http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/ 2026-04-27T11:53:40+00:00 http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/ http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/_media/logo.png text/html 2024-10-27T19:23:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:double?rev=1730057028&do=diff Aleph-bet Facts What are the seven letters called that can be altered by a dagesh? double letters text/html 2024-10-27T19:21:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:number?rev=1730056861&do=diff Aleph-bet Facts How many Hebrew letters are there? 22 text/html 2024-10-27T19:50:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_alef?rev=1730058639&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... alef ... א the name of this letter begins like the “a” in father. the stress is on the first syllable. text/html 2024-10-27T19:50:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_bet?rev=1730058651&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... bet ... בּ sounds like “beyt” or “bait” bet (like on a poker game) is also acceptable text/html 2024-10-27T19:51:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_dalet?rev=1730058705&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... dalet ... דּ pronounced dahl - et. the stress is on the first syllable. text/html 2024-10-27T19:51:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_dhalet?rev=1730058716&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... dhalet ... ד the soft form of dalet may also be called thal-et: the “th” makes the voiced (buzzing) sound such as the beginning of “those” and not the voiceless (airy) sound like at the beginning of text/html 2024-10-27T21:40:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_eyin?rev=1730065227&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... eyin ... ע it rhymes with “sign” but without the “s” at the beginning. text/html 2024-10-27T21:42:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_feh?rev=1730065360&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... fe ... פף the soft form of peh is pronounced as “fay” in these lessons it is usually written as feh, but fe is common elsewhere text/html 2024-10-27T19:51:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_gimel?rev=1730058675&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... gimel ... גּ geem-el (where the -el sounds like the end of bible) if gimel rhymes with female that is also acceptable. the name starts with a hard g sound like in gear, not a J. the stress is on the first syllable. text/html 2024-10-27T20:09:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_heh?rev=1730059749&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... he ... ה pronounced like “hey!” “hay” like what a horse eats it will usually be written “heh” in these lessons, but “he” is also common and should never be pronounced like the English pronoun (as in, he went to the store.) text/html 2024-10-27T21:07:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_kaf?rev=1730063234&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... kaf ... כּךּ sounds like “cough” text/html 2024-10-27T21:43:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_khaf?rev=1730065414&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... khaf ... כך the soft form of kaf: it rhymes with “cough”, but it begins with an throaty fricative “h” sound like at the end of loch (lochness) text/html 2024-10-27T20:49:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_khet?rev=1730062173&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... het ... ח fricative sound as at the end of “loch” (lochness monster) the name of the letter rhymes with hate. rhyming with bet (like in poker) is also acceptable. if you say the sound at the beginning of text/html 2024-10-27T21:24:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_lamed?rev=1730064268&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... lamed ... ל law-med. emphasis is on the first syllable. rhymes with mohammed. text/html 2024-10-27T22:00:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_mem?rev=1730066423&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... mem ... מם sometimes written as meem: it is pronounced like “maim” or “meym.” it is also acceptable to say it like it looks. text/html 2024-10-27T21:37:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_nun?rev=1730065032&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... nun ... נן it is pronounced like “noon”, or with the same vowel sound as in “good”, but not like “none” text/html 2024-10-27T21:41:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_peh?rev=1730065304&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... pe ... פּףּ like the english word “pay” in these lessons it is usually written as peh, but pe is common elsewhere text/html 2024-10-27T21:50:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_qof?rev=1730065846&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... qof ... ק also written: quf, qoph, quph, kuf, kuph sounds like koaf (rhyming with loaf) or koof (same vowel sound as in boot) text/html 2024-10-27T21:56:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_resh?rev=1730066205&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... resh ... ר it is best if you slightly roll the R sound, but is still understandable if you use the American rhotic R. the “e” in resh could make slightly more of an “ay” sound (raysh) text/html 2024-10-27T21:36:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_samek?rev=1730065006&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... samech ... ס saw-mek (slightly soft k at end) (not the sound at the end of catch) stress is on the first syllable in these lessons it is usually spelled samek, but samekh and samech are common elsewhere text/html 2024-10-27T21:59:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_shin?rev=1730066384&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... shin ... שׁ like the English word “sheen” also acceptable like the English word “shin” text/html 2024-10-27T22:11:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_sin?rev=1730067077&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... sin ... שֹ like the English word “seen” also acceptable like the English word “sin” text/html 2024-10-27T22:01:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_tav?rev=1730066488&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... tav ... תּ the “a” sounds like the one in the word father text/html 2024-10-27T20:52:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_tet?rev=1730062330&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... tet ... ט you can say it like teyt (rhymes with late) saying it the way it looks is acceptable too text/html 2024-10-27T22:03:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_thav?rev=1730066606&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... thav ... ת the soft version of tav starts with a voiceless “th” sound like the English word “thin” some communities pronounce it as an “s” sound, instead. the “a” sounds like the one in the word father text/html 2024-10-27T21:46:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_tsadi?rev=1730065597&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... tzadi ... צץ written as either tsadi or tzadi, sometimes tzaddiq. tsah - dee. the “ts” sounds is like the end of the English word “lots” stress is on the first syllable. text/html 2024-10-27T20:17:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_vav?rev=1730060260&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... vav/waw ... ו if you call it vav, the “a” is like in “father” if you call it waw, it is pronounced like “wow”) text/html 2024-10-27T19:51:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_vet?rev=1730058662&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... vet ... ב sounds like “veyt” or “vate” vet (like where you take a kitten) is also acceptable text/html 2024-10-27T21:03:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_yod?rev=1730063013&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... yod ... י you can rhyme it somewhere in between “blood” and “good”... “yud” it is also acceptable to rhyme it with road... “yod” but it isn't “you’d” and it shouldn't rhyme with rod. text/html 2024-10-27T20:39:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:say_zeyin?rev=1730061570&do=diff Pronounce the name of the letter properly... zeyin ... ז it rhymes with “sign” but starts with a “z” sound text/html 2024-10-27T19:57:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://esoterica.zebby.org/hebrew/flashcard:lesson1:sofit?rev=1730059049&do=diff Aleph-bet Facts What is the alternate form that five of the letters have? final form (sofit)