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A small grammar, the high-frequency list, and three short texts will carry you farther than a year of isolated drills.
Order of Attack
Learn the square letters and final forms. Add niqqud. Drill the prefixed particles and the 100-word list. Then read Genesis 1:1–5 with a glossary, then the Shema, then Psalm 23. Parsing wayyiqtol early prevents a tense muddle.
What Not to Wait for
You do not need every weak-verb class before Genesis 1. You do not need paleo-Hebrew. You do not need Aramaic until Daniel. Keep a reference grammar for looking up, not for reading cover to cover first.
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A Weekly Habit
A few verses aloud, every day, with the same passage until it is easy, beats a new chapter you cannot hear. Resources on the next page are names of books and editions, not a shopping list of links.
Read Next
The 100 Most Common Words
A short list does most of the work in Biblical Hebrew. Particles and a handful of verbs open whole chapters.
Genesis 1 Word by Word
The opening of the Torah is the usual first connected text: a few roots, heavy use of wayyiqtol, and the object marker.
Resources
Grammars, dictionaries, and text editions. Names only; no links.