Let's Learn the Hebrew Alphabet - The Hebrew Letters, part 1 - Hebrew Starter's Packet
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The Hebrew Letters, part 1
The letters א-ה
כל הכבוד ללומדים שמשקיעים זמן בלימוד האותיות העבריות!❤
This is so good! I am an English teacher who became a French teacher and now want to learn Hebrew.
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Good luck from Romania
@@alexbulza50
Me too.
Short, precise explanations. Perfect for beginners. Toda raba.
Amazing way to learn - simple, fun, and most effective. Thank you
The absent-minded-americans-oriented jokes and the connotations in the video (such as the one about the transportation with camels) made me very happy.
Wow spent 5 minutes practicing the first five letters memorizing the shape and the sound and learned to have one sound like the other i practiced the words you gave and found myself actually being able to sound out the words and practice them this is awesome i hope it stays this easy haha heres to step 1
I had a formal course in Hebrew back in the 1980s to learn biblical Hebrew. I've continued to use it over the years with my bible study and I'm nearly ready for more consistent training. I'll subscribe to the recommended newspaper at the beginning of the new year. It sounds like a very unique tool!
nobody asked u
What recommended newspaper are you referring to?
Your site is crazy good. I've been tearing my heart out all semester at my inability to grasp Hebrew. I know the letters, but when I try to read the words I get brain freeze. It was the nikud that had me stumped. You made that so very easy. We're using the CLSeow book. It's awful and really not the way for beginners to learn a language at any Level. Thank YHWH for TH-cam. Don't know what I would do without ways of learning that makes sense. Blessings to you!!!
Wow Linda, Thank you so much for your words, we highly appreciate it!
One thing I learnt from a different video on a good another channel is that those marks are only for non-natives
Wife
Repet and repet again, as many times you need until you are familiar with. Try to hear some alefbet songs here...some are very funny!
I'm late to to the 🎉🎉 party
I have been learning Korean for long enough that I have been "unprofessionally" teaching beginners Korean.
I just love how there are so many similarities between Korean and Hebrew as well as English and Hebrew. Not to mention that Korean is only about 600 years old and the traits carried over from Chinese still cause similarities! So I have to wonder if there are many similarities between Chinese and Hebrew as well!
Also English is a Germanic language. So like with Korean and Chinese I have to wonder if Germanic has similarities with Hebrew.
Do all languages lead back to ancient Hebrew? It seems I've learned from some Human Languages and Anthropology scholars that they do.
Anyway really interesting and wonderful. 👍🏻
Update!:
The answer truly seems to be yes!
After more research and putting together and building on the work of what we already know. Yes, it turns out all languages in some parts or area of the language have similarities enough to very confidently say all people must have at one point spoken a root language and come from a group that spoke that language. Or possibly at least borrowed their first language from a neighboring group of humans that already had language and brought their language from wherever they migrated from.
At least the languages and information I've looked at so far.
Edit: Further Update!: It looks like it may have been 3 or 4 "base" or "root" languages, but all from a general geologic area. The western middle east.
I could still be not quite putting it together right.
It may take a combination of language backtracking, genetic backtracking and history backtracking to get a clear picture. Although we know histories can be falsified to suit whomever is in power at the time they are written.
It looks like a person could follow language to it's one single root language and through that find the root location or at least area or region of humanity's beginnings. So far that doesn't look to be Africa! It looks to be centering on a region more northeast!
It's an interesting prospect anyway.
So far there appears to be a few base "ancient" languages and even further those appear to all have similarities that point to them having come from very ancient Hebrew! It's very unexpected and amazing! And those ancient Hebrew "primitive" parts are strangely and surprisingly advanced! The ancient Hebrew language is Pictographs, Characters/Letters and Numbers all in one! Each character tells a story all of its own. Each one has a story and/or meaning, a sound value and a value both of character and numeric representation. You could covey so much with so little in theory.
As I said rather shocking and amazing!
@@kaimagnus interesting... did u somehow come across sanskrit or Tamil?? Did u find any similarity in them??
@@sherinbabu6292 @sherin Babu Yes some. Mostly in pronunciation of common "base" words. Like the words for the Male parent, Female parent, Offspring or "Baby and Children" and things like that.
I'm not a professional, but it seems it can be followed back to 4 "basic" groups of people. Western Middle Easterners, A branch from the North of there, a branch from the east of there and a branch from the south of there.
Some connections appeared to be a curved or intersected lines of descendancy. Basically on some of it parts came straight from ancient Hebrew and the rest came from other languages that came straight from ancient Hebrew and then there was some that came like 3rd. or 4th. hand or more.
Language 2 may have come straight from ancient Hebrew and language 3 may have come from a language that came from ancient Hebrew and language 4 may have come from a language that came from a language that came from a language that came from ancient Hebrew.
