How Hard Is It to Learn Hebrew?

A lot of people, when they first come into contact with Hebrew, are startled by the use of a different alphabet and the right-to-left direction for reading and writing. The learning process is not helped by the fact that, like in Arabic, the traditional Hebrew script does not contain vowels. Those are marked in writing only by vowels points. If you’re trying to grasp Biblical Hebrew, you would also be confronted by the three different forms spoken vowels can take – long, short, and half.