 He determined that his family would only speak Hebrew, and raised his children to be native Hebrew speakers.His first child, a son named Itamar Ben-Avi, who was born in Jerusalem on 31 July 1882, became the first native speaker of Modern Hebrew.Ben-Yehuda attempted to convince other families to do so as well, founded associations for speaking Hebrew, began publishing the Hebrew newspaper "HaZvi", and for a short while taught at Hebrew schools, for the first time making use of the method of "Hebrew in Hebrew."