On several sounds in the language like Korean as I was talking about.
Korean came from Chinese and Chinese came from a Mongolian area dialect and that Mongolian area dialect came from a direct branch of ancient Hebrew.
Now I say "ancient Hebrew", but it was basically actually just the language that was spoken in the area of the western part of the middle east at the time and now we call it "Hebrew".
Even the Hebrew seems to have had at least 3 transitions. The oldest I saw was like I said still 3 Languages in one and had like one symbol looked like a bull's head with the horns and things like that. It had the idea of great strength and power and it had an "A" sound if I recall correctly and I forget the numeric value it had. The next version of it looked like an upside-down leaning to the side letter "A" and the next version was much like the letter "A" from Germanic and Latin/Romanic languages and alphabets.
You can follow the language and so far it always seems to lead back to the areas that are now called Israel and slightly North and North East of the area that we call Israel.
Essentially the western part of the middle east.
Even all the way to the southern tip of South America! Follow it back north then through Central America into North America across the Bering Strait to eastern Russia down into Far East Asia west across the Mongolian desert to an area along the Euphrates River.
Basically at some point ancient Hebrews migrated east to Mongolia then into the East Asian countries then north east across into Alaska then down into Canada and America then into Central America then into South America all the way to Peru and Chile!
From the stories that first migration could have been from the Tower of Babyl.
With the evidence that would actually make sense!
From the evidence it really does look like the Tower of Babyl actually happened and some people stayed in the area and some grouped together and went North and became the Caucasians some grouped together and went East and became the Asians and some went south and became the Black peoples. 4 major groups that branched out and mixed along their borders and became everybody else!
It would be interesting to look into it and see if genetics confirms the same thing. That everyone boils down to 3 or 4 major genetic groups.
I'll do some research and see if that is the case. I'll come back after and pass on anything I find out.
Well that was quick! lol.
A quick Google search will reveal that yes in fact science and genetics does group people into 3 "base" genetic groups.
I don't like what they named them, but they are called "Caucasoid", "Mongoloid" and "Negroids". That is all they are listing for now. It looks like there may be one more and the others may come from that one more.
So it looks like following the language came to the right conclusion in this case.
Some people went North and became the Caucasians some people went East and became the Asians and some people went south and became the Black peoples. That means of course some people stayed in the area and everyone branched from them and there.
Again, amazingly that could mean that the Tower of Babyl story very well could be true! Wow!
Some people stayed in the area and spoke the language and became the middle easterners and current Hebrew people some people went north and spoke what would become the European languages and became the "white" peoples and some went east and spoke what would become the Asian languages and became the Asian peoples and some went south and spoke what would become the African languages and became the black peoples.
From the evidence from the language backtracking and genetic backtracking if you put it all together it seriously suggests that we really did all come from one people that lived in the area of the western middle east and possibly at the Tower of Babyl our languages got separated some so we grouped together in groups that could understand each other and took off on our own ways with some of us going north becoming lighter skinned or "white" and some going east and becoming Asian and some going south becoming darker skinned or "black"!
Of course nobody could go very far west because they would run into the Mediterranean sea!
This is crazy! Absolutely amazing!
But you can't argue with truth and facts! Unless you just want to declare that truth and facts don't exist! Then you could try to dance around it. But it's still true and just what " *IS* "! No matter how we try to deny it and don't want to see, recognize and realize it!
I wasn't expecting this. Wow. Just WOW!
@@kaimagnus oo that was really insightful.. thank you buddy for the info😁
Excuse me for pointing out that the character you used when mentioning “chinese” is actually Vietnamese. .... and 希伯来文一点也不像中文… and this means Hebrew letters don’t look like Chinese at all :)
That was a joke, it could look like hindi, or akkadian, amharic or anything else to someone not familiar, so it was hyperbole I guess
😐
@@niccolopaganini1782 it looks like a stiffer Version of Arabic.
你评论得好！他们把中国人画成戴斗笠的样子，真是莫名其妙。这是歧视，他们并不知道中文在电脑打字比英文还快。
Get over yourself nobody cares
So students and regular people normally write the letters the way you showed on the lined paper, not with flowing calligraphy pens or quills? I thought I was going to have to buy some of those. The calligraphy is beautiful. But a relief if we can write that simple way.
Thank you for this!
A+ Easy to read letters.Fun learning for all ages . Thank You .
The best way to learn
"Hebrew letters might look like chinese to you"
jokes on you I can speak chinese.
哈哈，我觉得一样了
@Gyro Well you may speak Chinese, but if you can't read it then it's probably because it looks like Hebrew writing. based on the presenter's logic, I wonder if small Israeli children would find it easy to start reading Chinese? 😉
שיעור מדהים למדי, סרטון עשוי היטב 🎉 😊
The music makes it difficult for me to hear the Hebrew clearly.
