From drop to river: It is getting more fluent every day...
All teachers (I had two up to now) are incredibly patient. The fraction of open-subject discussions in Hebrew in each lesson gets larger and larger. The course material is well organized (even though focused on English speakers and their specific difficulties) and there must be at least one expert who knows all the words I have forgotten and make them pop up during lessons and exercises. The preparation exercises (Ulpan 4 and 5) are extremely helpful to make the new words stick. One should be honest to oneself - learning Hebrew takes quite some time and this time must be prime time devoted for this purpose. Now one of the advantages with these courses is that this prime time is quite much fun and as far from dull learning as possible. One microscopic detail I would definitively change is found on each lessons' last overhead. We have the lady and gentlemen waving goodbye and the lady carries a blue book with the title " В(ладимир) И(льич) Ленин: Три источника ... (и три составных части марксизма)" , "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism", by V.I. Lenin. It makes me smile each time when I see it but it might not be the best suited book title for a Hebrew course...