More Letters, More Vowels

THE LETTER ח

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

THE LETTER ט

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.These little stories are very important when it comes to our sound alike letters.

                                                              ט Tet has a tear

but

ת Tav has a tail

Here are some words we learned that start with a ט 

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

A NEW VOWEL

I am excited to announce we have officially added a new vowel to our growing Hebrew knowledge.  This new vowel makes an "O" sound and its dot can be found Over its body.  Get it, OVER. 😊

It also has special super powers that can make its body invisible.  If the body disappears but the dot is over a letter we still say "O",  

Here is an example :   לֹא The body is gone, but the dot is still over. In this case, it's with a lamed so we would read this as LO.