Let's pick another section, which is probably much more familiar to everybody. Orthodox or Reform, you've probably been reading this text many times. It's taken from Dvarim 11, and this part we usually say with Shma Israel.

We pick up some text to be used as example, just because it contains all we need for the first few lessons: forms of the verb that we want to learn, and also some basic vocabulary, the words we meet everywhere in the Hebrew liturgy (like God, Jerusalem, etc.)

Let's take a look on the following text from the book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes):

Main target audience

Many of American Jews can read their Hebrew prayer; much less can understand what they read.