A question from a student today I couldn't answer entirely so I'm going to open it up to you fine minds. Student asked:We read that Queen Elizabeth and many of her contemporaries in England, as a part of their liberal education, became fluent in Hebrew. Seeing that Jews had not had a continuous presence in England for 300 years, what kind of Hebrew did they speak, and what would it have sounded like?My answer was that they spoke- or thought they spoke- a very "academic" Hebrew that was propagated at Oxford and Cambridge where elite tutors received their training, and would probably sound very bizarre to our ears. Could anyone perhaps provide a better answer than mine?