Most of us hear a term Ulpan these days which is nothing but a course or school that teaches Hebrew language to the people by a thorough or rigorous method. This course is taught mainly in Israel where people have adopted the Hebrew language as their official language. In fact, there is a school named Ulpan in Israel which are specialized in teaching Hebrew language to the immigrants here.
Ulpan was established in Israel the year 1948 during the time when a huge number of immigrants’ from all over the world arrived to Israel. As these immigrants were from different part of the world, they brought different languages, cultures and economic status. Bringing all these immigrants to a similar culture and living became a major issue in Israel that time. This was the major reason behind the establishment of Ulpan in Israel.
Key Goal of Ulpan
The key goal of all the Ulpan in Israel is to make the students learn Hebrew language in depth. Besides making them able to talk or converse in Hebrew language, Ulpan also makes the students capable of writing and reading the Hebrew language with so much of fluency. The learning of Ulpan in these schools in Israel is carried out in various steps including the basic, intermediate and advanced levels.
Different forms of Ulpan
- Kibbutz Ulpan Program – This world renowned program holds its own importance and excellence among the several hundreds and thousands programs that are run all over the world these days. This criterion of Ulpan program has been sponsored by Kibbutz Movement Jewish Agency for Israel and at the top of all the Israeli Ministry of Education. The Kibbutz Ulpan program is conducted for the duration of five months. In addition to these 5 months i.e. 150 days, students are asked to arrive for the Ulpan program four days in advance and also to stay four more days after the last session of the program. So, you can say that the Kibbutz Ulpan program is mostly for 155 days. The main aim of this program is to make a student able to read simple texts and newspaper.
- Modern Ulpan Program – As the immigrants continues to arrive in Israel, many number of Ulpan are mushrooming in Israel day by day. The Modern program is mostly the private institutes who help immigrant students learn the Hebrew language. Even though, these private Ulpan centers claim to make student maters in Hebrew, one should always opt for the state run institutions or government institutions.
- Online Ulpan Program – With the rapid growth in technology, a huge number of such programs are available once today. There are many private companies as well which offers Online Ulpan program. You can easily find one by searching it on internet.
- Intensive Hebrew Summer Ulpan Program – This is considered as one of the most popular and successful programs in Israel. It has a record of teaching the Hebrew language to students from more than 30 countries all over the world.
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