Friday, September 29, 2006

Flash Card Friday

This fun Friday evening, I'm making (my wife is gluing for me right now) my second batch of Hebrew cards. For the update, I've learned all the consonants, now I have to learn all the vowel marks (making those flash cards right now) and tomorrow starts the 10 vocab words a day. Luckily they sell us a set of the first 1000 words we have to learn, so I'm set for a long time after finishing the set tonight.

Unlike the English alphabet, there is a different vowel mark for every vowel sound. Thus I have 24 vowels to learn tonight, not 5 1/2 like English.

Good luck me.

I bought a Hebrew Bible yesterday, so if you want to see what anything from the Old Testament looks like in Hebrew, and if you'll give me a minute or two, sounds like in Hebrew, just let me know.

1 comments:

Matty said...

So, I'll take you up on your offer. The footnote for Genesis 2:23 (NIV) on BibleGateway.com says:
"The Hebrew for woman sounds like the Hebrew for man."
How so? Can you illustrate this for me? Specifically, I guess I'm just looking for the phonetic representation of both words.

 

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