If my husband I did not both speak Hebrew well, and couldn’t speak to teachers regularly and clearly in Hebrew – which we do every single week, at least once or twice a week – I have no idea how we would be surviving. We are able to read the notes that come home from school, help with homework, etc., it takes MUCH more of our time than it did outside of Israel, but we are able to do it, and I cannot imagine our Aliyah if we could not.
The amount of time we invested in keeping up and improving our Hebrew in the years before we came here, and the amount of time we invested in our children’s Hebrew before we moved has made a huge, huge difference.
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