Ayin, Nun, and Chet Oh my...
The letter ע (ayin) is very similar to the letter א (alef) in that they are both silent unless paired with a vowel. Below are some useful words that start with ע (ayin). We knew a lot of the words already.
Pencil e-pa-roan עִפָּרוֹן
Eye ah-yeen עַיִן
Eyes ay-nah-yeem עֵינַיִם
Tomato ag-va-ne-yah עַגְבָנִיָּה
Ten eh-ser עֶשֶׂר
Hebrew eve-reet עִבְרִית
Cake oo-ga עוּגָה
The next letter we learned was נ (nun). נ makes a "n" sound and is very small in size. It's like there is "nun"(none) there. The following are some נ words we practiced in class.
candle nehr נֵר
candles nehr-ot נֵרוֹת
Snake Na-chash נָחָשׁ
Shoe na-al נַעַל
Prophet. Nah-vee נָבִיא
Miracle nehs נֵס
The letter ח ( Chet ) makes a "ch" sound, just like כ (chaf). Although they look different and have a different name, how great is it that they make the same sound! There are lots of great ח (chet) words. Here are the ones we learned.
Challah חַלָּה
Milk Cha-lav חָלָב
Cat Cha-tool חָתוּל
Life Cha-yeem חַיִּים
Window Cha-lohn חַלּוֹן
Hot Cham חַם
Chanukiah Cha-nu-key-ah חֲנֻכִּיָּה
י (yud) makes a "y" sound, like the y in yarn. We remember the י yud by thinking of it as being young. Things that are young tend to be little like י yud. Also, both words have a beginning "y" sound.
Green Ya-rok יָרֹק
Hand Yad יָד
Girl Yal-dah יַלְדָּה
Boy Yeh-led יֶלֶד
Wine Ya-yin יַיִן
Israel Yis-ra-el יִשְׂרָאֵל
The letter ט (tet) makes a "t" sound. As we have ת (tav) that makes the same sound, here is how we remember which is which.
ט Tet has a tear
and
ת Tav has a tail
Phone Tel-eh-phone טֶלֶפוֹן
Hike Tee-ul טִיּוּל
Ring Ta-ba-at טַבַּעַת
Good Tov טוֹב
Tallit Ta-leet טַלִּית
Nature Teh-va טֶבַע
Tennis Teh-nees טֶנִיס
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT! A NEW VOWEL TOO!
Drum roll please...announcing the arrival of a new vowel! This new vowel makes an "O" sound and its dot can be found Over its body. It also has super powers that can make its body invisible. If the body disappears but the dot is still over a letter we say "O",
