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[Music] hello my name is Daniel and I'm a Hebrew teacher from Tel Aviv Israel today we're going to start the first lesson from a series of six lessons about the Hebrew letters so only six lessons very short lessons and after these lessons and some practice you're going to know the Hebrew alphabet all the letters how to write them how to read them I'm also going to teach you about them they could then they could is the small dots and signs that's that we write sometimes in Hebrew inside the letters above the letters and under the letters okay so let's start the Hebrew letters actually there are two kinds of letters there are the print letters posts we call them these are the letters that you see in books newspapers computers you know in text messages and there are the hand writing letters which we use when we write on you know with the pen on paper for example so let's start the first letter which is actually the first letter in the alphabet the first and I'm going to teach you is I left I left where is it oh here it is okay we're going to see how we write it so this is the Aleph the print a left okay going to write it again okay you say this is a diagonal line and then two others diagonal lines I'll do it here again okay this is the print Aleph and the handwritten alert goes like this okay gonna write it like this it's like half a circle more than half a circle maybe and then a line here okay so this is Aleph this is the first letter of the alphabet it actually doesn't have really a sound it takes the the vowel of the of the next I mean it takes it takes the the next vowel or you know the vow of the the vowel coming right after the letter so it can actually be as we have only five vowels in Hebrew it can be a or a or E or all or who okay so this is the letter Aleph and now the next letter we check which is actually the second letter in the alphabet and it's dollar to bet now the sound of the letter that is good now notice that it has a dot in the middle now this is the first nakute sign that you are going to learn okay as I told you then it could is it means the signs that are inside the letters under the letters above the letters okay so this is bet and it sounds but like B okay so we're going to write it here this is whose version like this okay very easy okay so we're gonna add dot inside okay so this is that and the handwritten version goes like this right so you see that the handwritten letters are more rounded than the print letters which are more angular you see okay so bet in truce and bet okay we will add the dot in the middle okay so as I told you the dots makes in a bit now without the dot with just if we delete the dot we turn the letter into another sound which is okay like the letter V in English okay so without the dot it sounds like this so you can see that nakute can change can actually change the sound of the letters okay so I will erase this and we will talk now about then we could so this is like the first instance of nakute that we have here we actually you see in the Bible for example you can see that everything has naked all the all the words of Whitney could and they tell us exactly the bowels of the of the language in Hebrew the vows we can say we could say that I mean the vows in Hebrew that there are two two kinds of vows okay so some of the vowels are expressed in letters like in English okay so like in English that you have the vowels a e i o u you use these to express vows you use these letters to express vows and some of the vowels are expressed with nakute so and this is instance of the bet is not an instance of vowel but it's still it's still one of the one of the functions of my code but most of the new code science tell us the vowel so we have the first vowel the first nakute of a vowel that we are going to learn is aa so we have their commands okay which goes under the letter so for example I'm going to write the letter Alif which is up with commas and this tells us that we have to actually it's a bit smaller than that and this starts the foul and it tells us that we have to say ah okay and if we take the letter bets with a dot in the middle with the - it's called the gesh with commas and this means that we have to say but okay it tells us that the vowel here is pop as in here it's and here it's Bob now there are two other versions of the commas okay there's also the PATA which is actually like this so for example we take again the letter bet and we add but ah okay you're gonna drug it a little bigger than it is so something like this and this makes it oh you can see can't see it on the video so what I'll do is just raise these and change them to but ah okay so I live with a tough it's also up and bet with a tough is also a so you can see pat up you can see comets for you it's the same thing you don't have to you don't have to know the differences and when to put a tough when to put comets because actually we write we write the words today in Hebrew without the nakute okay we use then it could only when it's important when when we want to disambiguate between words or if for example we don't know the name of how to pronounce something then we use the any code okay so either potage oka Matz the same thing for you okay and there's another option which is the taffeta and it looks like this this is more rare but if you see it okay you will know that it means the same thing okay ah here and back here okay so either commands but again this is the commands sign sign and okay so we learn two letters now we can already form words with these letters so for example the word Abba Abba means father in Hebrew okay ah bah and also the word ba which means come okay for a singular male in the present form so we can already say a sentence with these letters and with these with these two words ah da da okay means father is coming or father comes next lecture we're going to learn is the letter many okay so that's the lecture men we write it like this it's like a triangle but doesn't close and we add a diagonal sign here diagonal line here okay that's the letter many okay and they're handwritten version goes like this okay it's very similar to the letter n but we start to write it from here okay so that's men print men and handwritten men the sound is like men like em in English and we also have the another version of letter M which is the final and that we call it mm so feet an F suffix is like this okay it's like a square which has a tip a little tip here okay this is mem sulfate and the handwritten version goes like this okay so it has the same sound look but the difference is that we use this letter only at the end of a word okay in the middle of the word or at the beginning of the word we would use this one min or in a handwritten form min okay and the last lecture we are going to learn today which is also which is a consonant and also a vowel is the word letter Y okay so you're okay it's a small one and it goes like this very easy and the handwritten form is even easier it's just a little tip like this this is the letter Y bucks you just have to pay attention that it goes in the upper I mean it's an upper letter okay so for example we're going to see the word with the letter use would be for example young it's written like this okay young and handwritten form young so you can see that they got in comparison to the other letters is kind of in the upper position okay so we have the word young and I didn't say actually that the sound of the letter Yoda is like why is e but it also will also use it for the vowel e like the letter i' in english so for example we have the word me okay we have the letter we have the word me so here you can see that the yoke we use the yard to express the sound II devout like the vowel I okay me me means who I didn't tell you that the the other word that we saw young means see okay like see with water at the beach okay so we see two different uses here the use of the we used to yo to express a vowel E and here we use the odd to express a consonant okay like why young versus me okay now we'll see another lecture another word with the letters that we learned which is the word EEMA which means mother okay so EEMA so this is Emma with Nicole and for email without nakute you can see that we we use the letter Yad okay because when when then they could disappears it's it's maybe a little more difficult to know that we have to say II here so we use the letter yacht okay so it's important for me to say that sometimes for the vowel e you can see only only the critic which is another way to express e in Hebrew okay so for example in EEMA or actually not anemic a look at this it's I left with the leak and it's e but we can also add the letter yud okay so sometimes you will see the value expressed like this with hillock and the yard okay and sometimes you will see just that leak like in the world mm okay in the word email like this okay so here you can see for example that we don't use yours now but as I told you before if we write the version without any code we put the yaws to make it easier to meet that you know that it's e okay so this is actually what I wanted to show you today we learned about we learned all these letters Aleph your method also the the lateral pet and the handwritten version of them every learned any could we learned this form this one which is called the Gish which makes the bet of so here you can see them you can see this someone will put it here so this thicket is called the gesh and it is it makes the bet a bet because without it it would be over we learned about the attack or commands or cut after that which is the sound up and we learned about the feeling which is this dot under the letter and is e and can be also with the letter yud which is actually the same okay we say it the same we say I mean this is exactly as this without giggled okay we say both of them as E so I prepared a worksheet for you with a lot of opportunities to practice the writing of the letters and the pronunciation of the letters and then I could and with all the information about new vocabulary and letters and and then I could so you can download it in the link that you can see right down here and also if you have any questions you can send it to me there's the Facebook link also you can sit down here so see you next time please loud

Channel: Learn Hebrew with Daniel

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Length: 20min 17sec (1217 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 07 2018