Ty. Others try to do all the letters at once and that is too much. Good teacher.
Thanks
Love this way of teaching !!!!
Very nice lesson
Just this Pic of the teacher abs watermelon has thrown me off from looking at her teaching. Plus I started this learning already.
Great material. The initial decorations of the letters and the final way it was written are confusing.
love this lesson, but bet need niqud (.) in midle isn't
I was so excited to share this as review with my class but... an ALEF does not make an /a/ sound and I noticed that you differentiate between the PEY and the FEY but not the BET and the VET. I am rather confused...
The video starts at 1:00
I actually find the info in the beginning quite informative
Also when you wrote bet, you did not include the dot. Why not? This is very confusing
Dagesh? She showed it
I am going to work in Tel Aviv Metro, so I need to be able to read Hebrew
If you know arabic, it feels easier to learn hebrew bcs some words resembles arabic
Is Arabic and Aramaic the same thing?
SO attractive and fun way. I couldnt found the handwritten letters from your website. Post it please.
Great. Thanks a lot!
Loved it!
I love Austrian art
Jesus Christ Loves You All and wants a relationship with you All. he is the way, truth, and life. John14:6. Amen Glory to God. Amen.
You mention that vowels in Hebrew are indicated by dots and other such diacritical markings. But, then, how do you explain that the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, aleph, is a vowel???
This is actually pretty easy to explain you see Aleph "א" used to represent the glottal stop in Hebrew however that pronunciation disappeared over time and now it either represents the vowel A or it's silent and it along with two other letters Vav "ו", and Yud "י" act as both consonants and vowels depending on the word much like Arabic 'Alif "ا", Waw "و", and Ya "ي" hope that cleared somethings up
I don't understand how aleph makes an A sound when you also said there are no vowels. Aren't there also words that start with aleph that don't start with the "A" sound? Or should I assume the aleph always comes with a patch or kamatz?
And dalet changes to delet with one point? Can anyone explain me?
@@mnassis9010ts a dot! You remove the dot in bet for the v sound!
Nice video! Question: you say there are no vowels but then the first letter is A. Is aleph not considered a vowel?
No aleph is consonant. One can use the niqqud vowel system which places vowels underneath, on top, etc. to know how to accurately pronounce words.
Just like arabic
@@jonanhamiltonbut she said "aleph makes the sound A". I was also very confused by that.
@@suzipuzi2001 You will hardly ever get a good explanation from these short YT videos and if you want more depth they try to charge you money. Maybe best to go to the library and get a beginner's book?
@@edelgyn2699 but that statement was flat out erroneous!
Great video, my only issue is with Hebrew. Just about every teacher I've come across spells the letters differently. There's always some difference when it comes to the correct English spelling of each letter. The alphabet is so old one would think that by now everyone would be on the same page but nope not yet
You are correct. Perhaps the reason is that the Hebrew language is always busy developing and regenerating with the changing periods of time, and less looking back on the existing.
@@HebrewToday That sounds good, it seems to fit. It is an evolving language so... Yeah sounds good to me 👍
@@michaelliles231 I find it odd that every temple sings the songs from the Torah with completely different tunes. You would think that a temple in San Francisco would at least sing songs similarly to the temple in its neighboring county in San Rafael, but they couldn't be more different. I don't understand that. It's like they all make up their own tunes.
@@websurfer5772 well, it depends generally on if it’s reform or orthodox etc. Many of the tunes were Carlbach tunes but recently they changed it, because of the abuse he committed. A lot of the standard tunes that reform and conservative shuls used were by him, so many places are changing
@@amazingabby25 That's sad to hear. I just looked him up and he was doing some sick stuff. Yikes!
I've never heard the prayers done the way he sings them either. (Just checked him out on YT.)
Merci
so the b letter name starts with b but makes a v sound? Does b make a v sound in Hebrew?
Without the dot!
Hebrew like Arabic in 60%
and Arabic is 60% Hebrew. They’re both similar because they’re Semitic languages
love you Israël
How can you say there is no vowels, when already the first letter Aleph is a vowel?
In ancient Hebrew, it used to be a glottal that introduced the following vowel sound, ayin is another former semi consonant. In modern Hebrew, glottal stops are no longer pronounced, so from a purely Ivrit perspective you might call them vowels. Historically, they are (semi) consonants though.
I love l
נחמד ביותר! ממליץ למי שרוצה ללמוד עברית
Psalms 119 Wow brother David thank you
toda raba lah
Very nice
There is one mistake. The Hebrew letter (ב) is supposed to have a dot in the middle.
