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Reading Hebrew

Hebrew, unlike English sounds as it is written, making it much easier to read. It follows a set ofrules when putting together words, which are kept to with few exceptions. Before looking at how words are put together, let's look at thevowels which are on and around the letters. It is using these vowels whichdecides how the letters sound.

For demonstration purposes we will put these vowels on the letterBet,

You can click here to hear how they sound.

	B as in Bert
	Be as in Bed
	Be as in Bed
	Bi as in Bib
	Bo as in Bob
	Boo as in Boom
	Boo as in Boom
	Ba as in Bug
	Ba as in Bug

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