Citizen Café Tel Aviv Reviews 553

Best teachers, best method, best experience in class. So lucky, grateful and absolutely privileged to have the chance to go on this amazing learning journey and be part of the Citizen Cafe community 🤩🤩🤩
The best and most memorable and precious learning experience ever in life.
To the entire starry and mostly helpful and supportive Citizen Cafe Team
תודה רבה! 💛🌟✨

Best teachers, best learning method, best fellow students. There is seriously no better program out there for learning hebrew. I’m one year into the course and I started at level 2/12 (orange). I can understand the songs i’ve always loved, and, importantly, i can speak and understand israeli’s in their own lingo (the modern and everyday hebrew). The best part is, you are taught things from such a logical and intuitive pov, that the more you learn, the easier it gets to memorize things and understand nuances.

I’ve seen people in their 80’s doing this program.

It’s worth every penny.

I’m truly super happy with the program.

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I can’t recommend Citizen Cafe Academy enough! The teacher is amazing—experienced, multilingual, and brilliant at explaining Hebrew in a way that actually sticks.
My classmates are warm, and the class provides a wonderfully supportive environment with students from all over the world. I couldn’t have imagined how enjoyable an intensive class would be!
Lessons are recorded and available 24/7, and there are practice classes for all levels every day except Friday and Saturday. The website has great tools like updated flashcards and “Practice to Go,” which has you writing what you hear and recording some of your answers, making learning interactive and effective.
Politics are never discussed, and every lesson is approached with kindness and respect. I’ve learned so much and gained the confidence to actually use my Hebrew. Absolutely worth the investment!

Citizen Café Tel Aviv has been an outstanding learning experience. The program is thoughtfully designed, the teachers are exceptional, and I’ve seen real growth over the six semesters I’ve studied here. The new Accelerator program has been especially rewarding, and an unexpected bonus has been the meaningful friendships I’ve formed along the way. Overall, it has been a win–win: my Hebrew communication and comprehension have improved tremendously, and the classes continue to be the highlight of my week.

On a scale of 5 stars, I would give Citizen Cafe a 6 or 7. I am now taking my 9th course and my progress is obvious to me and my Israeli friends and family. I have acquired the self-confidence to speak Hebrew “like the locals do” and it feels great. The teachers are great, the teaching methods and materials are effective and easily accessible on their “academy” website and the classes are fun— each leaving you with the yen for more and more. I’ve tried other Ulpan courses and schools and NONE are as good as Citizen Cafe.

Amazing experience, best way to learn a language!!

Outstanding. Perfect combination of challenge and fun. Amazing teacher and group of people. Highly recommend

I can’t recommend Citizen Cafe highly enough. Im starting my 7th semester and I finally feel confident enough to speak Hebrew in Israel. The teaching method works. From day 1 you speak Hebrew… there’s nowhere to hide! The teachers are engaging fun and make the learning fun. The practice groups are brilliant as are the flash cards …. Revision of your learning. Definitely 5 stars

Just starting twelfth semester with Citizen Cafe. Making great progress and still really impressed by the quality of the teachers and the excellence of their teaching methods. Onward and upward!

I have been taking courses with Citizen Cafe since October 2020 and couldn’t be happier with my Hebrew journey. I highly recommend this unique program to anyone who wants to learn modern, conversational Hebrew.

Citizens Cafe has been a high point of my life since I started 1 year ago. The learning process has been rewarding, fun, engaging and most importantly, effective. I never thought I would be able to converse and understand as much as I do after 1 year. The teachers are ALL excellent and meeting the other students from all over the world has been incredibly interesting. The program definitely creates a community as we are all in this together, working to do something very challenging. I would recommend this to anybody that truly wants to learn Hebrew and is ready to commit the time. Above all, it is SOO much fun!

If you want to be a Hebrew speaker, this is the place for you. Improving my Hebrew speaking and comprehension was one of my retirement goals. At the start of the pandemic, I saw the FB ads for Citizen Cafe and their focus on speaking. Why not try it? I was stuck at home. After the first semester, I was hooked. Their teachers and methods were effective, fun and engaging. I continue to take 2-3 semesters a year. Their classes have gotten better and better.

