Regarding Ben Gurion, which was typed while I was typing, he was obviously raised in a religious home and his parents taught him the only Hebrew there was to learn. The secular elite whom he was addressed apparently didn't get that and considered him eccentric.

Regardless, if Hebrew is your dream, usually people who work on their dreams do not find difficulties taxing but enjoy every bit of the process.

If you are Jewish than Hebrew is your key to the King's palace and your evil inclination will try and dissuade you every step of the way.

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The Torah calls Yishmael 'pereh adam.' Not a man who appears wild but wild who appears a man.