Learning Hebrew - Lesson 6

[bgreenb4u]

This is a fantastic series of lessons. Thank you so much. You are an absolute star.

[MALIBUSTACEY08]

I think you should of done the last part with us first then let us do it on our own so that we would know that we are doing it right

[MALIBUSTACEY08]

I think this lesson should of been longer, it seems like as it gets harder the videos get shorter and I think it should be the other way around. I really like how in the first video you really took your time with each letter.

[GatoFrmCuba1]

hey Dr. you said that the c backward without a dot is cah. and the c back ward with the dot is kah pronounce hah.. in this lesson on the second row you pronoune hah for the first letter. is it hah or cah?

[Rev1913Rev1916]

@GatoFrmCuba1 hey, I'm not the video guy but I speak a bit of Hebrew and came here out of curiosity. It looks like you learned the pronunciations the wrong way round. The "c backward" with a dot (kah) is pronounced as a hard "k" as in "kilo".

Without the dot it's pronounced as a gutteral -- that's the sound you're describing as "hah". (It's actually more of a throaty sound, a bit like the German "ch" in "ich" but harder.)

[samanthajessica111]

hebrew is beautiful

[samanthajessica111]

This lesson is harder but it's worth it... Hebrew is so beautiful

[FenrirIceKing]

Honestly it's not that bad. Watch it a couple times and study the past letters and vowel points. You guys make it seem like the end of the world...

[truthseeker911david]

Look at all the coments on this video. PLEASE we are begging for help here, can you remake this lesson better?? Thank you so very much in advance.

[xxpowwowbluexx]

@truthseeker911david That's the difficulty with "teaching" a language deductively & using grammar-translation methods instead of helping one "acquire" the language thru inductive means. These lessons r useful to a point, but they do not build toward fluency. Look for videos that have picture association, using pictures w/ Hebrew words & phrases. U will immediately begin to associate the Hebrew form w/ the picture itself, & ur brain will not be working thru a filter ("sho MO, sho MAH...," etc).

[truthseeker911david]

@xxpowwowbluexx if the best way to teach the language is with picture association then why dont you make your videos accordingly? We simply want to learn and you present yourself as a teacher. We as students cannot control the methods you as the teacher employ to share your knowledge.

[xxpowwowbluexx]

@truthseeker911david B/c I don't know Hebrew & I don't make videos. :) I'm still a beginner at this language myself. I just know how language acquisition works since I have reached a high level of fluency in American Sign Language this way (w/ real-life interaction) & I used this type of methodology to pass that language on to many others. I am also familiar with Randall Buth's 'Living Koiné Greek' materials & w/ the communicative approach of his Ulpans. & I'm using Rosetta Stone Hebrew now שלום

[truthseeker911david]

@xxpowwowbluexx my bad, I thought you were the video poster finally responding to my comment. I should have looked at the names.

[xxpowwowbluexx]

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[KerstinTschernigg]

Same, I don't feel confident at all in this lesson.

[xxpowwowbluexx]

@KerstinTschernigg It's hard to build confidence in using a language when you aren't using it. Grammar-translation methodology for languages does not build fluency. SLA (Second Language Acquisition) takes place (& builds confidence) in environments where u r exposed to the language itself directly (not thru another language) in understandable contexts. Look for videos with picture association: pictures w/ spoken & written Hebrew. (U see a picture of a dog; beside it is כלב & u hear "kelev.")

[phoenixfire723]

1:31 Disaster.

I'm trying to keep telling myself Hebrew can't possibly be as hard as Mandarin... at least it has an alphabet, right?

[N8zerDude]

I am not seeing the difference between the dalet and the khaf

[ChristianPainter]

The first couple episodes I thought I was pretty smart learning Hebrew. Then I got to this one and...O.O

[jasminepwincess666]

thank you , u are very helful , but i got confused in this videos , i didnt know how to pronounce all the letters in the yellow boxes 

[phishmoto]

I have very much enjoyed your instruction. This lesson has become very confusing. If there can be more explaination and going thru the correct pronunciation as you have done in the past videos would be very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to do all of this for us!

[ElectraglideMac]

There seems to be things we have not covered. Third line, first letter...the vowel points under the Alef, and then in the fourth line under the first highlighted Alef. Thirdly, there is a vertical dash between vav and yud in three of the highlighted boxes.

[SuperDeut4]

Is there anyway, teacher, that you could do more explanation here. I have really tried to figure out, but can't. Please restructure this and pronounce these at the end for us so that we can know if we are right or wrong in what we are pronouncing. Please. Please. Please. All was going OK til now. I am stumped. Please.

[gosesnuff]

what does it mean when there is just one dot under the letter, is that another vowel point, and if, which? also the short vertical line in the uppen end of a written line - I suppose it is another letter? but which?=P

I'd be very grateful if someone could explain this to me.

[mjmckool]

@gosesnuff Just one dot under is a long "E" sound.

[mahvachcheidani]

thank you very much again dear professor; it was a pretty long lesson but with your patience gods language can be learnt may He wishes so! thank you!

[wcroach1]

This is a hard one - do not understand the combining of letters you need to read full through

[TheyDontSee]

So is Chaf what caf turns into at the end of the word? Or is it a separate letter? This part is very confusing..

[Etyaldaron]

@TheyDontSee Chaf is another way of pronuncing kaf. This happens in the middle of a word or at the end. Chaf sofit (final chaf) is the form that kaf always takes at the end of a word. While in the beginning of a word it is always kaf.

[nalls96]

shalom shimi savannah. slicha ha ivrit sheli garua eod. ;/

[pianoandtrombone123]

this video sucked compared to the others

[omoshiroidayo]

whats the difference between caf and chet?

