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Learn the Hebrew Alphabet With Pictures Steps to learn graphically the Hebrew Alphabet: 1. Carefully read aloud each of the 3 stories (in green) while comparing to pictures and letters 2. Sing these stories while looking at the letters and pictures (to the tune "Doe, a Deer") 3. Repeat by memory the song (when you hesitate, remember the picture to help memory) 4. Compare the letters of the same color and observe the differences 5. Read and study the first chapter of Basics of Biblical Hebrew. 6. When you are there, repeat at least once a day the whole alphabet forward and backward (up to the point when you can say it rapidly and easily and remember the form of each letter) 7. Memorize the pronunciation (blue), transliteration (red) and numeric value of each letter (repeat each letter with its pronunciation, transliteration and number) Observe the spatial grouping of the numbers/letters as a help for your memory. Two Remarks: a. Learning the Hebrew alphabet does not need to be boring, consider it as a game. b. You could be surprised at the speed you learn with pictures (and music)! 2 Story 1: 1 Story 3: Qof Yod Qof when you 10 have met a Resh 100 q 3 Story 2: (caugh/roach) q as in Yod is dripping y caugh on a Kaf y as in Aleph fishes (iodine/Calf) iodine with some Bet (half/bait) Resh has Sin Resh Kaf Alef the bright sun Shin 200 1 silent (seen/shine) r as in r 20 ’ roach ḵ/k k as in Bet is playing calf with Gimel Kaf is stepping (game L) Sin on Lamed (lame) b as in Shin 300 Bet bait Hebrew s Alphabet 300sh s as in 2v/b in its sh as in traditional seen Lamed presentation shine Shin is on l as in the top of 30 Gimel Tav Tav l lame presses 400 (table) Lamed scrapes on Dalet Mem the back of Mem Dalet Gimel (delete) t (mum) d as in Dalet on a heap of He t as in 40m is smiling delete 4 d 3 g m as in Mem (hay) table still at Nun g as in game Where he sees the Promised Land! mum (noon) In the He we find a vav Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Dalet, (valve) Vav v as in He, Vav, Zain, Het, Tet, Yod, Kaf, Nun Samek valve Lamed, Mem, Nun, Samek, Ayin, 6 v 50n 60 s He Vav is standing Pe, Tsade, Qof, Resh, Shin, Tav. n as in s as in on a Zain (sign) noon same 5 Letters changing = h Zain their form in final Samek carried h as in z Nun is running by one Ayin 7 position (at the hay z as in from Samek (eye) Zion end of a word): (same) Ayin Ayin is Zain can 70 ‘ looking touch the silent at its Pe rim of Het (pay) (hat) Pe Het 80 8 ch as in ḥ Pe is needed f/p Bach by Tsade p as in pay (tsar) Het is Tet smiling to Tsade his Tet 9ṭ © 2005 Stéphane Tibi and his licensors. 90 ṣ (tot) t as in All rights reserved. www.studymaps.org ts as in tot Tsar.

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