Everything here is free, and nothing here assumes you have learned Chumash before. If you can sound out a vowelled Hebrew word slowly, you have enough to start.
The part of learning Chumash that actually needs repetition is recognising the pieces of a word. This drills exactly that, on the real text of Parshas Lech Lecha.
Four short drills on the text of Bereishis 12. Find the shoresh hiding inside a word, learn what each prefix and ending means, then take a whole word apart. A few minutes at a time, nothing timed, and it picks up where you left off.
Open the practice gameThe full text the game accompanies: the toolkit chapters, then all 126 pesukim of Parshas Lech Lecha, Bereishis 12 through 17, with every word broken into its pieces.
250 pages. Shorashim, the six prefixes and the endings taught one at a time, then the whole parsha pasuk by pasuk: the Hebrew, a card for every word, the translation, and Rashi where he settles a real difficulty.
Download the PDF Read in the browserThe appendices, each as its own PDF so you can print just the one you want beside your Chumash.
Frequency-ranked roots across the whole Chumash, with counts and where each is first seen. These 200 cover about 31% of the text.
Nouns, verbs and adjectives by frequency, about 28% of the Chumash.
Prefixes, prepositions and function words. The single highest-leverage sheet here: these 118 alone account for roughly 42% of the Chumash.
Every term the book uses, shoresh, milah, binyan, smichut, in plain English.
Worked answers for the review boxes at the end of each chapter.
The original Bright Beginnings frequency list, covering the whole Tanakh by occurrence band.
From the Bright Beginnings resource library. These explain the method, why the whole approach starts with roots rather than with translation.
The full session on how Chumash skills are built: shorashim as the building blocks, and how prefixes and suffixes attach to them.
The handout that goes with the Chumash Fundamentals video, worth having open beside it.
The case for teaching the mechanics of the language before asking anyone to translate a pasuk.
The second part, on what changes for a learner once the pieces of a word stop being a blur.