Amazing experience. The method, the teachers, and the materials are super fun and the system really works. If you want to learn Hebrew, after trying many different ulpanim, I can say this is by far a one of a kind experience that works and you’ll be speaking in no time.

Best way to learn Hebrew! Amazing teachers and learner support. I have tried other programs and there is no comparison, Citizen's Cafe is the best! You speak and learn Hebrew immediately and enjoy the journey!

Take into consideration that this is SQUID GAME. It is a very good program if you can keep up with the lessons AND visit the practice rooms. You can fall behind very easily if you miss one lesson. You must have a strong commitment to this program and do NOT go on vacation if you don’t intend to attend the classes. They make no exceptions.

I’ve been taking these classes for 2 years now absolutely incredible!! I am so confident with my hebrew love love love this program and my hebrew is pretty advanced in just 2 years !! Teachers are all incredible !! Toda :)

I started my Hebrew journey with Citizen Café Tel Aviv over 2.5 years ago as a novice, albeit with a basic understanding, and am currently mid-way through my 11th semester working through the various levels as I continue my path to fluency. To say that I enjoy the experience of the Citizen Café community and learning Hebrew would be an understatement – I absolutely love it.

So as to help anyone that may be considering signing up (and no I am not being compensated to write this review), I wanted to share some insights that I hope you will find helpful.
Like many others, I always wanted to be able to speak Hebrew when in Israel. I currently divide my time between living in Tel Aviv and Florida. It used to frustrate me tremendously that I could invariably understand what someone said to me in Hebrew far better than I could speak or reply, despite a limited vocabulary. Citizen Café addresses that head on. From my very first class as a student, I was verbalizing words and phrases that I could use immediately. Will you have to conjugate verbs? – of course, but the secret sauce with this method is that you are learning everyday words, verbs and phrases that everyone in Israel uses and that you can put into practice straight away. The repetitious practice regimen in small, balanced groups each semester provides the necessary platform to be able to learn and grow. Classes are 90 minutes in duration held twice a week either online via Zoom or in-person with 20 classes comprising a full semester. Assignment to a level that matches your proficiency has been mastered by the team at Citizen Café and your progression and improvement is monitored with all of their encouragement to continue moving forward at your own pace. Additional practice tools are incredibly well thought out that include various interactive practice sessions with students of similar levels several times a week (think of them like online gym workouts for Hebrew); practice sentences; weekly flashcards to reinforce what you learned in class as well as voluntary homework assignments. Classroom tuition is led by an English-speaking Israeli with a flexible, well-constructed curriculum that makes each lesson fun, interactive and instructive. You will likely come away from each class with new vocabulary and phrases that give you the immediate confidence with which to utilize them straight away. The word “confidence” is super important because it is one of the primary factors that oftentimes holds all of us back and which Citizen Café instills in its coaching method. Even as a new Oleh I receive regular compliments from Israelis when they interact with me in Hebrew and my gratitude goes to Citizen Café Tel Aviv for instilling the confidence in me so that I can put into real world everyday use what I have studied in the classroom.

Learning a language isn’t complicated, it’s just not easy. Citizen Café has done the hard work so that you don’t have to struggle your way through it. It is structured, fun and it works.

Intangible bonus…. You will meet some great people and make new friends that you get to meetup with offline! Give it a try.

Hands down Citizen Cafe is the best way to learn Hebrew. Compared to other Ulpans that I have been in, Citizen Cafe is the only one that GETS ME TALKING like real Israelis.

Disclaimer: Citizen Cafe asked me to complete this review, but they did not coerce me into filling it or give me any rewards or penalties for filling it or not filling it

The best language school, EVER, and I’ve been to many. The teachers are fantastic knowledgeable patient helpful fun, and the program is so well thought out. Not only do you attend online class twice a week, but you can rewatch the classes as well as work with the provided flashcards and practice lessons. There are also almost daily live practice sessions throughout the day for the different levels. Such a great program I cannot praise it enough. So lucky to have found Citizen Cafe

Citizen Cafe makes learning Hebrew fun. The teacher is very animated and lively. She shares Israeli pop songs with the phrases we are learning. There is a lot of involvement with other students.