The dot is called Dagesh. The Hebrew Dagesh is a diacritic symbol that is used in the Hebrew language to indicate the doubling of a consonant. It can be seen as a dot or a small vertical line that is placed within the consonant.
Some words will have a Dagesh on the Bet- and then it will make a B sound. And some won't and the sound will be more like V
Appreciate your video but you are saying the words of the objects shown too fast. Even when I slowed down or paused the video your pronunciation is not heard very well. Thank you
I had the Korean alphabet down in 15 minutes..why is Hebrew taking me so long *cries*
genius!
Thank you :)
look like Chinese, oh. iam , will it be easier for me to learn?🤔
I know, that opening comment is bordering on hilarious and may be taken as patronising. 🙃
4:08 is she trying to say kid
I want to learn Hebrew so I can talk to Jesus in his native language ❤️
Amen!
It's Aramaic
Then you need to learn aramaic 🤣🤣🤣
Although the aramaic alphabet is quite similar. But the language is difficult since there are different ways to pronounce words depends if you are a male or female.
Hebrew is the primordial language not Aramaic @@IPYES
also modern hebrew isnt the same as ancient hebrew but im sure Yeshua can speak and understand any language
STAN TENEN
It's similar to Arabic 97%
The background music is annoying and makes it hard to hear the pronunciation
Is it a coincidence, that "aleph" sounds like Alpha, "bet" Beta, "Gimel" Gamma, "dalet" Delta......?
Ok this sounds so close to arabic !
Well, Jews and Arabs both share the same forefather, Abraham, who was Jewish, but he had a son named Ishmael with his maid named Hagar, who wasn't Jewish, at the behest of his barren wife, Sarah.
It was the original handmaiden tale. Hagar and Ishmael were subsequently treated badly by Sarah so they left and went their own way and they were the forerunners of Arabs.
At least that's what the Bible says.
Interestingly, later on, Moses marries an Arabian woman.
Abraham is the father of the Jews and Arabs, and Moses is the father of the Jewish religion.
Throughout the Torah Jews and Arabs were intermarrying and interrelating so they're basically estranged cousins.
Iruma kun brought me here
حتى الجبنة و البطيخ سرقوها!!!!!
اي والله!!
Well, the Hebrew alphabet is much older than the Arabic one used today. So, who’s been stealing then? ;-)
Can you send all hebrew alfhabet with the translation?Thank you
Aleph and ayin have no sound the sond for aleph, eyin is incorrect
That's what some people say but I've found that to be false
@Alan Hughes yes AH BAH
@Alan Hughes NO Aleph and Ayin are silent , and take their sounds from the vowels, like this אַבַא , father or בֶו ben son or אור or light th-cam.com/video/Uz_m118Yheg/w-d-xo.html check this out
@Alan Hughes once you learn hebrew you dont need vowels anymore
@Alan Hughes your question is how is abba pronounced? its AH BAH the vowels are there , as i said aleph and ayin are silent and take sounds from vowels, the aleph would have a patach making it ah with no sound of its own the bet has a kamatz making it ba אבא here it is with vowels אַבָא , wowels only used for prayer books or learning hebrew
The background music is sickening.. can’t listen to this! Can you upload a copy without the music?
click bait
The teacher is nice but I am not up to the mark
עיופם
בּ
A b/v g d
Godlike lip syncing
I didn't even notice she was a drawing until after I watched the video!
I am going to give the negative first. The background music is a no, no when teaching a language. The sound of the letters is the most important for the listener. So, I couldn't even pass the first letter to give you a positive point.
No. They don't look like Chinese letters to me. Are you nuts? Lol.
They are WAY less complicated than that.
She was speaking analogously not literally. You missed the boat you missed the point all you could insult someone to feel better about yourself. P°°f
I sm learning hébreu to understand what' those sioniste liars are saying about our dear people off Palestine so i can reply and fight for the Palestinian.
May Allen help our people in Palestine and they may forever live peacefully in their rightful stolen land.
From the river to the sea Palestine 🇵🇸 will be free
While you’re at it, go learn some English. You need it
Fake calls for a fake Nation. You are colonizers, get out of Israel. From the River To The Sea we shall be Pally free. You had your chance to build something great and you blew it. You deserve nothing.
I'm confused, in the first unit of duolingo Hebrew (I'm using it as a baseline don't slander me ok) for father and love, it doesn't have the vowel markings, do they retract it with them later on after I'm experienced enough for the markings? I need answers but too lazy to research it myself pls give them to me 😣🫴
The markings are formal for clarification. But once you know Hebrew words they aren't necessary anymore because you can read things in context of the flow of what the words should mean.
It's not exactly the same but it's kind of like when people text in English and they leave out some letters because in context you know what they mean.
R U HNGRY?
FCK THS SHT!
PLS HRRY
It's not exactly the same thing but same idea.