause those lessons and delete the copy kept in the cloud.
• Children’s information is not sold, and there is no targeted advertising.

The full details are in the children’s privacy notice and the safety page, linked at the bottom of this page.

Maya or a private tutor: which does your child need?

Both help, but they answer different needs. Here they are side by side:

A human tutor is the better choice for exam preparation, for teenagers, for practising a spoken language, and for a child who needs a person beside them. Maya is for the everyday: the evening after school, when a topic did not land and nobody is free to explain it again.

You can also have both: if your child sees a tutor once a week, Maya can cover the other evenings.

Questions parents ask