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--- flashcard:lesson1:say_alef [2024/10/27 19:28] – created jeffd
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-alef (the name of this letter starts with a sound like the “a” in father)
+===== Pronounce the name of the letter properly... =====
-bet (sounds like it looks, or “beyt” or “bait”, or in its softer form, vet, or veyt or vait)
-gimel (geem-el, the name starts with a hard g sound like in gear, not a J sound, and the end sounds like the “le” at the end of “Bible”; this apparently had a hard and soft form anciently, but the difference between them is indistinguishable in modern Hebrew)
+<WRAP center centeralign round box 60%>
-dalet (pronounced like dahl - et. the soft from sounds like thal-et … where the “th” makes the voiced (buzzing) sound like at the beginning of “those”, not the voiceless (airy) sound like at the beginning of “thin”)
+<wrap medium>alef</wrap> ... <wrap big :he>א</wrap>
-heh (pronounced like “hey!”)
+</WRAP>
-vav (also written as waw, the “a” is like in “father”, or when it is waw it is pronounced like “wow”)
-zeyin (rhymes with “sign” but starts with a “z”)
+#: Click for Answer
-khet (also written heth, het, chet, cheth. this might be the hardest letter name to say. it starts with a throaty friction sound like the end of “loch” in lochness monster.)
+<WRAP centeralign>
-tet (i say tet like it looks, but “teyt” is also used by some)
+<wrap medium>the name of this letter begins like the “a” in father. \\ \\
-yod (or written yud, if I said it rhymes with blood but also rhymes with good, it's somewhere in between there. It doesn't rhyme with God.)
+the stress is on the first syllable.</wrap>
-kaf (its name sounds like the English word “cough”, the soft form without the dagesh in it is khaf, and the beginning of that word sounds the same as the beginning of khet) this letter also has an alternate final form which is shown in the bottom row of the chart.
+</WRAP>
-lamed (law - med, emphasis on the first syllable, rhymes with Muhammed)
+:#
-mem (like it looks, mem, or meym) this letter has an alternate final form which is shown in the bottom row of the chart - and its the only one where the final form isn't actually swoopy.
-nun (like the time of day “noon”, not like The Flying Nun 😄 ) this letter has an alternate final form which is shown in the bottom row of the chart
-samek (saw - mehk)
-eyin (its name is just like zeyin but without the z sound at the beginning)
-peh (like the English word “pay”, or in its softer form, “fay”) this letter has an alternate final form which is shown in the bottom row of the chart
-tsadi (the first sound is like the ts at the end of the english word “lots” … tsaw -dee) this letter has an alternate final form which is shown in the bottom row of the chart
-qof (also spelled quf, to distinguish it from kaf I pronounce it like koof, or koaf)
-resh (best if you can use the slightly rolled R sound to say its name, but still understandable if you use the American rhotic R)
-shin (shin or sheen, but it also has another form where it sounds different, and in that case it is pronounced sin or seen)
-tav (where the “a” is like the one in the word father)