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Ulpan-Or: Absolute Beginner

Hebrew Print Alphabet with Vowels

Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 basic letters; in addition you will also find five
letters that have unique companions – “end letters”, which are used instead of
the regular letters only when written as the last letter of a word.

As mentioned previously, the vowels – “nekudot” are not an integral part of the
alphabet, and are regarded separately.

The following charts include all the print letters of Hebrew alphabet. Note that
Hebrew texts are written from right to left.

Listen to the respective track on the CD and fill in the vowels as in

the example for letter “Alef”. Read each letter with the vowel.

After having learned the three first letters we have created words
(meaningless some times, but still words) that you can already read!

Listen and repeat those a few times.
CD #1 – Track 6

Introduction to pronunciation

Spaces

              for letters

וּ ֹ וֹ י ֱ Hebrew

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ֳ

Vowels
OO O EE E A
Silent  Sound
as in p oo r as in sh o rt a s in as in e gg as in f a ther
p eer

Example:
א

CD #1 – Track 7 Alef

(Alef by itself is silent; it adapts the sound of the associated vowel)

א א וּא א וֹא י א א ֱא א א ֳא ֲא א א א
ׁ Silent

Alef
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