The Significance of the AlephbetAs with any language, the individual letters of the Alephbet are the basic building blocks of both reading and speaking. Furthermore, practice makes perfect in Hebrew as it does in anything else that needs to be studied and learned. In short, the first thing you need to learn are the 22 basic characters highlighted in this chapter plus the way vowels are created from consonants etc. Consequently, you should go back through this chapter, study each individual letter and learn them by rote. Perhaps the easiest way of learning the Alephbet is by writing each of the individual characters several times. Repeat this exercise for several days and you will find that you begin to recognize and distinguish between the different letters. Once you can do this, you are ready to move on. Introduction to Reading Hebrew The first basics The Hebrew AlephBet The Letters of the AlephBet Aleph Bet (Beyt) Gimmel Dalet Hey Vav Zayin Chet Tet Yod Kaf Lamed Mem Nun Samekh Ayin Pey (Fey) Tsade (Tsadik) Qof Resh Shin Tav The Significance of the Alephbet The Basics of Hebrew Verbs The Hebrew Verb Subject The Hebrew Verb Object Hebrew Verb Tenses Hebrew Verb Voices and Moods Hebrew Verb Participles The Infinite Verb Version Hebrew Nouns Hebrew Noun Constructs Using Prefixes With Nouns Hebrew Pronouns Hebrew Plural Nouns Hebrew Adjectives Identifying Hebrew Questions Adverbs, Prepositions and Conjunctions Hebrew Reading Conclusion |