Thanks man ! Totally agree on the utility part I just still am so surprised that this 1 x 12 modern amp weighs more than my old 4 x 10 beast . So bizarre but it ' s got wheels so I can manage <| sep |>' He ' s a big unit . ' Mark Taylor <| sep |> The Ethernet USB port share the one hub . I have read of complaints about this . I have only just got an XU 4 so too early to tell <| sep |> When the acid kicks in <| sep |> thank you very much <| sep |> Damn , that ' s way better than some of the horror stories I ' ve heard about coming out of an ulpan still at the memorized phrasebook stage . Oh there was plenty of these guys , still hardly able to explain themselves now , 2 . 5 years after the ulpan . What they did is nothing . Just be in class , do the homework , and be a bit curious , or force yourself to read random stuff and try to write little speeches or dialogs . and it won ' t happen to you . My whole aliya story is the opposite of a typical horror took care of education first , picked up the language quickly , went straight to an IT engineering position in a rising startup . Frankly I don ' t know what to do with myself , I planned first 5 years to be shit D You said you started at Alef 4 , what level did you finish and what ' s the average progression from Aelf on up over weeksmonths ? I ' d be able to continue with a Bet group , not more than that . I ' d say half of the class could benefit best from repeating the same course . I ' d say it ' s the laziness , because we were all young pros with diplomas , so some expectations regarding intelligence are due . Pretty early , all groups from Alef up to the Dalet kinda got on the same track with the grammar , learning the verbs tenses morphology and some other basics . The difference is how advanced the vocabulary is . The grammar is the key for picking up the language from the air , all those dumb exercises with verbs are worth it 200 %. Eventually all groups do the same written test . Group Dalet gets one additional text for comprehension with fancy words . I could totally do it too but by the end , didn ' t care enough . For me the test results were absolutely of no importance whatsoever . If you ' re doing really well can you get moved to a more advanced class ? You don ' t even have to be doing really well to change classes I ' m sure you need to be ok with the current stuff , and go and tell the teachers that you ' d benefit more in an advanced group . I should ' ve gone to Bet in the middle of the course . At that point , there is way less new material and it starts repeating , because the teachers need the less successful to pass the test . I could totally survive the second half in Bet and I ' d learn way more words I think . But I ' m as lazy as the next dude .