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I'll start by posting what I posted in the Foreign Languages Guild (Hebrew General Discussion), and then move on. If any of you has a question to ask or a request to make - don't hesitate to ask.
Nathan, his friend (sorry, I forgot your name) and Alina also speak Hebrew, and Nathan is ready to cooperate. smile


Hebrew Writing

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So here are some instructions for Hebrew writing and pronouncing. smile The next time I update, I'll also write a bit about the Vocalization, hoping it will clear everything out.

So here goes.


Edit: Damn it! I forgot the final form of פ. It is ף... sweatdrop

Final Form: Some letters are written differently when located at the end of a word. Those letters are כ, מ, נ, פ and צ.
For example, the word "shamaim", sky, will be written like this: שָׁמַיִם and not שָׁמַיִמ.

Modern Hebrew has a few marks added that are used for the writing of foreign words.


When it comes to pronouncing the consonants, one might notice changes among different ethnicities. Among native speakers, there are two main different ways of pronouncing the constants: the "Oriental" (or "Mizrahi") and "European" (or "Ashkenazi").
As those of European background tend to pronounce כ, ח like a German CH (like Bach), those of an "Oriental" background usually pronounce them throatier (like in Arabic), ח generally being throatier than כ.
The letters א and ע are marked ' (you might say they're like A or E), yet the vowel changes with the vocalization. This issue will be discussed later; however, again, it is throatier when pronounced by "Orientals" (don't be surprised when I say it again, but this, too, is very similar to Arabic sweatdrop ).
There is no correct form of speaking. Both are legitimate and you can just do it the way you're more comfortable with and fits with your natural accent.

The dot you see on the letters ב, ג, ד, כ, פ, ת is a diacritic dot. In Modern Hebrew, it doesn't make any difference when it comes on ג, ד and ת, but when it comes to the other three, it "hardens" the pronunciation, making v into b, ch into c and f into p.
In addition, the dot you can see on the left and on the right of the letter ש is what makes it "sh" or just "s". When the dot is on the right, it's sh. On the left - s. There are very, very few words that are written with שֹ, so that's nothing to worry about anyway.
This might be referred to as an intro to vocalization; yet, I will write more about it next time.

Notice.
If you are having difficulties understanding the table, you can use this one. It's even better. smile
http://foundationstone.com.au/HtmlSupport/OnlineHebrewTutorial/LessonImages/01_Lesson.gif

Cool; thank you so much!


And I'm probably wrong, but I thought the dot vowel by itself was an "e" sound. sweatdrop Is there any chance there's many translations of it? sweatdrop

Curses- stupid Hebrew school teacher. xp

Translation, please? sweatdrop

Question- do words always have the same endings and stuff, or do they change based off of their role in the sentence? For example, is a subject word different from a direct object meaning the same thing?

Cool; so it is somewhat similar to Latin in that respect.

Again, similar to Latin. That sounds pretty interesting, though! ^^

No no no. I think you meant to ask if Hebrew has cases; it doesn't, unlike some other Semitic languages. In Hebrew it doesn't matter if the word is the subject, object or predicate - it stays the same.

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