Bibi

ביבי Thrill of the day:  Before checking Google translate, I correctly guessed this was Bibi in Hebrew, just from a single 'Aleph, Beit, Veit' lesson. OK, it was a lucky guess ... but one I wouldn't have made without learning about 'Beit'. But ... the rest of the message didn't translate well into English.  Something about eating salt. Oh, well.

Aleph, Beit, Veit

Aleph, Beit, Veit Took a YouTube Hebrew lesson.  Know five Hebrew sounds, with the kamatz (I think, LOL). Even though it's only five sounds, it's cool knowing the 'scribbles' aren't just scribbles and that if you wish to persevere, maybe Hebrew isn't all that hard to grasp. Didn't look up what a 'kamatz' was when I was doing my lesson, but I think it's in the right spot on my lesson diagram ... ie it represents a long 'AH' sound. Kamatz = a Hebrew niqqud (pronounced like 'nikod', I think, and is a dot vowel) sign or symbol, which in this case is T-shaped: >  shown by two perpendicular lines (looking like an upper-case T) Lesson was off this video: Prefer this video to some of the others, as it makes most sense. The video got a lot of down votes, which is ridiculous.  Ignore the down-voters.  It's a great video. Even better would be a video that shows you how to write ... as in where you start and finish forming each letter.  Found it quite hard to form the letters. Also wrote up my lesson diagram left to right, although it's supposed to be right to left.  Think that might the best way for me until stringing letters together to make words ... but that depends on how motivated I get about learning, I guess. Anyway, that was a bit of fun that took my mind off the back pain that I seemed to be developing.  All gone now.  :) PS  If you put the kamatz (T accent) under the Aleph, you get an 'AH' sound ... and if you put some other accent there, you get a different vowel sound.  So, on its own, the Aleph is silent ... which is novel, because silent letters are normally silent when they found among a combination of letters.  .............................................................. Ummmm ... it's a LOT more complicated than it seems at first. Way too complicated for me, I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz_m118Yheg Just deciding whether to go with 'Beyt, Veyt' or 'Beit, Veit' (which sounds like 'bet' & 'vet') is a chore to figure out.  And that's not even Hebrew. Then there's a gazillion variables when it comes to the accents and rules, which only appear in texts written for foreigners ... so all those dots that signify vowels don't appear in texts for Hebrew speakers, if I understand correctly.