[roundbunny]

can someone explain the difference betwen chet and kaf? to me they sound really similar (sound coming from the throat...)

thanks!

[Etyaldaron]

@roundbunny @roundbunny The only difference between chet and kaf is that kaf in the beginning of a word is always pronunced k. In the middle kaf is either pronunced k or ch (in bach), while in the end always ch and is called chaf sofit (final chaf). But chet and chaf sound exactly the same in modern hebrew. If you want to listen to the difference between these two, you have to listen to a jew from arabic countries.

[kinotori]

むずかしいね！

[KnownHiro]

@kinotori そですね。。。

[bagelsscareme]

With the Aleph there seems to be more dots below it that I've learned yet, or maybe those are two vowel sounds together. Could you explain?

[ramboIII3]

Thank you so much, I know it is getting alittle bit difficult but I am learning and ance again I thank you for taking your time and help us to learn Hebrew.

[SexieLatinMami]

is that a new letter or is it the letter dallet? bc it looks like it.

[imrichyournot]

shalom. everything was going fine until this lesson.

[xxpowwowbluexx]

@imrichyournot lol. That's the difficulty with "learning"/"teaching" a language deductively instead of helping one to "acquire" the language through inductive means.

[064066030]

dear teacher! Am mohamed from Morocco! before i get to anything, i'd like to thank so much for those lessons, they're really helping me. And am just suggesting that you give the meaning of the words you give us from a time to another as examples, that will be better!

[lakeoffire77]

Dear Teacher: Shalom!!! It is sooooooo hard. Why so many dots? English is a whole lot easier... I will still trying....

[Imad9494]

its harder than the arabic :((((((((

[lakeoffire77]

You are right IT IS HARD.

[beaverdctor]

cool XD

[FOAMANTE2]

thank you bnaior this is great for me even though I'm now into my Haftorah whatever. Phyl now onto lesson 7

[nissanaltima17]

With the Vav, it becomes silent when the vowel is used in it; either in the middle or on top. I always remembered it by ooooo my tummy...  Ohhhhh my head.

[jahlove111]

i can't get the chaf sofit

[ratlover100]

How do you say the yod with the dot and vowel point under it on the first reading?

[ilikeapplanas]

Wow, my brain is exploding!

[Saudi7Girl]

it is alike Arabic Langauge : ) so it's not hard for me lol

[mohamadsaif]

oh boy the chef looks like dalet

[Imad9494]

u must see the resh lol

[cgullcharlie]

this lesson isnt as good as the others, the example needs a LOT of explaining

[KimmyandTony17]

Wow.  1:33 is where I start to get lost! Yikes! So the "Chaf Sofit" is just the special way of writing this 11th letter of the Alephbeyt when it comes at the end of a word. I gather that it is usually (if not always) pronounced with the gutteral sound - not with the hard |k|. Is this right?

Then I get lost with the three forms on the bottom containing vowel markings. How are each of these pronounced? Is it like the "vav" which sort of turns into a vowel, or is it totally different? Thanx

[Ririjackson]

I love this language.

[sziv1]

haha im from israel i know hebrew that's so easy.. write to me if you want help ;)

[hr412]

Thanks, but I got it now.

[hr412]

I'm confused with the final form of the kaf.

And just out of curiousity, how do type Hebrew figures on the computer? Do you have to press some special button?

[Katamapatcha]

i have a keyboard that has both english and hebrew letters... so no you don't type special buttons you buy the keyboard .

[hr412]

OK.

[landomagicus25]

in word

[hr412]

In word? Word has it?

[landomagicus25]

sure

on the icon of the simbols

[hr412]

Great! Todah rabah! :)

[landomagicus25]

mmmm , you are welcome?

שלום

[hr412]

Shalom.

[mrmorocco18]

ohh alelloya it worked now xD

[mrmorocco18]

ohhh .. where is the Lesson 6 =(

[ANDYatWO]

yeah.. it is really helpful.

my boyfriend will must be happy, when he

noticed that I'm learning hebrew.

thank you, bnaiorpueblo :-)

[mrsbriandear]

On the third box I noticed that you didn't pronounce the vowel sound on the vav. Can you tell us why? Is there some rule?

[mrsbriandear]

It's so exciting to sound out scripture in the original language! I am faithfully following along! Thank You for the lessons.

[colstonac]

I learned more here in 45 min than I did in 4 hours of Hebrew class. THANKS!

[KlaasAlexander]

II]

So usually when there is a vowel in the chaf sofit, it's the qamatz [ךׇ] which is pronounced as /-kha/. As you can see in the last given example the chat sofit exceptionally takes a dagesh: ךָּ (the small dote inside it) and the resulting pronunciation must be [because of this dagesh] /-ka/.

[KlaasAlexander]

I]

@ keighj: yes, you're right and that's because he passes a step in explaining.

- the chaf sofit [ך] is usually pronounced 'kh' very very seldom like 'k'.

- examples: חֹשֶׁךְ chôshekh, רֵעֶךָ re'ekha, מַלְכֵּךְ malkêkh, לָךְ lakh

- example of the very rare chaf sofit pronounced as [k]: וִיחֻנֶּךָּ wichunnêkka

[liam4mail]

Well I have to admit I have misbehaved and I have gone through the first five lessons in the last two hours. I am making notes to read and reread on the train tomorrow along with my cheat sheets/ cards. But... this is where I stop. This is a bit intense. I will continue from here next time. THANK YOU FOR THESE! So much.

[keighj]

1:52 = confusing :S

[profeale1]

thank you